Vietnam : The Definitive Oral History, Told from All Sides by Christian G. Appy
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
In Vietnam, American author and Professor, Christian G. Appy has created a staggering and monumental oral history of the type that is created only once in a generation. The vivid accounts of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chao ...Show more
1789 by David Andress
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1789 the world stood at the threshold of the modern age. While the French Revolution and the election of George Washington seemed to herald a new global order, Britain stood shocked at the new world unfolding before her. Two documents were drafted which would change the very meanings of citizens and ...Show more
Byzantium by Michael Angold
$21.95 AUD
Category: History
A concise and authoritative history of the Byzantine Empire. The author begins in the heart of Byzantium, the city of Constantinople from which a new empire emerged. He shows how the foundation and growth of the city altered the balance of the Roman Empire, shifting the centre of gravity east. Paperb ...Show more
The Mitrokhin Archive by Christopher Andrew
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Reveals the KGB's global penetration, exposing its operations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. This book discloses the KGB's secret contacts with a series of world leaders, among them Castro, Allende, Nasser, Saddam Hussein and Mengistu, as well as with terrorist hijackers and communi ...Show more
Histories of the Hanged : Britain's dirty war in Kenya and the end of Empire by David Anderson
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timeThis book tells for the first time the story of the dirty war the British fought in Kenya, in the run-up to the country's independence in 1964. In 1952, after years of tension and bitterness, the grievances of the Gikuyu ...Show more
The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution by David Andress
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
The French Revolution marks the foundation of the modern political world. It was in the crucible of the Revolution that the political forces of conservatism, liberalism and socialism began to find their modern form, and it was the Revolution that first asserted the claims of universal individual rights, ...Show more
The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire by Clifford Ando
$49.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage Ser.
What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, and what motivated them to change those rituals-to change their form, or add or drop them altogether? To these questions Clifford Ando proposes simple answers: that in contrast to ancient Christians, who had f ...Show more
The Movement and the Sixties by Terry H. Anderson
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
It began in 1960 with the Greensboro sit-ins. By 1973, when a few Native Americans rebelled at Wounded Knee and the U.S. Army came home from Vietnam, it was over. In between came Freedom Rides, Port Huron, the Mississippi Summer, Berkeley, Selma, Vietnam, the Summer of Love, Black Power, the Chicago Con ...Show more
South by Northwest by Granville Allen Mawer
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
The riveting story of the race between rival nations, the British, French and Americans, to claim Antarctica's holy grail. Resolves some of the controversies that have festered for the past 160 years.