Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection 1815-1840 by Philip G. Dwyer
$29.99 AUD
Category: European
The final volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking trilogy chronicling the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history's most complex and charismatic leaders This meticulously researched study opens with Napoleon no longer in power, but instead a prisoner in a dressing-gown just off the Engl ...Show more
Fatal Discord - Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind by Michael Massing
$80.00 AUD
Category: European
An engrossing dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest minds of European history--Erasmus of Rotterdam and Martin Luther--whose heated rivalry gave rise to two enduring, fundamental, and often colliding traditions of philosophical and religious thought.Erasmu ...Show more
Roller-Coaster: Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catast ...Show more
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
Lionel Shriver: "We praise too many writers for being “brave,” but with The Strange 'Death of Europe' Douglas Murray put himself in such potentially physical peril that he keeps his itineraries and address under wraps. Compellingly readable and lucidly argued, this is a thoughtful, meticulously resear ...Show more
The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
From the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia comes the first English-language work to document the men who emerged from the Gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the "vory v zakone."
House of Trump, House of Putin - How Vladimir Putin and the Russian Mafia Helped Put Donald Trump in the White House by Craig Unger
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A bombshell.' Daily Mail 'Damning, terrifying and enraging.' The Spectator 'The story Unger weaves with his original reporting is fresh, illuminating and more alarming than the intelligence channel described in the Steele dossier.' The Washington Post House of Trump, ...Show more
The Last Palace (H/B) by Norman Eisen
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
For any reader of Edmund de Waal's THE HARE WITH THE AMBER EYES or Erik Larson's IN THE GARDENS OF BEASTS, Norman L Eisen's THE LAST PALACE tells the story of the tumultuous past 100 years in Europe as seen from the most beautiful house in Prague, the Petschek Villa. The Petschek Villa was Norman L Eise ...Show more
Theatre of the World - The Maps That Made History by Thomas Reinertsen Berg
$55.00 AUD
Category: European
'Fascinating...sumptuously produced with lots of full-colour images, is a kind of potted treasury of cartographical history that gleams with pieces-of-eight-like snippets of information...this is an enthralling book, and joins the likes of Simon Garfield's On the Map and Jerry Brotton's A History of the ...Show more
The Death of Hitler - The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler s Body by Jean-Christophe Brisard; Lana Parshina
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
A dramatic and revelatory new account of the final days in Hitler's bunker, based on new access to previously unseen Soviet archives. After two years of nonstop negotiations with the Russian authorities, Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina were granted access to secret files detailing the Soviets' ...Show more
Broken Lives "How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century" by Konrad H. Jarausch
$75.00 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 rehabilitation Broken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and w ...Show more
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books - Young Colombus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
Without libraries, what have we? We have no past and no future. This book tells for the first time in English the story of the first great universal library in the age of printing - and of the son of Christopher Colombus who created it. This is the scarcely believable - and wholly true - story of Christ ...Show more
City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more