The Dissolution of the Monasteries - A New History by James Clark
$51.95 AUD
Category: European
The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years--exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England
Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves by Lucy Lethbridge
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
'I really can't recommend Lucy Lethbridge's new book on the history of tourism enough - especially if you are going on holiday' Tom Holland'Delightful ... witty ... Lucy Lethbridge has written a glorious romp of a book' Kathryn Hughes, The Mail on Sunday'It is the paramount wish of every English heart, ...Show more
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
'Essential ... endlessly fascinating ... to read Sixsmith is to want to read more Sixsmith' ForbesMore than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in our politi ...Show more
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body by Caroline Vout
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin Francis 'A triumph ... an extraordinary book that stopped me in my tracks' Peter Frankopan 'Impressive ... sublime' Jimmy Mulville The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to sit up ...Show more
Eight Days in May - How Germany's War Ended by Volker Ullrich
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended. Everything had both ground to a halt and yet remained agonizingly uncertain.Volker Ullrich's remarkable book takes the reader into a world torn betwee ...Show more
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
FULLY UPDATED'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'INDEPENDENT. Flat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern national movement dates back to the early ninet ...Show more
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The Mongols have long been viewed in the West as violent barbarians who plundered and wrecked the societies they invaded. But in fact the Mongol Empire was highly sophisticated, and through their conquests they built a new world order. Within the space of a single generation, they swept across the Midd ...Show more
Russia: Myths and Realities by Rodric Braithwaite
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
A short and pithy introduction to the history of Russia as we know it today.
Antwerp: The Glory Years by Michael Pye
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
This rich history of Antwerp in the sixteenth century was a Times Book of the Year and R4 Book of the WeekA rich history of Antwerp from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Edge of the WorldEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world- the city of Antwer ...Show more
Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: England's Medieval Queens
The third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval England Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of the high middle ages dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed on their sex, as Alison Weir shows in this grippi ...Show more
Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl by Markiyan Kamysh
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
An exhilarating, immersive journey into the Exclusion Zone of Chornobyl with the disaffected adventurers who illegally stalk its ruins.
Lost Music of the Holocaust: Bringing the music of the camps to the ears of the world at last by Francesco Lotoro
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
For more than thirty years Francesco Lotoro, an Italian pianist and composer has been on an odyssey to recover music written by the inmates of Adolf Hitler's concentration camps and the gulags of Stalin's Soviet Union. Between 1933, the year of the opening of the Dachau Lager in Germany, to Stalin's de ...Show more