China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times ... 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan .... *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archiv ...Show more
African and Caribbean People in Britain - A History by Hakim Adi
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE A major new history of Britain that transforms our understanding of this country's past 'I've waited so long so read a comprehensively researched book about Black history on this island. This is it: a journey of discovery and a truly exciting and important work ...Show more
The English and their History by Robert Tombs
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining natio ...Show more
The Palace by Gareth Russell
$52.99 AUD
Category: History
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORYFor centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and in ...Show more
All the Knowledge in the World - The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by Simon Garfield
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults cleared their shelves in the belief that wisdom was now effortlessly accessible in their living rooms. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gandhi helped mill ...Show more
The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
The astonishing story of one of the most brutal and hard-fought battles of the Second World War told by one of most acclaimed and insightful historians
A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted and depleted by a long a brutal war, fifteen nations cobbled together an army of nearly 200,000 men and embarked on one of the most extraordinary and ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. The Intervention in Russia's civil war was sp ...Show more
A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI by Max Bennett
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A Brief History of Brains bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be. The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all t ...Show more
Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped The Century by Sinclair McKay
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin 'I loved this book . . . apposite and wise . . . To anyone who knows Berlin a little and is fascinated by it, but would like to understand it better, this is a wond ...Show more
Budapest: Between East and West by Victor Sebestyen
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the critically acclaimed historian Victor Sebestyen, the enthralling account of historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city on the fault line between East and West in the heart of Europe. Victor Sebestyen has written a sweeping, colorf ...Show more
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
‘Janina Ramirez is a born storyteller, and in Femina she is at the peak of her powers. This is bravura narrative history underpinned by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading’ - Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantag ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The as ...Show more