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
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The acclaimed account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. ...Show more
Our Man - Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
From one of America's greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man. *FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2020* Richard Holbrooke was one of the most legendary and complicated figures in ...Show more
The King's Assassin : The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I by Benjamin Woolley
$43.95 AUD
Category: History
The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615, the young gallant enraptured James, Britain's first Stuart king, royal adoration reaching such an intensity that the king declared he wanted the courtier to become his ...Show more
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History by Otto English
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide. Was Che Guevara really a revolutionary hero? Should Mother Teresa be honoured as a sai ...Show more
A Small Town in Ukraine - The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before.Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated- Krakowiec (Krah- ...Show more
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives by Christopher Harding
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life ...Show more