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A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
$29.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
As comprehensive as it is engaging, John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice is a complete history of "the most beautiful and magical of cities." This necessary volume traces the rise of Venice from its fifth-century origins through 1797 when Napoleon put an end to the thousand-year-old Republic.
Byzantium: The Apogee: v. 2 by John Julius Norwich
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Chronicles events up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus in 1081.
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall: v. 3: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
From the accession of Alexius in 1081, through the disastrous Fourth Crusade - when an army destined for the Holy Land was diverted to Constantinople by the blind, octogenarian but infinitely crafty Doge of Venice - to the painfully protracted struggle against the Ottomans, the closing centuries of the ...Show more
Byzantium : The Early Centuries by John Julius Norwich
$27.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
'He is brilliant ...He writes like the most cultivated modern diplomat attached by a freak of time to the Byzantine court, with intimate knowledge, tactful judgment and a consciousness of the surviving monuments' - "Independent". In this exciting narrative history, John Julius Norwich, one of most accom ...Show more
Cities That Shaped the Ancient World by John Julius Norwich (ed.)
$49.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: near fine
Great cities marked the earliest development of civilization. From the worlds first true cities, in Mesopotamia, to the spectacular urban centres of the Maya in Central America, the places described here represent almost three millennia of human history, society and culture. Arranged geographically into ...Show more
Darling Monster - The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952 by Diana Cooper; John Julius Norwich (ed.)
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
'Please, darling monster, write as often as you can. It's so sad waiting for letters that don't come and are not even written. I love my darling boy. Don't treat me so badly again or I'll have your lights and liver when I get home.' 19 November 1939 Lady Diana Cooper was an aristocrat, society darling, ...Show more
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were ...Show more
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were ...Show more
France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their own' DAILY TELEGRAPH I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel cross ...Show more
France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy str ...Show more
Sicily - A Short History from the Ancient Greeks to Cosa Nostra by John Julius Norwich
$55.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
The stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the gateway between the East and the West, at once a stronghold, clearing-house and observation-post, Sicily has been invaded and fought over by Phoenicians and Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, Spaniards and ...Show more
The Great Cities in History by John Julius Norwich
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. The Great Cities in History tells their stories, from Uruk and Memphis to Tokyo and Sao Paulo. A galaxy of distinguished contributors evoke the character o ...Show more