The Vietnam War - An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward; Ken Burns
35.00 AUD
Category: History
**The New York Times Bestseller****The book of the landmark documentary, The Vietnam War, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick**The definitive work on the Vietnam War, the conflict that came to define a generation, told from all sides by those who were there.More than forty years after the Vietnam War ended, it ...Show more
Fallout: How the World Stumbled into the Nuclear Shadow by Peter Watson
32.99 AUD
Category: History
Between December 1943 and August 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ignited the Cold War, a superpower rivalry that would dominate the world over half a century, by building an atomic bomb and excluding their Russian allies. Peter Watson tells the pulse-pounding story of how two atomi ...Show more
The Golden Atlas: The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching
45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'A fabulous book, good enough to eat with a spoon! Marvellous.' John Lloyd, creator of QI The Golden Atlas is a spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, a treasure chest of adventures from the chronicles of global discovery, illustrated with a selection of the most beautiful maps ever ...Show more
Angels in the Trenches by Leo Ruickbie
35.00 AUD
Category: History
After a miraculous escape from the German military juggernaut in the small Belgian town of Mons in 1914, the first major battle that the British Expeditionary Force would face in the First World War, the British really believed that they were on the side of the angels. Indeed, after 1916, the number of ...Show more
Rebel Women by Rosalind Miles
32.99 AUD
Category: History
More than twenty-five years ago The Women's History of the World, by the brilliant historian, journalist and academic, Rosalind Miles, burst upon the world. It was instantly lauded and applauded by everyone from A.S. Byatt ('Witty, balanced, inexorable . . . and splendid') to the Washington Post ('an in ...Show more
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad and the Globalizing World by Maya Jasanoff
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Martin's Pick "Enlightening, compassionate, superb" --John Le Carre A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism ...Show more
Rome Eternal City by Ferdinand Addis
59.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on the world's imagination? Ferdinand Addis brings the myth of Rome alive by concentrating on vivid episodes from its long and unimaginably rich history. Each of his beautifully composed chapters is an evocative, self-contained narrative, whether it is the murde ...Show more
A Nation of Immigrants by John F. Kennedy
29.99 AUD
Category: History
"In this book, President Kennedy tells us what immigrants have done for America, and what America has done for its immigrants. It is one of the dramatic success stories of world history.... It can stand as a testament to a cause President Kennedy cherished, and which we should carry on."-- Robert F. Ken ...Show more
Start Again by Philip Collins
22.99 AUD
Category: History
By The Times columnist and acclaimed author of When They Go Low, We Go High. Start Again is a life-raft for all those who find themselves politically adrift and a rallying cry for a better kind of politics. Britain is divided today class against class, region against region, nativist against cosmopolita ...Show more
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick by David Frye
39.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork of people from Persia, Rome, China, Central America, and beyond. They have accompanied the rise of cities, nations, and empires. And yet ...Show more
A Guide to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission by Catherine Lawson
39.99 AUD
Category: History
A Guide to The Commonwealth War Graves Commission looks at an extraordinary organisation carrying out an extraordinary task. Establishing the CWGC required people of huge vision to turn this terrible task into an international exemplar of how to honour the dead. The great founders, including Rudyard Kip ...Show more
The Lost History of Liberalism - From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century by Helena Rosenblatt
69.99 AUD
Category: History
The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to today.The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry-and a term of derision-in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking readers from ancient Rome to tod ...Show more