The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms (HB) by Richard Fidler
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. When Richard Fidler came across the account of Ibn Fadlan - a tenth-century Arab diplomat who travelled a ...Show more
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Sixteenth-century Europe - Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the C ...Show more
Rome by Andrew Leach
$26.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Crime and Society Ser.
Andrew Leach's Rome is the first book in Polity's exciting new 'Cities in World History' series, which aims to provide the general reader and traveller with historically informed companions to the world's greatest cities. Most city guides are good on practical details but very thin when it comes to reco ...Show more
Two Roads Home - Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family by Daniel Finkelstein
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
An epic and uplifting World War II family history of resistance that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering under Hitler and Stalin, and the near-miraculous survival stories of the author's mother and father. "Moving and important."--Robert Harris, au ...Show more
Citizens of London: the Americans who stood with Britain in its darkest,finest hour by Lynne Olson
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
This enthralling study is the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain. It brings out of history's shadows the three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking news reporter; Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionair ...Show more
The Hitler Years ~ Triumph 1933-1939 by Frank McDonough
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'One of the books of the year' DAN SNOW. 'This year's Christmas No.1' PETER FRANKOPAN. 'A masterclass in the history of Nazi Germany, with an internationally renowned expert as the teacher' GET HISTORY. On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the German Chancellor of a coalition government by Pre ...Show more
Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans by Christopher Clark
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
A collection of illuminating essays from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century- a remarkable rethinking of the origins of the First World War, which has had a huge impact on how we see both the p ...Show more
The: The Truth about Europe's Most Famous Prisoner Man in the Iron Mask by Josephine Wilkinson
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
The Man in the Iron Mask has all the hallmarks of a thrilling adventure story: a glamorous and all-powerful king, ambitious ministers, a cruel and despotic gaoler, dark and sinister dungeons - and a secret prisoner. It is easy for forget that this story, made famous by Alexandre Dumas, is that of a real ...Show more
Absolute Power : How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World by Paul Collins
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authorityIn 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. With cardinals scattered across ...Show more
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar. Based o ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The as ...Show more
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded.Hidden Hands tells the stories of the artisans, artists, scribes and readers, patrons and collectors who made and kept the beautiful, ...Show more