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Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August & the Proud Tower by Margaret MacMillan
$75.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: Library of America
Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly laid bare the al ...Show more
Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Modern Library Chronicles
Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misuse ...Show more
History's People: Personalities and the Past by Margaret MacMillan
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
In this year's highly anticipated Massey Lectures, internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the memorable figures of the past, women and men, who have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. The actions of Hitler, Sta ...Show more
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World (aka Peacemakers) by Margaret MacMILLAN
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
Previously published as Peacemakers Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau. Kings, prime minist ...Show more
The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini, and promptly invaded Iraq. Were they wrong to look to history for guidance? No; their mistake was to exagg ...Show more
The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
This is the definitive history of the political, cultural, military and personal forces which shaped Europe's path to the Great War. The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked ...Show more
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY"The New York Times Book Review - The Economist - The Christian Science Monitor - Bloomberg Businessweek - The Globe and Mail" From the bestselling and award-winning author of "Paris 1919" comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Eu ...Show more
The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan
$25.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: WARTHE
WINNER of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards 2014Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked int ...Show more
War - How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
$23.00 AUD
$40.00 (42% off)
Category: War
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil. The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a militar ...Show more
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil. The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a militar ...Show more
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