Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815 by Philip Dwyer
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the first truly modern politicians, skilfully crafting his image as a hero who dragged France back from the abyss and laying the foundations of a legend that endures to this day. This second volume of Philip Dwyer's magisterial biography charts his career from the Brumaire ...Show more
Cities That Shaped the Ancient World by John Julius Norwich (ed.)
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Great cities marked the earliest development of civilization. From the worlds first true cities, in Mesopotamia, to the spectacular urban centres of the Maya in Central America, the places described here represent almost three millennia of human history, society and culture. Arranged geographically into ...Show more
Churchill's First War by Con Coughlin
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a fascinating account of the 1890 Afghan campaign, drawing fresh parallels with the current campaign, told through the experiences of one junior officer: Winston Churchill. In the 1890s the British were holed up in Afghanistan in much the same situation as they are now, fighting the great-great- ...Show more
Churchill, Hitler, and "the Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World by BUCHANAN Patrick J.
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen-Winston Churchill first among them-the horrors of two wo ...Show more
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