Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore by Ronan Kelly
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Colm Toibin has called Thomas Moore 'the most influential figure in shaping the Irish political psyche'. In "Bard of Erin", Ronan Kelly tells the story of Moore's extraordinary life - from humble beginnings in Dublin to glittering social and literary success in London (at one point his popularity was ec ...Show more
100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like an Egyptian by Barry Kemp
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Egyptian culture is divided from us by several millennia, a lost people, and a dead language. We can discover much about this fascinating civilization from its physical remains, but perhaps the greatest insights into the Egyptian mind come from Egyptian hieroglyphs. They reveal the priorities, concerns ...Show more
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History Of The Black Death, The Most De vastating Plague Of All Time by John Kelly
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
'The bodies were sparsely covered that the dogs dragged them forth and devoured them And believing it to be the end of the world, no one wept for the dead, for all expected to die.'- Agnolo di Turo, Siena, 1348In just over a thousand days from 1347 to 1351 the 'Black Death' travelled across medieval Eur ...Show more
Gunpowder by Jack Kelly
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Invented by Chinese alchemists to frighten evil spirits, the simple mixture of saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal went on to make the modern world possible. As word of its explosive properties spread from Asia to Europe, from pyrotechnics to battleships, it paved the way for Western exploration, hastened t ...Show more
The Big Picture - The History of New Zealand Art from 1642 by Hamish Keith
$49.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
1642? Yes, we have an art history that dates back that far, to the engravings made during Tasman's voyage that depict the first contact between European and Maori. In this tautly, provocatively and passionately argued history, leading art commentator Hamish Keith takes readers on a fascinating and illum ...Show more
The Iraq War by John Keegan
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
Originally $29.95 The Iraq War remains highly controversial, but in all the uncertainty about weapons of mass destruction, the use and misuse of intelligence, and the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein, it remains an awesome military and political event and a formidable exercise in American power aided by th ...Show more
The Roman Empire (A Very Short Introduction) by Christopher Kelly
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions | Reading Level: very good
The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from drizzle-soaked northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates in Syria, and from the Rhine to the North African coast. It was, above a ...Show more
Intelligence in War - Knowledge of the enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda by John Keegan
$30.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'No war can be conducted successfully without early and good intelligence', wrote Marlborough, and from the earliest times commanders have sought knowledge of the enemy, his strengths and weaknesses, his dispositions and intentions. But how much effect, in the 'real time' of a battle or a campaign, can ...Show more
The American Civil War by John Keegan
$69.95 AUD
Category: History
This magisterial history of the first modern war is on the scale of John Keegan's classics, "A History of Warfare" and "The First World War". In his sweeping, unputdownable narrative he highlights the geography, leadership and strategic logic at the heart of the conflict. John Keegan writes: 'The geogra ...Show more
Churchill's Generals by John Keegan
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
John Keegan has assembled a cast of seventeen generals whose reputations were made (and some of them broken) by Churchill and the Second World War.Churchill's reputation as prime minister during the Second World War fluctuated according to the successes and failures of his generals. Most of them were ho ...Show more