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Bloomsbury by Quentin Bell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell - Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Fascinating biography of the iconoclastic English woman who in Baghdad in 1921 drew the boundaries of the country that became Iraq. Gertrude Bell was one of Oxford University's early female students, an archaelogist, a linguist, photographer, inveterate writer of letters and the greatest woman mountaine ...Show more
Francis Bacon - Anatomy of an Enigma by Michael Peppiatt
$25.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Francis Bacon was one of the most powerful and enigmatic creative geniuses of the twentieth century. Immediately recognizable, his paintings continue to challenge interpretations and provoke controversy. Bacon was also an extraordinary personality. Generous but cruel, forthright yet manipulative, ebulli ...Show more
Holy Roman Empire by Friedrich Heer
$15.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Holy Roman Empire, a relic of a lost age, dominated Europe for 1,000 years, from the time of Charlemagne until its final demolition' by Napoleon. This study, over thirty years old and now reprinted again, charts the fluctuating fortunes of the Empire's dynasties, the Ottonians, Salians and Habsburgs ...Show more
The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Sebastian Haffner examines Hitler's lifespan, his performance, his successes, errors, intellectual misconceptions, crimes and, last but not least, his great betrayal of his nation, the Western world and human civilisation. 'What makes Haffner's book different is that it is not one more biography but an ...Show more
The Middle East - 2000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day by Bernard Lewis
$16.00 NZD
Category: Middle East | Series: Phoenix Giants Ser. | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1995, Bernard Lewis' masterly and broad survey of the populations and cultures of the Middle East is now available in paperback. Lewis' history begins with the emergence of Christianity and demonstrates how the Persian and Byzantine empires have shaped the history of the region. This ...Show more
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