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
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West by Christopher Caldwell
$29.95 AUD
Category: European
Why has Europe's half-century of mass immigration failed to produce anything resembling the American melting pot? Deadly terrorist attacks and rioting in Muslim neighbourhoods have now forced Europeans, caught up in a demographic revolution they never expected, to question its success and to confront th ...Show more
Millennium - The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of ...Show more
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground ...Show more
Catherine the Great and Potemkin - The imperial love affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Prince Grigory Potemkin was Catherine the Great's lover, secret husband and partner in ruling the Russian Empire. Catherine called him 'one of the greatest, strangest and wittiest eccentrics' of her epoch - her 'twin soul' and 'tiger'; her 'master' in politics. Their affair was so tumultuous that they n ...Show more
Catherine De Medici: A Biography by Leonie Frieda
$27.00 AUD
Category: European
She nursed dynastic ambitions, but was continually drawn into political and religious intrigues between catholics and protestants that plagued France for much of the later part of her life. It had always been said that she was implicated in the notorious Saint Barthlomew's Day Massacre, together with th ...Show more
The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933 by Amos Elon
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
The Pity of It All is the compelling, moving story of the German-Jewish people from the eighteenth century until the eve of Third Reich, tracing their journey from a persecuted clan of outcasts and peddlers into a dazzling community of writers, philosophers and scientists. From Moses Mendelssohn, who e ...Show more
Natasha's Dance - A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
This tremendously attractive, ambitious, dizzying book is in every way a worthy successor to Figes' bestselling "A People's Tragedy". The whole panorama of Russia's mighty culture is conjured up in a way that is fresh, intimate and immediate. Whether talking about music or novels, buildings or paintings ...Show more
London - The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in w ...Show more
Lords of the Horizons - A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds and hearts. Over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined; the royal line bent, but never broke, from Osman, born in a desert tent around 1280 to Abdul Mecid, dying in a Paris flat in 1942. Its precipitous rise from a dusty fie ...Show more
The Berlin-Baghdad Express - The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin
$31.00 AUD
Category: European
The Berlin-Baghdad Express explores one of the most important but least understood stories of the First World War: the bid by the Germans to destroy the British Empire by harnessing the power of Islam. As the Ottoman Empire threw its weight behind Germany, a hugely ambitious project began to unhinge Bri ...Show more