Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World by Noel Malcolm
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also many forms of peaceful in ...Show more
My Italians - True Stories of Crime and Courage by Roberto Saviano
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this is a deeply personal and candid portrait of Italy today: a place of trafficking and toxic waste, where votes can be bought and sold, where organized crime ravages both north and south - yet also where many courageous individuals defy the system ...Show more
How to be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life by Ruth Goodman
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
The real Wolf Hall - a time traveller's guide to daily life in Tudor England. The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times - most notably in the court of Henry VIII - what was life really like for a commoner like you or ...Show more
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from its leading scholar and 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their hist ...Show more
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof'. From the beginning of the nineteenth century to the Russian Revolution, the tsarist regime exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains to Siberia. Daniel Beer's new book, The House of the Dead, brings to life both ...Show more
Augustus - The Biography by Jochen Bleicken
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire.Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered that he was the dictator's sole political heir. With the opportunism and instinct for propaganda that were to chara ...Show more
The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the War with Terror by Jonathan Fenby
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyses the extraordinary se ...Show more
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess by Andrew Lownie
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year. Daily Mail Biography of Year. Spectator Book of the Year. BBC History Book of the Year. 'Andrew Lownie's biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin's Englishman ...shrewd, thorough, revelatory.' William Boyd ' ...Show more
Sicily: A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra by John Julius Norwich
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this beautiful book full of maps and colour photographs. 'I discovered Sicily almost by mistake ...We drove as far as Naples, then put the car on the night ferry to Palermo ...Show more
Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West by Michael Scott
$55.00 AUD
Category: European
"A bold and imaginative page-turner that challenges ideas about the world of antiquity." (Peter Frankopan (The Silk Roads)). "This vivid and engaging book brings to life some of the most important moments in ancient history, moments that have shaped not only the politics and culture of bygone eras, but ...Show more
The Art of Time Travel : Historians and their Craft by Tom Griffiths
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: 1st
No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us. The art of time travel is to maintain critical poise and grace in this dizzy space. In this landmark book, eminent historian and award-winning author Tom Griffiths explores t ...Show more
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European slaves by Giles Milton
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. Using ...Show more