The Last Palace (H/B) by Norman Eisen
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
For any reader of Edmund de Waal's THE HARE WITH THE AMBER EYES or Erik Larson's IN THE GARDENS OF BEASTS, Norman L Eisen's THE LAST PALACE tells the story of the tumultuous past 100 years in Europe as seen from the most beautiful house in Prague, the Petschek Villa. The Petschek Villa was Norman L Eise ...Show more
Theatre of the World - The Maps That Made History by Thomas Reinertsen Berg
$55.00 AUD
Category: European
'Fascinating...sumptuously produced with lots of full-colour images, is a kind of potted treasury of cartographical history that gleams with pieces-of-eight-like snippets of information...this is an enthralling book, and joins the likes of Simon Garfield's On the Map and Jerry Brotton's A History of the ...Show more
The Death of Hitler - The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler s Body by Jean-Christophe Brisard; Lana Parshina
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
A dramatic and revelatory new account of the final days in Hitler's bunker, based on new access to previously unseen Soviet archives. After two years of nonstop negotiations with the Russian authorities, Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina were granted access to secret files detailing the Soviets' ...Show more
Broken Lives "How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century" by Konrad H. Jarausch
$75.00 AUD
Category: European
The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition-but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation Broken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and w ...Show more
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books - Young Colombus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
Without libraries, what have we? We have no past and no future. This book tells for the first time in English the story of the first great universal library in the age of printing - and of the son of Christopher Colombus who created it. This is the scarcely believable - and wholly true - story of Christ ...Show more
City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more
The Sarpedon Krater (the Vase) by Nigel Spivey
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: The\Landmark Library
Once the pride of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sarpedon krater is a wine-mixing bowl crafted by two Athenians, Euxitheos (who shaped it) and Euphronios (who decorated it), in the late 6thc BC. The moving image Euphronios created for the krater, depicting the stricken Trojan hero Sarpedon b ...Show more
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recen ...Show more
The King's City: London under Charles II: a City That Transformed a Nation - and Created Modern Britain by Don Jordan
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
'The cruelty and magnificence of Restoration London provides endless fascination . . . there's much to delight in this volume' The Times 'Don Jordan's history captures the shifts [Charles II] engineered in trade and culture' Nature During the reign of Charles II, London was a city in flux. After years ...Show more
This Dark Business: The Secret War Against Napoleon by Tim Clayton
$55.00 AUD
Category: European
Between two attempts in 1800 and 1804 to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a campaign of black propaganda of unprecedented scope and intensity to persuade George III's reluctant subjects to fight the Napoleonic War, a war to the death against one man: the Corsican usurper a ...Show more
Lenin the Dictator by Victor Sebestyen
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine 'Richly readable ... An enthralling but appalling story' Francis Wheen, author of Karl Marx The cold, one-dimensional figure of Lenin the political fanatic is only a partial truth. Drawing on extensive material that has only rece ...Show more
The Rise of Rome 1000 BC - 264 BC by Kathryn Lomas
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
In the late Iron Age, Rome was a small collection of huts arranged over a few hills. By the third century BC, it had become a large and powerful city, with monumental temples, public buildings and grand houses. It had conquered the whole of Italy and was poised to establish an empire. But how did it acc ...Show more