Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity by Paul Strathern
$33.00 AUD
Category: History
Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made.Through ten unique cities, from the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, Paul Strathern explores how urban ...Show more
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know (HB) by Greg Jenner
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
'Jenner uses all the questions you never dared to ask about history as an excellent excuse to rummage around in some funny, fascinating, and downright peculiar corners of the past. Every page contains delights, and you will be illuminated and entertained in equal measure.' Lindsey Fitzharris, author of ...Show more
The Island of Extraordinary Captives - A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal by Simon Parkin
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had narrowly avoided at home in Berlin. Now, having endured a perilous journey to reach England - hiding from the rampaging Nazi thugs at his orphanage, boarding a Kindertransport to s ...Show more
Peru - A Journey in Time by Cecilia Pardo; Jago Cooper
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
The environments of the Central Andean region in Peru, South America, are some of the most geographically rich and diverse in the world. This publication highlights the history, beliefs and cultural achievements of the different peoples who lived in these remarkable landscapes from 1500 BC to the arriva ...Show more
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
A "entertaining and enlightening" deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization--and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication. (Daniel E. Lieberman, author of Exercised) While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxica ...Show more
Private Eye: The 60 Yearbook
$70.00 AUD
Category: History
Private Eye: The 60 Yearbook is a history of the last 60 years, as seen by Britain's first, most successful and indeed only fortnightly satirical magazine.From the Beatles to Brexit, JFK to Trump, the Moon landings to the Mars landings, it tells the story of the past six decades as they were recorded in ...Show more
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - A Story of Love and War by Catherine Katz
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II. With victory close at hand, the Yalta confer ...Show more
River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Catrine Jarman
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
The Sunday Times bestseller'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell'Replete with witches, human sacrifice, Greek fire and funeral orgies... one of the most thrilling works of archaeological detective work I have ever read' William Dalrymple, FT Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman - and the cutting- ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims ...Show more
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
$30.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents-some never before seen-and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utiliz ...Show more
The Searchers - The Quest for the Lost of the First World War by Robert Sackville-West
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
'Fascinating ... carefully researched and beautifully written' DAVID DIMBLEBY 'Utterly riveting' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Remarkable' JOHN CAREY, SUNDAY TIMES 'Robert-Sackville West writes tenderly about death and remembrance' GERARD DEGROOT, THE TIMES By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of ...Show more
Ruin and Renewal - Civilising Europe after the Second World War by Paul Betts
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
A major new history of post-war Europe. In 1945, Europe lay in ruins - its cities and towns destroyed by conflict, its economies crippled, its societies ripped apart by war and violence. In the years that followed, Europeans tried to make sense of what had happened - and to forge a new understanding of ...Show more