Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. The instant Sunday Times bestseller 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is'Sunday Times 'An audacious, entertaining page-turner. Dan Jones covers a thousand years of hist ...Show more
The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo by Paul Strathern
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in a striking fashion. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a complete ...Show more
Midnight in Chernobyl - The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
--THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER-- 'An invaluable contribution to history.' Serhii Plokhy, Evening Standard'Tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with thriller-like flair. Midnight in Chernobyl is wonderful and chilling ... written with skill and passion.' Luke Harding, The Observer ...Show more
Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order by MENON RAJAN & RUMER EUGENE
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Boston Review Originals Ser.
The crisis in Ukraine and its implications for both the Crimean peninsula and Russia's relations with the West. The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO ...Show more
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
Award-winning historian Linda Colley re-examines the making of the modern world through the advance of written constitutions. These days, most countries have a constitution - written or unwritten. The rules therein provide a reference point for government and the judiciary, and are appealed to by polit ...Show more
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake by Simon Kuper
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
A 'humane and informative' (according to John Le Carre) biography of George Blake, the most notorious double agent in British history. The Happy Traitor is the work of many years' writing, research and unparalleled access, but was embargoed until Blake's death in Moscow in December 2020.
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney
$23.00 AUD
Category: European
For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks: city sundials in ancient Rome, medieval water clocks in imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, high-precision clock ...Show more
Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz by Alwin Meyer
$51.95 AUD
Category: European
The children of Auschwitz: this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust. They were deported to the concentration camp with their families, with most being murdered in the gas chambers upon their arrival, or were born there under unimaginable circumstances. While 232,000 chil ...Show more
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero- a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Now, renowned historian Felipe Fern indez-Armesto draws on extensive and meticulous research to conduct a dazzli ...Show more
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin by Kirsty Bell
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
Humane, thought-provoking and moving, The Undercurrents is a hybrid literary portrait of a place that makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities and our histories. The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a pr ...Show more
Accidental Gods - On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine by Anna Della Subin
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip. How does a man become a God?It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found in an old magazine. It can be a means to absolute power, ...Show more
Nazi Billionaires - The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Packed with revelations, this history traces the corrupt, bloody money that was hoarded by Nazi families during and after the Second World War – and how that money has translated into wealth and power for well known companies and tycoons today. Three weeks after Hitler seized power in Germany he called ...Show more