Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen by Giles Tremlett
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
A glorious account of the life of the Spanish infanta who became Queen of England and changed the course of Tudor history. The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty ...Show more
Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Caribbean by David Cordingly
$49.99 AUD
Category: European
Stories of individual pirates in the Caribbean, from Blackbeard to Calico Jack, have been the stuff of legend since the eighteenth century, but in Spanish Gold pirate expert David Cordingly at last gives us the big picture in all its bold and ruthless truth. Cordingly shows how the attacks of the buccan ...Show more
Croatia Through History: The Making of a European State by Branka Magas
$80.00 AUD
$126.00 (36% off)
Category: European
This comprehensive volume recounts Croatia's development from the early Middle Ages to the present day. Unlike most Western histories of the region, which tend to neglect the concurrent evolution of Croatia's constituent parts, it shows instead that Croatia developed gradually and organically. Maga' pay ...Show more
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
This title lets you explore the world's favourite city with the award-winning author of "The Discovery of France". No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Ro ...Show more
The Secret Life of France by Lucy Wadham
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the French educational system and divorced in a French court of law, Wadham is perfectly placed to explore the dif ...Show more
The Romantic Revolution by Tim Blanning
$35.00 AUD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: European
Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third - the romantic revolution - was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From it derive virtually all the cultu ...Show more
Paris from the Ground Up by James H. McGregor
$49.95 AUD
Category: European
Paris is the most personal of cities. There is a Paris for the medievalist, and another for the modernist - a Paris for expatriates, philosophers, artists, romantics, and revolutionaries of every stripe. James H. S. McGregor brings these multiple perspectives into focus throughout this concise, unique h ...Show more
Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris
$42.00 AUD
Category: European
This book examines the intriguing interaction between the spiritual and the political whilst reconstructs the awe-inspiring city in its heyday of 1200. During the early Middle Ages, travellers to the East returned with stories of a place called Miklagarth, a city so vast that its churches, palaces and m ...Show more
Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 by Charles Glass
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940. In the early hours of 14 June 1940, Nazi troops paraded through the streets of Paris, marking the beginning of the city's four-year occupation. French troops withdrew ...Show more
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West by Christopher Caldwell
$29.95 AUD
Category: European
Why has Europe's half-century of mass immigration failed to produce anything resembling the American melting pot? Deadly terrorist attacks and rioting in Muslim neighbourhoods have now forced Europeans, caught up in a demographic revolution they never expected, to question its success and to confront th ...Show more
Millennium - The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of ...Show more
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground ...Show more