France: A Short History by Jeremy Black
$21.99 AUD
Category: History
A concise history of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities and exploring France's cultural and political influence today. Artists, martyrs, kings, revolutionaries: France's sense of national identity is inextricably linked to its dramatic history, which fas ...Show more
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by Simon Garfield
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a sense of absolute wisdom on its reader. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gan ...Show more
Australia's Secret Army by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
From acclaimed author Michael Veitch comes this compelling, vivid history of the secret army of civilians who worked with the Australian Defence Force during World War II as 'Coast Watchers', observing Japanese movements along the coastlines and in the jungles of the South Pacific. A Coastwatcher's work ...Show more
Being a Beast by Charles Foster
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing a badger, an otter, a fox, a deer, and a swift. He lived alongside badgers for weeks, eating earthworms and learning to sense the landscape by smell rather than sight. He tri ...Show more
The Next Civil War - Dispatches from the American Future by Stephen Marche
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The United States is coming to an end. The only question is how."Well researched and eloquently presented." --The Atlantic * "It's not a matter of if but when: A civil war is on the way...In a time of torment, this is a book well worth reading." --Kirkus ReviewsIn this deeply researched work of speculat ...Show more
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and they all left their imprint on the landscape, the language and the people living within these shifting borders. In this authoritative book, Harvard Profess ...Show more
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new i ...Show more
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty by Joseph Sassoon
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The Sassoons were one of the great commercial dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were as bankers. In this rich and nuanced po ...Show more
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Wellcome Collection
A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it. More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in o ...Show more
The Dublin Railway Murder - The Sensational True Story of a Victorian Murder Mystery by Thomas Morris
$38.99 AUD
Category: History
A thrilling and perplexing investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station. Dublin, November 1856: George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk. He has been savagely beaten, his head almost severed; ther ...Show more
No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs by Nury Turkel
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
An Irish Times ‘Book to Look Out For in 2022’ A devastating account of China’s genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur activist and Time #100 nominee Nury Turkel was born in a ‘re-education’ camp in China at the height of the Cultural Revolution. He spent the first several months of his life in c ...Show more
The Siege of Loyalty House - A Civil War Story by Jessie Childs
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war.A greater proportion of the British population died in the civil wars of the seventeenth century than in the world wars of the twentieth. Jessie Childs recovers the shock of this conflict by plunging us into one ...Show more