Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and under Fire - The Inside Story of Europe's Last War by Tim Marshall
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
The last of the devastating series of conflicts resulting from the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the Kosovo War saw more than 13,500 fatalities, with reports of atrocities, amid controversial intervention and bombing by NATO. Twenty years have passed since the war's end on 11 June 1999, yet ...Show more
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
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
In his remarkable debut, Penn vividly recreates the dark and turbulent reign of Henry VII. He traces the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen. And at the book's heart is the tragic, ...Show more
Napoleon's Australia by Terry Smyth
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
A fascinating insight into French ambition and amity in Australia, bursting with joie de vivre' - David Hunt, bestselling author of GirtIn the northern winter of 1814, a French armada set sail for New South Wales. The armada's mission was the invasion of Sydney, and its inspiration and its fate were int ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have said so. What emerged for me was a brave, original wo ...Show more
Poland: A History by Adam Zamoyski
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation. In 1797, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland amon ...Show more
The French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre
$24.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Routledge Classics
Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of events in ...Show more
17 Carnations - The Windsors, the Nazis and the Cover-Up by Andrew Morton
$24.95 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
The story of the love affair between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII, and his abdication in order to marry the divorcee, has provoked fascination and discussion for decades. However, the full story of the couple's links with the German aristocracy and Hitler has until now remained untold. Meticulous ...Show more
Historic Maps and Views of Rome by George Sinclair
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
This is a unique and fascinating collection of 24 maps and panoramic views of Rome dating from the 17th century to the present day. Included with each map is information about the original printing and a brief text that places it in historic context. The selections include some of the earliest known map ...Show more
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
$28.00 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
A vivid and dramatic account of one of the most influential families in Italian history. A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
$9.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it." Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ...Show more