One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacres in Norway by Asne Seierstad
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity that shocked the world. Many were teenagers, just beginning their adult lives. In the devastating aftermath, the inevitable questions began. How could this happen? Why did it happen? And who was Anders Brei ...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
Berlin: The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller by Antony Beevor
$26.95 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks ...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
Harry Mount's Odyssey - Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus by Harry Mount
$39.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
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
How to Win a Roman Chariot Race: Lives, Legends and Treasures from the Ancient World by Jane C. Hood
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
Who first thought of atoms? How much can you learn about archaeology from an oil lamp? Who came up with the theory of the 'wandering womb'? Oxford Classicist Jane Hood delves into the history, culture, literature, mythology and philosophy of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, using her expert eye to uneart ...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
A Short History of the Byzantine Empire by Dionysios Stathakopoulos
$29.95 AUD
Category: European
The Byzantine Empire was one of the most impressive imperial adventures in history. It ruled much of Europe and Asia Minor for a remarkable eleven hundred years. From Constantine's establishment of Byzantium (renamed Constantinople) as his capital in 324 CE, until the fall of the city to the Ottomans in ...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
The New Spymasters - Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror by Stephen Grey
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
"Number one Evening Standarad bestseller book of the year". (Daily Telegraph). "Exceptional. A blueprint for productive, sophisticated espionage in the age of Islamist terror". (Daily Telegraph). Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots ...Show more
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
$29.99 AUD
Category: European
A radical reframing of the Holocaust that challenges prevailing myths and draws disturbing parallels with the present.LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZEWe 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 ...Show more
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Laurence Rees
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
Based on twenty-five years of meeting survivors and perpetrators, The Holocaust is a sweeping new history that combines first-person testimony with the latest academic research to investigate how history's greatest crime was made possible. Laurence Rees argues that a series of escalations compounded int ...Show more