Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History by Marc Millon
34.99 AUD
Category: History
A lively, page-turning history of Italy and its wines, from the Roman Empire to climate change. The world is enamoured with Italy: its culture, art, food and fashion, its beautiful landscapes and famous cities — and, of course, its wine.From the ancient Greeks to the Medici, and from fascism to feminism ...Show more
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
32.95 AUD
Category: History
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year "A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight f ...Show more
Takeover by Timothy W. Ryback
34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin.In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans ...Show more
Secret Heroes of World War II: Spies, scientists and other heroes by Eric Chaline
44.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Look behind the curtain and meet the engineers, resistance fighters, spies, physicists and more who committed incredible acts of heroism amidst the chaos and danger of WWII. From the priest who hid thousands of POWs and Jews in the Vatican, to the Antipodean servicewoman who led a formidable Resistance ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
36.99 AUD
Category: History
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
34.99 AUD
Category: History
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area. Southeast Asia: An introductory historywas first published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in one of the most dynamic and diverse regi ...Show more
Paris - A Short History by Jeremy Black
34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A\Short History Ser.
Once described as "that metropolis of dress and debauchery" by the Scottish poet David Mallet, Paris has always had a reputation for a peculiar joie de vivre, from art to architecture, cookery to couture, captivating minds and imaginations across the Continent and beyond. In Paris: A Short History, hist ...Show more
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War by Peter Englund
36.99 AUD
Category: History
'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVOR'Extraordinary' JULIA BOYDAn intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War - perhaps the century - as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs.At the beginning of November 1942, it l ...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
A Dirty, Filthy Book: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman's Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century by Michael Meyer
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Category: History
An empowering and gripping story of a pioneer of women's rights written by a critically-acclaimed writer and historian, for fans of Hallie Rubenhold, Hermione Lee and prize-winning Victorian histories. London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes ...Show more
Rebel Island: The incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
49.99 AUD
Category: History
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle--and the renewed threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a 'ball of mud', Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller tha ...Show more
In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City by John Kampfner
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Category: History
No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obses ...Show more