Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 by Daniel Cowling
$55.00 AUD
Category: War
Germany, spring 1945. Hitler is dead and his armies crushed. Across the conquered Reich, cities lie devastated by Allied saturation bombing; their traumatised populations, exhausted and embittered by defeat, face a future of acute privation and hardship. Such was the broken state of the nation in which ...Show more
The Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys by Melinda Ham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A moving and meticulously researched book of refugee stories from award-winning journalist Melinda Ham. Following the narratives of new Australians from Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Tibet, Vietnam and Zaire, The Lucky Ones is a testament to human resilience and the power of new beginnings. For fans of Th ...Show more
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict by Andrew Pettegree
$55.00 AUD
Category: War
Propaganda, pulp fiction, spies and censorship: the fascinating and action-packed story of books in wartime 'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.' David Kyn ...Show more
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life. From Bletchley Park cod ...Show more
The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld by Jake Adelstein
$37.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start fr ...Show more
Invisible Lines by Maxim Samson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate. Most of us cross invisible lines all the time, but don't stop to consider them. In Invisible Lines, geographer Maxim Samson presents 30 such unseen boundaries, intriguing and un ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more
The Russian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
An illustrated account of one of the most pivotal events in modern history the Russian revolution of 1917.In the early years of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia was an ethnically diverse empire, stretching from Ukraine and Belarus in the west to the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk in the Far Eas ...Show more
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy by Stein Ringen
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the A ...Show more
Camp! - The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World by Paul Baker
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
By the bestselling author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!, this reappraisal of camp across time and in all its glorious forms shows how this inescapable part of popular culture has also played an important role in equality movements as a form of protest or resistance. The following things have seemed impos ...Show more
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
Best Books of 2022 - Financial Times ... 'A literary phenomenon.' - Times Literary Supplement ... 'Imaginative, lively and contemporary...masterly.' - Economist ... 'Vallejo enlivens history with imagination and personal anecdote' - Observer ... 'A mindboggling history of the earliest books... the stor ...Show more
Once Upon a Time World The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera by Jonathan Miles
$37.00 AUD
Category: European
Chronicling 200 years of glamour, hedonism and crime, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of famous characters. In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has bec ...Show more