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A History of England in 100 Places : From Stonehenge to the Gherkin by John Julius Norwich
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places you can still visit today. Part narrative history, part ex ...Show more
A History of England in 100 Places: From Stonehenge to the Gherkin by John Julius Norwich
$27.00 AUD
Category: British
From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places you can still visit today. Part narrative history, part ex ...Show more
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
$38.00 AUD
Category: European
As comprehensive as it is engaging, John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice is a complete history of "the most beautiful and magical of cities." This necessary volume traces the rise of Venice from its fifth-century origins through 1797 when Napoleon put an end to the thousand-year-old Republic.
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
$29.95 AUD
Category: European
Intricate, captivating, beautiful, romantic, unique, unforgettable - John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the world's busiest and most powerful ...Show more
A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
$38.00 AUD
Category: History
"A Short History of Byzantium" is renowned historian, and author of "A History of Venice", John Julius Norwich's classic history of Byzantium. Constantine the Great moved the seat of Roman power to Constantinople in AD 330 and for eleven brutal, bloody centuries, the Byzantine Empire became a beacon of ...Show more
Byzantium: The Apogee: v. 2 by John Julius Norwich
$26.95 AUD
Category: European
Chronicles events up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus in 1081.
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall: v. 3: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
From the accession of Alexius in 1081, through the disastrous Fourth Crusade - when an army destined for the Holy Land was diverted to Constantinople by the blind, octogenarian but infinitely crafty Doge of Venice - to the painfully protracted struggle against the Ottomans, the closing centuries of the ...Show more
Cities That Shaped the Ancient World by John Julius Norwich (ed.)
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Great cities marked the earliest development of civilization. From the worlds first true cities, in Mesopotamia, to the spectacular urban centres of the Maya in Central America, the places described here represent almost three millennia of human history, society and culture. Arranged geographically into ...Show more
Darling Monster - The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952 by Diana Cooper; John Julius Norwich (ed.)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Literary
'Please, darling monster, write as often as you can. It's so sad waiting for letters that don't come and are not even written. I love my darling boy. Don't treat me so badly again or I'll have your lights and liver when I get home.' 19 November 1939 Lady Diana Cooper was an aristocrat, society darling, ...Show more
Duff Cooper Diaries by John Julius Norwich
$30.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Now in paperback, the highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite.Duff Cooper was a first-rate witness of just about every significant event from 1914 to 1950. His diary includes some magnificent set pieces - as a young soldier at the end of WWI, as a politician during the Genera ...Show more
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were ...Show more
France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy str ...Show more