Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro by Andrew Martin
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Andrew Martin has been described as 'the laureate of railways', having written many books with railway themes. But Andrew has always been obsessed with the Paris Metro, hence Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro, the first English history of the Metro for the general reader.Metropolitain is as styli ...Show more
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of historyThe modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless conte ...Show more
Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders by Peter Lehr
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to a surprising combination of Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise as well as the dramatic rise of m ...Show more
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered questio ...Show more
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of Women in 101 Objects tells a new story of female history, revealing the evolution of the role women have played in society th ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 19 ...Show more
Rebel Island: The incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle--and the renewed threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a 'ball of mud', Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller tha ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of 2022 Winner of the 2022 American Library in Paris Book Award 2022 'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' - Spectator 'A fresh way to write history' - Alan Johnson 'An amused, erudite homage to France . . . ambitious and original' - The Time Original, ...Show more
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The story of Britain told through its islands - a personal journey through an ancient landscape The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Brita ...Show more
A Village in the Third Reich: How ordinary lives were transformed by the rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd, Angelika Patel
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps, a place where for hundreds of years people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even here, in the southernmost corner of Germany, National Socialism sought to control not only people’s lives but also their minds. Drawing ...Show more
The Revolutionary Temper by Robert Darnton
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
A brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most distinguished historian'Events do not come naked into the world. They come clothed - in attitudes, assumptions, values, memories of the past, anticipations of the future, hopes and fears and many other emot ...Show more
The Rest is History (The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast) by Tom Holland; Dominic Sandbrook
$34.99 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 Tolkein, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland ...Show more