Between 1450 and 1750 Europe underwent tremendous political, religious and cultural change - change which laid the foundations for the Europe we know today. Henry Kamen has compiled an accessible biographical guide to Europe in this most exciting of periods - the time of the Renaissance and the Reformation, the time of da Vinci and Erasmus, Elizabeth I and Oliver Cromwell.

Hitler's Occupation of the Ukraine (1941-1944) by Ihor Kamenetsky. Out of print for over 50 years, this is still the standard work on the occupation of the Ukraine by the Germans and how their policies turned success into failure. Give it 5 stars for the subject and content. Its not a novel however, its a serious study and my 5 stars is based on that and the content, not the rather dated writing style. The greatest reservoirs of anti-Bolshevik manpower - those in eastern Poland, the Baltics and in the Ukraine - were left untouched, as the population of these territories was to be reduced to colonial status within the German eastern empire; on the other hand, loud huzzahs and spectacular celebrations greeted the appearance of the Spanish Blue Division, and the "Wallon" and "French" SS-Legions... Originally welcomed as liberators, the Germans quickly squandered that good will, as they pressed ahead with their archaic racial policies, and proceed to turn the Ukraine into a "German India". The lessons to be learned are that almost any population, which is the key to an insurgency, can be won over by even the most odious occupier, if they so choose. The seeds of Germany's failure in the Ukraine (and the Soviet Union) were sown, and what rose was a guerrilla force that not only fought the Germans, but continued to fight the Soviets until 1950. A concise history of the occupation, this work is also one of the few studies available that addresses the various Ukrainian resistance groups. A must have for any World War II collection. Seems to now becoming available from Print on Demand Publishers. There is also a version available from Hailer Publishing. Again, worth reading for anyone interested in the subject. The book is not large (116 pages) and was first published in 1956 by The Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.