The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood; Paul Kennedy; Anthony Grafton (Foreword by)
59.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: New York Review Books Classics
This study of the Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648), was first published in 1938. Beginning as a conflict between Protestants and Catholics, the War gradually became transformed into a struggle to determine whether the Hapsburgs would gain control of all Germany.
The Wicked Queen - The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette by Chantal Thomas; Julie Rose (Translator)
65.00 AUD
Category: European
The Wicked Queen is not a biography of one of the most infamous queens in history. Rather, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the verbal and visual representations of Marie-Antoinette, the history of her mythification. Almost as soon as Marie-Antoinette, archduchess of Austria, was brought to France ...Show more
Paul - A Biography by N. T. Wright
29.99 AUD
Category: European
In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T. Wright offers a radical look at the apostle Paul, illuminating the humanity and remarkable achievements of this intellectual who invented Christian theology--transforming a faith and changing the world. ...Show more
AFTERMATH by Jä hner Harald
48.99 AUD
Category: European
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*** A Book of the Year The Times * Sunday Times * Telegraph * New Statesman * Financial Times * Irish Independent * Daily Mail 'A masterpiece' SPECTATOR 'Exemplary [and] important... This is the kind of book few writers possess the clarity o ...Show more
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
24.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: P. S. Ser.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir
24.99 AUD
Category: European
'Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader? The TimesThe captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor reigns.Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Some ...Show more
The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust by Lisa Moses Leff
37.95 AUD
Category: European | Series: Oxford Series on History and Archives
Born into poverty in Russian Poland in 1911, Zosa Szajkowski (Shy-KOV-ski) was a self-made man who managed to make a life for himself as an intellectual, first as a journalist in 1930s Paris, and then, after a harrowing escape to New York in 1941, as a scholar. Although he never taught at a university o ...Show more
Germaine de Stael: A Political Portrait by Biancamaria Fontana
65.00 AUD
Category: European
Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker. Yet she was also a prominent figure in politics during the French Revolution. Biancamaria Fontana sheds new light on this often overlooked aspect of Stael's life and work, bri ...Show more
Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens by Nigel Cawthorne
12.99 AUD
Category: European
The headlines of Royal infidelity and divorce that are the bread and butter of today's tabloid press is nothing new. People have always been captivated by the sexual behaviour of Royalty, and as author Nigel Cawthorne reveals, there has been plenty of it. Historically this fascination has not been merel ...Show more
The Full Catastrophe: Travels Among the New Greek Ruins by James Angelos
47.95 AUD
Category: European
A transporting, good-humored, and revealing account of Greece s dire troubles, reported from the mountain villages, idyllic islands, and hardscrabble streets that define the country todayIn recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed villages and ...Show more
The Fall of the Ottomans - The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920 by Eugene Rogan
29.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
Sunday Times Top Ten Best-seller. The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War, from best-selling historian Eugene Rogan. For some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East. By 1 ...Show more
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