Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$23.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Master Bridge Ser.
'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ...Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' Economist It was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catheri ...Show more
Berlin - Imagine a City by Rory MacLean
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams real ...Show more
Gomorrah - A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
"A "New York Times "Notable Book of the Year"""""A groundbreaking, unprecedented bestseller in Italy, Roberto Saviano's insider account traces the decline of the city of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network more powerful and violent than the Mafia. The Camorra is an elaborate ...Show more
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
'As much as anything, World War I turned on the fate of Ukraine'. The decision to go to war in 1914 had catastrophic consequences for Russia. The result was revolution, civil war and famine in 1917-20, followed by decades of communist rule. Dominic Lieven's powerful and original book, based on exhaustiv ...Show more
The New Spymasters - Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror by Stephen Grey
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
"Number one Evening Standarad bestseller book of the year". (Daily Telegraph). "Exceptional. A blueprint for productive, sophisticated espionage in the age of Islamist terror". (Daily Telegraph). Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots ...Show more
One of Us: The Story of a Massacre and its Aftermath by Asne Seierstad
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity that shocked the world. One of Us is the definitive account of the massacres and the subsequent trial. But more than that, it is the compelling story of Anders Breivik and a select group of his victims. As ...Show more
European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche by Frank M. Turner; Richard A. Lofthouse (Editor)
$36.95 AUD
Category: European
One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures--lucid, accessible, beautifully written, and delivered with a notable ...Show more
Liberty or Death: The French Revolution by Peter McPhee
$55.95 AUD
Category: European
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century France and Europe ...Show more
Life in a Medieval City by Frances Gies
$28.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Medieval Life Ser.
From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series. Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was ...Show more
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson (University of Oxford)
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
Western civilization's rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. All over the world, more and more people study at Western-style universities, work for Western-style companies, vote for Western-style governments, take Western medicines, wear ...Show more
A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's Threat to the West by Luke Harding
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty two days later he dies, killed from the inside. The poison? Polonium; a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies in Russia. Based on the best part of a decade's reporti ...Show more
Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence by Jonathan Haslam
$40.95 AUD
Category: European
Near and Distant Neighbours is the first ever substantiated and complete history of Soviet intelligence. Based on a mass of newly declassified Russian secret intelligence documentation, it reveals the true story of Soviet intelligence from its very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold ...Show more