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England and the Continent in the Eighth Century - The Ford Lectures 1943 by Wilhelm Levison
$30.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good-very good
History of the French Protestant Refugees from the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to the Present Time by Charles Weiss
$35.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Making Sense Of The Troubles by David McKittrick; David McVea
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
The Sword and the Scimitar - The Saga of the Crusades by Ernle Bradford
$15.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
For nearly two centuries, from 1096 until 1291, a tide of pilgrims, knights, men-at-arms, priests, traders and peasants swept from Western Europe to the Levant - Crusaders whose common aim was to recover the Holy Place of Christendom. The Sword and the Scimitar is a saga of one of the most fanatical rel ...Show more
Italy - The Enduring Culture by Jonathan White
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Exploring the age-old culture of death in Sicily in the light of Mafia killings of public figures and aspects of Italian society and culture, this book also considers, in the context of Italian emigration, what qualities of "Italianness" survive in the espresso bars, luxury goods and musical culture of ...Show more
The Righteous - The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
$25.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
'He who saves one life, it is as if he saved an entire world' The Holocaust will be forever numbered amongst the darkest of days in human civilisation. Yet even in that darkness, there were sparks of light. Many will recognise the names of Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg and Miep Gies. But there were ...Show more
The Story of French - The language that travelled the world by Jean-Benoit Nadeau
$12.00 NZD
Category: Languages | Reading Level: good-very good
"The Story of French", like any good story, tells of spectacular failures and unexpected success. This is the story of the French language - second only to English for the number of countries where it is officially spoken. A language that is the official tongue of two G-7 countries and three European na ...Show more
Earthly Powers - The clash of religion and politics in Europe from the french Revolution to the Great War by Michael Burleigh
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: good-very good
The Popes Against the Jews - The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism by David I. Kertzer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
A groundbreaking historical study based on documents previously locked in the Vatican's secret archives: The Popes Against the Jews graphically shows how the Catholic Church helped make the Holocaust possible. Pope John Paul II, as part of his effort to improve Catholic-Jewish relations, has himself ca ...Show more
The Holocaust Encyclopedia by Walter Laqueur (Editor); Judith Tydor Baumel
$30.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
The Holocaust has been the subject of countless books, works of art, and memorials. Fifty-five years after the fact the world still ponders the enormity of this disaster. The Holocaust Encyclopedia is the only comprehensive single-volume work of reference providing both a reflective overview of the subj ...Show more
Auschwitz - A History in Photographs by Teresa Swilebocka; Jonathan Webber; Connie Wilsack (Translator); Jonathan Weber (Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good