Dancers on the Sea by Gabrielle Samson
34.95 AUD
Category: History
THIS STORY TELLS OF A WOMANS LIFE AND WORK ON ATAURO ISLAND, LEARNING THE ISLAND'S HISTORY AND CULTURE, AND SHARES STORIES OF OTHERS WITH WHOM SHE LIVED IN A TIME OF GREAT CHANGE... During a period when East Timor was occupied by a harsh Indonesian military regime and a fierce resistance movement challe ...Show more
Twilight Cities - Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean by Katherine Pangonis
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures. Here, history has blurred with legend. The glittering surface of the sea conceals the remnants of lost civilisations, wrecked treasure ships and the bones of l ...Show more
Hands of Time - A Watchmaker's History of Time by Rebecca Struthers
24.99 AUD
Category: History
'5/5 A true joy. A work of staggering complexity and bewildering economy.' TELEGRAPH 'A rattling, wonderful read.' OBSERVER 'Every page glitters' SPECTATOR 'Mesmerising' NEW STATESMAN 'An exquisite book, beautifully put together... What a very wonderful book.' STEPHEN FRY 'Absolutely gorgeous. It blew m ...Show more
Spies - The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Calder Walton
26.99 AUD
Category: History
Foreign Policy Best Book of 2023 Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 The "riveting" (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China. Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have b ...Show more
The Last Honest Man - The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys by James Risen; Thomas Risen (As told to)
34.99 AUD
Category: History
In this "gripping ... spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government. For decades now, America's national security state has grown ev ...Show more
Travellers in the Golden Realm - How Mughal India Connected England to the World by Lubaaba Al-Azami
36.99 AUD
Category: History
'This is a remarkable book. It combines a spellbinding account of the first forgotten half of the English encounter with India with a fascinating history of the Mughal Empire' JOSEPHINE QUINN, author of How the World Made the West'A compelling, highly readable account of the earliest phase of English pr ...Show more
The New India - The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy by Rahul Bhatia
34.99 AUD
Category: History
The End of Everything - How Wars Descend into Annihilation (HB) by Victor Davis Hanson
55.00 AUD
Category: History
In this "gripping account of catastrophic defeat" (Barry Strauss), a New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time"In The End of Everything, Hanson tells compelling and harr ...Show more
The Forbidden Garden - A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in Besieged Leningrad by Simon Parkin
34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the future of humanity. In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad - now St Petersburg - and began the longest blockade ...Show more
London - Tanya Dalziell by Tanya Dalziell
30.00 AUD
Category: History
Joan London's remarkable body of work, including the award-winning novels and short fiction The Golden Age, Gilgamesh and Sister Ships, tells everyday stories of family, love and loss, with her signature poetic vision. London's stories portray how ordinary people get caught up in extraordinary circumst ...Show more
The Soul: A History of the Human Mind by Paul Ham
49.99 AUD
Category: History
The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to its unshakeable belief in the great religions and political systems. Everyone thinks they have one, but nobody knows what it is. For thousands of years the soul was an 'organ', an entity, something that was pa ...Show more
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3 - From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy by John Romer
42.99 AUD
Category: History
Archaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tells the epic story of an era dominated by titans of the popular imagination- the radical iconoclast Akhenaten, the boy-king Tutankhamun and the all-conquering Ramesses II. But 'heroes' do not forge hist ...Show more