Byron's Women by Alexander Larman
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Ni ...Show more
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$45.00 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: near fine
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by ...Show more
Glasgow by Michael Fry
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
A one volume history of the great city of Glasgow from the Celts to Celtic by the controversial Scottish historian and biographer of Edinburgh. Beloved, reviled - and not only by Glaswegians, Glasgow isn't just the industrial revolution nor the Victorian slums. Founded in the sixth century, its forebea ...Show more
The Almost Nearly Perfect People - The Truth about the Nordic Miracle by Michael Booth
$34.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: Why are the Danes the happiest people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If the Finns really have the best education system, how come they still think all Swedish men are gay? Are the Icelanders really feral? How are the N ...Show more
If This is A Woman - Inside Ravensbruck, Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
$32.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant gates. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. ...Show more
Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments of oceanic crust, and land newly minted by volcanic ...Show more
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE. The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers. Over its course, th ...Show more
Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich by Barry Turner
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
Among the military leaders of World War Two, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz remains a deeply controversial figure. As chief of the German submarine fleet he earned Allied respect as a formidable enemy. But after he succeeded Hitler - to whom he was unquestioningly loyal - as head of the Third Reich, his nam ...Show more
The Romanov's: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family. In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar where the last tsar and his family had been murd ...Show more
The Billion Dollar Spy: A true Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman
$29.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: good
January, 1977. While the chief of the CIA's Moscow station fills his gas tank, a stranger drops a note into the car. In the years that followed, that stranger, Adolf Tolkachev, became one of the West's most valuable spies. At enormous risk Tolkachev and his handlers conducted clandestine meetings across ...Show more
In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter, Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace by Miranda Seymour
$22.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
'This magnificent, highly readable double biography...brings these two driven, complicated women vividly to life' The Financial Times 'A gripping saga of a double-biography' Daily Mail 'A masterful portrait' The Times 'Vastly enjoyable' Literary Review 'Deeply absorbing and meticulously researched' The ...Show more
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire by Roger Crowley
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. In City of Fortune, Roger Crowley, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea, applies his narrative skill to chronicling the astounding five-hundred-year voyage ...Show more