Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German c ...Show more
I Should Know That: Great Nritain: Everything You Really Should Know About GB by Emma Marriott
$19.95 AUD
Category: European
I Should Know That: Great Britain covers a range of key topics on our fair land, including essential British history (Magna Carta, the Great Reform Act etc.), the current political and legal system (when can a magistrate decide whether a person is guilty or innocent?), migration to Britain, women's righ ...Show more
The Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set ...Show more
Devil's Diary: Hitler's High Priest and the Hunt for the Lost Papers of the Third Reich by Robert K. Wittman; David Kinney (As told to)
$29.99 AUD
Category: European
An unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia told through the recently discovered lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's 'philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology. Only recently discovered by former FBI agent Robert ...Show more
The Italians by John Hooper
$29.99 AUD
Category: European
Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles. John Hooper's marvellously entertaining and perceptive book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Look ...Show more
Comrades : Communism - A World History by Robert Service
$29.99 AUD
Category: European
Almost two decades have passed since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Robert Service, one of our finest historians of modern Russia, sets out to examine the history of communism throughout the world. His uncomfortable conclusion - and an important message for the twenty-first ce ...Show more
Mischka's War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
On a winter's day in 1943, 22-year-old Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight as he skied through Latvian woods-a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. The world was full of such atrocities, which makes Mischka?s decision to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS by going ...Show more
Rasputin: The Biography by Douglas Smith
$49.99 AUD
Category: European
A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. The spectre of the lustful Siberian holy man and peasant still casts its eerie shadow over Russia's bloody twentieth century. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysteri ...Show more
Codename Suzette: An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris by Anne Nelson
$29.99 AUD
Category: European
The thrilling and previously untold true story of Suzanne Spaak, who abandoned her life of opulence to save the Jewish children of Occupied Paris during the Second World War. Suzanne Spaak was born into an affluent Belgian Catholic family and married into the country's leading political dynasty. Her br ...Show more
The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance by Anders Rydell (Contribution by)
$27.99 AUD
Category: European
While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. As they ransacked Europe's libraries and book-shops, they began to compile a library of their own-one that they could use to wage an intellectual w ...Show more
Rome: Eternal City by Ferdinand Addis
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
The sweeping story of the city of Rome, told through twenty-two moments that shaped its history. ***A TimesHistory Book of the Year*** 'Vivid, pacey ... Superb'The Times. 'Grand narrative underpinned by serious reading'Guardian. 'Confident, elegant ... Admirably ambitious'Daily Mail. From Romulus and ...Show more
A Brief History of Ireland by Richard Killeen
$21.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The perfect introduction to the Irish story-a story wrapped in mythology and legend. Since its very origins, Ireland has become the home for a successive series of invaders-the Celts, Christians, Vikings, and Normans. And despite deprivation, desperation, and suppression, Ireland has developed an un ...Show more