Nazis of Copley Square - The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front by Charles Gallagher
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Winner of a Catholic Media Association Book Award"A great, but deeply unsettling, revelation This book is more than an account of Boston in wartime. It is a warning."-Boston Globe"The rare book by a scholar that is such a page-turner it is hard to put down A potent brew of spy story, detective story, an ...Show more
A Short Walk in White Africa - A Memoir Of 1971 by Anthony Cree
$22.00 AUD
Category: History
A three month visit to South Africa, Rhodesia and Mozambique.
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. Major religions that rose to dominate Earth's largest con ...Show more
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William Shakespeare de ...Show more
Napoleon and the Rebel by Marcello Simonetta; Noga Arikha
$15.00 AUD
Category: History
Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but who also had a promising political career of his own. He was a romantic, an idealist, and an anti-monarchist whose love for Alexandrine, the woman he married in spite of Napoleon's ...Show more
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Tom; Sand Goalhanger; Holland Podcasts
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys - there's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland a ...Show more
Paris and Her Cathedrals by R. Howard Bloch
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
"So infectious is R. Howard Bloch's passion for his subject that even those unable to do the traveling required will find in Paris and Her Cathedrals an inspiring guide to these time-hallowed masterpieces of medieval culture." --Colin Jones, author of Paris and The Great NationOver the years, R. Howard ...Show more
Demetrius: Sacker of Cities by James Romm
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
Hitler and Stalin - The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
$20.00 AUD
Category: History
Two twentieth-century tyrants stand apart from all the rest, Laurence Rees has met more people with direct experience working for Hitler and Stalin than any other historian. Using their evidence, he has pieced together a compelling, comparative portrait of evil in which idealism is polluted by bloody pr ...Show more
The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society. 'Liebe Mitstreiter', he says. Dear comrades in arms. Today we are going to learn about the sonnet. Berlin, 1962. Morale is at rock bottom in East Germany, thrown into chaos by the new Berlin Wa ...Show more