Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. ...Show more
Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Ian Kershaw's "Hitler" allows us to come closer than ever before to a serious understanding of the man and of the catastrophic sequence of events which allowed a bizarre misfit to climb from a Viennese dosshouse to leadership of one of Europe's most sophisticated countries. With extraordinary skill and ...Show more
The Longest Winter by Alex Kershaw
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
A cold winter morning in the Ardennes Forest, 1944, and Hitler launches his last and most audacious attack on the unprepared Allies. Standing between the German forces and the desperately regrouping Allies were just eighteen young Americans, hidden in fox holes. In a fierce day-long battle, this small b ...Show more
Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle by Michael Kerrigan
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
This stunningly illustrated volume tells the story of the voyage of HMS Beagle in the words of Darwin himself, with linking narration and commentary as well as sidebars and special features by author Michael Kerrigan. This was an epic adventure into the scientific unknown, related here with unsurpass ...Show more
Medieval Philosophy by A.J.P. Kenny
$37.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: New History of Western Philosophy
Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance.The middle ages saw a great ...Show more
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes each of the participants dur ...Show more
The Great Arab Conquests by Hugh Kennedy
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. Whereas the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its fullest extent, the Arab armies overran the whole Middle East, North Africa and Spain within a generation. They annhilated the thousand-year-old Persian Empire and reduced the Byzantine Empire ...Show more
Parliament Of Man: The Un The by Paul Kennedy
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
In the course of the twentieth century, states, which had defined themselves by their claims to sovereign independence, gradually came together to create international organizations to promote peace, devise an international code of law, encourage social development and foster prosperity. This book exami ...Show more
The Great Shame by Thomas Keneally
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
A new non-fiction book recounting the 19th century history of Ireland. The book traces the three causes of the halving of the Irish population in that century: the famine, the Irish emigrations to American and Canada, and the transportation of political activitists to Australia. It is a quest for the au ...Show more
A history of the Soviet Union from the beginning to the end by KENEZ PETER
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Peter Kenez's History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End examines not only political change, but also social and cultural developments. The book identifies the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in the government of Russia, beginning at the turn of t ...Show more
Commonwealth of Thieves by Tom Keneally
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by Booker Prize-winning author Tom Keneally. In 1787, Britain banished its unwanted citizens - uneducated petty thieves, streetwalkers, orphan chimneysweeps and dashing highwaymen - to the fringes of the known world. So remo ...Show more