Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
Former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, named Prime Minister of Russia in 1999 and, one year later, President, has been something of a media darling in the West, having successfully marketed himself as an enlightened leader with both feet planted firmly on the Eastern borders of Europe. Anti-establishment journa ...Show more
Elizabeth And Mary: Cousins, Rivals And Queens by Jane Dunn
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
Jane Dunn's double biography Elizabeth and Mary takes as its rich and explosive subject matter the ultimately fatal relationship between Queen Elizabeth I of England and her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots. Throughout much of the second half of the 16th century, these two women found themselves queens of th ...Show more
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
Peter Watson's virtuoso sweep through modern German thought and culture, from 1750 to the present day, will challenge and confound both the stereotypes the world has of Germany and those that Germany has of itself. From the end of the Baroque era and the death of Bach to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Ger ...Show more
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen by Giles Tremlett
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
A glorious account of the life of the Spanish infanta who became Queen of England and changed the course of Tudor history. The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty ...Show more
Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Caribbean by David Cordingly
$49.99 AUD
Category: European
Stories of individual pirates in the Caribbean, from Blackbeard to Calico Jack, have been the stuff of legend since the eighteenth century, but in Spanish Gold pirate expert David Cordingly at last gives us the big picture in all its bold and ruthless truth. Cordingly shows how the attacks of the buccan ...Show more
Croatia Through History: The Making of a European State by Branka Magas
$80.00 AUD
$126.00 (36% off)
Category: European
This comprehensive volume recounts Croatia's development from the early Middle Ages to the present day. Unlike most Western histories of the region, which tend to neglect the concurrent evolution of Croatia's constituent parts, it shows instead that Croatia developed gradually and organically. Maga' pay ...Show more
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
This title lets you explore the world's favourite city with the award-winning author of "The Discovery of France". No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Ro ...Show more
The Secret Life of France by Lucy Wadham
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the French educational system and divorced in a French court of law, Wadham is perfectly placed to explore the dif ...Show more
The Romantic Revolution by Tim Blanning
$35.00 AUD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: European
Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third - the romantic revolution - was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From it derive virtually all the cultu ...Show more
Paris from the Ground Up by James H. McGregor
$49.95 AUD
Category: European
Paris is the most personal of cities. There is a Paris for the medievalist, and another for the modernist - a Paris for expatriates, philosophers, artists, romantics, and revolutionaries of every stripe. James H. S. McGregor brings these multiple perspectives into focus throughout this concise, unique h ...Show more
Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris
$42.00 AUD
Category: European
This book examines the intriguing interaction between the spiritual and the political whilst reconstructs the awe-inspiring city in its heyday of 1200. During the early Middle Ages, travellers to the East returned with stories of a place called Miklagarth, a city so vast that its churches, palaces and m ...Show more
Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 by Charles Glass
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940. In the early hours of 14 June 1940, Nazi troops paraded through the streets of Paris, marking the beginning of the city's four-year occupation. French troops withdrew ...Show more