Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
$29.99 AUD
Category: European
A radical reframing of the Holocaust that challenges prevailing myths and draws disturbing parallels with the present.LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZEWe have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than ...Show more
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet, prol ...Show more
How to Win a Roman Chariot Race: Lives, Legends and Treasures from the Ancient World by Jane C. Hood
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
Who first thought of atoms? How much can you learn about archaeology from an oil lamp? Who came up with the theory of the 'wandering womb'? Oxford Classicist Jane Hood delves into the history, culture, literature, mythology and philosophy of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, using her expert eye to uneart ...Show more
City Secrets: Paris by Robert Kahn
$24.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: City Secrets
City Secrets Paris brings together the recommendations of artists, writers, historians, architects, chefs, and other experts whose passionate opinions and highly informed perspectives illuminate well-known sites as well as overlooked treasures. These expert travel companions share with you their favorit ...Show more
France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy str ...Show more
The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hotel on Place Vendome is the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Hotel Ritz-a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance-from Tilar J. Manzeo, the New York Times bestse ...Show more
Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped The Century by Sinclair McKay
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World ...Show more
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
$32.99 AUD
Category: European
In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the Holocaust, award-winning journalist and best-selling novelist Jonathan Freedland uncovers the extraordinary story of the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz, a man who was determined to warn the world--and ...Show more
Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case by Philippa Langley
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
Philippa Langley took the world by storm when, against all the odds and a seven-year investigation, she discovered the grave of King Richard III (1452-1485) in a Leicester car park. A king finally laid to rest, the rediscovery and reburial of Richard III was watched by an estimated global audience of ov ...Show more
Berlin: The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller by Antony Beevor
$26.95 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks ...Show more
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Laurence Rees
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
Based on twenty-five years of meeting survivors and perpetrators, The Holocaust is a sweeping new history that combines first-person testimony with the latest academic research to investigate how history's greatest crime was made possible. Laurence Rees argues that a series of escalations compounded int ...Show more
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
It is a major history examining the realities of Jewish life across Europe up to the very eve of World War Two. This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi ons ...Show more