Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941-44 by Anna Reid
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives wou ...Show more
Paris: Life & Luxury in the Eighteenth-century by Charissa Bremer-David
$75.00 AUD
Category: European
Provides a illustrated look at world of luxury objects in 18th-century Paris. This title seeks to re-imagine objects from 18th-century Paris within their original context, showing how they were used in the daily routines of the elite members of society.
A Royal Passion : The Turbulent Marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria by Katie Whitaker
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
King Charles I was a Protestant. Henrietta Maria, a 15-year-old French princess, was a Catholic. Arranged for political gain, their marriage was a dangerous experiment, yet against the odds they fell in love. However Henrietta's Catholicism fuelled rumours of improper influence over a supposedly helples ...Show more
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
'He were a dark prince, and infinitely suspicious, and his times full of secret conspiracies and troubles' Sir Francis Bacon. It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and counter-coups. Henry VII had clambered to the top of the heap - a fugitive with a f ...Show more
The Elizabethans
$64.95 AUD
Category: European
With all the panoramic sweep of his bestselling study "The Victorians", A.N. Wilson relates the exhilarating story of the Elizabethan Age. It was a time of exceptional creativity, wealth creation and political expansion. It was also a period of English history more remarkable than any other for the tech ...Show more
The Birth of Classical Europe : A History from Troy to Augustine by Simon Price
$24.95 AUD
Category: European
To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surpri ...Show more
Crimea by Orlando Figes
$26.95 AUD
Category: European
The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could co ...Show more
Renaissance People: Lives That Shaped the Modern World by Robert C. Davis
$49.95 AUD
Category: European
Highlights notable lives from between 1400 and 1600. This book includes wily politicians, eccentric scientists, fiery rebels and stolid reactionaries, as well as a pornographer, an acrobat, an actress, a poetic prostitute, a star comedian and a least one very fretful mother.
Tale of Twenty Cities: A Romantic Journey - Through Time by Ian Guthridge
$39.95 AUD
Category: European
Neither guide book nor a tome of history, this is a set of portraits or sketches or short stories about some of our favourite cities - fact, not fiction. And since it is arranged down a time-line, it will also become a journey through time from where it all began to where we are today.
Rome - A Cultural History by Robert Hughes
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
Rome - as a city, as an empire, as an enduring idea - is in many ways the origin of everything Robert Hughes has spent his life thinking and writing about with such dazzling irreverence and exacting rigour. In this magisterial book he traces the city's history from its mythic foundation with Romulus and ...Show more
Turkey: A Short History by Norman Stone
$57.95 AUD
Category: European
New from the eminent historian Norman Stone, who has lived and worked in the country since 1997, comes this concise survey of Turkeys relations with its immediate neighbours and the wider world from the 11th century to the present day. Stone deftly conducts the reader through this story, from the arriva ...Show more
Blood Brotherhoods: The Rise of the Italian Mafias by John Dickie
$32.99 AUD
Category: European
BLOOD BROTHERHOODS is the enthralling new history of Italian organised crime by the author of the international acclaimed bestseller COSA NOSTRA. The Sicilian mafia is far from being Italy's most powerful and dangerous criminal fraternity. The South of the country hosts two other major mafias: the Camor ...Show more