Readings Recommends: History
Australia And Appeasement: Imperial Foreign Policy And The Origins Of World War II
$39.95 – Hardcover book / I B Tauris
On 3 September 1939, Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, broadcast to the Australian people the news that their country was at war with Germany. He outlined how every effort had been made to maintain the peace... Buy or find out more →
Engineers Of The Soul
$19.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Engineers Of The Soul draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. Writers of renown, described by Stalin as ‘Engineers Of The Soul’, were enco... Buy or find out more →
Of The People By The People: A New History Of Democracy
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.' * Churchill had more reason than most to rue the power of democracy, having been thrown out of office a... Buy or find out more →
The Jewish Dark Continent: Life And Death In The Russian Pale Of Settlement
$44.95 – Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr
At the turn of the twentieth century, over forty percent of the world’s Jews lived within the Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews of the Pale created a distinc... Buy or find out more →
December 1941: Twelve Days that Began a World War
$36.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolde... Buy or find out more →
Transit Of Venus: 1631 To The Present
$49.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
The transit of Venus across the sun in June 2012 will be the last chance in our lifetime to see this rare planetary alignment that has been so important in history. Rich in historical detail and cutting edge science, alo... Buy or find out more →
Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
Of the figures who tower over twentieth-century American history, few are as complex, multifaceted, and controversial as Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and even... Buy or find out more →
A World On Fire: An Epic History Of Two Nations Divided
$27.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'Riveting . . . the reader is swept along . . . one can hardly overestimate the brilliance of Foreman's conception . . . a shimmering tapestry' JAY PARINI, GUARDIAN
A World on Fire tells, with extraordinary sweep, one of... Buy or find out more →
Rome: A Cultural History
$50.00 – Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
The founding of Rome is shrouded in legend, but current archaeological evidence supports the theory that Rome grew from pastoral settlements and coalesced into a city in the 8th century BC. It developed into the capital ... Buy or find out more →
Australians Volume 2: Eureka to the Diggers
$59.95$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story, in the second volume of a unique history of Australia.
In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's wide... Buy or find out more →
City Of Fortune: How Venice Ruled The Seas
$39.99$34.95 – Hardcover book / Faber & Faber
A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five-hundred-year voyage that encompassed crusade a... Buy or find out more →
Hiroshima Nagasaki
$55.00$49.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
′Nobody is more disturbed,′ said President Truman, three days after the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, ′over the use of the atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanes... Buy or find out more →
Double Entry
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Our world is governed by the numbers generated by the accounts of nations and corporations. We depend on these numbers to direct our governments, our institutions, corporations, economies, societies. But where did they c... Buy or find out more →
Death In The City Of Light
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Little Brown
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 m... Buy or find out more →
Whispering City Rome And Its Histories
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud claimed that Rome must be comprehended as "not a human dwelling place but a mental entity," in which the palaces of the Caesars still stand alongside modern apartment bu... Buy or find out more →
Il Duce And His Women 1883-1937
$54.95 – Hardcover book / Alma Books
Out of the ruins and savagery of Second World War, the figure of Benito Mussolini looms large as one of the most influential during the first half of the twentieth century. After his ignominious end in Piazzale Loreto, m... Buy or find out more →
The Victor's Crown
$59.99 – Hardcover book / Quercus
What is sport and why do we love it? These two questions drive David Potter's analysis of the western tradition of competitive athletics from eighth century BC to the sixth century AD. The story of ancient sport offers a... Buy or find out more →
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century
$22.99 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influen... Buy or find out more →
Paris Under Water, How The City Of Light Survived The Great Flood Of 1910
$24.95 – Paperback book / Palgrave
In the winter of 1910, the river that brought life to Paris quickly became a force of destruction. Torrential rainfall saturated the soil, and faulty engineering created a perfect storm of conditions that soon drowned Pa... Buy or find out more →
The Times Complete History Of The World
$30.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
From cavemen to the Cold War, from Alexander the Great to global warming, from warfare through the ages to the great voyages of exploration, THE TIMES COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE WORLD is the book that has all the answers, t... Buy or find out more →
The Sons Of Clovis
$39.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
The Sons of Clovis is a scholarly tour de force. It begins with the Ern Malley affair, establishing previously unrecognised connections between the Australian scene and French symboliste poetry, before embarking on a fas... Buy or find out more →
Paris To The Past: Traveling Through French History By Train
$34.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
"I'd rather go to France with Ina Caro than with Henry Adams or Henry James."-Peter Prescott, Newsweek
In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that ... Buy or find out more →
Vanished Kingdoms: The Lives And Afterlives Of Europe's Lost Realms
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
'The past is a foreign country' has become a truism, yet we often forget that the past is different from the present in many unfamiliar ways, and historical memory is extraordinarily imperfect. We habitually think of the... Buy or find out more →
The Bible Now
$33.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
For millennia, people have used the Bible as a touchstone on important social and political questions, but the use has too often been lop-sided, without a balanced understanding of the Bibles overall teaching. Friedman a... Buy or find out more →
Fear, Faith And Hope: The Long Wet Summer Of 2010-2011
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Fear, faith and hope are just three of the emotions felt by the people of Queensland during the long, wet summer of 2010–2011.
