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Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb by Peter Watson
22.99 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
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
GERMAN GENIUS by PETER WATSON
32.99 AUD
Category: History
From the end of the Baroque era and the death of Bach to the rise of Hitler, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among Western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force. By 1933, Germans had won more Nobel Prizes than the British and Americans combined. Yet this remarkable genius ...Show more
The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God by Peter Watson
59.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The closing months of 2008 saw the world's nations united in financial uncertainty. Amid endless reports of collapsing stock markets, failed banks, fiscal fraud and snowballing unemployment, THE AGE OF NOTHING offers a compelling insight into the demise of capitalism and the beginning of a new era. Pete ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
59.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and self-assurance, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But how did France become the country it is today, and what really sets it apart? Journalist and historian Peter Wa ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
39.99 AUD
Category: History
'Majestic, ambitious . . . [Peter Watson] deserves admiration for the grace and agility with which he interlinks the development of a vigorous cultural identity and the seismic shifts of French national history, continually lurching between triumph and disaster' Literary Review__________________________ ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
33.99 AUD
Category: History
‘Majestic, ambitious’ Literary Review ____________________________________ We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity and sophistication, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But how did France become the country it is today, and w ...Show more
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson
24.99 AUD
Category: History
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 influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland and the United States. In the early decad ...Show more
The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New by Peter Watson
34.99 AUD
Category: History
In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age. Because so much water was locked up at that time in the great ice sheets, several miles thick, the levels of the world's oceans were m ...Show more
The Welsh Coast by Peter Watson
32.99 AUD
Category: Travel
From castles in the sand to castles on a cliff-top, the Welsh coast is as beautiful and dramatic as it is diverse. Photographer Peter Watson captures the visual delights of this twisting and endlessly varied coastline, starting at the northern tip, the birdwatcher's paradise along the Dee Estuary, then ...Show more
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