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A Garden of Eden in Hell : The life of Alice Herz-Sommer by Melissa Muller & Richard Piechocki (tr from German Giles MacDonogh)
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Alice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903 in Prague, the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a family friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was one of the best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe her comfortable, bourgeois world began to crumble around her, as ...Show more
After the Reich by Giles MacDonogh
34.99 NZD
Category: History
In 1945 Germany was a nation in tatters. Swathes of its population were despairing, homeless, bombed-out and on the move. Refugees streamed towards the West and soldiers made their way home, often scarring the villages they passed through with parting shots of savagery. Politically the country was neute ...Show more
The Great Battles: 50 Key Battles from the Ancient World to the Present Day by Giles MacDonogh
55.00 NZD
Category: History
Military conflict has had a decisive influence in shaping our world. The Great Battles is a superbly produced introduction to those clashes that have altered the course of history. Each battle is treated to a concise narrative essay, and illustrated throughout with informative and elegant maps showing l ...Show more
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