The floods and cyclones of that wet season produced a natural disaster which will continue ... Buy or find out more →
The Promise Of Iceland
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
In 1990, at the age of seventeen, Kári Gíslason travelled to Iceland, the land of his birth, and arranged to meet his father. What he found was not what he expected.
Born from a secret liaison between a British mother ... Buy or find out more →
Cities Of The Classical World: An Atlas And Gazetteer Of One Hundred And Twenty Centres Of Ancient Civilization
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide allows us to see the great centres of classical civilization afresh.
The key feature of Cities of the Classical World is 120 specially drawn maps tracing each city's... Buy or find out more →
The Book Of Common Prayer: The Texts Of 1549, 1559 And 1662
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
When it was first produced, The Book of Common Prayer provoked riots and rebellion, and it was banned before being translated into a host of global languages and adopted as the basis for worship. This edition presents th... Buy or find out more →
Cleopatra: A Life
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Virgin Publishing
"Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections of history: that of women and power," writes Schiff in this excellent, myth-busting biography. It is that intersection that interests Schiff rather than romance... Buy or find out more →
A Short History Of Christianity
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Penguin
For 200 years, Christianity has had a varying but immense influence on world history. Who better, then, than Geoffrey Blainey, author of the best-selling Short History of the World and one of Australia's most accomplishe... Buy or find out more →
The Shakespeare Thefts: Stealing The World's Most Famous Book
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Palgrave
The first edition of Shakespeare's collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves. Of the 160 First ... Buy or find out more →
The World of the Book
$39.99$14.95 – Paperback book / Miegunyah Press
French poet Stephane Mallarme understood that books hold the world's stories. From the earliest known myths and legends to postmodern fictions, books are mirrors of real worlds, windows into imagined worlds and keepers o... Buy or find out more →
Fifty Animals That Changed The Course Of History
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Fifty Animals that Changed the Course of History is a beautifully illustrated book that uncovers the fascinating stories of creatures great and small. These are the animals that have played a central role in the evolutio... Buy or find out more →
The Biggest Estate On Earth
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people.
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and ag... Buy or find out more →
The Queen's Agent
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Faber & Faber
Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. Spain plotted an invasion, but Elizabeth's Secreta... Buy or find out more →
Anzacs On The Western Front: The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide
$49.95 – Paperback book / Wiley
A lavishly illustrated account of the ANZACs involvement in the Western Front--complete with walking and driving tours of 28 battlefields
With rare photographs and documents from the Australian War Memorial archive and e... Buy or find out more →
Mad Dog: William Cyril Moxley And The Moorebank Killings
$29.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
William Cyril Moxley was hanged at Sydney's Long Bay Gaol in 1932 - the first execution in New South Wales for eight years. His crime was the brutal rape and murder of 21-year-old Dorothy Ruth Denzel and the vicious beat... Buy or find out more →
A History Of Tasmania
$39.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
James Fenton (1820–1901) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) with his family in 1833. He became a pioneer settler in an area on the Forth River and published this history of th... Buy or find out more →
Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel Nazi Agent
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Chatto & Windus
Coco Chanel, high priestess of couture, created the look of the chic modern woman: her simple and elegant designs freed women from their corsets and inspired them to crop their hair. By the 1920s, Chanel employed more th... Buy or find out more →
A History Of Ancient Britain
$45.00 – Hard back / Orion
Continues Neil's landmark exploration of how our land and its people came to be, which began with 'A History of Scotland.'
A journey into an ancient world - '...a journey through time, as well as through landscape. These... Buy or find out more →
Burke & Wills: The Scientific Legacy Of The Victorian Exploring Expedition
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Csiro Pblications
Reveals for the first time the true extent and limits of the scientific achievements of the Burke and Wills Expedition. The Royal Society of Victoria initiated the Victorian Exploring Expedition as a serious scientific e... Buy or find out more →
Leningrad
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
The siege of Leningrad is one of the great stories of extraordinary and heroic endurance in World War II
On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on t... Buy or find out more →
The Beauty And The Sorrow
$49.99 – Hard back / Profile
The Great War: four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses
There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describin... Buy or find out more →
A Train In Winter
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
On January 24, 1943, 230 women were placed in four cattle trucks on a train in Compiegne, in northeastern France, and the doors bolted shut for the journey to Auschwitz. They were members of the French Resistance, rangin... Buy or find out more →
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields ... Buy or find out more →
Artocitology: Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements
$34.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Which wars killed the most people? Was the twentieth century the most violent in history? Are religions, tyrants or ideologies responsible for the greatest bloodshed?
In this remarkable and original book, ‘atrocitologist... Buy or find out more →
Desert Boys
$49.99 – Hard back / Allen & Unwin
Australians fought in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East in both World Wars. This is the very human story of those soldiers, sailors and airmen and their involvement in some of the toughest campaigns of mode... Buy or find out more →
Tony Robinson's History Of Australia: From New Holland To Neighbours
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin
No one brings history so enjoyably to life as the insatiably curious Tony Robinson. Now he turns his attention to a subject dear to our hearts – us.
