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An Unquiet Heart by Martin Sixsmith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
1917. Russia is dying amid war, revolution and terror. The birth pains of the new world are a foretaste of the cruellest century. At their heart is Sergei Yesenin, 22, a poet, lover, wounded veteran, beautiful and afraid. Damaged by childhood abandonment, Sergei fears the world, drinks, brawls and wo ...Show more
Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search by Martin Sixsmith; Judi Dench (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The book that inspired the Academy Award-nominated film, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan."The touching story of a mother's fifty-year search for her son." Sunday TimesWhen she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a fallen woman. S ...Show more
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst of Western triumphalism proclaimed a US-led unipolar ...Show more
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
$50.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Wellcome Collection
A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it. More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in o ...Show more
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
'Essential ... endlessly fascinating ... to read Sixsmith is to want to read more Sixsmith' ForbesMore than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in our politi ...Show more
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