NAPOLEONS EGYPT INVADING THE MIDDLE EAST by Juan Cole
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
In this vivid historical account, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798. Revealing Napoleon's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt and showcasing the young general's fascinating views of the Orient, Cole delves into the psychology of both the military titan and hi ...Show more
Terry Jones' Barbarians by Terry Jones
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
"Terry Jones' Barbarians" takes a completely fresh approach to Roman history. Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric were in fact organized, motivated and intell ...Show more
The Plimsoll Sensation - The great campaign to save lives at sea by Nicolette Jones
$27.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This enthusiastically reviewed, scrupulously researched and prize-winning book, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, chronicles a resonant episode of Victorian history. It is the tale of the agitation led by Samuel Plimsoll MP, The Sailor's Friend'
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives by Terry Jones
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
"Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Were the Middle Ages mired in superstition and ignorance? Why does nobody ever mention King Louis the First and Last? And, of couse, those key questions- which monks were forbidden the delights of donning underpant ...Show more
Vote for Caesar by Peter Jones
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
The expansion of the congestion charge zone, prices going up on the Underground, bendy buses - all ideas brought about to try to make the traffic situation in our capital city run more smoothly. Surely there must be a better way? In fact there is. In Roman times, when the streets were even more crowded, ...Show more
Vengeance by George Jonas
$23.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the gripping true story of the Israeli-led hunt for the men responsible for the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, which has inspired Steven SpielbergâÃÂÃÂs forthcoming film epic Munich. 'Avner' was an agent of only twenty-six when he was summoned out o ...Show more
Paris: Biography of a City by Colin Jones
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
"Paris is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs" - Marivaux. In this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time. The focal point of generation upon generation of a ...Show more
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon by Colin Jones (Professor of History, University of Warwick)
$27.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
In a flourishing and prosperous period, eighteenth-century France dominated the world as the great economic power of Europe, and the cultural heart of the intellectual and artistic Enlightenment. While this period is often viewed in terms of the Revolution with the Bourbon monarchy bound for catastrophe ...Show more
South Africa by R. W. Johnson
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
A superb account of South Africa's complex and bloody history Africa is the cradle of mankind and the first traces of modern man come from South Africa. But the country has also experienced waves of inward migration from the earliest times, and the turmoil and wars that accompany them. Dutch settlers ...Show more