Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward?Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman, who grew up as ...Show more
Playing With Fire The Story Of Maria Yudina Pianist In Stalin'S Russia by Wilson Elizabeth
$51.95 AUD
Category: European
The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life "Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work--a phenomenal biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting relevance."--Norman Lebrecht, Wall Street Journal Maria Yud ...Show more
The Normans - Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th Century Europe by Judith A. Green
$51.95 AUD
Category: European
A bold new history of the rise and expansion of the Norman Dynasty across Europe from Byzantium to England In the eleventh century the climate was improving, population was growing, and people were on the move. The Norman dynasty ranged across Europe, led by men who achieved lasting fame like Willia ...Show more
Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe by Emily Greble
$46.00 AUD
Category: European
Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe shows that Muslims were citizens of modern Europe from its beginning and, in the process, rethinks Europe itself.Muslims are neither newcomers nor outsiders in Europe. In the twentieth century, they have been central to the continent's political development and th ...Show more
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont
$19.99 AUD
Category: European
This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than those in the eastern Baltic. Small nations such as the Baltic States of Latvia and Es ...Show more
Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
In this monumental book, Ronald Grigor Suny sheds light on the least understood years of Stalin's career, bringing to life the turbulent world in which he lived and the extraordinary historical events that shaped him. Suny draws on a wealth of new archival evidence from Stalin's early years in the Cauca ...Show more
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family by Robert K. Massie
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs - Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra. Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter the Great, in this commanding book Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of imperial Russia to tell the ...Show more
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The Pulitzer prizewinning biography of Peter the Great, the ruler who brought Russia from darkness into light. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, Robert K. Massie unfolds the extraordinary story of Peter the Great. A volatile feudal tsar with a taste ...Show more
Henrietta Maria - Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen by Leanda de Lisle
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
An important and entertaining revisionist biography of Henrietta Maria (1609-1699) by one of our most respected historiansA myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveHenrietta Maria is Britain's most reviled queen ...Show more
Sisters in Resistance: how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The extraordinary true story of how three women - a fascist's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite - raced against Hitler's SS to get key evidence into the hands of the Allies. In 1943, Edda Mussolini, daughter of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, gave her father and Hitler an extraor ...Show more
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy
$55.00 AUD
Category: European
'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and the ordinary citizen' Kai Bird Best-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear dis ...Show more
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the Enli ...Show more