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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 Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present by Ralph Hope
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
"By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Overnight, almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access ...Show more
Alexandria - The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains by Edmund Richardson
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
'Full, extraordinary, heart-breaking ... utterly brilliant' - William Dalrymple'Impressive ... Masson has at last found the intrepid biographer he has so long deserved' - John KeayFor centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 i ...Show more
Agent Sonya - Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ra ...Show more
Day of the Assassins - A History of Political Assassination by Michael Burleigh
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The traditional image of a political assassin is a lone wolf with a gun, aimed squarely at the head of those they wish to kill. But while there has been enormous speculation on what lay behind notorious individual political assassinations - from Gaius Julius Caesar to John F. Kennedy - the phenomenon it ...Show more
White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A gripping account of the paths that led postwar Russian migrants to Australia - and what they found when they arrived.More than 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after the Second World War - yet we know very little about their experiences. Some came via China, others from refugee camps in E ...Show more
War for Eternity - The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Steve Bannon in the United States. Olavo de Carvalho in Brazil. Aleksandr Dugin in Russia. Gábor Vona in Hungary. All rising to power in the past decade. All affiliated with an obscure philosophical movement called Traditionalism. Since the early 20th century, Traditionalism has defined itself against ...Show more
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home by Alexander Wolff
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A powerful portrait of a Jewish German family divided by exile, abandonment and emigration. In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His grandfather Kurt Wolff set up his own publishing firm in 1910 at the age of twent ...Show more
The Great Imperial Hangover - How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
$23.50 AUD
Category: History
'An exceptional account.' Prospect 'Enlightening.' Spectator For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest ...Show more
The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A compelling and timely inside account of the recent crisis in Burma and its troubled journey from dictatorship to democracy. 'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' - Financial Times 'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.' - William Dalrymple Precariously positioned bet ...Show more
Palestine - A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
$21.99 AUD
Category: History
This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Pal ...Show more
The Florentines by Paul Strathern
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A sweeping 400-year history of the Florentines who gave birth to the Renaissance, by the author of The Medici and The Borgias. Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which transformed the entire culture of western civilisation. Painting, sculpture and arc ...Show more