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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
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
The Man Who Saved Britain by Simon Winder
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | 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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