AK 47 by Larry Kahaner
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
No single weapon has spread so much raw power to so many people in so little time and had such a devastating effect as the AK 47 assault rifle. This book examines the legacy of this world changing weapon, from its creation as means of fighting the Nazis to its ubiquity today in every kind of conflict, f ...Show more
Disinherited: The Exiles Who Created Spanish Culture The by Henry Kamen
$69.95 AUD
Category: History
Few would doubt that Spain has for several centuries made a thrilling and important contribution to Europe's culture. Spain's strange path has created a 'virtual' culture, one imagined by men often thousands of miles from home - its impact on the world has been incalculable. This book presents an import ...Show more
The Disinherited: The exiles who created Spanish culture by Henry Kamen
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Spain has had a long history of exiles. Since the destruction of the last Muslim territories in Granada in 1492, wave after wave of its people have been driven from the country. "The Disinherited" paints a vivid picture of Spain's diverse exiles, from Muslims, Jews and Protestants to Liberals, Socialist ...Show more
The Trial : A History from Socrates to O J Simpson by Sadakat Kadri
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In an extraordinary history of the criminal trial, Sadakat Kadri shows with wit, legal insight and a travel writer's eye for detail, how the irrationality of the past lives on in the legal systems of the present. A bold and brilliant debut from a prize-winning new writer. "The Trial" spans a vast distan ...Show more
The Peloponnesian War : Athens and Sparta in savage conflict 431-404 BC by Donald Kagan
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
The Stalingrad of the ancient world, this is an immensely readable, brilliant, brutal and vivid history of the greatest and bloodiest war of ancient Greece. The Peloponnesian War, fought 2,500 years ago between oligarchic Sparta and democratic Athens for control of Greece, is brought spectacularly to li ...Show more
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger; Michael Hoffman (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics. 'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They seemed to ...Show more
Reappraisals : Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
As Tony Judt argues persuasively in "Reappraisals", we have entered an 'age of forgetting'. Today's world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past even before we could make sense of it. We literally don't know where we came from, and the results o ...Show more
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A compelling portrait of 1960s America that takes as its starting point the brutal events of 11 March 1963, the day on which the lives of three complete strangers - a black handyman, an Italian-American carpenter and a second-generation Jewish housewife - collided in the leafy Boston suburb of Belmont. ...Show more
Postwar by Tony Judt
$36.95 AUD
Category: History
Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far ...Show more
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
$59.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
As Tony Judt argues persuasively in "Reappraisals", we have entered an "age of forgetting." Today's world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past even before we could make sense of it. We literally don't know where we came from, and the results o ...Show more