Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Category: History
VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some a ...Show more
Death Of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
'Brilliant. A timely reminder of the fragility of democracy and the dangers of extreme nationalism.' Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps 'Intelligent, well-informed... intriguing.' The Times 'In this post-truth, alternative-facts American moment, The Death of De ...Show more
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe were at ...Show more
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture (Film Ed) by Joshua Levine
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Category: History
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY AND MARK RYLANCE. In 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more than 300,000 trapped Allied troops were dramatically rescue ...Show more
On Fascism - 12 Lessons from American History by Matthew C. MacWilliams
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Category: History
An expert on American authoritarianism offers a searing rebuke of the exceptional narrative that dominates our understanding of US history. In 12 lessons, Matthew C. MacWilliams'On Fascismexposes the divisive rhetoric, strongman tactics, violent othering, and authoritarian attitudes that course through ...Show more
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
Stalin's life is one of the most extraordinary of the modern era and Stephen Kotkin's new biography is the first to do full justice, both to the man himself and to the world which he both dominated and ruined. This second volume is the story of the 'mature' dictator - a figure who had no precedent in ab ...Show more
Philip And Alexander by Adrian Goldsworthy
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedon from a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire. During his short life Alexander the Great carved out an empire stretching from the Balkans to Central India, re-drawing the map of the ancient worl ...Show more
The Empire Must Die : Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917 by Mikhail Zygar
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The Empire Must Die portrays the vivid drama of Russia's brief and exotic experiment with civil society before it was swept away by the despotism of the Communist Revolution. The window between two equally stifling autocracies - the imperial family and the communists - was open only briefly, in the last ...Show more
Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals by Ken Follett
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Category: History
Ken Follett will donate his proceeds from this book to the charity La Fondation du Patrimoine. 'The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. I was on the edge of tears. Something price ...Show more
Wordy: Sounding off about high art, low appetite and the power of memory by Simon Schama
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Category: History
'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall fo ...Show more
Women Mean Business - Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand by Catherine Bishop
$44.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealands nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we might expect, colonial women were not only wives and mothers or domestic servants. A surprising number ran their own businesses, supporting themselves and th ...Show more
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister - Three women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country', but there was far more to the Soong sisters than thes ...Show more