Berlin - Biography of a City by Barney White-Spunner
$32.99 AUD
Category: European
There is a particular frisson about Berlin, a combination of excitement, anticipation, nervousness and the unexpected. Through all its life it has been a city of tensions. Its position, on the frontier of Europe, on the 'Mark', where Christianity met paganism, where the Huns met the Slavs, where Europe ...Show more
Catherine the Great and Potemkin - The Imperial Love Affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' EconomistIt was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catheri ...Show more
Best of Germany 2 by Lonely Planet Publications Staff
$34.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Travel Guide Ser.
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet's Best of Germany is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. See storybook castles arise from the Bavarian forest, raise a stein to an oompah band in a M ...Show more
Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania by Paul Kenyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
A vivid, brilliant, darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen. Balanced precariously on the shifting fault line between East and West, Romania's schizophrenic, often violent past is one of the great untold stories of modern Europe. The country th ...Show more
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
$39.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, ...Show more
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today by Simon Morrison
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
In this "incredibly rich" (New York Times) definitive history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage. A critical triumph, Simon Morrison's "sweeping and authoritative" (Guardian) work, Bolshoi Confidential, details the Bolshoi Ballet's magnif ...Show more
The Romanovs: The Story of Russia and its Empire 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 Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion
$32.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
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
The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 19 ...Show more