September 2008 History
Kasztner's Train: the True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
The true, heart-wrenching story of Rezso Kasztner, a Hungarian lawyer and journalist, who rescued thousands of Jews during the last days of the Second World War - and the ultimate price he paid. Summer 1944 - Rezso Kaszt... More »
Scheisshaus Luck
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Mcgraw Hill )
In 1943, eighteen year old Pierre Berg picked the wrong time to visit a friend’s house—at the same time as the Gestapo. He was thrown into the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. But through a mixture of savvy and cha... More »
The Age Of Wonder
$59.99 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of Science...Richard Holmes, prize winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th ce... More »
Denial: History Betrayed
$34.95 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )
Denial is the first book to draw together the ideological and psychological elements involved in historical denial.
Tony Taylor surveys major cases in twentieth and twentyfirstcentury historical denial that illustrate th... More »
Normandy: the Landings to the Liberation Of Paris
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr )
Translated by M. B. DeBevoise More »
The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944, have assumed legendary status in the annals of World War II. But in overly romanticizing D-day, Olivier Wieviorka argues, we ...
The Discovery Of France
$26.99 (Paperback book / Picador )
We may think we know its history, its culture and its people from long-ago lessons at school.
However, the notion of "the French" as one nation is relatively recent and actually rather misleading; in order to discover th... More »
Children of the Revolution: The French 1799-1914
$62.95 (Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr )
For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon’s final defeat, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent king, emperor, or president could heal. Child... More »
Beneath the Dardanelles: The Australian Submarine At Gallipoli
$24.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
In the Australian psyche, the Gallipoli campaign is the action
on Gallipoli Peninsula. But an important addition to that land
campaign was the part played by the Australian submarine HMAS
AE2.
The AE2 achieved a daring ... More »
Other Anzacs: Nurses At War, 1914 -1918
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
'I had my right arm under a leg, which I thought was [the patient's], but when I lifted I found to my horror that it was a loose leg with a boot and a puttee on it. It was one of the orderly's legs which had been blown o... More »