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A Short History of Europe - From Ancient Greece and Rome to Churchill and the 21st Century by Simon Jenkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The first short, single-volume history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe has for two millennia been a remarkably successful continent. In this dazzling new history, bestselling author Simon Jenkins tells the story of its evolution from a battlefield o ...Show more
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe--a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great In just a few hundred years, a modest peninsula off the northwest corner of Asia has seen the rise and fa ...Show more
A Short History of London by Simon Jenkins
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This unremarkable place - not even included in the Domesday Book - became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swel ...Show more
A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital by Simon Jenkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the ...Show more
Europe's 100 Best Cathedrals by Simon Jenkins
$65.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Europe's cathedrals are magnificent. They outstrip palaces and castles. They are the most sensational group of structures anywhere in the world - which everyone should 'see before they die'. They are also hugely popular, most of them absolutely packed. They are humankind's greatest creations.In Europe's ...Show more
Europe's 100 Best Cathedrals by Simon Jenkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
From Toledo to Moscow and Stockholm to Seville, discover the continent's finest architecture with the Sunday Times bestselling author of Britain's 100 Best Railway StationsEurope's cathedrals are magnificent. They outstrip palaces and castles. They are the most sensational group of structures anywhere i ...Show more
The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings, Simon Jenkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
<b><i>The Battle for the Falklands </i>is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and political editor Simon Jenkins.</b> Ten weeks. 28,000 soldiers. 8,000 miles from home. The ...Show more
The Cathedrals of England by Harry Batsford; Charles Fry; Simon Jenkins (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
A new edition of Batsford's classic 1930s guide to England's cathedrals. This classic guide from 1934 gives a brief account and pictorial review of every cathedral in England that existed at the time. Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the subject, the book features c ...Show more
The Celts - A Sceptical History by Simon Jenkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022'Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight' Times'One of the liveliest commentators in Britain, always worth reading and pleasingly contrarian' Jeremy Paxman, GuardianWho were the Celts? Were they a people, a civilisation, an empire, or a fiction of h ...Show more
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