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Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022
A groundbreaking history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people...
The Times London in Photos: A history of the nation's capital through
Discover the story of London from behind the scenes. Imagine sitting across from a 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth on the District Line, or being overtaken by Muhammad Ali on his morning...
I, Vera: The Many Lives of Vera Gedroits, a Radical Princess
'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMES Vera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of...
Eating with Emperors: 150 Years of Dining with Emperors, Kings,
The world jeered when the Emperor of Iran served roast peacock to celebrate the anniversary of his Empire; the White House chef threw a tantrum and resigned when asked to...
An Imam in Paris: Al-Tahtawi's Visit to France (1826-31)
$100.00 AUD
This is an annotated translation of al-Tahtawi's "Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz", an Arabic account of a visit to Paris by a Muslim from the Near East. Its author, a...
Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance
'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle and sympathy...
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it - KATHERINE MAY, author of Wintering The orange we know, waxed in vats, gathered in red netting and stacked...
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959
The first part of a major new anthology which uncovers the rich reality of life for queer men in London In the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been...
Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning
Winner of the American Publishers Association's Award for an outstanding Professional and Scholarly title and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 1996 from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.In...
Understanding Vietnam
The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this...
Lest We Forget: War and Peace in 100 British Monuments
A moving account of how war is remembered - and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David...
The Australian Wars: The truth about the bloody battles fought to
It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all...
A Voyage Around the Queen
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the SPECTATOR , MAIL ON SUNDAY , NEW STATESMAN...
EXPORT TWENTIETH CENT RUSSIA
Expanded study of the events of 1917. Includes short biographies of key people. Case studies in each chapter focus on key issues.
The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v.2
The book titled The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v.2 by the author Nora Levin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v. 1
The book titled The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v. 1 by the author Nora Levin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Mrs Woolf and the Servants
Loathing, anger, shame - and deep affection: Virginia Woolf's relationship with her servants was central to her life. Like thousands of her fellow Britons she relied on live-in domestics for...
A Social History of Twentieth Century Russia
Vladimir Andrle's study of Russian history shifts the focus of historical understanding from political leaders and their ideologies to the interactions of the State with the various social strata and...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
$12.00 AUD
One of the New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages...
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of
"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in...
The History of the "Times": v. 5: Struggles in War and Peace, 1939-66
The book titled The History of the "Times": v. 5: Struggles in War and Peace, 1939-66 by the author Iverach McDonald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories
How do places make us, and how do we make them? At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his...
Hope Has Wings: Mission Aviation Fellowship Story
$8.00 AUD
This volume is an account of the missionary organization, the Mission Aviation Fellowship. Born out of the flying skills obtained during World War II, the MAF continues to take medicines,...
Blackbirding: A reckoning with the Australian slave trade
An important reckoning with Australia's unspoken history of slave trade. From the author of the bestselling books The Ballad of Abdul Wade and The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli As Australia...
The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of
In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places...
Selected Letters
It has been Gorky's great misfortune to be remembered mostly for the wrong things - for his apparent support of the Stalin regime; for his direct involvement in the foundation...
The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
The disintegration of Europe's post-Cold War consensus in the face of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to...
Vanishing Diaspora - the Jews in Europe since 1945 (Cobee) (Cloth)
$20.00 AUD
In 1939 there were ten million Jews in Europe. After Hitler there were four million. Today in 1996 there are under two million. On current projections the Jews will become...
Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies
D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one...
Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies
'Addictive and deeply moving' Independent 'Utterly gripping' Anthony Beevor, Daily Telegraph 'Enthralling ... A reminder that heroism can be found in the most unlikely places' Evening Standard 'I have seldom...
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing' , this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. After the...
Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean - shortlisted for
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 "A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian "Poetic...Compelling" -- New Statesman One of National Geographic 's...
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II
How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...
Power and the Palace: The explosive new royal book that reveals what
'Lively . . . peppered with entertaining lines. One of [Low's] skills as a journalist is an ability to sift through mountains of archive material and pick out the gems'...
Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan
This innovative study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) explores the intense struggle to define a common morality for the emerging nation-state. In the Social Darwinist atmosphere of the time,...
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History
A fascinating exploration of why Hitler's death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put...
Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass
From award-winning booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain and the Empire, told through the improbable but true stories of how the world's favourite alcoholic...
The Land Where Nothing Works: How Britain Lost the Plot
What has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe. Once-beautiful towns now feature peeling paint, weeds, and broken railings. Public...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS: The Beatles changed the world.
The most engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story you'll read. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent songs and iconic albums. Theirs...
To the Sea by Train: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Andrew Martin is a railway wizard' Telegraph 'Leaves you with renewed confidence that trains can still be the most civilised way to travel' Financial Times Throughout the twentieth century, the...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...
The Real Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes, born in York in 1570, is one of the key figures in British history, taking a central role in a plot that would have destroyed the ruling class...
The Other Fab Four: Our life in Britain's first female rock 'n' roll
'In Liverpool everybody wanted to be in a band. On every street corner and in every cellar there were young fellas practising with guitars. But it was rare to see...
The Liverbirds: Our life in Britain's first female rock 'n' roll band
In the early '60s, four friends from Liverpool formed a band. But this is not the 'fab four' story we know . . .Mary, Sylvia, Valerie and Pamela - also...
The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a
From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall. 1935 ....
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...
The Riviera Set
THE RIVIERA SET is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years...