The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny by Ian Davidson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was unrepresentative of the real work of the early revolution, which was taking place ten miles west of Paris, in Versailles. There, the nobles, clergy and commoners of ...Show more
After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak by Alice Nelson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson presents a powerful collection of fourteen narratives by Australian Holocaust survivors told in thei ...Show more
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-76 by Frank Dikötter
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the c ...Show more
Let My People Go : The Untold Story of Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959-89 by Sam Lipski
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
This story chronicles a largely unknown but important aspect of 20th century Australian political history during the Cold War, when the Communist leadership closed down many Jewish organisations and declared Zionism an ideological enemy. Soviet Jews often suffered hardships, not being allowed to enlist ...Show more
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H. R. McMaster
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
This text is an analysis of how and why the United States became involved in a disastrous all-out war in Southeast Asia. Fully researched and based on recently-released transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it fully recreates what happened. It also pinpoint ...Show more
Augustus - The Biography by Jochen Bleicken
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire.Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered that he was the dictator's sole political heir. With the opportunism and instinct for propaganda that were to chara ...Show more
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First by Frank Trentmann
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraor ...Show more
Monash by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The amazing life story of the general who shaped Australia; the first major biography of Monash in over a decade. John Monash's life is emblematic of Australia's much - heralded egalitarian spirit - here is the ultimate outsider: poor, Jewish in an era which still practised anti - Semitism, bookish at a ...Show more
Great South Land by Rob Mundle
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
How Dutch sailors discovered New Holland and left Australia to a British pirate. For many, the colonial story of Australia starts with Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast in 1770, but it was some 164 years before his historic voyage that European mariners began their romance with the immensity of ...Show more
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
Dr Jacob Bronowksi's "The Ascent of Man" traces the development of human society through our understanding of science. First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one of the first works of 'popular science', illuminating the historical and social conte ...Show more
The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History by Peter H. Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'Hugely impressive...Wilson is an assured guide through the millennium-long labyrinth of papal-imperial relations' Literary Review A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of ...Show more
Young Hitler - The making of the fuhrer by Paul Ham
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
WHEN ADOLF HITLER went to war in 1914, aged 25, he lived through what he would later call the 'most stupendous experience of my life'. Twice decorated for bravery, the future dictator thrilled to battle, relished violence and was willing to give everything for his beloved Fatherland.He heard of Germany' ...Show more