Waterloo - The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
From the internationally bestselling author of the Sharpe novels and in the bicentenary year of the battle - this is the true story of Waterloo. On the 18th June, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army ha ...Show more
Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery That Transformed Tudor England by James Evans
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
In the spring of 1553 three ships sailed north-east from London into uncharted waters. The scale of their ambition was breathtaking. Drawing on the latest navigational science and the new spirit of enterprise and discovery sweeping the Tudor capital, they sought a northern passage to Asia and its riches ...Show more
They Eat Horses, Don't They?: The Truth About the French by Piu Marie Eatwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: European
In 'They Eat Horses, Don't They?', Piu Marie Eatwell explores the background to, and the contemporary evidence for, 45 myths and misconceptions about the French. She finds that many of them are simply false, and that even those that are broadly true are rather more complicated than at first sight. In th ...Show more
Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
"The ancient Greeks continue to fascinate us - they gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; established artistic and architectural canons visible to this day on all our high streets; laid ...Show more
An Inconvenient Genocide - Who Remembers the Armenians? by Geoffrey Robertson
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The most controversial issue left over from the First World War - was there an Armenian Genocide? - comes to a head on 24 April 2015, when Armenians throughout the world commemorate the centenary of the murder of 1.5 million - over half - of their people, at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government. ...Show more
Abducting a General - The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dre ...Show more
Midnight at the Pera: PalaceThe Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King
$35.95 AUD
$39.95 (10% off)
Category: European
At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city people were looking toward an uncertain fut ...Show more
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
"Helen Castor has an exhilarating narrative gift. . . . Readers will love this book, finding it wholly absorbing and rewarding." --Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall In the tradition of Antonia Fraser, David Starkey, and Alison Weir, prize-winning historian Helen Castor delivers a ...Show more
In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic wars - but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank or a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers ...Show more
Six Capitals - The revolution capitalism has to have - or can accountants save the planet? by Jane Gleeson-White
$32.99 AUD
Category: European
This is the story of a 21st century revolution being led by the most unlikely of rebels: accountants.It is only the second revolution in accounting since double-entry bookkeeping emerged in medieval Italy - and it is of seismic proportions, driven by the 2008 financial crash and the environmental crisis ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known. William Shirer is one of the very few historians to have gained full access to the ...Show more