In Tony Robinson's History of Australia, the always-entertaining stor... Buy or find out more →
Lisbon: War In The Shadows Of The City Of Light
$35.00 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Throughout World War II, Lisbon was at the centre of world attention. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers openly operated, it was also a temporary home to much of Europe’s exiled royalty; ... Buy or find out more →
Hitler's Hangman: Life And Death Of Reinhard Heydrich
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security ... Buy or find out more →
Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How The Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World
$35.00 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
James Carroll’s urgent, masterly Jerusalem, Jerusalem uncovers the ways in which the city became a transcendent fantasy that ignites religious fervour unlike anywhere else on earth. He shows how the conflicts within this... Buy or find out more →
Terror Of History: On The Uncertainties Of Life In Western Civilization
$36.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press
This book reflects on Western humanity's efforts to escape from history and its terrors--from the existential condition and natural disasters to the endless succession of wars and other man-made catastrophes. Drawing on ... Buy or find out more →
When Money Dies: The Nightmare Of The Weimar Hyper Inflation
$29.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
In 1923, German currency became effectively worthless: the exchange rate in December of that year was one US dollar to 4200 trillion marks. The Weimar Republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, a... Buy or find out more →
Into The Silence
$35.00 – Paperback book / Bodley Head
A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest
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If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had... Buy or find out more →
Empires At War A Short History Of Modern Asia Since World War Ii
$44.95 – Paperback book / I B Tauris
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Cradle Of Gold: The Story Of Hiram Bingham A Real Life Indiana Jones And The Search For Machu Piccu
$29.95 – Paperback book / Palgrave
In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidden amidst the breathtaking heights of the Andes, this settlement of temple... Buy or find out more →
Bligh: Master Mariner
$35.00$29.95 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
There's a lot more to Captain Bligh than mutiny, rum and convicts ...
The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these ex... Buy or find out more →
Bligh: William Bligh In The South Seas
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin
In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a significant episode in the history of the world, not simply of the West.
Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recoun... Buy or find out more →
The Gold Rush
$24.95 – Paperback book / Heinemann
David Hill relates the extraordinary people and staggering events of Australia's great gold-rush years. From the mid- to late-1800s, people from all corners of the globe and all walks of life, including two future prime ... Buy or find out more →
Mission 101
$34.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
"I fancy the Italians have bitten off more than they can chew..."
In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the second world war's most daring operations.
Leading a small ... Buy or find out more →
The Godfather Was A Girl
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
Did you know that Crocodile Dundee was based on real-life buffalo hunter Rod Ansell? Or that most of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird were inspiredby Harper Lee's own family, neighbours and an innocent man, W... Buy or find out more →
In The Garden Of Beasts: Love, Terror And An American Family In Hitler's Berlin
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
In this mesmerizing portrait of the Nazi capital, Larson plumbs a far more diabolical urban cauldron than in his bestselling The Devil in the White City. He surveys Berlin, circa 19331934, from the perspective of two Ame... Buy or find out more →
The First Fleet: The Real Story
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1500 people, set out from England for Botany Bay. According to the conventional account, it was a shambolic affair: under-prepared, poorly equipped and ill-disciplined. Ro... Buy or find out more →
1835: The Founding Of Melbourne And The Conquest Of Australia
$44.95 – Hardcover book / Black Inc
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep across Bass Strait – and so changed the... Buy or find out more →
The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher (TV Tie-In)
$21.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it.
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. ... Buy or find out more →
An Empire Of Ice: Scott, Shackleton And The Heroic Age Of Antarctic Science
$40.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Larson places the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context in this terrific new histor... Buy or find out more →
The Great Sea: A Human History Of The Mediterranean
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
Situated at the intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millenia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. David A... Buy or find out more →
Mary Boleyn
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
This is the first full-scale biography of Mary Boleyn – the other Boleyn girl – one of the most misunderstood figures of the Tudor age. The sister of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife, she is rumoured to have borne h... Buy or find out more →
The Korean War
$34.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
The Korean War has never really ended. Although a ceasefire agreement was reached in 1953 after three years of savage warfare, the conflict continues to simmer just below the surface, threatening at any moment to break i... Buy or find out more →
The Gurkhas: Special Force
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
The Gurkhas have fought on behalf of Britain and India for nearly two hundred years. As brave as they are resilient, resourceful and cunning, they have earned a reputation as devastating fighters, and their unswerving lo... Buy or find out more →
Millions Like Us: Womens' Lives In War And Peace
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
'It was a beautiful sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. I stood on the verandah, just trying to make my mind think: 'War – we're at War'. It was unreal.'
In September 1939 Mary Angove from Plymouth was barely sixteen. A... Buy or find out more →
Venetian Navigators: The Voyages of the Zen Brothers to the Far North
$35.00 – Paperback book / Faber
Andrea di Robilant, author of A Venetian Affair, investigates the story of the Zen brothers, the fourteenth-century merchant navigators whose fabled voyage to the North Atlantic made history.
