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
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Rabbi Daniel Gordis
$27.99 AUD
Category: European
Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year AwardThe first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, -one of the most respected Israel analysts- (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem.Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has capture ...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
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.
Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict by David McKittrick
$29.99 AUD
Category: European
'I would strongly advocate that it be made compulsory reading for everyone in Northern Ireland because for the first time it is our history, all of it warts and all, presented in a clear and understandable way' Irish News First published ten years ago, Making Sense of the Troubles is widely regarded as ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The bestselling historian with the real story of WW2's 'inescapable' Nazi prison camp In a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop, an unlikely band of prisoners plotted a daring escape from the clutches of their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchanged and unchallenged for 70 years. ...Show more
Blitzed : Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler
$22.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: WWII
New York Times Bestseller" A] fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich." -- Washington PostThe Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: coc ...Show more
The Palace by Gareth Russell
$52.99 AUD
Category: European
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORYFor centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and in ...Show more
Battle Castles: 500 Years of Knights and Siege Warfare by Dan Snow
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Join TV's Dan Snow as the fully illustrated 'Battle Castles' brings to thrilling life a cavalcade of medieval fortifications and the clashes that turned empires to dust and mortals into legends. Castles and their ruins still dominate the landscape and are a constant reminder to us of a time when violenc ...Show more
The Story of the Jews : Finding the Words 1000BCE - 1492CE by Simon Schama
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes ...Show more
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the erection of temples on Malta around 3500 BC to modern tourism. Ranging across time and the whole extraordina ...Show more