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Holodomor - Silenced Voices of the Starved Children by Lesa Morgan (Editor); Philip Webster (Editor)
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
History of the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-33, a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine.Personal stories of the Ukrainian genocide survivors.
Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Reading Level: good
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed- where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west - in the New World of the Amer ...Show more
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
$24.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: near fine
New York Times Bestseller - National Book Critics Circle Finalist - Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2015 - Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 - Economist Books of the Year 2015 - New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2015 A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our f ...Show more
Paris: A Guide to the City's Creative Heart by Janelle McCulloch (Photographer)
$49.99 AUD
Category: European
It's hard not to be smitten by Paris. The city of love and light is one of the most enchanting in the world, but it also has a tendency to keep its best spots well hidden. After spending the last 20 years exploring the city, journalist and photographer Janelle McCulloch has discovered all of Paris' secr ...Show more
Stasiland by Anna Funder
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize Truth can be stranger - and more heartbreaking and hilarious - than fiction. In this now classic work, Funder tells extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy ...Show more
Northmen's Fury: A History of the Viking World by Philip Parker
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
"The Northmen s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenla ...Show more
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$24.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: good
"Epic history on the grandest scale. . . . Game of Thrones seems like the proverbial vicar's tea party in comparison."--Financial Times The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined princip ...Show more
The Thirty-Year Genocide - Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 by Benny Morris; Dror Zeevi
$84.99 AUD
Category: European
From 1894 to 1924 three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities. Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi's impeccably researched account is the first to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christi ...Show more
Luck and the Irish : A brief history of change 1970-2000 by R.F. Foster
$19.99 AUD
Category: European
From 1970, things were changing in Ireland - the Celtic Tiger had finally woken, and the rules for everything from gender roles and religion to international relations were being entirely rewritten. "Luck and the Irish" examines how the country has weathered these last thirty years of change, and what t ...Show more
The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
On 10 July 1941 a horrifying crime was committed in the small Polish town of Jedwadbne. Early in the afternoon, the town's Jewish population - hundreds of men, women and children - were ordered out of their homes, and marched into the town square. By the end of the day most would be dead. It was a massa ...Show more
Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682 by Robert Goodwin
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
In the sixteenth century, the Spaniards became the first nation in history to have worldwide reach; across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and India. Goodwin tells the story of Spain and the Spaniards, from great soldiers like the Duke of Alba to literary figures and artists such as El ...Show more