In the 14th century, Nicolo ... Buy or find out more →
Dante In Love
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Atlantic Books
For over half a millennium, The Divine Comedy has inspired writers from Shakespeare to Beckett. Dante's epic journey - out of the raging inferno to the gates of paradise - continues to dazzle readers today. Tennyson base... Buy or find out more →
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
$32.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
A groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpetriere hosptial in Paris
Hysteria as a disease no longer exists, but in the nineteenth century hysteria was t... Buy or find out more →
Waterloo: The Battle that Brought Down Napoleon
$22.99 – Paperback book / Icon Books
A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history
The battle on Sunday 18th June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium was to be Napoleon's greatest triumph - but it ended in one of the greate... Buy or find out more →
A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitu's Germania From The Roman Empire To The Third Reich
$32.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
his, the riveting story of the Germania, tells of its incarnations and exploitations through the ages. The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by t... Buy or find out more →
The Popes: A History
$60.00$59.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
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 lin... Buy or find out more →
London Under
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
From the author of the bestselling London: The Biography, a poetic and powerful urban history of life and legend beneath London. This is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, oozing little study of verything... Buy or find out more →
Captain Cook: Master Of The Seas
$48.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was navigator and cartographer Captain James Cook of the ... Buy or find out more →
The Churchills
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
‘There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles’, so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles... Buy or find out more →
Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History Of A Troubled Land
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
A generation after Pol Pot’s regime killed one quarter of the nation’s population, Cambodia shows every outward sign of having overcome its devastating history – the streets of Phnom Penh are paved; skyscrapers dot the s... Buy or find out more →
The Wisdom Of Birds: An Illustrated History Of Ornithology
$39.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still growing. In 2007 bird-watching is one of the most popular pastimes, not just in Britain, but throughout the world, and the ... Buy or find out more →
Afgantsy: The Russians In Afghanistan 1979-1989
$59.99 – Hardcover book / Profile
In a timely and eye-opening book Rodric Braithwaite examines the Russian experience in that most recent war in Afghanistan (after Alexander's conquests and the many British imperial wars and skirmishes).
As a former amba... Buy or find out more →
Samurai: The True Story Of The Last Warrior
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
The name 'Samurai' is synonymous with the ultimate warrior. With their elaborate armour, fierce swordsmanship and code of honour, the samurai have become iconic figures whose influence can still be felt today. From Kuros... Buy or find out more →
The Road of Bones
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
The Road of Bones is the story of Russia's greatest road. For over 200 years, the route of the Vladimirka Road has been at the centre of the nation's history, having witnessed everything from the first human footsteps to... Buy or find out more →
Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation And Denazification Of Post War Germany
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Not since the end of the Roman Empire, almost fifteen hundred years earlier, is there a parallel, in Europe at least, to the fall of the German nation in 1945. Industrious and inventive, home over centuries to a dispropo... Buy or find out more →
A History Of The World Since 9/11
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
In A History of the World Since 9/11 Dominic Streatfeild expertly combines history, biography and investigative journalism to show how a massacre on a clear September day in 2001 has touched the lives of millions of peop... Buy or find out more →
Marathon: How One Battle Changed Western Civilisation
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
A fresh, gripping look at one of Western history’s defining moments
The inspiration for our modern-day marathon comes from the legend of Philippides, who is said to have run 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to deliver ... Buy or find out more →
India: A Portrait
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of ... Buy or find out more →
The Emperor Of All Maladies: A Biography Of Cancer
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
A comprehensive history of cancer -- one of the greatest enemies of medical progress -- and an insight into its effects and potential cures, by a leading expert on the illness. In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha ... Buy or find out more →
Turbulent World Of Franz Goll An Ordinary Berliner Writes The Twentieth Century
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr
Franz Gouml;ll was a thoroughly typical Berliner. He worked as a clerk, sometimes as a postal employee, night watchman, or publisher's assistant. He enjoyed the movies, ate spice cake, wore a fedora, tamed sparrows, and ... Buy or find out more →
The Scramble For China: Foreign Devils In The Qing Empire 1832 -1914
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
In the early 19th century China remained almost untouched by Britain and other European powers - ferocious laws forbade all trade with the West outside one tiny area of Canton. Anyone teaching a European to speak Chinese... Buy or find out more →
For The Soul Of France Culture Wars In The Age Of Dreyfus
$23.95 – Paperback book / Anchor
With the Franco-Prussian war of 1870–71, Napoleon III's abdication and the subsequent civil agitation during the Paris Commune, reactionaries in France were pushing hard for ascendancy. Brown (Flaubert, 2006, etc.) looks... Buy or find out more →
Chasing The Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives us Life
$16.95 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Amazingly the first book of its kind, CHASING THE SUN is a cultural and scientific hist... Buy or find out more →
Civilization: The West And The Rest
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near Ea... Buy or find out more →
Robin Hood
$25.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
The legend of Robin Hood began more than 600 years ago. The man, if he existed at all, lived even earlier. In this definitive work described as the last word on Robin Hood, Professor Sir James Holt, one of Britains premi... Buy or find out more →
In Blighs Hand, Surviving The Mutiny On The Bounty
$34.95 – Paperback book / National Lib Of Aust
After the mutiny on the Bounty on 28 April 1789, led by Fletcher Christian, Captain William Bligh and 18 others were forced onto a 7-metre-long open boat and cast adrift. It was the beginning of a 47-day, 6700-kilometre ... Buy or find out more →
Yugo The Rise And Fall Of The Worst Car In History
$21.00 – Paperback book / Farrar Straus & Giro
Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's "Car Talk" declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Am... Buy or find out more →
Jerusalem, The Biography
$50.00$49.99 – Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. From King David to Bar... Buy or find out more →
Turkey A Short History
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
