Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order by MENON RAJAN & RUMER EUGENE
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Boston Review Originals Ser.
The crisis in Ukraine and its implications for both the Crimean peninsula and Russia's relations with the West. The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO ...Show more
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
Award-winning historian Linda Colley re-examines the making of the modern world through the advance of written constitutions. These days, most countries have a constitution - written or unwritten. The rules therein provide a reference point for government and the judiciary, and are appealed to by polit ...Show more
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake by Simon Kuper
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
A 'humane and informative' (according to John Le Carre) biography of George Blake, the most notorious double agent in British history. The Happy Traitor is the work of many years' writing, research and unparalleled access, but was embargoed until Blake's death in Moscow in December 2020.
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks: city sundials in ancient Rome, medieval water clocks in imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, high-precision clock ...Show more
Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz by Alwin Meyer
$51.95 AUD
Category: European
The children of Auschwitz: this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust. They were deported to the concentration camp with their families, with most being murdered in the gas chambers upon their arrival, or were born there under unimaginable circumstances. While 232,000 chil ...Show more
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero- a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Now, renowned historian Felipe Fern indez-Armesto draws on extensive and meticulous research to conduct a dazzli ...Show more
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin by Kirsty Bell
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
Humane, thought-provoking and moving, The Undercurrents is a hybrid literary portrait of a place that makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities and our histories. The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a pr ...Show more
Accidental Gods - On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine by Anna Della Subin
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip. How does a man become a God?It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found in an old magazine. It can be a means to absolute power, ...Show more
Nazi Billionaires - The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Packed with revelations, this history traces the corrupt, bloody money that was hoarded by Nazi families during and after the Second World War – and how that money has translated into wealth and power for well known companies and tycoons today. Three weeks after Hitler seized power in Germany he called ...Show more
Embroidering Her Truth - Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material world that shaped her.At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Cathol ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and endi ...Show more
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
$50.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
Three hundred action-packed years of Roman history, encompassing the fall of Rome and the rise of a new empire in the East. Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome.In ...Show more