Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of mor ...Show more
Gallipoli by Peter Fitzsimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail. Peter tells this iconic tale in GALLIPOLI. History comes to life with P ...Show more
Ned Kelly by Peter Fitzsimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers' ploughs. History comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. Histor ...Show more
Abducting a General - The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dre ...Show more
Enemy on the Euphrates: The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt 1914-1921 by Ian Rutledge
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Between July 1920 and February 1921, in the territory known as Mesopotamia - now the modern state of Iraq - an Arab uprising came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire. A huge peasant army led by Shi'i clerics, Baghdad notables, disaffected sheikhs and former Ott ...Show more
How Capitalism Failed the Arab World: The Economic Roots and Precarious Future of the Middle East Uprisings by Richard Javad Heydarian
$26.95 AUD
Category: Middle East | Series: Economic Controversies
Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of ushering in economic dynamism and precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, rising income inequality and sky-rocketing rates of youth unemployment. In How Capitalism Failed the Arab Wo ...Show more
How the World Was Won - The Americanization of Everywhere by Peter Conrad
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
In this dazzling new book, cultural critic and historian Peter Conrad tells the story of the spectacular rise and subsequent waning of American influence across the world since 1945. Politics, war and commerce form the inevitable backdrop to his tale, but Conrad also treats us to a kaleidoscopic present ...Show more
Cities That Shaped the Ancient World by John Julius Norwich (ed.)
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Great cities marked the earliest development of civilization. From the worlds first true cities, in Mesopotamia, to the spectacular urban centres of the Maya in Central America, the places described here represent almost three millennia of human history, society and culture. Arranged geographically into ...Show more
No End Save Victory: How FDR Led the Nation into War by David Kaiser
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
While Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first hundred days may be the most celebrated period of his presidency, the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor proved the most critical. Beginning as early as 1939 when Germany first attacked Poland, Roosevelt skillfully navigated a host of challenges--a reluctant ...Show more
A History of Canberra by Nicholas Brown
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Designed as an 'ideal city' and emblem of the nation, Canberra has long been a source of ambivalence for many Australians. In this charming and concise book, Nicholas Brown challenges these ideas and looks beyond the cliches to illuminate the unique, layered and often colourful history of Australia's ca ...Show more
Midnight at the Pera: PalaceThe Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King
$35.95 AUD
$39.95 (10% off)
Category: European
At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city people were looking toward an uncertain fut ...Show more
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
"Helen Castor has an exhilarating narrative gift. . . . Readers will love this book, finding it wholly absorbing and rewarding." --Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall In the tradition of Antonia Fraser, David Starkey, and Alison Weir, prize-winning historian Helen Castor delivers a ...Show more