History for Dad
Batavia
$34.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
The greatest story in Australia’s history. The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do... Buy or find out more→
The Popes: A History
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich has now turned his attention to the oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down... Buy or find out more→
Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
$34.00 – Paperback / Acumen Publishing Ltd
In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims made for the ability of neuroscience and evolutionary theory to explain human consciousness, behaviour, culture and society. The belief that human beings... Buy or find out more→
The Spirit of Venice: From Marco Polo to Casanova
$54.95 – Hardback / Vintage
The Republic of Venice was the first great economic and naval power of the modern Western world. After winning the struggle for ascendency against its bitter Genoese rivals in the late 13th century, the Republic enjoyed... Buy or find out more→
Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power
$22.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Competition - How Europe's small, piratical states built modern capitalism. Science - How innovation gave the West the military edge. Property Rights - How the laws of private property built the United States. Medicine - How... Buy or find out more→
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
$30.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
In his celebrated bestsellers, Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable World War II double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory. He returns with the untold... Buy or find out more→
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
$49.95 – Hardback / Vintage
We think of Queen Elizabeth I as ‘Gloriana’: the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis... Buy or find out more→
Australia and Appeasement: Imperial Foreign Policy and the Origins of World War II
$39.95 – Hardback / I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
Examines Australia's role in Britain's policy of appeasement from the time Hitler came to power in 1933 through to the declaration of war on 3rd September 1939. Focusing on five leading figures in the Australian governments of the... Buy or find out more→
Death in the City of Light: The True Story of the Serial Killer Who Terrorised Wartime Paris
$33.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
DEATH IN THE CITY OF LIGHT is the true story of the hunt for Marcel Petiot, a respectable physician by day, who turned out to be a brutal serial killer by night in Nazi-occupied Paris. Petiot was charged with 27 grisly murders,... Buy or find out more→
The Admiral Benbow: The Life and Times of a Naval Legend
$35.00 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc
Admiral John Benbow was an English naval hero, a fighting sailor of ruthless methods but indomitable courage. Benbow was a man to be reckoned with. In 1702, however, when Benbow engaged a French squadron off the Spanish main,... Buy or find out more→
Engineers of the Soul: In the Footsteps of Stalin's Writers
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Tells the story of two journeys - one literal, one imaginary - through contemporary Russia and through Soviet-era literature. Buy or find out more→
The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Focusing on the magisterial and enigmatic Charles V, Emperor of Europe and the New World, this title begins with the return of the remnants of Magellan's expedition around the world in 1522 and ends with Charles' death in 1558. In... Buy or find out more→
In the Shadow of the Sword: the Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World
$35.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the rise of Islam. No less than the collapse of the Roman Republic or the Persian invasion of Greece, the evolution of an Arab... Buy or find out more→
How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism
$24.99 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
"We need to take account of Marx today," argues Eric Hobsbawm in this persuasive and highly readable book. The ideas of capitalism's most vigorous and eloquent enemy have been enlightening in every era, the author contends, and... Buy or find out more→
The Sportsmen of Changi
$34.95 – Paperback / UNSW Press
Japanese World War II POW camps conjure up a notorious picture of deprivation and brutality. The idea that sport, of all things, flourished in such hellish conditions is hard to envisage – but the truth is, it did. Captives... Buy or find out more→
Spanish Holocaust Inquisition And Extermination In Twentiethcentury Spain
$51.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco's Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work. Buy or find out more→