Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter
22.99 AUD
Category: History
**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** 'An astonishing feat' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times 'An inspiring and moving sideways look at history' Eithne Farry, Sunday Express An eloquent blend of history and memoir, Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we all ...Show more
The Stonemason: An Insider's History of Britain's Buildings by Andrew Ziminski
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Andrew Ziminski is a stonemason living and working in what was ancient Wessex. He has three decades of hands-on experience with the tangible history of this country, including raising stones at Stonehenge, the restoration of roman ruins in the City of Bath and work to save some of our most important med ...Show more
The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in our Museums & Why we Need to Talk About it by Alice Procter
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Category: History
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonise' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? From the stolen Wakandan art in Black Panther, to Emmanuel Macron's recent commitment to art restitution, and Beyo ...Show more
Bury Me Standing : Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca; Ivan Fonseca
19.95 AUD
Category: History
"Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance of nomadism. But because they resist assimilation, having survived as a distinct people for over a thousand years, they have also been the victims of other people's nationalism a ...Show more
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj by Anita Anand
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Category: History
The "compelling and] vivid" (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate twenty-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions. When Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the Lie ...Show more
Ten Caesars - Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
29.99 AUD
Category: History
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)--a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the ...Show more
The Battle of HastingsThe Battle of Hastings by Jim Bradbury
27.99 AUD
Category: History
The Battle of Hastings is probably the best-known and perhaps the most significant battle in English history. Its effects were deeply felt at the time, causing a lasting shift in cultural identity and national pride. Jim Bradbury explores the full military background to the battle and investigates both ...Show more
Normans by Trevor Rowley
27.99 AUD
Category: History
The Normans were a relatively short-lived cultural and political phenomenon. They emerged early in the tenth century and had disappeared off the map by the mid-thirteenth century. Yet in that time they had conquered England, southern Italy and Sicily, and had established outposts in North Africa and in ...Show more
Henry III - The Great King England Never Knew It Had by Darren Baker
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Henry III (1207-72) was the longest-serving monarch of England until the modern era. His reign began with a minority in perpetual crisis and ended after the constitutional issues of the day had been settled on the battlefield. Nevertheless, most of his fifty-six years on the throne were peaceful and pro ...Show more
TWENTY DAYS IN THE REICH: THREE DOWNED RAF AIRCREW IN GERMANY DURING 1945 by SQUIRE FLYING OFFICER
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Category: Warfare
Holocaust - The Nazis' Wartime Jewish Atrocities by Stephen Wynn
55.99 AUD
Category: History
The Holocaust is without doubt one of the most abhorrent and despicable events not only of the Second World War, but of the twentieth century. What makes it even more staggering is that it was not perpetrated by just one individual, but by thousands of men and women who had become part of the Nazi ideol ...Show more
A-Z of the Knights Templar by Gordon Napier
32.99 AUD
Category: History
The Knights Templar were among the most famous of Christian military orders. Created after the First Crusade of 1096 and endorsed by the Catholic Church in 1129, the Order grew rapidly in membership and power. Templar knights were some of the best equipped, trained and disciplined fighting units of the ...Show more