New from the eminent historian Norman Stone, who has lived and worked in the country since 1997, comes this concise survey of Turkeys relations with its immediate neighbours and the wider world from the 11th century to t... Buy or find out more →
Death And The Virgin
$24.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House
The dramatic story of Elizabeth's first ten years on the throne and the unexplained death that scandalised her court. Buy or find out more →
History Of East Asia From The Origins Of Civilization To The Twenty First Century
$49.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
Charles Holcombe begins his extraordinarily ambitious book by asking the question "What is East Asia?" In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, and Korea - dis... Buy or find out more →
Times Complete History Of The World Eighth Edition
$185.00 – Hardcover book / Times Publications
The ultimate work of historical referenceFrom cavemen to the Cold War, from Alexander the Great to global warming, from warfare through the ages to the great voyages of exploration, The Times Complete History of the Worl... Buy or find out more →
New York Times Complete Civil War 1861 1865
$59.99 – Hardcover book / Do Not Use
Experience the history, politics and individual stories behind the American Civil War through the original, first-hand daily reportage of The New York Times. One of the few newspapers with correspondents on the front lin... Buy or find out more →
The Lure Of Russia: 20 Years Of Travel And 20 Years Of Change
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Citrus Press
Ford visited Russia 18 times in 20 years, leading groups of school students, then music and art groups. Ford provides the historical context to her travels, which provide snapshots of Russian life during pivotal times of... Buy or find out more →
Resurrection Of The Romanovs, Anastasia Anna Anderson And The Worlds Greatest Royal Mystery
$44.95 – Hardcover book / Wiley
The truth of the enduring mystery of Anastasia's fate-and the life of her most convincing impostor The passage of more than ninety years and the publication of hundreds of books in dozens of languages has not extinguishe... Buy or find out more →
Paris Under Water
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Palgrave
In the winter of 1910, however, the river that brought life to Paris quickly became a force of destruction. Torrential rainfall saturated the soil, and faulty engineering created a perfect storm of conditions that soon d... Buy or find out more →
Fire And Song The Story Of Luis De Carvajal And The Mexican Inquisition
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Fire And Song tells the story of a Jewish man, Luis de Carvajal, and his sister, Leonor. Set in Mexico City in 1596, it explores his determination to never to lose heart, and to cling to his faith and cultural identity i... Buy or find out more →
How To Change The World, Tales Of Marx And Marxism
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of com... Buy or find out more →
Arabs, A History
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
The history of the Arab world is a story of colonization, war and resistance but also rich creativity, encompassing a diverse area from Morocco to Iraq. Eugene Rogan's acclaimed book traces five hundred years of tumultuo... Buy or find out more →
Botany Bay: The Real Story
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
For the first time in two hundred years, here is a full and authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia.
We all know the conventional story. Established as a dumping ground for Britain’s criminals, Australia ... Buy or find out more →
The Pocketbook Of Aussie History
$4.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
When was the first Melbourne cup, and which horse won? Who was the first woman to stand for federal parliament? What’s the second verse of ‘Advance Australia Fair’? And why was Vegemite renamed Parwill in 1928?
Her... Buy or find out more →
The Jewish Odyssey: An Illustrated History
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
The far-reaching story of a people that, despite facing perpetual struggle, has shaped modern civilization. In The Jewish Odyssey, best-selling author Marek Halter charts the course of Judaism from its origins in Mesopot... Buy or find out more →
Dampier's Monkey: The South Seas Voyages Of William Dampier
$45.00 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
William Dampier, the 'devil's mariner' as he has been called, a far voyager and traveler extraordinaire, lived in an era when, more truly than in other periods of history, the past was being put behind the present, and e... Buy or find out more →
Citizens: A Chronicle Of The French Revolution
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution, and one of the great landmarks of modern history publishing.
'Monumental . . . provocative and stylish, Simon Schama's account of th... Buy or find out more →
Batavia
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Heinemann
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-d... Buy or find out more →
The Great Wall: A Cultural History
$41.95 – Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr
Carlos Rojas presents a sweeping survey of the historical and political significance of one of the worldrs"s most recognizable monuments. Although the splendor of the Great Wall has become virtually synonymous with its v... Buy or find out more →
Bligh In Australia: A New Appraisal Of William Bligh And The Rum Rebellion
$24.95 – Trade paperback /
This fascinating account of early Australia focuses on Governor William Bligh (famous as the captain of "Mutiny On the Bounty" fame). The Rum Rebellion has, for generations, been told to school children as one of the bet... Buy or find out more →
Bridge Of Spies
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
This is the true story of one of the most dramatic and mythologized moments of the Cold War - the famous spy swap in Berlin. "Bridge of Spies" is a gripping, entertaining, hair-raising and comical story, which moves effo... Buy or find out more →
The People's Bible: The Remarkable History Of The King James Version
$34.99 – Hardcover book / Lion Book
This is the story of one of the most influential, provocative, ambitious projects of its day: translating the Bible into English, the language of the people. In 1604 the new King James I convened a meeting at Hampton Cou... Buy or find out more →
The Imperial Cruise
$27.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. There, they would quietly fo... Buy or find out more →
The Discovery Of Jeanne Baret: A Story Of Science The High Seas And The First Woman To Circumnavigate The Globe
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
In 1765, eminent botanist Philibert Commerson was appointed official naturalist to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. Desperate not to be left behind, Jeanne Baret - Commerson′s young... Buy or find out more →
Six Weeks: The Short Life Of A British Officer In The First World War
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
With their Latin lessons still resounding in their minds, many boys during the Great War went straight from the classroom to the most dangerous job in the world - that of junior officer on the Western Front. Although des... Buy or find out more →
On The Spartacus Road: A Spectacular Journey Through Ancient Italy
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
In this inspiring and original book, former editor of The Times, Sir Peter Stothard, re-traces the journey taken by Spartacus and his army of rebels.In the final century of the first Roman Republic an army of slaves brou... Buy or find out more →
Crude World: The Violent Twilight Of Oil
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'The strength of Crude World, filled with vivid reporting, is that it leaves you no option but to care' Guardian
Oil makes the world work, but it destroys many of those who produce it.
