Holy War by Karen Armstrong
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend. In reality the Crusades were a series of rabidly savage conflicts in the name ...Show more
The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah by Karen Armstrong
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in this ...Show more
The Battle For God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Britain's greatest religious historian chronicles the rise and rise of fundamentalism.
The Great Transformation : the world in the time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah by Karen Armstrong
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire, fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. First published 2006.
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
$26.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Gulag is Russia's forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive. Here, for the first time, is the full, moving story of its countless victims- how they lived, laboured, suffered - and survived to bear witne ...Show more
Vietnam : The Definitive Oral History, Told from All Sides by Christian G. Appy
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
In Vietnam, American author and Professor, Christian G. Appy has created a staggering and monumental oral history of the type that is created only once in a generation. The vivid accounts of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chao ...Show more
1789 by David Andress
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1789 the world stood at the threshold of the modern age. While the French Revolution and the election of George Washington seemed to herald a new global order, Britain stood shocked at the new world unfolding before her. Two documents were drafted which would change the very meanings of citizens and ...Show more
Byzantium by Michael Angold
$21.95 AUD
Category: History
A concise and authoritative history of the Byzantine Empire. The author begins in the heart of Byzantium, the city of Constantinople from which a new empire emerged. He shows how the foundation and growth of the city altered the balance of the Roman Empire, shifting the centre of gravity east. Paperb ...Show more
The Mitrokhin Archive by Christopher Andrew
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Reveals the KGB's global penetration, exposing its operations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. This book discloses the KGB's secret contacts with a series of world leaders, among them Castro, Allende, Nasser, Saddam Hussein and Mengistu, as well as with terrorist hijackers and communi ...Show more
Histories of the Hanged : Britain's dirty war in Kenya and the end of Empire by David Anderson
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timeThis book tells for the first time the story of the dirty war the British fought in Kenya, in the run-up to the country's independence in 1964. In 1952, after years of tension and bitterness, the grievances of the Gikuyu ...Show more