A Great Cauldron - A Global History of Southeastern Europe by Marie-Janine Calic; Elizabeth Janik
$89.00 AUD
Category: European
A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions.We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has been a dynamic meeting place of cul ...Show more
The Map of Knowledge - How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found -A History in Seven Cities by Violet Moller
$36.00 AUD
Category: European
'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwright In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity - Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy - through seven ...Show more
Questions I Am Asked about the Holocaust by Hedi Fried; Alice Olsson
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
'There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.' Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her sister were forced ...Show more
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne by Janet L. Nelson
$55.00 AUD
Category: European
'A remarkable book: the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man ... brilliant' Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves A major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all rulers, and the father of present-day Europe Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong by Mark Galeotti
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
Meet the world's most dangerous man.Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next? Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's most powerful politicians, whose influence spans the globe and whose netwo ...Show more
The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
'Brilliant. A timely reminder of the fragility of democracy and the dangers of extreme nationalism.? Nikolaus Wachsmann, author ofKL- A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps'Extremely fine... with careful prose and scholarship, he brings these events close to us.' Timothy Snyder,The New York Times'Int ...Show more
A Brief History of Spain by Jeremy Black
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and is very open to regional variations and to the extent that the history of the peninsula and of its political groupings was far from inevitable. Its tone is ac ...Show more
Francis I - The Maker of Modern France by Leonie Frieda
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch--Francis I--who turned France into a great nation.Catherine de Medici's father-in-law, King ...Show more
Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
The official biography of Queen Mary, grandmother of the current Queen, originally commissioned in 1959 - with a new foreword by Hugo Vickers. When Queen Mary died in 1953, James Pope-Hennessy was commissioned to write an official biography of her - unusual for a Queen Consort. Queen Mary's life, contr ...Show more
Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization by Colin McEvedy
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide shows us the great centres of classical civilization afresh. The book's key feature is 120 specially-drawn maps tracing each city's thoroughfares and defences, monuments and places of worship. Every map is to the same scale, allowing readers for the ...Show more
Last Days in Old Europe - Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
The final decade of the Cold War, through the eyes of a laconic and elegant observer In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of a ...Show more
Isabella of Castile by Giles Tremlett
$20.00 AUD
Category: European
A major biography of the queen who transformed Spain into a principal global power, and sponsored the voyage that would open the New World.In 1474, when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania (present day Spain and Portugal), a twenty-three-year-old woman named Isabell ...Show more