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Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
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John Darwin's After Tamerlane , a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of massive erudition and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire , he...
To Hell and Back
Originally published in 1949, TO HELL AND BACK was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became a major motion picture starring Audie Murphy as himself. More than fifty...
The Vertigo Years: Change And Culture In The West, 1900-1914
Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in the trenches of the Somme, of Ypres and...
Poisoned Peace
Unlike the Napoleonic Wars, and the First World War, there was no peace settlement in 1945. The shape of Europe was determined entirely by military force, dividing it into two...
Thirteen Days: The Road to the First World War
Enormously gripping popular history of the 13-day crisis that led to world war. At the end of WWI, Germany was demonised. The Treaty of Versailles contained a 'war guilt' clause...
Turning the Tide: Decisive Battles of the Second World War
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Arcturus Military Classics discuss the strategies, tactics and weapons of the two World Wars, and vividly bring to life how these were employed on the battlefields of Europe, North Africa...
The Seventies Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic Look at a Violent Decade
'We all disappeared', wrote the Sixties flower child Andrea Adam of her friends who once marched for peace and love. 'Suddenly...everybody had gone their own way. Suddenly everyone was knee-deep...
A Dictionary of World History
This wide-ranging dictionary contains a wealth of information on all aspects of history, from prehistory right up to the present day. Over 4,000 clear, concise entries include biographies of key...
The Shortest History of Austria
'Incisive but comprehensive, entertaining and well-illustrated, this is the perfect introduction to what was once a huge empire and is now a small but (undeservedly) very lucky country' - TIM...
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the...
The History Lessons
Taking the reader on a tour through history, from the Romans to the Second World War via Tudor courts, medieval castles and more, this hugely entertaining debut from an award-winning...
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South
The Far Land swells in the cause and effect of actions of passion. Brandon Presser's fascinating narrative of the relentless consequences of the Bounty mutineers asks: were they brave or...
The Devil's Advocates: Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law
The Final Volume in a Must-Have Trilogy of the Best Closing Arguments in American Legal History In The Devil's Advocates , Michael S. Lief and H. Mitchell Caldwell turn to...
Inquisition: The Reign of Fear
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"A journey across centuries of religious conflict "Toby Green's incredible new book brings a vast panorama to life by focusing on the untold stories of individuals from all walks of...
A Rock and a Hard Place
Gerald Butt, BBC Radio's Middle East Correspondent, explains the workings of the Arab world through the unfolding of events in the 20th century, showing how political, economic and social developments...
The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: How Sailors lived, fought and died in
2024 winner of the Australian Naval Institutes Commodore Sam Bateman Book Prize HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one...
The Year of the Tiger: The Major Run That Made Tiger Woods
The inside story of legendary golfer Tiger Woods' magnificent run, when he won all four major tournaments in a single calendar year, becoming the greatest player of his generation-a show...
The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Times bestseller A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024 A Spectator Book of the Year What kind of...
The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps: The Bloody Battles and Intrigues of the Shinsengumi
Author: Romulus Hillsborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Power to them meant everything. It was founded on courage, which begot honour. And by this courage and for this honour...
Busted! The 50 Most Overrated Things In History Exposed
A hilarious, myth-busting romp through history A hilarious, myth-busting romp through history Gallipoli- birth of a nation? BUSTED! The brontosaurus- greatest dino? BUSTED! Titanic- biggest movie ever? BUSTED! Pirates- lawless...
For Profit: A History of Corporations
A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley From legacy manufacturers to emerging tech giants, corporations wield significant power over our lives, our...
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest
'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of wartime ATS service shows' ANNE DE COURCY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH...
Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work
Shard engineer Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex inventions into seven fundamental objects: the nail, spring, wheel, lens, magnet, string and pump. _____________ 'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES 'Appeals to...
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
'Superbly explained' Washington Post 'Fascinating' Sunday Times 'Engrossing' Evening Standard Every phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the global...
Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History
'Beautiful. Entertaining. Inspiring.' Nature 'Startling . . . riveting . . . hauntingly timely.' Washington Review of Books 'A meditation on transformation . . . Warm [and] empathetic . ....
Churchill's D-Day: The Inside Story
'Do you realise that by the time you wake up in the morning twenty thousand men may have been killed? '- Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 5 June 1944 2024...
Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic History
The revolutionary life of an 18th-century dwarf activist who was among the first to fight against slavery and animal cruelty. Prophet Against Slavery is an action-packed chronicle of the remarkable...
Caesar
From the very beginning, Caesar's story makes dazzling reading. In his late teens he narrowly avoided execution for opposing the military dictator Sulla. He was decorated for valour in battle,...
Origins: An Atlas of Human Migration
From the first journey out of Africa, through the Vikings and the Pilgrim Fathers, to the return to the Promised Land, discover how people's movements through the ages have shaped...
Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British
This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the story of Britain's extraordinary scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything...
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our
The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last...
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities
To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of different movements, periods and styles is essential to truly...
The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991
THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book...
Captain James Cook
In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing...
Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
$25.00 AUD
Why do we sometimes let evil happen to others and sometimes rally to stop it? Whose lives matter to us? These are the key questions posed in this important and...
We Will Remember Them: Voices from the Aftermath of the Great War
For Britain and her empire, the human cost of the First World War was worse than any other conflict in history. Almost a million British people died in the war,...
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science--that it's not merely...
Battlefield: Decisive Conflicts in History
This fascinating book tells the stories of the most memorable and important conflicts in world history, beginning with the battle of Megiddo fought by the ancient Egyptians to the Second...
The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony
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From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island was the site of New Zealand's leprosy colony. The colony began by accident, as it were, after the discovery of a leprosy sufferer in...
Events that Changed the World: Over 100 Major Events that Have Changed
p>Events that Changed the World is a compilation of the most serious and memorable events that have occurred since the year 1900. Explorers take us to the top of Mount...
Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy, Second
Over the last couple of decades, an ideological battle has raged over the political legacy and cultural symbolism of the 'golden age' pirates who roamed the seas between the Caribbean...
Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World
$12.00 AUD
A history of Julian, the grandson of Constantine, and his failed attempt to reverse the Christian tide that swept the Roman Empire - Portrays the "Apostate" as a poet-philosopher, arguing...
The Secret History of MI6
$25.00 AUD
The authorized history of the world's oldest and most storied foreign intelligence service, drawing extensively on hitherto secret documents. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (also commonly known as MI6) was born...
The People's Bard: How China Made Shakespeare its Own: Penguin
The story of Shakespeare in China is one of cultural blending and reinvention. Peopled by devoted evangelists, theatre directors and dogged interpreters intent on bridging divisions of language and politics,...
The New Penguin History of the World
One of the most extraordinary history bestsellers on the Penguin list, John Roberts' book has now been completely updated to the end of the last century and revised throughout to...
1914-1918: The History of the First World War
In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. Even the...