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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
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 th ...Show more
Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy by Bill Browder
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I?m killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know.Reads like a classic thriller, with an everyman hero alone and in danger in a hostile ...Show more
A House in the Mountains: the Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance during the Second World War In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in the War and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia a ...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
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin's Russia by Joshua Yaffa
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
How everyday Russians survive and thrive under Putin's rule, from The New Yorker's correspondent in Moscow.
Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
“Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet.” Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildl ...Show more
Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin's Agents by Gordon Corera
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The urgent, explosive story of Russia's espionage efforts against the West from the Cold War to the present - including their interference in the 2016 presidential election. Like a scene from a le Carre novel or the TV drama The Americans, in the summer of 2010 a group of Russian deep cover sleeper age ...Show more
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent by Owen Matthews
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
'The most formidable spy in history' IAN FLEMING 'His work was impeccable' KIM PHILBY 'The spy to end spies' JOHN LE CARR Born of a German father and a Russian mother, Richard Sorge moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. In the years leading up to and during the Second World Wa ...Show more
Crusaders by Dan Jones
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
From the bestselling author of The Templars. 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best'SUNDAY TIMES. 'A powerful story brilliantly told. Dan Jones writes with pace, wit and insight'HELEN CASTOR. 'A fresh and vibrant accoun ...Show more
The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a uniq ...Show more
Saga Land: the Island Stories at the Edge of the World by Richard Fidler; Kari Gislason
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history.This is Iceland as you've never read it before ...Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who sett ...Show more