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Germania

A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern

by Simon Winder ...

The Sunday Times Bestseller and insipration behind David Mitchell's Unruly.'Entertaining and informative . . . Delightful' – IndependentThere are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters ... Read more

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The Sunday Times Bestseller and insipration behind David Mitchell's Unruly.'Entertaining and informative . . . Delightful' – IndependentThere are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters
... Read more

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The Man Who Saved Britain

by Simon Winder ...

Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures, James Bond.'An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country' – Sunday Times'A hilarious blend of cultural history, biography and memoir' – GuardianAfter victory in World War II, Britain was a relieved but also a profoundly ... Read more

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Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures, James Bond.'An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country' – Sunday Times'A hilarious blend of cultural history, biography and memoir' – GuardianAfter victory in World War II, Britain was a relieved but also a profoundly
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Danubia

A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

by Simon Winder ...

Series series
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction'Funny, erudite, frequently irritating . . . and never boring' – Sarah Bakewell, Financial Times'An excellent, rich and amusing read' – The Times, Book of the WeekFor 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 ... Read more

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Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction'Funny, erudite, frequently irritating . . . and never boring' – Sarah Bakewell, Financial Times'An excellent, rich and amusing read' – The Times, Book of the WeekFor 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
... Read more

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Lotharingia

A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In Between

by Simon Winder ...

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A Sunday Times History Book of the YearShortlisted for The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe' - Sunday TimesIn AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their ... Read more

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A Sunday Times History Book of the YearShortlisted for The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe' - Sunday TimesIn AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their
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Danubia

A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

by Simon Winder ...

Narrated by Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

22 hours 6 min

Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction'Funny, erudite, frequently irritating . . . and never boring' – Sarah Bakewell, Financial Times'An excellent, rich and amusing read' – The Times, Book of the WeekFor 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 ... Read more

$31.34 CAD

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Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction'Funny, erudite, frequently irritating . . . and never boring' – Sarah Bakewell, Financial Times'An excellent, rich and amusing read' – The Times, Book of the WeekFor 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
... Read more

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Danubia

A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

by Simon Winder ...

Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

Unabridged

22 hours 11 min

From the end of the Middle Ages to the First World War, Europe was dominated by one family: the Habsburgs. Their unprecedented rule is the focus of Simon Winder's vivid third book, Danubia.Winder's approach is friendly, witty, personal; this is a narrative that, while erudite and well researched, prefers to be discursive and anecdotal. In his survey of the centuries of often incompetent Habsburg ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

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From the end of the Middle Ages to the First World War, Europe was dominated by one family: the Habsburgs. Their unprecedented rule is the focus of Simon Winder's vivid third book, Danubia.Winder's approach is friendly, witty, personal; this is a narrative that, while erudite and well researched, prefers to be discursive and anecdotal. In his survey of the centuries of often incompetent Habsburg
... Read more

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Anglia

A Personal History of England from the 1850s to the 1980s

by Simon Winder ...

Unabridged

20 hours

An enormously entertaining and original history of England from Simon Winder, the bestselling author of Germania and Lotharingia.Traversing England from the industrial shipyards of Barrow-in-Furness, to the wind-whipped shores of Great Yarmouth, and the smoky jazz clubs of 1940s Soho, Winder reveals a place irrevocably shaped by its imperial past, and by all of those who, for better or worse, have ... Read more

$31.34 CAD

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An enormously entertaining and original history of England from Simon Winder, the bestselling author of Germania and Lotharingia.Traversing England from the industrial shipyards of Barrow-in-Furness, to the wind-whipped shores of Great Yarmouth, and the smoky jazz clubs of 1940s Soho, Winder reveals a place irrevocably shaped by its imperial past, and by all of those who, for better or worse, have
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Germania

A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern

by Simon Winder ...

Narrated by Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

19 hours 6 min

The Sunday Times Bestseller and insipration behind David Mitchell's Unruly.'Entertaining and informative . . . Delightful' – IndependentThere are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters ... Read more

$31.34 CAD

Also available as: eBook

The Sunday Times Bestseller and insipration behind David Mitchell's Unruly.'Entertaining and informative . . . Delightful' – IndependentThere are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters
... Read more

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Germania

In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History

by Simon Winder ...

Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

Unabridged

18 hours 35 min

Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining through a massive glass of beer, Simon Winder was happily swinging his legs when a couple from Rottweil politely but awkwardly asked: "So: why are you here?"This book is an attempt to answer that question. Why spend time ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining through a massive glass of beer, Simon Winder was happily swinging his legs when a couple from Rottweil politely but awkwardly asked: "So: why are you here?"This book is an attempt to answer that question. Why spend time
... Read more
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The Man Who Saved Britain

by Simon Winder ...

Narrated by Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

11 hours 4 min

Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures, James Bond.'An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country' – Sunday Times'A hilarious blend of cultural history, biography and memoir' – GuardianAfter victory in World War II, Britain was a relieved but also a profoundly ... Read more

$31.34 CAD

Also available as: eBook

Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures, James Bond.'An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country' – Sunday Times'A hilarious blend of cultural history, biography and memoir' – GuardianAfter victory in World War II, Britain was a relieved but also a profoundly
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Lotharingia

A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In Between

by Simon Winder ...

Narrated by Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

20 hours 34 min

A Sunday Times History Book of the YearShortlisted for The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe' - Sunday TimesIn AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

Also available as: eBook

A Sunday Times History Book of the YearShortlisted for The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe' - Sunday TimesIn AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their
... Read more

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Thunder at Twilight

Vienna 1913/1914

by Frederic Morton ...

Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

Unabridged

11 hours 15 min

Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna—and in the life of the twentieth century.It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna—and in the life of the twentieth century.It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first
... Read more

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