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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
Illustrated London by Peter Ackroyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
A magnificent pictorial history of London, to tie in with Peter Ackroyd's TV series (BBC) based on his bestselling London: A BiographyLavish, large format picture book about London, with Peter Ackroyd's inimitable text and captions. Divided into three parts:Fire and Destiny London as metropolis; maps an ...Show more
Tartans by Brian Wilton
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Worn by everyone from rock stars to the Royal Family, tartan is an internationally recognised fabric and symbol of Scottishness. Now, in this comprehensive, fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Brian Wilton traces tartan back to its roots, looking at how and where the various clan tartans began ...Show more
A Promise to Remember - The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors by Michael Berenbaum
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
A PROMISE TO REMEMBER is a concise and accessible history of the Holocaust presented in an interactive format that includes graphics, detailed sidebars, an audio CD and removable facsimiles of documents from the period. Michael Berenbaum, bestselling author and former director of the US Holocaust Memori ...Show more
His Life, to His Children by Theodore-Agrippa D'Aubigne; John Nothnagle (Editor, Translator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici by Lauro Martines
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family miscarried dramatically in the cathedral of Florence. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed in reprisal. All Italy was at once a ...Show more
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe. In 1920 the new Soviet state was a mess, following a brutal civil war, and the best wa ...Show more
Alliance: The Inside Story of how Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another by Jonathan Fenby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Throughout the war the 'Big Three' -- Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin -- met in various permutations and locations to thrash out ways to defeat Nazi Germany -- and, just as importantly, to decide the way Europe would look after the war. This was the political rather than military struggle: a battle of w ...Show more
Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics: Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust by Mária M. Kovács
$14.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: A\Woodrow Wilson Press Co-Publication | Reading Level: very good
In this important new historical study, M ria Kov cs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups--doctors, lawyers, engineers--in Hungary. Kov cs's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemployment, expansion of the welfare system, and competition fo ...Show more