France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy str ...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
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet, prol ...Show more
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess by Andrew Lownie
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year. Daily Mail Biography of Year. Spectator Book of the Year. BBC History Book of the Year. 'Andrew Lownie's biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin's Englishman ...shrewd, thorough, revelatory.' William Boyd ' ...Show more
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
$32.99 AUD
Category: European
In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the Holocaust, award-winning journalist and best-selling novelist Jonathan Freedland uncovers the extraordinary story of the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz, a man who was determined to warn the world--and ...Show more
Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped The Century by Sinclair McKay
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World ...Show more
In the Heart of the Sea - The Epic True Story That Inspired "Moby Dick" by Nathaniel Philbrick
$24.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in motion one of ...Show more
If This is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant gates. Whipping ...Show more
Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case by Philippa Langley
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
Philippa Langley took the world by storm when, against all the odds and a seven-year investigation, she discovered the grave of King Richard III (1452-1485) in a Leicester car park. A king finally laid to rest, the rediscovery and reburial of Richard III was watched by an estimated global audience of ov ...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