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
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead
$22.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
This is a Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller Shortlisted For The Samuel Johnson Prize 2014. From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II. High up in the mo ...Show more
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Susan Dworkin; Edith H. Beer
$19.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: General Adult
#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged ...Show more
The Last Man in Russia: And the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
The Last Man in Russia is a portrait of the country like no other; a quest to understand the soul of Russia. Award-winning writer Oliver Bullough travels the country from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept village, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man, the dissident Orthodox priest F ...Show more
The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret by Catherine Hewitt
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamourous existence hid a ...Show more
Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
$24.95 AUD
Category: European
In a stirring chronicle, Doreen Rappaport brings to light the courage of countless Jews who organized to sabotage the Nazis and help other Jews during the Holocaust. Under the noses of the military, Georges Loinger smuggles thousands of children out of occupied France into Switzerland. In Belgium, three ...Show more
Mozart's Last Aria by Matt Rees
$29.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: P.S.
The news arrives in a letter to his sister, Nannerl, in December 1791. But the message carries more than word of Nannerl's brother's demise. Two months earlier, Mozart confided to his wife that his life was rapidly drawing to a close . . . and that he knew he had been poisoned. In Vienna to pay her fin ...Show more
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance by Robert Gildea
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. 'La Resistance francaise' was not simply a national effort to free the country from German occupation, but a wider struggle, filled with conflicts and division. It included Spanish republicans, Italian an ...Show more
Turkey: A Short History by Norman Stone
$21.99 AUD
Category: European
In Turkey: A Short History the celebrated historian Norman Stone deftly conducts the reader through the fascinating and complex story of Turkey's past, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the eleventh century to the modern republic applying for EU membership in the twenty-first. It is an acco ...Show more
Catherine the Great : Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
A reconstruction of the 18th-century empress's life that includes coverage of such topics as her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs.
Other Paris: An Illustrated Journey Through a City's Poor and Bohemian Past by Luc Sante
$55.00 AUD
Category: European
Paris, the City of Light. We think of it as the city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of white facades, discreet traffic and well-mannered exchanges. But there was another Paris, hidden from view and virtually extinct today - the Paris of the working and criminal classes that shaped the city over the ...Show more
Holodomor - Silenced Voices of the Starved Children by Lesa Morgan (Editor); Philip Webster (Editor)
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
History of the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-33, a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine.Personal stories of the Ukrainian genocide survivors.