Crude World offers a passionate loo... Buy or find out more →
Levant: Splendour And Catastophe On The Mediterranean
$59.99 – Hardcover book / Hodder Headline
The first English-language history of Beirut, Alexandria and Smyrna in the modern age
Levant is a book of cities. It describes the role of Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut as windows on the world, escapes from nationality a... Buy or find out more →
Splendour And Squalor: The Disgrace And Disintegration Of Three Aristocratic Dynasties
$27.00$10.95 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
From stately homes and prisons to the House of Lords and Edwardian asylums--the stories, spanning the 20th century, of the disintegrating fortunes of three of Britain's most illustrious aristocratic dynasties and the sca... Buy or find out more →
History's Greatest Headlines: Events That Shook The World
$45.00 – Paperback book / Pier 9
History's Greatest Headlines takes readers on a fascinating journey through forty of the most significant events in recorded history. From the suicide of Cleopatra ending 4000 years of Egyptian pharaoh rule to Marco Polo... Buy or find out more →
Speeches That Changed The World (Book and DVD)
$34.95 – Paperback book / Quercus
See and hear the 20th century’s greatest orators speak the very words that made history – from Winston Churchill and JFK to Kevin Rudd and Barack Obama. This gripping DVD pack provides genuine historical footage of 20 of... Buy or find out more →
Atlantic: The Biography Of An Ocean
$35.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
In a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future.
At the core ... Buy or find out more →
D-Day: The Battle For Normandy
$59.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Even Stalin was awed by D-Day.
'In the whole history of war,' he wrote to Churchill, 'there has never been such an undertaking.' Those who took part in the great cross-Channel invasion, whether soldier, sailor or airman,... Buy or find out more →
At Home: A Short History Of Private Life
$55.00$16.99 – Hardcover book / Doubleday
The brand new Bryson for 2010. Will do for social history what A Short History of Nearly Everything did for science.
It struck Bill Bryson one day that we devote a lot more time to the Wars of the Roses or the Normandy L... Buy or find out more →
The Australian Pub
$49.95 – Paperback book / Nsw University Pr
The pub is one of Australias most-loved institutions. The Australian Pub takes us on an intoxicating journey through the colourful history of this Australian icon: from its colonial origins along the waterfronts and road... Buy or find out more →
Parisians: An Adventure History Of Paris
$35.00$34.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
Fleeing the Louvre, Marie-Antoinette becomes lost in the unmapped streets of the Left Bank, an easy prey for revolutionaries bent on her execution. Young lieutenant Napoleon Bonaparte has his first sexual experience with... Buy or find out more →
Street Fight In Naples: A Book Of Art And Insurrection
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
A journey through the history, culture and mean streets of Naples by the acclaimed bestselling author of Midnight in Sicily and M.
Naples is always a shock, flaunting beauty and squalor like nowhere else. Naples is the o... Buy or find out more →
A World On Fire: An Epic History Of Two Nations Divided
$35.00$14.95 – Trade paperback / Allen Lane
In A World on Fire Amanda Foreman brings her unique style of epic biography to the American Civil War. During the titanic struggle between North and South, both sides demanded Britain's support. British volunteers fought... Buy or find out more →
Upside Down World: Early European Impressions Of Australia's Curious Animals
$39.95 – Paperback book / National Lib Of Aust
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Eurocentric perceptions of natural history led to the flora and fauna of the new colony of New South Wales being viewed as deficient and inferior. The swans of the colony wer... Buy or find out more →
Unsung Ordinary Men
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Headline
UNSUNG ORDINARY MEN by Sally Dingo is a very personal investigation into the ongoing effects of war - on the soldiers, their wives and children - when a soldier came home. UNSUNG ORDINARY MEN was inspired by Sally's own ... Buy or find out more →
Transport: An Australian History
$49.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
Trains, planes, boats and cars. What did Australians do before the invention of modern transport? Aborigines travelled by foot and used canoes made from large sheets of bark stripped from eucalyptus trees, but with Europ... Buy or find out more →
The Three Emperors
$24.95 – Paperback book / Fig Tree
Three cousins. Three Emperors. And the road to ruin. As cousins, George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and the last Tsar Nicholas II should have been friends - but they happened also to rule Europe's three most powerful states. Th... Buy or find out more →
Showtime: A History Of The Broadway Musical Theater
$52.95$49.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Showtime brings the history of Broadway musicals to life in a narrative as engaging as the subject itself. Beginning with the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of 1849, Larry Stempel traces the growth of musicals f... Buy or find out more →
Savage Or Civilised? Manners In Colonial Australia
$34.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
In colonial Australia manners marked the difference between savagery and civilisation, between vulgarity and refinement. Colonists recoiled in shock and confusion at the customs of Indigenous Australians, but they also s... Buy or find out more →
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle For Europe 1807-1814
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Penguin Group Uk
In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Yet less than two years later his empire lay in ruins, ... Buy or find out more →
Them And Us
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
The suddenness and depth of the recession has raised questions about the workability of capitalism not seen since the 1930s. One of the constraints on recovery is the growing belief that if the old model did not work the... Buy or find out more →
Into The Woods: The Battle For Tasmania's Forests
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage political games ... Buy or find out more →
Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents
$29.95 – Paperback book / Allen Lane
Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. In Ill Fares the Land, Tony Judt reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. As the economic collapse of 200... Buy or find out more →
The Idea Of Justice
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream the... Buy or find out more →
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run The World and Why Their Differences Matter
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Is religion toxic or tonic? Is it a force for good or for evil? The answer is ‘all of the above’ – which is to say that religion is a force far too powerful to be ignored.
