The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
55.00 AUD
Category: History
The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled the intellectual artistic advances of the Renaissance. At sea, the invention of the logbook expanded horizons on the journeys of Magellan and fellow discoverers. Ar ...Show more
A History of the World in 10 Dinners - 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes by Victoria Flexner; Jay Reifel; Jessica B. Harris (Foreword by)
125.00 AUD
Category: History
For every lover of food culture, this scrupulously researched and accessible cookbook presents one-of-a-kind dinner parties inspired by seminal moments in culinary history.In ten chapters--each an important moment in food history, from Ancient Rome to Al-Andalus in Spain, from the Ethiopian Empire to ni ...Show more
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin by Brad Meltzer
36.99 AUD
Category: History
The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted. In 1943 only three men stood in Hitler's way; Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. As the war against Nazi Germany raged, the Allied lea ...Show more
City of Lions - Portrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and Now by Jozef Wittlin; Philippe Sands; Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
26.99 AUD
Category: History
The Ukrainian city Lviv's many names (Lviv, Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg, Leopolis) bear witness to its conflicted past - it has, at one time or another, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Russia and Germany, and has brought forth numerous famous artists and intellectuals. My Lwow, Jozef Wittlin's ...Show more
The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together by Michael Smith
24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Fascinating analysis' Nigel West; 'Grippingly told, authoritative' Mail on Sunday; 'Meticulously researched...a remarkably good read' John Brennan, former CIA Director; 'Excellent...a detailed, highly professional account' Sir John Scarlett, former MI6 Chief The Special Relationship between America a ...Show more
Modern Warfare: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Lessons from Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman
12.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War IIMore than any other modern war, the fight between Russia and Ukraine has been a tough testing ground for modern weapons and operational concepts.Drawing on extensive research in ...Show more
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy by Stein Ringen
39.99 AUD
Category: History
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the A ...Show more
Kings And Queens by Iain Dale
36.99 AUD
Category: History
'We all know about Queen Victoria, Edward VIII and Queen Elizabeth II, but how much do we really know about other monarchs? Yes, we know William the Conqueror beat King Harold at the Battle of Hastings. We know George III was mad, but what else do we know about his 60 year long reign? We know Henry VIII ...Show more
The Eagle in the Mirror by Jesse Fink
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century- Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest serving ...Show more
The Infinite City - Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London by Niall Kishtainy
32.99 AUD
Category: History
In a brilliant and original new history of London, Niall Kishtainy weaves together visions of utopia through the ages to offer a unique history of ideas and introduce London as the capital of utopian thought.The Infinite City combines narrative history, biography and philosophy to show how London has be ...Show more
Killing Thatcher - The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll
34.99 AUD
Category: History
The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret ThatcherKILLING THATCHER is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet - an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ire ...Show more