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A Traveller's History of Spain by Juan Lalaguna
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Traveller's History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
During its golden age, Spain was a political giant whose influence spanned the world from Germany to the Western Pacific. Rich on American gold and silver, Spain was able to send the Armada against England, defeat the Turks and challenge France for the hegemony of Europe. This book will unlock the secre ...Show more
The French by Zeldin Theodore
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good
This is a guide to France intended for the traveller who wants to get to know French people as individuals, for the negotiating businessman and for students who wishes to discover in-depth aspects of their lives. It looks at what makes up the national character of France.
History of Germany 1815-1918 by David Blackbourn
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: near fine
In 1815, 90 per cent of the German population were involved in agriculture and craft production, were stubbornly loyal to their village, home town or city and lived in what was then a massively decentralized state. By 1871, Bismarck and the Prussian army had united the country, transforming Germany from ...Show more
Great Britain's Great War by Jeremy Paxman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good-very good
Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871 by Adam Zamoyski
$15.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good-very good
Hitler's Hernchmen by Henk van Capelle & Peter van de Bovenkamp
$15.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
A heavily illustrated history of Nazi Germany focussing on the devoted acolytes of Adolf Hitler, including Heinrich Himmler and Herman Goering, Joseph Goebbels, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Rudolph Hess, Albert Speer, Baldur von Schirach, Alfred Rosenberg, Martin Bormann and Eva Braun.
Exit Into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe by Eva Hoffman
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: fair
The Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds and hearts. Over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined; the royal line bent, but never broke, from Osman, born in a desert tent around 1280 to Abdul Mecid, dying in a Paris flat in 1942. Its precipitous rise from a dusty fie ...Show more
Stalin's Children : Three Generations of Love and War by Owen Matthews
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
On a midsummer day in 1937, Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared. One of those girls, Lyudmila, was to fall in love with a tall young foreigner in Moscow at the height of the Cold War and embark on a dangerous and passionate affair. Decades later, a reporter in nineties Moscow, ...Show more
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times - Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Here is a pioneeering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russain history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930's, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivisation and the first Five Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transforme ...Show more
The Great Terror - Stalin's Purge of the Thirties by Robert Conquest
$14.00 NZD
Category: Europe
The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. Edmund Wilson hailed it as "the only scrupulous, non-partisan, and adequate book on the subject." George F. Kennan, writing in The New York Times Book Review,noted that "o ...Show more
Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe by Michael Neiberg
$14.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good-very good
After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed across the continent. Food and fuel were scarce. Britain was bankrupt, while Germany had been reduced to rubble. In July of 1945, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin gathered in a quiet subu ...Show more