Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by de Hamel Christopher, Christopher de Hamel
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts. Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize. A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Gift Guide Pick Meetings with Remarkable ...Show more
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The renowned Israeli historian revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six ...Show more
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition by Eugene Rogan
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Named Best Book of the Year by theFinancial Times, theEconomistand theAtlantic In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context. In this updated an ...Show more
Enemies and Neighbours - Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi, The Times A century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewis ...Show more
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Bryson Ser.
In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everythingone of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about ...Show more
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Br ...Show more
Inglorious Empire - What the British did to India by Shashi Tharoor
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and cause ...Show more
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920 by Eugene Rogan
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World WarEugene Rogan's remarkable book recreates one of the most important but poorly understood fronts of the First World War. For four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as w ...Show more
Britain Against Napoleon - The Organisation of Victory, 1793-1815 by Roger Knight
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
From Roger Knight, established by the multi-award winning The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ...none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close it came ...Show more
Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Hitler Biographies Ser.
Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement and The TimesDespite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprisingly, his biographers have been more interested in ...Show more
The Great War For Civilisation: The Conquest Of The Middle East by Robert Fisk
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Secondhand. During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists i ...Show more
Waterloo Sunrise - London from the Sixties to Thatcher by John Davis
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London forever Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when a city still bearing the scars of war emerged as a vibrant yet divided metropolis. John D ...Show more