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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.
The Light of Days by Judy Batalion
$32.99 AUD
Category: European
Judy Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, discovered an extraordinary story of women who fought the Nazis. The "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with Nazis, bought them ...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
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
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 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
Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands by Ben Coates
$27.99 AUD
Category: European
The Netherlands is a country quite unlike any other. A tiny nation which punches above its weight on the world stage, where people have managed to become some of the richest in the world while working fewer hours than almost anyone else. They have the highest population density in Europe while one quart ...Show more
Great War in 3D by Jean-Pierre Verney
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
An innovative package includes a sturdy, metal stereoscopic viewer, 35 stereoscopic photographs of some of the most compelling moments captured on film during WWI. An 176-page paperback provides a brief history of war photography and an overview of the war from 1914 through the Treaty of Versailles, inc ...Show more
Harry Mount's Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus by Harry Mount
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
Architecture, art, sculpture, economics, mathematics, science, metaphysics, comedy, tragedy, drama and epic poetry were all devised and perfected by the Greeks. Of the four classical orders of architecture, three were invented by the Greeks and the fourth, the only one the Romans could come up with, was ...Show more