The Little Ice Age - How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian Fagan
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Little Ice Age tells the fascinating story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history. Using sources ranging from the dates of long-ago wine harvests and the business records of medieval monasteries to modern chemical analysis of ice cores, renowned archaeo ...Show more
The Nine Hundred - The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam
34.99 AUD
Category: History
On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few ...Show more
Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia's Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
49.99 AUD
Category: History
This book focuses on the visual and material culture of St Petersburg and Moscow at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The twilight of Imperial Russia witnessed a sudden renaissance that left a profound imprint on the visual, literary and performing arts: here was a Silver Age as luminous perhaps ...Show more
A History of New York in 25 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis by Sam Roberts
39.99 AUD
Category: History
From the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New York is poised to celebrate its four hundredth anniversary, New York Times correspondent Sam Roberts tells the story of the city through bricks, glass, wood, and morta ...Show more
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
22.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now--as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East. "All roads used to lead to Rome. Today they lead to Beijing." So argues P ...Show more
Dreamers by Volker Weidermann
19.99 AUD
Category: History
At the end of the First World War in Germany, the journalist and theatre critic Kurt Eisner organised a revolution which overthrew the monarchy, and declared a Free State of Bavaria. In February 1919, he was assassinated, and the revolution failed. But while the dream lived, it was the writers, the poet ...Show more
Hungary - A Short History by Norman Stone
22.99 AUD
Category: History
The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of land-owning nobles to the Magyar nationalists of the ninet ...Show more
Fire and Fury - The Allied Bombing of Germany and Japan by Randall Hansen
29.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
During World War II, Allied bombing obliterated every major German and Japanese city, killing approximately 400,000 Germans and 330,00 Japanese, the vast majority civilians. Fully 83,000 British, Commonwealth, and American airmen lost their lives, as well. A large number of these raids occurred when All ...Show more
The Little Book of Big Explorations - Adventures into the Unknown That Changed Everything by Jheni Osman
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Inspiring accounts of remarkable adventures and scientific discoveries that have revolutionized our understanding of our world and tested the limits of human endurance. This is a collection of trailblazing journeys into the unknown that have had a profound effect on our understanding of the world, trans ...Show more
Pencils You Should Know - A History of the Ultimate Writing Utensil in 75 Anecdotes by Caroline Weaver
32.99 AUD
Category: History
Pencils You Should Know traces the evolution of pencils over time and across the globe. From the humble, handcrafted pencil of the 19th century to the novelty writing implement of the 1990s, each object in this book tells a different story. This book features a selection of 75 modern and vintage pencil ...Show more
Poison - The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners by Ben Hubbard
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Chronologically recounting the story of history's silent assassin, Poison documents the gripping tales of the users and victims of these mysterious substances, from Cleopatra, the Borgias and Qin Shi Huang to contemporary secret service agents and terrorists. Profiles of the most commonly used toxins of ...Show more
First Templar Nation by Freddy Silva
36.99 AUD
Category: History
Overturns the long-established historical narrative about the origins and purpose of the Knights Templar - Explains how and why the Templars created Europe's first nation-state, Portugal, with one of their own as king - Reveals the Portuguese roots of key founding members, their relationship with the Or ...Show more