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Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1945, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she w ...Show more
Philip and Alexander by Adrian Goldsworthy
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedon from a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire. During his short life Alexander the Great carved out an empire stretching from the Balkans to Central India, re-drawing the map of the ancient worl ...Show more
The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power by Martyn Rady
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world they built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly ...Show more
Morozov - The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection by Natalya Semenova
$51.95 AUD
Category: European
The first English-language account of Ivan Morozov and his ambition to build one of the world's greatest collections of modern art A wealthy Moscow textile merchant, Morozov started buying art in a modest way in 1900 until, on a trip to Paris, he developed a taste for the avant-garde. Meticulous and hi ...Show more
Midnight in Chernobyl - The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. When Reactor Number Four of the Ch ...Show more
The Good Germans by Catrine Clay
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 40 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families. They moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by neighbour ...Show more
The Golden Maze: a Biography of Prague (HB) by Richard Fidler
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolution bro ...Show more
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the ...Show more
Why the Germans Do It Better: Lessons from a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
A provocative and entertaining exploration of the country that Britons love to hate by one of our most respected journalists.
Genius and Anxiety - How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
This lively chronicle of the years 1847--1947--the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world--is " a] thrilling and tragic history...especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past" (The Wall Street Journal). In a hundred-year period, a ha ...Show more
Sicily '43 by James HOLLAND
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history. Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted in world history, landing more men in a single day than at any other time. That day, over 160,000 British, American a ...Show more
Conquistadores: A New History by Fernando Cervantes
$70.00 AUD
Category: European
The 'conquistadors', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and building roads, cathedrals, palaces and cities which have endured to the present. Today ...Show more