Death's Men: Soldiers of The Great War by Denis Winter
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
Death's Men is the classic bestselling story of the First World War as told by the soldiers themselves - reissued for the 2014 Centenary. Millions of British men were involved in the Great War of 1914-1918. But, both during and after the war, the individual voices of the soldiers were lost in the collec ...Show more
Second Best by Ben Pobjie
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
History is always written by the winners and about the winners. But what about the men and women of the past who reached for gold but grasped only morale-sapping silver? Australia’s second-best comedy historian Ben Pobjie celebrates the fascinating stories of those pipped at the post of greatness – f ...Show more
The House of Islam by Ed Husain
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
'Not just timely but important too. Ed Husain does not just set out the fundamentals of Islam as a religion but explains how and why understanding it properly matter. This should be compulsory reading' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads A fascinating and revelatory exploration of the intricacies ...Show more
The Case of Colonialism by Bruce Gilley
$89.99 AUD
Category: History
"For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name." So began Professor Bruce Gilley's watershed academic article "The Case for Colonialism" of 2017. The article sparked a global furor. Critics and defenders of Gilley's argument battled it out in the court of public opinion. The Times o ...Show more
Fingerprints Of The Gods: The International Bestseller From the Creator of Netflix's 'Ancient Apocalypse'. by Graham Hancock
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Fingerprints of the Gods is the revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of readers throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society. An intellectual detective story, this unique history book directs probing questions at orthodox history, pr ...Show more
Battle of Berlin 1945 by TONY LE TISSIER
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
A critically-acclaimed impartial account of the twilight of the Third Reich. The Battle of Berlin was a conflict of unprecedented scale. The Soviets massed 1,600,000 troops for Operation Berlin, and but Marshal Zhukov's his initial attack floundered and was so costly that he had to revise his plans for ...Show more
Stasiland by Anna Funder
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson PrizeTruth can be stranger - and more heartbreaking and hilarious - than fiction.In this now classic work, Funder tells extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of ...Show more
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid I. Khalidi
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' Noam Chomsky The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denia ...Show more
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The modern Churchill cult is out of control, closing down historical debate and encouraging support for twenty-first-century wars. The man has become a household god for many, preserving an antiquated vision of Britain. In this coruscating portrait, Tariq Ali audits Churchill's crimes -both globally and ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 19 ...Show more
A History of Christianity - The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it h ...Show more
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100 Objects begins with one of the earliest surviving object ...Show more