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Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways i ...Show more
The Ratline by Philippe Sands
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' JOHN LE CARRÉ 'Remarkable' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Breathtaking, gripping, shattering' ELIF SHAFAK 'A taut and finely crafted factual thriller' OBSERVER 'A triumph of research and brilliant storytelling' ANTONY BEEVOR 'Extraordinary' EVENING ...Show more
Barbarossa by Stewart Binns
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War. Sunday June 22nd 1941: 6 million Nazi troops marched on Moscow, with a brutal scorched-earth tactic that saw millions of Soviet citizens massacre ...Show more
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History by Peter Furtado
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
When the great Muslim traveller Ibn Battuta visited Damascus in 1348 it was in the throes of a great plague which killed half of the population. Even so, he reported 'God lightened their affliction; for the number of deaths in a single day at Damascus did not attain 2,000, while in Cairo it reached the ...Show more
Franklin and Washington - The Founding Partnership by Edward J. Larson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Larson's elegantly written dual biography reveals that the partnership of Franklin and Washington was indispensable to the success of the Revolution. --Gordon S. Wood From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a masterful, first-of-its-kind dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, ...Show more
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction by Clement Knox
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world. In the first history of its kind, Clement Knox reassesses our idea of seductio ...Show more
Orcadia by Mark Edmonds
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. Its largest island, Mainland, is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe, the most famous of which are the passage grave of Maeshowe, the megaliths of Stenness, the Ring of Brodgar and the village of Skara Br ...Show more
Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons - the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed ...Show more
Tip and Run: the Untold Tragedy of the First World War in Africa by Edward Paice
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
In the aftermath of the Great War the East Africa campaign was destined to be dismissed by many in Britain as a remote 'sideshow' in which only a handful of names and episodes - the Königsberg, von Lettow-Vorbeck, the 'Naval Expedition to Lake Tanganyika' - achieved any lasting notoriety. But to the oth ...Show more
The First Kingdom by Max Adams
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The bestselling author of The King in the Northturns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'. Somewhere in the shadow time between the departure of the Roman legions in the early fifth century and the arrival in Kent of Augustine's Christian mission at the end of ...Show more
Cleopatra: The Queen who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity by ALBERTO ANGELA
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
One of Italy's most revered cultural figures reconstructs the extraordinary life of the legendary Cleopatra at the height of her power in this epic story of passion, intrigue, betrayal, and war.Our world today would not be the same without Cleopatra. While she is one of the most famous figures in histor ...Show more