History

These traveller's tales have one thing in common: they are all true. Antarctica is the driest continent, the windiest, the highest continent on earth. And the least known. This anthology...

She learns about hunting and endurance, Inuit languages, legends and ghosts. Conjuring up Greenland's cruel, beautiful landscape, she shows that it is a land endowed with magical and mysterious properties....

The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary new history of the diffusion...

In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World , Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth...

Spanning two and a half thousand years of warfare, from Salamis, where the Greeks put an end to Persian attempts to overwhelm their country, through the Battle of Hastings and...

No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller Bestselling author Tom Bower reveals the making of a monarch - King Charles III King Charles faces many challenges as he succeeds his mother to...

The 20th century is the century of communism and fascism, of debt and prosperity, of the United Nations and nationalistic fervour, of mass demonstrations and individual defiance; and also of...

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Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in American history embodied contradiction as magnificently as Daniel Edgar Sickles — congressman, adulterer, killer, and one-legged Civil...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedAt the crossroads of national identity and democratic ambition, Tom Keneally's Our Republic presents a passionate and penetrating argument for Australia's transformation...

Few books before have explored the exploits, achievements and notorious antics of ancient Rome's imperial dynasties in such readable detail. This engaging chronicle describes the lives of every man (and...

Amid the Napoleonic Waars, France and Britain launched rival voyages of discovery to the Antipodes. Led by outstanding naval captains Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, these expeditions were seen as...

The contents include: The Age of the Patriarchs, Egypt, Moses and the Exodus; The Judges and the conquest of Canaan and the Philistines; The Kingdoms of Saul, David and Solomon;...

Orion's Door explores the enormous influence one star system has had over humanity. For aeons, Orion and his key stars were worshipped all over the ancient world. Through alignments with...

Smuggling conjures up images of romance and rebellion. Moving beyond this popular conception, Smuggling: Seven Centuries of Contraban d presents the bigger picture of this clandestine trade. It focuses on...

The truth about what happened on Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845-48 has been shrouded in mystery for 165 years. Carrying the best equipment that the science and...

The Nazis, masters of manipulation and deceit, sought global domination, orchestrating a devastating global conflict under the leadership of an Austrian corporal with a twisted psyche. This book delves into...

History is written by the victors to control the billions of people on Planet Earth. Guns, weapons, and armies are not enough. The victors intend to control your MIND ....

Distributive justice in its modern sense calls on the state to guarantee that everyone is supplied with a certain level of material means. Samuel Fleischacker argues that guaranteeing aid to...

The Idea of History is the best-known work of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood. Published posthumously in 1946, it examines how the idea of history...

This text offers a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the history of Ireland. Written by a team of more than 80 distinguished historians, its 1800 entries explore every aspect...

The story of the ancient world's most spectacular library, and the civilization that created it When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced...

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...

In his introduction, John Keegan discusses Churchill's historical methods and the extraordinary achievement of The Second World War. This volume also includes appendices, an index, maps and diagrams. Winston Churchill's...

Every map tells a story and this book tells the incredible history of our world through maps. From Babylonian tablets to digital mapping, the world has evolved rapidly, along with...

'Delightful ... Venner builds an excellent narrative of a city that was thriving and bustling with life at the very point it was snuffed out.' The Times We all know...

'A powerful and timely book' PETER KENNARD 'Really good read' DERMOT O'LEARY 'Tremendous...it strikes me it fills a gap somehow' AL MURRAY 'Fantastic' DOMINIC SANDBROOK Delve into the history, politics,...

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...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

'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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when two of history's most brutal systems of human bondage are placed side by side under the same scholarly lens? Peter Kolchin's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most intimate firsthand accounts of a revolutionary in flight, With Trotsky in Exile: From Prinkipo to Coyoacán chronicles seven tumultuous years...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the intersection of Cold War politics and Soviet ideological history stands one of the most comprehensive documentary records ever assembled of the Communist Party of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFor anyone determined to uncover the roots of their Australian ancestry, Tracing Your Family History in Australia: A Guide to Sources is an indispensable and authoritative...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Previous owner annotations / underlining. At the dawn of the Soviet era, the Bolshevik revolution sent shockwaves far beyond...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhen Cyclone Tracy tore through Darwin on Christmas Eve 1974, it left behind a city in ruins and a nation in shock — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSpanning thousands of years of migration, conquest, and cultural assimilation, The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People presents a sweeping historical account of how...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of materialism, humanism, and revolutionary thought stands Ludwig Feuerbach — the philosopher whose radical ideas shook the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent spring of 1958, France stood on the precipice of collapse — its government paralysed, its empire fracturing, and its army in...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the neon-lit streets of Tokyo to the ghost of feudal tradition, Heaven, Hell and Hara-Kiri: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Superstate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the rugged highlands of Victoria, where gold once lured thousands of hopeful prospectors into the wilderness, lies a story of ambition, community, and...