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
Antwerp - The Glory Years by Michael Pye
$55.00 AUD
Category: European
A rich history of Antwerp from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Edge of the WorldEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp.Antwerp was sensational like nineteenth-century Paris or twentieth-century New York, somewhere anything ...Show more
The Glass Wall - Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont
$44.99 AUD
Category: European
Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than those in the eastern Baltic. Caught between the giants of Germany and Russia, on a route across which armies surged or retreated, small nations like Latvia and Estonia were for centuries the subjects of ...Show more
The Invention of Sicily by Jamie Mackay
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, Spanish and the French for thousands of year, Sicily became a unique melting pot where diverse traditions merged, produc ...Show more
The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men who Tried to Make her Disappear by Kate Moore
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. Elizabeth Packard was an ordinary Victorian housewife and mother of six. That was, until the first Woman's Rights Convention was held in 1 ...Show more
Faust's Metropolis - A History of Berlin by Alexandra Richie
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
Berlin - called the Schicksal Stadt Deutschlands, the City of German Destiny - has been at the heart of the most important events of not only Germany, but also modern Europe. In this powerful historical narrative, Oxford historian Alexandra Richie follows Berlin from its Medieval foundation to the natio ...Show more
Goering's Man in Paris - The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World by Jonathan Petropoulos
$52.00 AUD
Category: European
A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world "A well-rounded portrait of a complex figure. . . . Engrossing."--Publishers Weekly "With meticulous precision Jonathan uncovers the inner workings of the Nazi looting machine, exposing a network that l ...Show more
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe by Johnjoe McFadden
$37.00 AUD
Category: European
Life is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the emergence of the modern world. We begin in the turbulent times of the medieval friar, William of Occam, who first articulated the principle that the best answer to any problem is the simplest. ...Show more