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Beneath Another Sky by Norman Davies
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Human history is a tale not just of constant change, but of perpetual restlessness. In Beneath Another Sky the esteemed historian Norman Davies embarks upon a journey round the world to show the layers of experience that underpin our present - and brilliantly complicate our view of the past. 'If you are ...Show more
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History by Norman Davies
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In 2012, Norman Davies set off on a global circumnavigation. Native Lands is his account of the places he visited and the history he found there, from Abu Dhabi to Singapore, the settlement of Tasmania to the short-lived Republic of Texas. As in Vanished Kingdoms, Davies's historical gaze penetrates beh ...Show more
Europe: A History by Norman Davies
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, this book tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. It was chosen ten times as Book of the Year.
Europe - A History by Norman Davies
$41.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
Here is a masterpiece of historical narrative that stretches from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age, as it tells the story of Europe, East and West.Norman Davies captures it all-the rise and fall of Rome, the sweeping invasions of Alaric and Atilla, the Norman Conquests, the Papal struggles for power, the R ...Show more
Europe: A History by Norman Davies
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. It is the most ambitious history of the continent ever undertaken.
Europe At War 1939-1945 : No Simple Victory by Norman Davies
$75.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
What was the biggest operation of World War II in Europe? It wasn't D-Day*.What was the name of the largest concentration camp operating in Europe between 1939 and 1945. It wasn't Auschwitz.**What European nationality lost the largest number of civilians between 1939-45? It wasn't the French
Europe East & West by Norman Davies
$59.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Collected here for the first time are some of the numerous essays and lectures by Norman Davies, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Europe, The Isles and Rising
Europe East and West by Norman Davies
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Collected here for the first time are some of the numerous essays and lectures by Norman Davies, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed "Europe, The Isles and Rising '44." Spanning more than fifteen years of his remarkable career, this highly accessible collection addresses many of the issue ...Show more
Europe at War 1939-1945 : No simple victory by Norman Davies
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Davies' re-examination reminds us that the war in Europe was dominated by two evil monsters, not by one. The liberators of Auschwitz were servants of a regime that ran still larger concentration camps than those they liberated. The outcome of the war was at best ambigious.
Rising '44 - The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
$30.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
This is a narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th-century history. In August 1944, Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence against the Red Army's march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Red Army reached the river Vistula, the people of Warsaw believed that liberation h ...Show more
Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Rising '44 is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history, drawing on Davies' unique understanding of the issues and characters involved. In August 1944 Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence against the Red Army's march from Moscow to Berlin ...Show more
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
'The past is a foreign country' has become a truism, yet we often forget that the past is different from the present in many unfamiliar ways, and historical memory is extraordinarily imperfect. We habitually think of the European past as the history of countries which exist today - France, Germany, Brit ...Show more