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The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert
$18.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good-very good
A Daughter's Love: Thomas and Margaret More by John Guy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
This book will break open a secret. It is a gripping tale of love, loyalty and domestic happiness that came to be overwhelmed by the forces of ambition, deceit and treachery, from the award-winning author of 'My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots'. The life of Sir Thomas More is familiar ...Show more
Rome or Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi by Daniel Pick
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Fatal Silence : The Pope, the Resistance and the German Occupation of Rome by Robert Katz
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good
The untold and dramatic story of Rome under German occupation in 1943-44, between the fall of Mussolini and the city's capture by the Americans.This is the epic story of the brutal occupation of Rome by the Germans after the fall of Mussolini in July 1943 up to the capture of the city by General Mark Cl ...Show more
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
"I knew I could only be killed once. I might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb". Irene was a 17-year-old nursing student when the Nazis invaded Poland. They took over her country and her life. Nothing in her innocent girlhood could have prepared her for the horrors she was to witness. However, ...Show more
Hall of Mirrors by David Sinclair
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good-very good
Following his bestselling biography of the Pound Sterling, David Sinclair's next book is a fascinating insight into the single event which shaped the face of the modern world. If the Great War of 1914-1918 was a tragedy, then the Treaty of Versailles was a complete travesty. Rather than sealing a g ...Show more
Jem Sultan - The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe by John Freely
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A remarkable tale of empire and exile, restoring to vivid life one of the most extraordinary and colourful figures of medieval history. Jem Sultan, born in 1459, was one of the wonders of his age. A Turkish prince held captive in Europe at a time when the Ottoman Empire was at its peak, he was reno ...Show more
The Thirties: An Intimate History by Juliet Gardiner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Acclaimed author of 'Wartime', Juliet Gardiner, brings to life the long-neglected decade of the twentieth century -- the 1930s. J.B. Priestley famously described the 'three Englands' he saw in the 1930s: Old England, nineteenth-century industrial England and the new, post-war England. Thirties Britain ...Show more
The Final Act - The Roads to Waterloo by George Dallas
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
On April 5, 1999, local police in Serbia found a truck floating half-submerged in the Danube River. There was no sign of the driver, but a stone was sitting on the gas pedal. When the police finally managed to pull the truck out and open the cargo hold, they discovered that it was packed to the top with ...Show more
Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Philip II of Spain--ruler of the most extensive empire the world had ever known--has been viewed in a harsh and negative light since his death in 1598. Identified with repression, bigotry, and fanaticism by his enemies, he has been judged more by the political events of his reign than by his person. Thi ...Show more
Images Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of jewish Life In Poland 1964-1939 by Lucjan Dobroszycki & Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good
Maps in Tudor England by P. D. A. Harvey
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
In this illustrated survey, drawing upon the extensive collections of maps preserved in the British Library, The Public Record Office and other archives, Professor Harvey discusses all the ways in which maps were used in Tudor England, and charts the progress of what he has termed a cartographic revolut ...Show more