Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Quarters at the Heart of Britain's War Victory by Richard Holmes
$23.99 AUD
Category: History
For the first time, the history of the bunker - and daily life inside it - is revealed, by bestselling historian Richard Holmes. 'This is the room from which I will direct the war', Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turne ...Show more
Church of Spies: the Pope's Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A radical reinterpretation of the wartime Pope. Born Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII is perhaps the most vilified and detested Pope in modern history. Pius XII and the Vatican are thought to have appeased Hitler and betrayed international Jewry by staying silent during the Holocaust. The accusation has f ...Show more
Christmas on the Home Front, 1939-1945 by Mike Brown; Carol Harris
$35.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Sutton Ser.
Drawing upon personal recollections, comtemporary Mass Observation reports, newspaper articles and advertisements, personal and archive photographs, Mike Brown and Carol Harris look at each wartime Christmas on the British Home Front, from 1939 to 1945.
Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30-325 by Geza Vermes
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Geza Vermes, translator and editor of "The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls" and worldwide expert on the life and times of Jesus, tells the enthralling story of early Christianity and the origins of a religion. The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the ...Show more
Chinese Mythology & Thirty-Six Stratagems by Ciyun Zhang
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Fictional or semi-fictional stories and practical concepts are like yin and yang, the two fundamental principles of ancient Chinese philosophy. In this book, we present just sunch yin and yang, namely, "Chinese Mythology" and the "Thirty-Six Strategems."The mythology here describes ancient beliefs in or ...Show more
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 by Mark Greengrass
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Mark Greengrass' gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous change Sunday Times and Financial Times Books of the Year 2014. This addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led ...Show more
Children's Literature: A reader's history from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer
$37.95 AUD
Category: History
Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Seth Lerer here charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from "Where the Wild Things Are" to "Harry Potter". The only sin ...Show more
Chaucer's People by Liza Picard
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
In CHAUCER'S PEOPLE, Liza Picard guides us through the tumultuous world of the late fourteenth century in an ingenious, informative and entertaining way. Through the assorted cast of pilgrims Chaucer selected for THE CANTERBURY TALES, Picard brings medieval social history to life and uncovers the detail ...Show more
Charts of War by John Blake
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
Lieutenant Commander John Blake has drawn on his extensive knowledge of some of the most impressive collections in the world, such as the Hydrographic Office, The Admiralty Library Manuscript Collection, The National Maritime Museum and The Royal Geographical Society in the UK, and the Library of Congre ...Show more
Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women by Hartley Jenny
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Charles I by Mark Kishlansky
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Monarchs
The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of religious and political disputes. In Mark Kishlansky's brilliant account it is never in doubt that Charles created his own catastroph ...Show more
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler by Laurence Rees
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
'My whole life can be summed up as this ceaseless effort of mine to persuade other people' - Adolf Hitler. More than any other single figure, it is arguably Adolf Hitler who has most changed the course of history. He used the extraordinary power he held over those around him and the German people to ins ...Show more