Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The third in the epic trilogy narrating the history of the Roman Empire from renowned historian Tom Holland. Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with Rubicon, and continued with Dynasty, now arrives at the period which marks the apogee ...Show more
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorhouse
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the untold story of The Lados Group, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists based in Switzerland during the Second World War who conceived an extraordinary operation to produce false identity documents and passports, often to Latin American countries. These were smuggled into occupied ...Show more
Land Between the Rivers: A 5000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
"Elegant, erudite, ambitious, inventive - a remarkable blend of research, imagination and first-hand experience "-Rory StewartLand Between the Rivers is the result of ten years of research, writing, and thinking about the subject. It is an enormous topic: five thousand years, beginning with Gilgamesh at ...Show more
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity by Jill Burke
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**A New York Times Editor's Pick*'Terrific' SARAH DUNANT'Lively and intriguing ... You'll never look at Renaissance portraits in the same way' MAGGIE O'FARRELL'Highlights a rich tapestry of female experience that encompasses everyone from a ...Show more
The Eagle and the Lion: Rome, Persia and an Unwinnable Conflict by Adrian Goldsworthy
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The epic story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of the ancient world - Parthian and Persian - and how they rose and eventually fell.The Roman empire shaped the culture of the western world against which all other great powers are compared. Stretching from the north of Britain ...Show more
The Celts by Alice Roberts
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil Oliver The Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe: their origins, their treasure and their enduring lega ...Show more
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion
$36.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
Judy Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, discovered an extraordinary story of women who fought the Nazis. The "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with Nazis, bought them ...Show more
The Missing Thread by Daisy Dunn
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, a magisterial new history of the ancient world told, for the very first time, through women. For centuries, men have been writing histories of antiquity filled with warlords, emperors and kings. But ...Show more
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World WarWhile staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the ...Show more
Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World by Richard Cockett
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, ...Show more
What the Greeks Did for Us by Tony Spawforth
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like "pandemic," a Freudian state of mind like the "Oedipus complex," or a replica of the Parthenon in a Chin ...Show more
Forgotten War: new edition by Henry Reynolds
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
‘We are at war with them,’ wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. ‘What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.’Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on A ...Show more