The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy by Diana Darke
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
A hundred years after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate on November 1, 1922, enough time has passed to reexamine the Ottomans and reassess their legacy. This illustrated volume, by critically acclaimed author Diana Darke, explores their unique achievements in architecture, cuisine, music, science, ...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
Hiding in Plain Sight: how a Jewish girl survived Europe's heart of darkness by Pieter van Os
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. What none of these people knew was that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large orthodox Jewish family in ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$43.00 AUD
Category: European
'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE'A great historian at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'[An] excellent short stu ...Show more
Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism by John Foot
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism- a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war.In the aftermath of the First World War, the seeds of fascism were sown in Italy. While the country reeled in shock, a new movement emerged from the chaos- one which preached hatred for politici ...Show more
Darkness Falling: The Strange Death of the Weimar Republic, 1930-33 by Peter Walther
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
'Gripping and all too timely' James Hawes'A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd'History at its very best and a fabulous translation, too' Graham HurleyIn March 1930, after the collapse of the coalition that had ruled Germany since 1928, President Hindenburg asked Heinri ...Show more
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire by Bart Van Loo
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages. 'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year'Thrillingly colourful and entertaining' Sunday Times'A thrilling narrative of the brutal dazzlingly rich wildly ambitious duchy' Simon Sebag Montefiore'5 stars!' Daily Te ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past', George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this glorious work of history, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world. The Story of Russia begins in the firs ...Show more
Tunnel 29: Love, Espionage and Betrayal: the True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
'Merriman excels at recreating the physicality of their experiences: the smell of dense clay, the click-clack of a woman walking down the street above in high heels... Merriman has burrowed her way deep into interviews, news reports and Stasi files to fashion an impressive real life page-turner.' Guardi ...Show more
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward?Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman, who grew up as ...Show more
Playing With Fire The Story Of Maria Yudina Pianist In Stalin'S Russia by Wilson Elizabeth
$51.95 AUD
Category: European
The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life "Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work--a phenomenal biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting relevance."--Norman Lebrecht, Wall Street Journal Maria Yud ...Show more
The Normans - Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th Century Europe by Judith A. Green
$51.95 AUD
Category: European
A bold new history of the rise and expansion of the Norman Dynasty across Europe from Byzantium to England In the eleventh century the climate was improving, population was growing, and people were on the move. The Norman dynasty ranged across Europe, led by men who achieved lasting fame like Willia ...Show more