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France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their own' DAILY TELEGRAPH I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel cross ...Show more
France - A History from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
"...This book is written in the belief that the average English-speaking man or woman has remarkably little knowledge of French history. We may know a bit about Napoleon or Joan of Arc or Louis XIV, but for most of us that's about it. In my own three schools we were taught only about the battles we won: ...Show more
Sicily - A Short History from the Ancient Greeks to Cosa Nostra by John Julius Norwich
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
The stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the gateway between the East and the West, at once a stronghold, clearing-house and observation-post, Sicily has been invaded and fought over by Phoenicians and Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, Spaniards and ...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
The Duff Cooper Diaries - 1915-1951 by John Julius Norwich
$27.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES 'Duff Cooper was as close to the action as anyone during the dramatic events of the mid-20th century. He was also comically priap ...Show more
The Great Cities in History by John Julius Norwich
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. "The Great Cities in History" tells their stories, from Uruk and Memphis to Tokyo and Sao Paulo. A galaxy of distinguished contributors evoke the character ...Show more
The Great Cities in History by John Julius Norwich
$22.00 AUD
Category: History
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. The Great Cities in History tells their stories, from Uruk and Memphis to Tokyo and Sao Paulo. A galaxy of distinguished contributors evoke the character o ...Show more
The Illustrated Christmas Cracker by John Julius Norwich
$20.00 AUD
Category: Christmas Books
For over forty years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers - a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends - to his friends instead of a Christmas card. In The Illustrated Christmas Cracker Quentin Blake has made his own selection of favourite pieces and ha ...Show more
The Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194: The Normans in Sicily Volume II by John Julius Norwich
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
When on Christmas Day, 1130, Roger de Hauteville was crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was fantastically cosmopolitan; and to an atmosphere of racial and religious toleration un ...Show more
The Middle Sea : A History of the Mediterranean by John Julius Norwich
$28.00 AUD
Category: History
The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents. To the peoples living around its periphery, it has served at various times as a cradle and a grave, a bond ...Show more
The Normans in the South, 1016-1130: The Normans in Sicily Volume I by John Julius Norwich
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
Chronicling the 'other Norman invasion', The Normans in the South is the epic story of the House of Hauteville, and in particular Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer between the times of Caesar and Napoleon. In one year, 1084, he had both the Eastern and Western Emperors ...Show more
The Popes: A History by John Julius Norwich
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich has now turned his attention to the oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter himself - traditionally (though by no means histo ...Show more