Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy'Engrossing... Moorehead has a spirited turn of phrase, a keen eye for the telling detail and pungent quote, and a gift for marshaling complex material' Jenny Uglo ...Show more
A Village in the Third Reich: How ordinary lives were transformed by the rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd, Angelika Patel
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps, a place where for hundreds of years people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even here, in the southernmost corner of Germany, National Socialism sought to control not only people’s lives but also their minds. Drawing ...Show more
The Infinite City - Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London by Niall Kishtainy
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
In a brilliant and original new history of London, Niall Kishtainy weaves together visions of utopia through the ages to offer a unique history of ideas and introduce London as the capital of utopian thought.The Infinite City combines narrative history, biography and philosophy to show how London has be ...Show more
The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
An extraordinarily dramatic reconstruction of the greatest border breach in Cold War history In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable- they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic. Word had spread of what was going to happen. On wisps of r ...Show more
Vienna - How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World by Richard Cockett
$51.95 AUD
Category: History
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surge ...Show more
Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century by Tobias Buck
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
It is 17 October 2019, the opening day of a trial in Hamburg's imposing criminal justice building that is historic in more ways than one. Bruno Dey is accused of being an accessory to a crime that took place more than seven decades ago: the murder of at least 5,230 inmates at Stutthof, a Nazi concentrat ...Show more
How the Tricolor Got Its Stripes and Other Stories About Flags by Dmytro Dubilet
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A lively, anecdotal illustrated history of flags 'A sparkling tour through the stories of the symbols we know so well' - Tim Marshall Starting with flags that we know, this captivating history explains the origins and hidden meanings of flags, taking a chatty but always entertaining path through this u ...Show more
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruder ...Show more
Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders by Peter Lehr
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to a surprising combination of Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise as well as the dramatic rise of m ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 19 ...Show more
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered questio ...Show more
The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022 by Jill Lepore
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.The past decade has marked a shift in America's trajectory. Jill Lepore, the acclaimed writer and New Yorker columnist, has been tracing its contested storylines in real time, beginning with the run-up to Donald Trump's electi ...Show more