Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial legacy of those such as the British, the Third Reich cast its shadow from the Channel Islands to the Caucasus and ruled hundreds of millions. Yet, as Mark Mazower's groundbreaking new ...Show more
Inside the Stalin Archives : Discovering the new Russia by Jonathan Brent
$29.95 AUD
Category: European
To most Westerners, Russia remains as enigmatic today as it was during the Iron Curtain era. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country had an opportunity to confront its tortured past. In Inside the Stalin Archives, Jonathan Brent asks why this didn't happen. Why are the anti-Semitic Protocols ...Show more
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory by Lisa Jardine
$32.99 AUD
Category: European
InGoing Dutch, renowned writer Lisa Jardine tells the remarkable history of the relationship between EnglandandHolland, two ofEurope's most important colonial powers at the dawn of the modern age. Jardine, the author ofThe Awful End of Prince William the Silent, demonstrates that England's rise did not ...Show more
The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior : Leonardo, Machiavelli, Borgia - a fatful collusion by Paul Strathern
$69.95 AUD
Category: European
In this masterful study, Paul Strathern (author of "The Medici", and "Napoleon in Egypt") details the incidental convergence of three of Renaissance Italy's most brilliant minds. "The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior" follows Leonardo Da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli and Cesare Borgia through the mo ...Show more
Princes of Wales: Royal Heirs in Waiting by David Loades
$49.95 AUD
Category: European
For over 700 years, the title 'Prince of Wales' has been awarded to royal heirs waiting to accede to the throne of England. They did not always achieve it-even the highest in the land have been subject to disease, death and the fortunes of war, or of politics. Others have spent long years waiting for th ...Show more
Putin and the Rise of Russia: The Country That Came in from the Cold by Michael Sturmer
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Not for the first time in the last two centuries, Russia leaves the world wondering about its destiny. In spite of the losses incurred when the Soviet Empire imploded, Russia is still a power with vast military inventories, and an energy giant whose oil reserves will last, at present rates of exploitat ...Show more
Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558 by Alison Weir
$27.95 AUD
Category: European
When Henry VIII dies in 1547 he left three highly intelligent children to succeed him in turn - Edward, Mary and Elisabeth - to be followed, if their lines failed, by the descendants of his sister Mary Tudor, one of whom was the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, Edward was nine years old, Mary thirty-one and Ja ...Show more
Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir
$27.95 AUD
Category: European
This magnificent new book is Alison Weir's greatest achievement: a detailed biography of Henry VIII, set against the cultural, social and political background of his court - the most magnificent court ever seen in England - and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces. Seen from this new perspective, ...Show more
1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski
$24.95 AUD
Category: European
Adam Zamoyski's bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history. In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating ...Show more
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