The Spanish Armada by Robert Hutchinson
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe - not least Spain. In October 1585 King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war bet ...Show more
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
It is a major history examining the realities of Jewish life across Europe up to the very eve of World War Two. This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi ons ...Show more
Delicious Days in Paris by Jane Paech
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Romantic, mouth-watering Paris - where do you start? Let food-lover and Paris expert Jane Paech show you around the city's mille-feuille of history and culture, with its tempting pastry and chocolate shops on every corner. You'll visit both legendary and little-known cafes, restaurants and patisseries o ...Show more
The Secrets of Italy: People, Places, and Hidden Histories by Corrado Augias
$45.00 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
There is Michelangelo, but also the mafia. Pavarotti, but also Berlusconi. The debonair Milanese, but also the infamous captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. This is Italy, admired and reviled, a country that has guarded her secrets and confounded outsiders for centuries. At a time when this Itali ...Show more
How Paris Became Paris - The Invention of the Modern City by Joan DeJean
$32.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: DEJEAN JOAN | Reading Level: very good
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be transformed into the modern and mythic city we know today.Thoug ...Show more
The Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation. The advent of the French Revolut ...Show more
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been her 'soul place' as a child, she said - a holiday home for her and her family, but much more - a sanctuary, a refuge. In the 1930s, she had been forced ...Show more
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman
$59.99 AUD
Category: European
This book presents a lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we understand the Middle Ages. The story of the wars and conquests initiated by the First Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly fr ...Show more
Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$22.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Master Bridge Ser.
'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' Economist It was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catheri ...Show more
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secon ...Show more
Rasputin: The Biography by Douglas Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: European
Nearly a century after his murder, Rasputin remains as divisive a figure as ever. Was he really a horse thief and a hard-drinking ruffian in his youth? Was he a a devout Orthodox Christian, or was he in fact a just a fake holy man? Are the stories of his enormous sexual drive, debauchery, and drunken or ...Show more
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000BCE - 1492CE by Simon Schama
$27.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
It is a story like no other- an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes ...Show more