European History

This work presents a unique perspective of Picasso seen through 120 works including paintings, drawings, ceramics, and sculptures from the outstanding collection of the Picasso Museum of Antibes. When in...

Palazzo Vecchio portrays the architecture of the historic Florentine palace immortalised by the internationally-renowned photographer Massimo Listri. The first complete and organic photographic documentation of the building, updated in the...

The book titled Legendary Italian Cars by the author Enzo Rizzo. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Venice: Art and Architecture by the author Giandomenico Romanelli. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is the 2nd volume in the series Studia Antiqua Australiensia, produced within the Ancient History Documentation Research Centre, Macquarie University. This collection of Latin texts, published in a new...

This collection of essays by Australian scholars offers a wealth of contemporary perspectives on cultural communication amongst men and women in late medieval and early modern Europe. Essays dealing with...

In Hitler, God, and the Bible, international evangelist and best-selling author Ray Comfort exposes Adolf Hitler's theology and abuse of religion as a means to seize political power and ultimately...

At exactly 1.30 p.m. on 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, rose from Elsa Trench and walked across a weedy beet-field toward the...

The book titled The SS by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Adolf Hitler became 'completely captivated' by Berchtesgaden and the Obersalzberg when he first visited the area in 1923. In time he bought Haus Wachenfeld and made the area his second...

Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in April 1889, and shot himself in a bunker in Berlin in April 1945 with Russian soldiers beating at the door, surrounded by the...

As climate change begins to take a serious toll on the planet--with much more damage yet to come--a solution to our warming problems is hiding in plain sight. We need...

BRITAIN'S ROYAL FAMILIES is a unique reference book. For the first time, complete genealogical details of all members of the royal houses of England, Scotland and Great Britain, from 800...

This study looks at Leonardo's beginnings as an artist from his years in the Florentine workshop of sculptor, Andrea del Verrocchio, to his first paintings. The author scrutinizes Leonardo's works...

William IV reigned during one of the most important periods in English history. Peel, Grey and Melbourne were political giants of the day and the Reform of Parliament was the...

Robert Lacey traces the story of this controversial figure - whose reign was marked by arbitary seizures of power, ruthlessness and cruelty - from the brilliance of his youth to...

Yesterdays recreates the often overlooked period between the 2 World Wars. From home to work, education to leisure, the blurring of the class-based society and the inventions that came along,...

Longford Castle is a fine Elizabethan country house, home to a world-class collection of art built up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Bouverie family and still owned...

This volume offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects'...

The book titled Celtic Myths and Beliefs by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This unique work of reference provides a comprehensive record-from Tangier in 1662 to Bosnia in 1994-of every country in which each regiment has served. It includes details of all campaigns,...

Until the middle of the 19th Century, control of the land was the key to power and wealth. This sometimes provocative book outlines the tax-gathering skills of the Anglo-Saxon Earldomen,...

The Great Fire of London was the greatest ca tastrophe of its kind in Europe, with 13,200 houses and 87 c hurches destroyed. Stephen Porter examines the events leadin g...

With charm and gentle humour, Martin Calder describes an extraordinary summer spent working at a Ferme-Auberge in a remote hilltop village in Gascony, one of the most rural parts of...

This omnibus edition contains the author's five "Soldiers Fotofax" titles on the individual years of World War I. The book also contains new biographical notes on the leaders from each...

Follow the combined forces of England and India through sixty-four years of campaigns. Faced with unfavorable and unfamiliar fighting conditions and untraditional warfare techniques, the Queen's fighting forces managed to...

In the confusion that reigned in post-war Europe many Nazis were able, through bribery and other means, to escape with the wealth that they'd stolen during World War Two. Kenneth...

In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem...

Based on exclusive access to MI5 documents and newly discovered Russian papers, the true fate of the Romonovs. The overthrow and execution of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial...

Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners - holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table. We certainly know bad manners when...

This title provides a vivid and original portrait of the entire Romanov family, who shaped Russian history and politics for three centuries and whose legacy still sparks the public's imagination.For...

After the fall of France in 1940, Hitler turned his attention to Germany's sole remaining enemy: Great Britain. His plans to invade Britain depended on crippling Britain's Royal Air Force....

1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words- 'This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' Pasternak...

What is the cultural identity of Europe? Are there specifically European values? Questions like these are at the centre of a considerable number of political and scholarly debates in contemporary...

In this authoritative and beautifully illustrated new account of Napoleon's greatest victory and the campaign that preceded it, Ian Castle sheds new light on the actions of the commanders and...

Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground- breaking study, an easy man to underestimate- short, pudgy, near-sighted, chinless. Yet Himmler holds a peculiarly...

On the afternoon of 1 March, 1815, a fleet of ships dropped anchor off the southeast coast of France. After ten months in exile on the island of Elba, the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA sharp and authoritative work of military history, Hitler's Mistakes presents a systematic analysis of the strategic, political,...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Some tears and foxing on DJ....

Edition: repr., with corr.Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark work of Australian historiography, The Golden Age: A History...

For nearly 75 years, the Soviet Union controlled Eastern Europe with an iron fist. Conceived in 1917, the empire grew to the size of a large continent with satellites in...

What made six ordinary men instigate the terrifying criminal Nazi regime throughout German society and beyond with such enthusiasm and diligence? Supported by recently discovered files from all over the...

This biography of one of the key figures of the Soviet Union is a study in contrasts. What emerges is a picture of a man constantly torn between benevolence and...

This is the full story behind Stalin's last, most complex and most puzzling conspiracy unravelled for the first time through access to previously unseen secret Soviet documents. On 13th January...

Adolf Hitler is the most notorious political figure of the twentieth century. The story of his life, how he became a dictator, and how he managed to convince so many...

In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet's...

Stalin's monstrous regime was built on the most intricate secrecy and until now, little has been known about the inside workings of his leadership or his personal life. Edvard Radzinsky...