God Is Not One is the essential guide to l... Buy or find out more →
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor
$25.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
It was a meeting of the agency’s top people to find an advertising theme for Panasonic, a major new Japanese electronics firm. Suddenly the new $50,000-a-year creative supervisor leapt to his feet in a frenzy of simulate... Buy or find out more →
The Flight Of The Intellectuals
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
It created a worldwide furore when Tariq Ramadan was barred from US entry to accept a prestigious appointment at Notre Dame University. After all, as a major profile in The New York Times Magazine observed, Ramadan is on... Buy or find out more →
The SS: A New History
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
The first history of the SS for decades.
The SS is the most historically important institution of Third Reich Germany yet it remains amongst the least well understood. The SS was at the forefront of implementing the most... Buy or find out more →
Germania
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
'It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up with something like t... Buy or find out more →
Decade
$59.95$19.95 – Hardcover book /
A successor to Phaidon''s award-winning Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Suffering, Regression and Hope, Decade provides a comprehensive visual overview of the last 10 years in world history through 500 enga... Buy or find out more →
Cities Pack (Hobart, Brisbane, Sydney)
$79.85$59.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
Special bind-up of the first three books in the cities series written by prolific Australian authors - Hobart, Brisbane and Sydney.
Sydney by Delia Falconer
"Sydney may look golden, but this is the sunniness of Mozart, w... Buy or find out more →
Holy Warriors: A Modern History Of The Crusades
$29.95 – Paperback book / Pimlico
In his remarkable book, Jonathan Phillips explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures and shows both the contradictions and diversity of holy war. He draws on contemporary writings - on chronicles, songs, sermon... Buy or find out more →
Heart And Soul: Australia's First Families Of Wine
$39.95 – Paperback book / Wiley
Created by 12 of the best-known wine families in the country (from Brown Brothers through to Yalumba), Australia’s First Families of Wine (AFFW) is an exciting new initiative that seeks to showcase a representative and d... Buy or find out more →
The First Ladies Of Rome
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
A brilliant and rich group biography of the imperial women of Rome - from an exciting young historian.
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The First Ladies of Rome is a richly detailed historical picture of some of those great women of ... Buy or find out more →
Defenders Of The Faith: Christianity And Islam Battle For The Soul Of Europe 1520-1536
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
A bestselling historian recounts the epic clash that ended the Renaissance and pushed Islam to the gates of Vienna
In Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, Jr., brought two epochal events in the struggle between... Buy or find out more →
The Rule Of Empires: Those Who Built Them Those Who Endured Them And Why They Always Fall
$54.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
In The Rule of Empires , Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and of... Buy or find out more →
A Secret Gift
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
A book for our times, sharing stories of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the generosity of a man who understood hardship.
A timely and powerful work of America at its worst - and Americans at their best - woven fro... Buy or find out more →
Crimea: The Last Crusade
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
The Crimean War dominated the mid 19th century, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if... Buy or find out more →
A Royal Passion
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
The marriage of the Protestant Charles I and the French Catholic princess Henrietta Maria was, from the start, a dangerous experiment. They met for the first time a month after their arranged marriage, and they spent the... Buy or find out more →
The Shortest History Of Europe
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilisation.
The Shortest History of Europe begins with a rapid overview of European civilisation, desc... Buy or find out more →
The Great Explorers
$65.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
This book, part of the same series as The Great Cities in History and The Great Naturalists, profiles forty of the world’s greatest explorers, from Europe, America, Asia and Australia. These are the men and women who cha... Buy or find out more →
MI6: The History Of The Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949
$59.99$59.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
The first - and only - history of the Secret Intelligence Service, written with full and unrestricted access to the closed archives of the Service for the period 1909-1949.
A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study... Buy or find out more →
The Romantic Revolution
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third - the romantic revolution - was p... Buy or find out more →
Across The Revolutionary Divide: Russia And The USSR 1861-1941
$39.95 – Paperback book / Wiley Blackwell
Across the Revolutionary Divide: Russia and the USSR 1861-1945 offers a broad interpretive account of Russian history from the emancipation of the serfs to the end of World War II. Buy or find out more →
- Provides a coherent overview of Russia...
The American Civil War
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Pimlico
The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. It has captured the imagination of writers, artists and film-makers for decades but the reality of it con... Buy or find out more →
Three Famines
$49.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Tom Keneally shares three shocking stories and one controversial theory in a standout history.
