Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History by Otto English
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide. Was Che Guevara really a revolutionary hero? Should Mother Teresa be honoured as a sai ...Show more
In Search of the Dark Ages by Michael Wood
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The bestselling classic In Search of the Dark Ages expanded and revised for the book's 40th anniversary. From Boudica to William the Conqueror, this is the definitive story of the Early Middle Ages and the hidden history of it's people.In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origi ...Show more
This Sovereign Isle - Britain In and Out of Europe by Robert Tombs
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A leading pro-Brexit intellectual examines the historical context of the referendum vote, engaging with the arguments and fears of both sides Geography comes before history. Islands cannot have the same history as continental plains. The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of ...Show more
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of an empire made and an empire undone - and what emerged from the ashes - by one of the world's leading authorities on Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia arrived in the world accidentally and departed unexpectedly. More than a hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the tumultuous history of t ...Show more
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now--as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East. "All roads used to lead to Rome. Today they lead to Beijing." So argues P ...Show more
The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath by Dan Stone
$22.95 AUD
Category: History
A moving, deeply researched account of survivors’ experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler’s concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came full ...Show more
The Great War For Civilisation: The Conquest Of The Middle East by Robert Fisk
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Secondhand. During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists i ...Show more