Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012. When Mi ...Show more
Violencia - A New History of Spain: Past, Present and the Future of the West by Jason Webster
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
Spain has never worked as a democracy. Throughout the country's history only one system of government has ever enjoyed any real success: dictatorship and the use of violence. Violence, in fact, is what Spain is made of, lying at the heart of its culture and identity, far more so than any other western ...Show more
Broken Lives - How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century by Konrad H. Jarausch
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition--but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitationBroken Lives is a gripping account of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by ...Show more
The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire by A. Wess Mitchell
$556.00 AUD
Category: European
The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical world The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful e ...Show more
Richard III - The Self-Made King by Michael Hicks
$63.00 AUD
Category: European
The definitive biography and assessment of the wily and formidable prince who unexpectedly became monarch-the most infamous king in British historyThe reign of Richard III, the last Yorkist king and the final monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty, marked a turning point in British history. But despite his ...Show more
The Great Naturalists by Robert Huxley
$22.00 AUD
Category: European
From Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host of intrepid thinkers and explorers. Aristotle and Linnaeus set out to classify nature; Joseph Banks and von Humboldt made perilous journeys to collect and rec ...Show more
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth by Adam Zamoyski
$27.99 AUD
Category: European
'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of StalingradA landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski's portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at ...Show more
Catherine the Great - Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
$28.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Great Lives Ser.
The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development and welfar ...Show more
The Norse Myths - Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes Vividly Retold by Tom Birkett
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
The great Norse Myths are among the most dramatic and unforgettable stories in all human history. These fascinating, fantastical tales have inspired centuries of art, culture and literature, including the storytelling of Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones, Wagner's Ring Cycle an ...Show more
The Last Palace: Europe's Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague by Norman Eisen
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. From that discovery unspooled the captivating, twisting tale of the remarkable people who lived in the ...Show more
Rise and Fall - A History of the World in Ten Empires by Paul Strathern
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
From the Akkadian Empire to modern-day America, Rise and Fall charts the history of the world through its ten greatest empires. Through these we examine humanity's will to power in forms both infamous and poorly understood, and trace the evolution of the imperial impulse as it moves from the blunt milit ...Show more
The Regency Years - During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern by Robert Morrison
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted in the years before. The Regency (1811-1820) began when the profligate Prince of Wales-the future King George IV-replaced his insane father, George III, as Britain's ruler.Around the regent surged a ...Show more