In Hitler's Munich - Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism by Michael Brenner; Jeremiah Riemer (Translator)
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for power In the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918-19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radicalism. M ...Show more
The Law Book by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Big Ideas Ser.
Discover the big ideas behind more than 90 of history's most important legal rulings and milestone laws - from the earliest civilizations to the 21st century. From the philosophical, religious, and moral codes of the world's earliest societies, such as the Law Code of Hammurabi and the Ten Commandments ...Show more
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians by Janice Hadlow
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was determined to break with the extraordinarily dysfunctional hom ...Show more
British India, White Australia - Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and the Empire, 1901-1947 by Kama Maclean
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Shadows on the Track Australia's Medical War in Papua 1942-43 by Jan McLeod
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
At Templeton's Crossing in October 1942, Private Nick Kennedy paused to write in his diary: 'One wonders why all this strife should be ... these men in the prime of their life cut down like flowers'. As a young nursing orderly serving with the 2/4th Australian Field Ambulance, Kennedy was unenviably wel ...Show more
Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why It Matters by David Mountain
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Museums are full of pure white Classical sculptures. Over the years, we've ignored evidence that they were originally painted bright colors, 'restoring' sculptures to a gleaming white and becoming heated about the very idea of a lick of paint. Why? Because the stories we tell about our past affect how w ...Show more
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's First Mass-Murder Programme by Charlie English
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary, little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of works by schizophrenic patients that would astonish and delight the world. The Prinzhorn collection, as it was called ...Show more
Shylock's Venice - The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto by Harry Freedman
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The thrilling story of the Jews in Venice - and the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters. Millions of visitors flood to Venice every year. Yet many are unaware of its history - one of dramatic expansion but also of rapid decline. And essential to any history of Venice during its glor ...Show more
The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military HistoryIn a sweeping narrative, Peter Cozzens tells the gripping story of the wars that destroyed native ways of life as the American nation continued its expansion onto tribal lands after the Civil War, setting off a conflict that would last nearly three ...Show more
Cleopatra: The Queen who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity by Alberto Angela
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
One of Italy's most revered cultural figures reconstructs the extraordinary life of the legendary Cleopatra at the height of her power in this epic story of passion, intrigue, betrayal, and war. Our world today would not be the same without Cleopatra. While she is one of the most famous figures in hist ...Show more
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (The Sunday Times Bestseller) by Helen Lewis
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
** A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**** A Sunday Times bestseller**'All the history you need to understand why you're so furious, angry and still hopeful about being a woman now' Caitlin MoranWell-behaved women don't make history- difficult women do.Feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory ...Show more
Into the Forest - A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca Frankel
$54.99 AUD
Category: History
From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is one family's inspiring true story of love, escape, and survival. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. T ...Show more