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From Dawn to Decadence - 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun
$25.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
In From Dawn to Decadence master historian Jaques Barzun sets down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about Western Culture since 1500. Professor Barzun intertwines penetrating analysis of wars, philosophy, science, manners, sex, religion, morals and art with witty an ...Show more
Microcosm - Portrait of a Central European City by Norman Davies & Roger Moorhouse
$25.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
The Last Templar : The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay Last Grand Master of the Temple by Alain Demurger
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
A Pioneering investigation into the last days of the mighty Knights Templar and their last Grand Master by one of France
The Vanished Kingdom - Travels Through The History Of Prussia by James Charles Roy
$16.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Twice in this century, Germany initiated wars of unimagined terror and destruction. In both cases, defense of the “Prussian” realm, the German homeland, was the perceived and vilified perpetrator. Few today understand with any precision what “Prussia” means, either geographically or nationalistically, b ...Show more
Betsy and the Emperor: The True Story of Napoleon, a Pretty Girl, a Regency Rake, and an Australian Colonial Misadventure by Anne Whitehead
$18.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the fallen emperor was charmed by the pretty teenage daughter of a loc ...Show more
Blitzed - Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
'Extremely interesting ...a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all ...Show more
Churchill and Australia by Graham Freudenberg
$18.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good-very good
Empire of Love - Histories of France and the Pacific by Matt K. Matsuda
$20.00 NZD
Category: Maori & Pacific | Reading Level: very good
In this broad-ranging survey of Paris, Tahiti, Indochina, Japan, New Caledonia, and the South Pacific generally, Matt Matsuda illustrates the fascinating interplay that shaped the imaginations of both colonizer and colonized. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Matsuda describes the constitution of ...Show more
The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 by Eugene F. Rice
$8.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: History of Modern Europe Ser. | Reading Level: good
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
In Italian Ways, bestselling writer Tim Parks brings us a fresh portrait of Italy today through a wry account of his train journeys around the country. Whether describing his daily commute from Milan to Verona, his regular trips to Florence and Rome, or his occasional sojourns to Naples and Sicily, Park ...Show more
The Identity of France - Volume One: History and Environment and Volume Two: People and Production by Fernand Braudel
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good-very good
This first of two volumes is a guided tour of France's provinces and cities and how they rose to prominence in different eras. The author examines the economical and social differences that are camouflaged under a deceptive appearance of national unity. 30 maps.