The History of Modern France: From The Revolution to the Present Day by Jonathan Fenby
$49.99 AUD
Category: European
With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyses the extraordinary se ...Show more
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
Keith Lowe's "Savage Continent" is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII. The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried co ...Show more
Seneca - A Life by Emily Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: European
This book traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century CE, who came from Spain to Rome, spent his youth in Egypt, was exiled to Corsica under Claudius but recalled after eight years, and rose to dizzying heights of wealth, power and ...Show more
How Paris Became Paris - The Invention of the Modern City by Joan DeJean
$32.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: DEJEAN JOAN
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be transformed into the modern and mythic city we know today.Thoug ...Show more
1864: The Forgotten War That Shaped Modern Europe by Tom Buk-Swienty
$19.99 AUD
Category: European
The Battle of Dybbol, 1864. Prussian troops lay siege to an outpost in the far south of Denmark. The conflict is over control of the Duchy of Schleswig, recently annexed by Denmark to the alarm of its largely German-speaking inhabitants. Danish troops make a valiant attempt to hold out but are overrun b ...Show more
Off the Map: Lost Spaces, Invisible Cities, Forgotten Islands, Feral Places and What They Tell Us About the World by Alastair Bonnett
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
'A fizzingly entertaining and enlightening book' Daily Telegraph 'Mesmerising' Geographical Magazine 'A fascinating delve into uncharted, forgotten lost places. But it's not just a trivia-tastic anthology of remote destinations but a nifty piece of psycho-geography, explaining our human need for the ...Show more
The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters by Anthony Pagden
$30.95 AUD
Category: European
The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Weste ...Show more
The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left by Yuval Levin
$21.99 AUD
Category: European
For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate , Yuval Levin explores the origins of the left/right divide by examining the views of the men who best represented each side of that debate at its outset: Edmund ...Show more
Jerusalem: The Real Life of William Blake by Tobias Churton
$49.99 AUD
Category: European
Delving into the spiritual side of one the Romantic period's most renowned artists and poets, this biography explores for the first time the deeper meanings and enlightened thoughts that sit at the heart of Blake's trademark symbolism. It's hard to believe that Blake was largely unrecognized in his own ...Show more
The Italians by John Hooper
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles. John Hooper's marvellously entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. ...Show more
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920 by Eugene Rogan
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War, from bestselling historian Eugene Rogan. For some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East. By 1914 it had been drastically weakene ...Show more
Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal: by Ben Macintyre
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War.Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and Jam ...Show more