Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands by Ben Coates
$27.99 AUD
Category: European
The Netherlands is a country quite unlike any other. A tiny nation which punches above its weight on the world stage, where people have managed to become some of the richest in the world while working fewer hours than almost anyone else. They have the highest population density in Europe while one quart ...Show more
A Short History of the Byzantine Empire by Dionysios Stathakopoulos
$29.95 AUD
Category: European
The Byzantine Empire was one of the most impressive imperial adventures in history. It ruled much of Europe and Asia Minor for a remarkable eleven hundred years. From Constantine's establishment of Byzantium (renamed Constantinople) as his capital in 324 CE, until the fall of the city to the Ottomans in ...Show more
The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
On 10 July 1941 a horrifying crime was committed in the small Polish town of Jedwadbne. Early in the afternoon, the town's Jewish population - hundreds of men, women and children - were ordered out of their homes, and marched into the town square. By the end of the day most would be dead. It was a massa ...Show more
The Thirty-Year Genocide - Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 by Benny Morris; Dror Zeevi
$84.99 AUD
Category: European
From 1894 to 1924 three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities. Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi's impeccably researched account is the first to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christi ...Show more
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction by Orlando Figes
$14.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Pelican Books
AN ORIGINAL READING OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, EXAMINING IT NOT AS A SINGLE EVENT BUT AS A HUNDRED-YEAR CYCLE OF VIOLENCE IN PURSUIT OF UTOPIAN DREAMS In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian Revolution. While other historians have focuse ...Show more
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacres in Norway by Asne Seierstad
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity that shocked the world. Many were teenagers, just beginning their adult lives. In the devastating aftermath, the inevitable questions began. How could this happen? Why did it happen? And who was Anders Brei ...Show more
The New Spymasters - Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror by Stephen Grey
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
"Number one Evening Standarad bestseller book of the year". (Daily Telegraph). "Exceptional. A blueprint for productive, sophisticated espionage in the age of Islamist terror". (Daily Telegraph). Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots ...Show more
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess by Andrew Lownie
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year. Daily Mail Biography of Year. Spectator Book of the Year. BBC History Book of the Year. 'Andrew Lownie's biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin's Englishman ...shrewd, thorough, revelatory.' William Boyd ' ...Show more
In the Heart of the Sea - The Epic True Story That Inspired "Moby Dick" by Nathaniel Philbrick
$24.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in motion one of ...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