Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire by Eckart Frahm
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history. Assyria's wide-ranging conquests have long be ...Show more
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times ... 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan .... *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archiv ...Show more
The English and their History by Robert Tombs
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining natio ...Show more
The Palace by Gareth Russell
$52.99 AUD
Category: History
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORYFor centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and in ...Show more
Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro by Andrew Martin
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Andrew Martin has been described as 'the laureate of railways', having written many books with railway themes. But Andrew has always been obsessed with the Paris Metro, hence Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro, the first English history of the Metro for the general reader.Metropolitain is as styli ...Show more
Economics in Perspective - A Critical History by John Kenneth Galbraith; Richard Parker (Foreword by)
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
In Economics in Perspective, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith presents a compelling and accessible history of economic ideas, from Aristotle through the twentieth century. Examining theories of the past that have a continuing modern resonance, he shows that economics is not a timeless, objectiv ...Show more
Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped The Century by Sinclair McKay
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin 'I loved this book . . . apposite and wise . . . To anyone who knows Berlin a little and is fascinated by it, but would like to understand it better, this is a wond ...Show more
Budapest: Between East and West by Victor Sebestyen
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the critically acclaimed historian Victor Sebestyen, the enthralling account of historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city on the fault line between East and West in the heart of Europe. Victor Sebestyen has written a sweeping, colorf ...Show more
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
‘Janina Ramirez is a born storyteller, and in Femina she is at the peak of her powers. This is bravura narrative history underpinned by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading’ - Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantag ...Show more
Persians: The Age of The Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The as ...Show more
Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikotter
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. "The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of liberation and the revolution that follow ...Show more