The Golden Maze - A biography of Prague by Richard Fidler
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolution br ...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
The Australians at Geneva: Internationalist Diplomacy in the Interwar Years by James Cotton
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Can Australians find their feet within the world's diplomatic manoeuvring? After the dubious justice of the Treaty of Versailles and the turmoil of the interwar years, the League of Nations is mainly remembered as a body that failed to create mechanisms that might have forestalled the horrors of Nazism ...Show more
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922 by Ryan Gingeras
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
A new, groundbreaking history of the fall of the Ottoman empire, published to coincide with its centenary In the autumn of 1918, revolution spread across Europe. One by one, grand imperial houses collapsed, allowing new republics to take their place. The fall of the Ottoman Empire is usually understood ...Show more
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age by Reid Mitenbuler
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II. Deep in the Arctic wilderness, Peter Freuchen awoke to find himself buried al ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might among the great powers of the world. Kennedy begins with Europe's dramatic return to the forefront of world domination at the expense of China and the Muslim world and br ...Show more
The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire by Francesca Cartier Brickell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
"A dynamic group biography studded with design history and high-society dash . . . This elegantly wrought narrative bears the Cartier hallmark."-The EconomistThe captivating story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather's humble Parisian jewelry store ...Show more
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn. In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story ...Show more
The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, a ...Show more
Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania by Paul Kenyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A vivid, brilliant, darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen. Balanced precariously on the shifting fault line between East and West, Romania's schizophrenic, often violent past is one of the great untold stories of modern Europe. The country th ...Show more
Ordinary Men by Christopher R Browning
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most of them had never fired a shot at a human being before, yet they killed with little hesitation and eventually went on to slaughter tens of thousands in cold blood. How could this transforma ...Show more
King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling. He loved conversat ...Show more