Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year by James Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history.Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted in world history, landing more men in a single day than at any other time. That day, over 160,000 British, American an ...Show more
Joyce in Court by Adrian Hardiman
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
Description: Books about the work of James Joyce are an academic industry. Most of them are unreadable and esoteric. Adrian Hardiman's book is both highly readable and strikingly original. He spent years researching Joyce's obsession with the legal system, and the myriad references to notorious trials i ...Show more
Cathedrals of Steam: How London's Great Stations Were Built - and How They Transformed the City by Christian Wolmar
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
'A wonderful tour, full of vivid incident and surprising detail.' Simon BradleyLondon hosts twelve major railway stations, more than any other city in the world. They range from the grand and palatial, such as King's Cross and Paddington, to the modest and lesser known, such as Fenchurch Street and Cann ...Show more
Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World by Thomas Harding
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'I absolutely love this book.' TRACY ANN OBERMAN 'Endlessly fascinating and hard to put down. I read it all in one sitting, enjoying the colour and grandeur ... Full of character and characters, this is a tour de force.' JULIA NEUBERGER 'An impressively researched account of one of Britain's most well-k ...Show more
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'A majestic must-read' - Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England. There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not counting the tube. Everything had to come from somewhere and someone had to bring it all together. The humblest ho ...Show more
A Short History of Humanity: How Migration Made Us Who We Are by Johannes Krause; Thomas Trappe
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving...In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, Chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a new way of understanding our past, present and future.Marshalling unique in ...Show more
X, Y and Z - The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken by Dermot Turing
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
December, 1932: In the bathroom of a Belgian hotel, a French spymaster photographs secret documents - operating instructions of the cipher machine, Enigma. A few weeks later a mathematician in Warsaw begins to decipher the coded communications of the Third Reich and lay the foundations for the code-brea ...Show more
The Amazons by John Man
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of ruthless, hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legend has it they would cut off their breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their boy childr ...Show more
Darkest Hour - How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink by Anthony McCarten
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the world's greatest leaders - and provides a revisionist, more rounded portrait of his leadership. May, 1940. Britain is at war, E ...Show more
The Fortress - The Great Siege of Przemysl (HB) by Alexander Watson
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
In the autumn of 1914 Europe was at war. The battling powers had already suffered casualties on a scale previously unimaginable. On both the Western and Eastern fronts elaborate war plans lay in ruins and had been discarded in favour of desperate improvisation. In the West this resulted in the remorsele ...Show more
The Great Influenza (PB) by John M. Barry
$31.99 AUD
Category: History
The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History At the height of WWI, history?s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed i ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In 1850, China was the "sick man of Asia." Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war, and famine. This makes its current position as arguably the m ...Show more