The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
$50.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Wellcome Collection
A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it. More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in o ...Show more
Conquistadores: A New History by Fernando Cervantes
$27.00 AUD
Category: European
NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY 'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary Review The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends a ...Show more
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king' (W.E.H. Lecky, nineteenth century), 'one of ...Show more
The Man in the Iron Mask - The True Story of Europe's Most Famous Prisoner by Josephine Wilkinson
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
A vivid, dramatic, and eye-opening historical narrative, The Man in the Iron Mask reveals the story behind the most enduring mystery of Louis XIV's reign. The Man in the Iron Mask has all the hallmarks of a thrilling adventure story: a glamorous and all-powerful king, ambitious ministers, a cruel and ...Show more
Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
'Exceptionally sumptuous ... This vivid history brings to life the vices and virtues of the feuding ruling families of Italy' Michael Prodger, The Times, Book of the Week A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons - the prin ...Show more
The Light of Italy - The Life and Times of Federico Da Montefeltre, Duke of Urbino by Jane Stevenson
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King 'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's most glamorous courts' Catherine Fletcher 'In a narrative matching her book's sumptious illustrations, Jane Stevenson celebrates Urbino as an essential place of pilgrimage for all lovers of Ital ...Show more
The Free World - Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years. The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense--economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Fre ...Show more
Conclave 1559 by Mary Hollingsworth
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
Conspiracy, intrigue and faction fighting as the future of Europe hangs in the balance: Mary Hollingsworth tells the story of the papal conclave in 1559. Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. August 1559. As the long hot Italian summer draws to its close, so does the life of a r ...Show more
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
$50.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Bollingen Series (General) Ser.
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we reac ...Show more
The Women of Rothschild - The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty (H/B) by Natalie Livingstone
$55.00 AUD
Category: European
'Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologized. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain virtually unknown. From the East End of London to t ...Show more
Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army by Guy de la Bedoyere
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine the ancient world produced. The Roman Empire depended on soldiers not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers and control the seas but also to act as the engine of the state. Roman legionaries and auxiliaries came from across the Roman world and beyond ...Show more
Bunker: Building for the End Times by Bradley Garrett
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
An astonishingly prescient journey through one of the fastest-growing phenomena of our age, by one of our most exciting young thinkers and urban explorers Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears- from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it do ...Show more