Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick by David Frye
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork of people from Persia, Rome, China, Central America, and beyond. They have accompanied the rise of cities, nations, and empires. And yet ...Show more
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Matthew Kneale
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
"This magnificent love letter to Rome" (Stephen Greenblatt) tells the story of the Eternal City through pivotal moments that defined its history--from the early Roman Republic through the Renaissance and the Reformation to the German occupation in World War Two--"an erudite history that reads like a pag ...Show more
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty by Tracy Borman
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
'Borman approaches her topic with huge enthusiasm and a keen eye for entertaining...this is a very human story of a remarkable family, full of vignettes that sit long in the mind.' Dan Jones, The Sunday Times 'Tracy Borman's eye for detail is impressive; the book is packed with fascinating courtly minu ...Show more
Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him by Tracy Borman
$33.00 AUD
Category: British
Henry VIII is well known for his tumultuous relationships with women, and he is often defined by his many marriages. But what do we see if we take a different look? When we see Henry through the men in his life, a new perspective on this famous king emerges...Henry's relationships with the men who surro ...Show more
The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean by Peter Burness (Editor)
$80.00 AUD
Category: War
Australia's official First World War correspondent Charles Bean saw more of the Australian army's activities and battles on the Western Front than anyone. Bean's private wartime diaries, held by the Australian War Memorial, form a unique and personal record of his experiences and observations throughout ...Show more
Reformations - The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 by Carlos M. N. Eire
$34.95 AUD
Category: European
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that p ...Show more
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology by Adrienne Mayor
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life--and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god o ...Show more
The Kremlin Letters - Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt by David Reynolds; Vladimir Pechatnov
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three"Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume--the fruit of a unique British-Russian ...Show more
Tiberius with a Telephone: Life and Stories of William McMahon by Patrick Mullins
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political
Winner of the National Biography Award 2020. William McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics in the second half of the twentieth century. This biography tells the story of his life, his career, and his doomed attempts to recast views of his much-maligne ...Show more
Grant by Ron Chernow
$28.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: Ulysses S Grant
A dramaticportrait of one of America's most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant, by Pulitzer Prize winnerRon Chernow, author of the book on which the astonishing musical Hamiltonis based. As late as April 1861, when the American Civil Warbroke out, Ulysses S. Grant was a dismal failure ...Show more
The House of the Dead by Daniel Beer
$27.00 AUD
Category: European
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 THE TIMES, BBC HISTORY and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'Masterful, gripping ...filled with astonishing, vivid and heartbreaking stories of crime and punishment, of redemption, love and terrifying violence. It has an amazing cast of despots, murderers, whores ...Show more