Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"Revelatory and instructive . . . [a] beautifully written and accessible book" --The Times (London). For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authorit ...Show more
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age ... The War and Peace of history: a book yo ...Show more
Bayeux Tapestry by Sylvette LEMAGNEN
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most important works of art in the world. Even without visiting the tapestry itself in the museum dedicated to it, we are all familiar with at least one illustration drawn from one of the 58 scenes that compose it. Visitors to the tapestry are often surprised by its len ...Show more
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition by Eugene Rogan
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Named Best Book of the Year by theFinancial Times, theEconomistand theAtlantic In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context. In this updated an ...Show more
Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens by Alison Weir
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: England's Medieval Queens Ser.
Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian Alison Weir, bringing five of England's medieval queens to life.A Daily TelegraphBook of the YearLove, murder, war, betrayalThis is the story of the five extraordinary queens who helped the No ...Show more
The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time.You think of a forgotten friend. Out of the blue, they call.But what if you knew that something terrible was going to happen? A sudden flash, the words CHARING CROSS. Four days later, a packed express train comes off the rails outside the stat ...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
Civil War - The History of England Volume 3 by Peter Ackroyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The History of England
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The St ...Show more
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe--a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great In just a few hundred years, a modest peninsula off the northwest corner of Asia has seen the rise and fa ...Show more
The Private Life of the Diary: From Pepys to Tweets - A History of the Diary as an Art Form by Sally Bayley
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In a beautiful literary exploration, Sally Bayley tracks the evolution – and the potential twenty first century death of – the diary, mourning what it means to lose the art of writing simply for oneself. Diaries hold all manner of things: they allow us a moment to be completely personal, to self-aggrand ...Show more
Ravenna : Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and barbarian culture. Winner of the 2020 Duff Cooper Prize In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young ...Show more
The Arab Conquests: The spread of Islam and the first caliphates by Justin Marozzi
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In the 7th and 8th centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. These Arab conquests followed immediately after the Prophet Mohammed's death in 632. By this time, against all the odds, he h ...Show more