Poland: A History by Adam Zamoyski
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation. In 1797, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland amon ...Show more
Photographs, 1970-1990 by Annie Liebovitz
$99.00 AUD
Category: European
With more than 200 color and black-and-white photographs, this stunning collection spans the first 20 years of work by one of the most important photographers of our time. Published in conjunction with a major exhibit sponsored by American Express that will open in Washington's National Portrait Gallery ...Show more
History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
$68.00 AUD
Category: European
The definitive account of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky, its leader and key historian. Published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, this edition of Trotsky's masterpiece, with a new foreword by Ahmed Shawki, tells the epic story of the remarkable events which ...Show more
Tuscany by Alistair Moffat
$49.95 AUD
Category: European
Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its spell over the British. Attracted by the perfect combination of history, art, architecture, superb natural beauty and weather - not to mention magnificent traditions of food and drink - British visitors and residents have been at times so numer ...Show more
Courtiers - The Inside Story of the Palace Power Struggles from the Royal Correspondent Who Revealed the Bullying Allegations by Valentine Low
$49.99 AUD
Category: European
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins his reign, what will happen next?Throughout histor ...Show more
Rome: Eternal City by Ferdinand Addis
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
The sweeping story of the city of Rome, told through twenty-two moments that shaped its history. ***A TimesHistory Book of the Year*** 'Vivid, pacey ... Superb'The Times. 'Grand narrative underpinned by serious reading'Guardian. 'Confident, elegant ... Admirably ambitious'Daily Mail. From Romulus and ...Show more
Henry VII: (Penguin Monarchs) by Sean Cunningham
$29.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Penguin Monarchs
Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format Henry VII was one of England's unlikeliest monarchs. An exile and outsider with barely a claim to the throne, his victory over Richard III at Bosworth Field seemed to many in 1485 like only the ...Show more
Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
'The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since been offered to explain her away' Drawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier era with exquisite detail - and transforms the que ...Show more
Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen (#3 Six Tudor Queens) by Alison Weir
$29.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Six Tudor Queens Ser. | Reading Level: very good
NEW Acclaimed author and historian Alison Weir continues her epic Six Tudor Queens series with this third captivating novel, which brings to life Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII's most cherished bride and mother of his only legitimate male heir. Ever since she was a child, Jane has longed for a cloi ...Show more
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe--a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great In just a few hundred years, a modest peninsula off the northwest corner of Asia has seen the rise and fa ...Show more
King of the World - The Life of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel
$69.99 AUD
Category: European
Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, dominated his age. In the second half of the seventeenth century, he extended France's frontiers into the Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies in America, Africa and India. Louisiana, which once occupied a third of the territory of the present-day Unit ...Show more