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The Last King of Poland by Adam Zamoyski
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
An enthralling life of the young and dashing King of Poland by one of Britains most exceptional young historians.
The Whisperers - Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
$30.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin, brilliantly conveying the reality of their terrible choices. Soviet history has generally been seen either as a story of a political system or the story ...Show more
Paris After the Liberation : 1944-1949 (new edition) by Antony Beevor; Artemis Cooper
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good
Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a stunning ...Show more
A Brief History of the Normans by François Neveux
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Brief Histories | Reading Level: very good
The history of the Normans began a long time before 1066. Originating from the _Norsemen_ they were one of the most successful warrior tribes of the Dark Ages that came to dominate Europe from the Baltic Sea to the island of Sicily and the borders of Eastern Europe. Beginning as Viking raiders in the ei ...Show more
Russia's Steppe Frontier - The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800 by Michael Khodarkovsky
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies | Reading Level: very good
"Khodarkovsky provides a detailed chronological narrative of Russia's steppe relations, which conveys brilliantly the depth of Moscow's engagement in the world of steppe politics. . . . This is counterbalanced by insightful thematic discussion of the perennial issues involved. . . . Altogether, an excel ...Show more
Clans and Families of Ireland - The heritage and heraldry of Irish clans and families by John Grenham
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Discusses immigration and emigration in Irish history and their effects on family names, introduces Irish heraldry, and recounts the origins and history of more than two hundred Irish surnames.
The Times Guide to the Peoples of Europe by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Early Modern Europe - An Oxford History by Euan Cameron (Editor)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
This extensively illustrated book offers a new kind of introduction to Europe between 1500 and 1800. It considers the evolving economy and society - the basic facts of life for the majority of Europe's people. It shows how the religious and intellectual unity of western culture fragmented and dissolved ...Show more
Street Fight in Naples - A Book of Art and Insurrection by Peter Robb
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
A journey through the history, culture and mean streets of Naples by the acclaimed bestselling author of Midnight in Sicily and M.
Inge's War - A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler by Svenja O'Donnell
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera'A superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet, author of SpoilsWhat does it mean to be on the wrong side of history?Svenja's beautiful, aloof grandmother Inge never spoke about the past. All her family knew wa ...Show more
Siren Feasts - A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece by Andrew Dalby
$14.00 NZD
Category: Food | Reading Level: very good
Cheese, wine, honey and olive oil - four of Greece's best known contributions to culinary culture - were already well known four thousand years ago. Remains of honeycombs and of cheeses have been found under the volcanic ash of the Santorini eruption of 1627 BC. Over the millennia, Greek food diversifie ...Show more
La Bella Figura - A field guide to the Italian mind by Beppe Severgnini
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good