History

Author: Alexia Moncrieff (University of Leeds) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 236 Expertise, Authority and Control charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War in the...

Author: Anne Sebba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN 'Totally riveting....

Author: Kate Ariotti (University of Newcastle, New South Wales) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 238 During the First World War, 198 Australians became prisoners of the Ottomans. Overshadowed by the...

Author: Marc David Baer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly...

Author: Bruce Scates (Monash University, Victoria) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Australians have been making pilgrimages to the battlefields and cemeteries of World War Two since the 1940s, from...

Author: Milan Kundera Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 'The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong...

Author: Andrew Brown-May (University of Melbourne) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 840 Great cities deserve great encyclopedias. A city is known by its past, its characteristic virtues and troubles, and...

Author: Andrew Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with...

Author: Matthew Gabriele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones-the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody,...

Author: Andrew North Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Andrew North has a deep empathy and understanding for Afghanistan and has seen sides of it - both good and horrifying...

Author: John Connor (University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Anzac and Empire is the remarkable story of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter...

Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's lives back...

Author: Mark Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, the menacing Vincigliata Castle - a very special prisoner-of-war camp converted on Mussolini's personal...

Author: Rachelle Unreich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A delicate, evocative story of strength and survival that turns on one of the most powerful forces in the known universe:...

Author: Meighen McCrae (Australian National University, Canberra) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 292 When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political...

Author: Bruce Scates (Monash University, Victoria) Format: Leather / fine binding Number of Pages: 328 On the 11th of November 1934 over 300,000 people gathered on the slopes of Melbourne's...

Author: Alison Bashford (University of Sydney) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1536 The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history from its pre-European origins to the...

Author: Steve Heaney, MC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as...

Author: Joan Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland 'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world...

Author: Michael Waters Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The story of the early athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zdenek...

Author: Alexander Maitland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have...

Author: Alan Moorehead Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 An eye-witness account of the allied invasion of Fortress Europe in World War II. Eclipse was the code name given by...

Author: Andrea Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty...

Author: Vic Gatrell (University of Cambridge) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 474 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and a Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year....

Author: Robert Gildea (University of Oxford) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 366 'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal...

Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between...

Author: Candida Moss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent'[A] massive achievement' Spectator'Refreshingly readable' Guardian For the past two...

Author: Ann Curthoys (Australian National University, Canberra) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 444 At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of...

Author: Katherine Pangonis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon...

Author: Jonn Elledge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER 'A novel and fascinating perspective on world history' BILL...

Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice...

Author: Tiya Miles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE...

Author: Olive Heffernan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'Powerful reportage...awash with wonderful obscurities' The Sunday Times''A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to...

Author: Mathijs Deen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "A joy to read" Times Literary Supplement "[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine" Irish Times "It's easy to...

Author: John S. McHugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 335 Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin,...

Author: Nazneen Khan-Ostrem Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the...

Author: Ernesto Bassi Arevalo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 277 In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between...

Author: Brian D. Bunk Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 277 The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts...

Author: Yaroslav Hrytsak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy...

Author: Iain MacGregor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative'...

Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable...

'A dream! I learnt something new and fascinating on every page' - Lucy Mangan'If you love words, the weird and the wild, I guarantee you'll crouch over this book like...

Author: Andrey Kurkov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage, drawing on over 100 of the country's most important works of art and architectural...

Author: Katie Knowles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The National Trust looks after one of the largest and most significant holdings of fine-art and heritage objects in the world....

Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI 'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS Why is Italy called Italy? How...

Author: Michael M. Sage Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 332 From the moment its last king was expelled (traditionally in 753) the Roman republic had to fight for its very...

Author: Andrew Beattie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The story of King Arthur is one of the best known in English history: he was the boy who was schooled...

Author: Dominic Dromgoole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 It tells of times when 'the air between people seems to alter' as art achieves profound change, across the globe and...