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Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg by Simon Winder
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their princi ...Show more
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their princi ...Show more
Germania by Simon Winder
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Simon Winder presents a unique exploration of German culture, from sausage advertisements to Wagner, in this Sunday Times top-ten bestseller. Now reissued with a fresh cover look.Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst a ...Show more
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country by Simon Winder
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Following Danubia and the bestselling Germania, Lotharingia is the third and final instalment in Simon Winder's hilarious and informative personal exploration of European history. In 843 AD, the three surviving grandsons of the great emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles ove ...Show more
Lotharingia - A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In-Between by Simon Winder
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Following Danubia and the bestselling Germania, Lotharingia is the final instalment in Simon Winder's hilarious and informative personal exploration of European history.At the heart of western Europe lies a huge swath of land, stretching from the mud and fogs of the North Sea coast, down through countle ...Show more
The Man Who Saved Britain by Simon Winder
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
After victory in World War II, Britain was a relieved but also a profoundly traumatized country. Simon Winder, born into this nation of uncertain identity, fell in love (as many before and since) with the man created as the antidote, a quintessentially British figure of great cultural significance: Jame ...Show more
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