Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village by Alexandra Stadlen
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Lyrical, immersive non-fiction chronicling the stories of nine Muslim women on the margins of modern India, from anthropologist and ethnographer Dr Lexi StadlenRevelatory, lyrical and immersive, this is an extraordinary book that takes you deep into these ordinary women's worlds... Their stories are urg ...Show more
Hitler's Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII by Lauren Young
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracy--using the past as a road map to navigate the complexities of today's turn toward authoritarianism. Hitler's ...Show more
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel to the Car to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Speckled with anecdotes, insights and surprises. It is great fun - and utterly timely' Sunday Times'Standage writes with a masterly clarity' New York Times'The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is rare that I encounter a non-fiction author whose prose is so elega ...Show more
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizes In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigate ...Show more
The Indian Empire at War - From Jihad to Victory, the Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Almost two million volunteers served the Indian army in the Great War, always under British regimental officers, high commanders and staff. 150,000 of them were long-serving pre-war professional soldiers; most of the remainder were wartime recruits, drawn from across South Asia. Half of the Indian soldi ...Show more
A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital by Simon Jenkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the ...Show more
Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company That Took on the World - Lyons by Thomas Harding
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'I was riveted- this is a fascinating social history.' NIGELLA LAWSON'Five stars... history on a scale at once intimate and grand.'TELEGRAPHA panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking company.This is the story of how a family t ...Show more
A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power by James Walvin
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
How Slavery in the Americas Matters explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the most recent sc ...Show more
The Species That Changed Itself: How Prosperity Reshaped Humanity by Edwin Gale
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Other species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours. Over generations, we have remade the world to suit ourselves - using improved knowledge and technology to confront the traditional scourges - and for the most part we enjoy prosperity beyond the dreams of our ancestors. What's more, in cha ...Show more
Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War by Danny Orbach
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
From Spain to Syria, the thrilling, untold history of Nazi fugitives turned postwar agents--for America, the Soviets, the Third World, or themselves. After the Second World War, the Allies vowed to hunt Nazi war criminals "to the ends of the earth." Yet many slipped away--or were shielded by the West, ...Show more
The Medici by Mary Hollingsworth
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence' TLS 'A lucid and beautifully illustrated family history' The Times ...Show more
Mission France - The True History of the Women of SOE by Kate Vigurs
$22.95 AUD
Category: History
The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization's F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while some are widel ...Show more