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Easter 1916 by Charles Townshend
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
As we approach the 90th anniversary of the rebellion it is time for a new account of what really happened over those fateful few days.
Fateful Choices : Ten decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Allen Lane History S.
The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. It has become, in effect, a tragedy with each leader and each country playing an assigned part. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought- ...Show more
Forgotten Wars by Christopher Bayly
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Allen Lane History S.
Following the immense praise for Bayly and Harper's "Forgotten Armies", its authors now tackle with the same verve, controversy and wit the even more contentious issue of how new nations were born from the wreck of Britain's empire in southeast Asia. The almost continual fighting that followed Japan's d ...Show more
God's War by Christopher Tyerman
$75.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
The story of how warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders' stunning initial success started a sequence of great Crusades, each with its own story. This book presents an account o ...Show more
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History Ser.
Following the enormous success of "Hitler: Hubris" this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning ...Show more
Mussolini's Italy by Richard Bosworth
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Allen Lane History S.
For Hitler when he came to power Mussolini was the great inspiration and model fascism, totalitarianism, the charismatic ruler, terror and intimidation were all worked out and perfected in Italy many years before they came to Germany. And yet, as Richard Bosworth shows in his brilliant new book, there w ...Show more
Napoleon's Wars : An international history 1803-1815 by Charles J. Esdaile
$69.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Allen Lane History S.
No other soldier has provoked as much argument as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was Napoleon a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory - or was he a social and political visionary brought down by the petty, reactionary kings and emperors, clinging to their privileges? "Napoleon's Wars" ...Show more
The Force of Destiny : A History of Italy Since 1796 by Christopher Duggan
$69.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This has created an overwhelming sense that Italy is a fundamentally benign and easy going country. "The Force of Destiny", Christopher Duggan's immensely enjoyable new book, lays waste to t ...Show more
The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to the Present by J.M. Roberts
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: good
This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold leap in population, women's lives have been transform ...Show more
The Revolution by Tim Harris
$65.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only achieved through overwhelming violence. Initiated ...Show more
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