This is the story of three great famines. The first is an Gorta Mór, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846 and who... Buy or find out more →
In Ishmael's House: A History Of Jews In Muslim Lands
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
The relationship between Jews and Muslims has been a flashpoint that affects stability in the Middle East and has consequences around the globe. This book presents a fascinating account of hope, opportunity, fear, and te... Buy or find out more →
Europe's Tragedy: A New History Of The Thirty Years War
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Penguin Group Uk
The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many... Buy or find out more →
A Cabinet Of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales And Surprising Facts From The World's Greatest Empire
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
The ancient Romans have left us a vast amount of information about themselves, much of which is strangely at odds with the conventional view of pragmatic, efficient, logical civilization. A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities i... Buy or find out more →
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire And Germany's Bid For World Power 1898-1918
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
'Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history ... This superb and original book is the reality behind Greenmantle' Norman Stone
The Berlin-Baghdad Express explores one of the big, previously unresearche... Buy or find out more →
The Pacific
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
The official companion book to The Pacific, the new HBO miniseries from the producers of Band of Brothers
This is a gripping piece of historical writing following the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. ... Buy or find out more →
Turning The Tide Of Battle: Pocket History
$12.99 – Paperback book / Pier 9
The Pocket History series is a conveniently portable, stylishly packaged and eminently collectible set of books that each open a window onto a selection of remarkable stories, characters and themes from the past. Ranging... Buy or find out more →
Empires Of Imagination: Politics, War And The Arts In The British World 1750-1850
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Profile
This scholarly yet highly accessible book illuminates the manifold ways in which the culture of power and the power of culture were interwoven and shaped the character of British public life.
Between the mid-18th and mid... Buy or find out more →
Moral Combat: A History Of Word War II
$69.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
There are hundreds of books about World War II – incredibly, this offers an original take. By examining the moral sentiments of the leaders and societies involved in the war, Michael Burleigh makes an astute analysis of ... Buy or find out more →
Memory Is Another Country: Women Of The Vietnamese Diaspora
$53.95 – Hardcover book / Greenwood Press
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010
“Nguyen makes a brilliant contribution to the third wave of scholarship… Her focus on women is valuable… pathbreaking book… Essential. All levels/libraries.” – Choice (USA) (June 2... Buy or find out more →
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History Of Empire And War
$19.95 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. There, they would quietly fo... Buy or find out more →
Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 (4th Edition)
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A powerful history of black-white encounters in Australia since colonisation, this fully updated edition remains the only concise survey of Aboriginal history since 1788.
'In this book Richard Broome has managed an envia... Buy or find out more →
The Wreck Of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited
$29.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Humanism built Western civilisation as we know it today. Its achievements include the liberation of the individual, democracy, universal rights, and widespread prosperity and comfort. Its ambassadors are the heroes of mo... Buy or find out more →
Snitch! A History Of The Modern Intelligence Informer
$45.00 – Paperback book / Continuum Pub Co
Snitch! A History of the Modern Intelligence Informer offers a vivid account of how some citizens actively assist state surveillance by "informing" on others, such as during the Cold War and the current campaign against ... Buy or find out more →
The Icarus Syndrome: The A History Of American Hubris
$39.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks-a story about the seductions of success. Beinart describes Washington on the eve of three wars-World War One, Vietnam, and Iraq-three moments when A... Buy or find out more →
Babylon: Mesopotamia And The Birth Of Civilization
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Atlantic Books
In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the rise and fall of dynasti... Buy or find out more →
Antony And Cleopatra
$39.99 – Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
You might think you know the original story, but the truth has been obscured by myths, poetic license, and Elizabeth Taylor’s shimmering costumes. It turns out that Cleopatra wasn’t Egyptian but Greek, and well-versed in... Buy or find out more →
Macquarie
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
From colony to country
'He was a Christian, a perfect gentleman, and a supreme legislator of the human heart. … Whenever the sculptor shall imagine a guardian angel for New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, the chisel o... Buy or find out more →
The West And The Map Of The World
$70.00$69.99 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Inspired by antique mapmakers and their global vision, The West and the Map of the World presents the past as a single narrative in which European history is an offshoot of Asian history.
Matthew Richardson explains that... Buy or find out more →
The Ninth: Beethoven And The World In 1824
$32.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
An absorbing look at Beethoven's towering Ninth Symphony, and its vibrant historical context.
A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 becam... Buy or find out more →
The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century
$50.00$0.00 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
Before the Nazis took power, Germany had been building itself up as a Western intellectual and cultural centre since the mid-1700s. In 1933, German philosophers, scientists, engineers, artists and writers had won more No... Buy or find out more →
Death Or Liberty: Rebels And Radicals Transported To Australia 1788-1868
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Pier 9
This is the first narrative history that brings together the stories of the political prisoners sent as convicts to Australia from all over Britain and parts of her Empire, spanning the early days of the penal settlement... Buy or find out more →
The Poor Relation: A History Of Social Sciences In Australia
$49.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
What are the social sciences? What do they do? How are they practised in Australia?
The Poor Relation examines the place of the social sciences—from economics and psychology to history, law and philosophy—in the teaching... Buy or find out more →
The Birth Of Classical Europe: A History From Troy To Augustine
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
Even after thousands of years, Western society continues to retain much of classical culture. Not only are we still obsessed by ancient gods and heroes, but our languages, calendar and political systems – just to name a ... Buy or find out more →