History

Author: Paul Strathern Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 RISE AND FALL opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then...

Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An...

Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium, Ukraine finally...

Author: Stephanie Grisham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler...

Author: Meg Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and their bushranging brothers are famous. They're remembered as folk heroes...

Author: Robert Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Robert Cave examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of science. Some, including various...

Author: Elizabeth Tynan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the...

Author: Babette Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of...

Author: Richard Kerbaj Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Puts Richard Kerbaj in the front rank of modern authors on espionage. It is, by turns, gripping and shocking and sheds...

Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the...

Author: Tom Frame Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Given the importance of ability, judgment, leadership and discipline to the effective performance of any military force, the nation faces a...

Author: Jeff Maynard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean...

Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to...

Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile...

Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the...

Author: John Hughes-Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'A cracking good read... I will recommend this book to anyone' - Professor Richard Holmes, CBE 'The Falklands, Yom Kippur, Tet...

Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 FULLY UPDATED 'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture' INDEPENDENT Flat, fertile, and...

Author: Charles Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...

Author: Philip Jowett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 This volume in the Images of War series is the first photographic history of the Chinese Civil War, fought between Chiang...

Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...

Author: Frank Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The extraordinary revelations in Traitors detail the ugly side of war and power and the many betrayals of our ANZACs. In...

Author: Al Murray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'My bookshelves were groaning with WW2 books, Hitler's baleful eyes staring out at me from covers and spines for any new...

Author: Vaudine England Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have...

Author: Bruce Gamble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In early 1942, while most of the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and...

Author: Ronald C. Rosbottom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest...

Author: Peter Waldron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Between the 17th century and the 1917 revolution, the Russian Tsars became absolute rulers of the largest and most diverse empire...

Author: Mark Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern...

Author: Paul Christiaan Klieger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 The history of Tibet has long intrigued the world, as well as the dilemma of its future - will it...

Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is...

Author: Karina Urbach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was...

Author: Debbie Cenziper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945...

Author: Sir Rodric Braithwaite Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Wise and thorough' - The Spectator 'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' -Financial Times 'He is an engaging guide ......

Author: Burkhard Bilger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration...

Author: Anthony Adolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to...

Author: David Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second...

Author: Catrine Clay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the...

Author: Roland Ennos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A stunning book...

Author: Jerry Brotton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the...

Author: John Took Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine Comedy. For all that has been written about the...

Author: Minnie Driver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When I was six, I wrote my first short essay. The title given by the teacher was: 'When I grow up,...

Author: Christiane Eluere Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Lovers of gold, wine and war, the Celts have no voice because they left no written records. Much of what we...

Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of...

Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In...

Author: Gwen Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz As the Second...

Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...

Author: Alan Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the...

Author: Fawaz A. Gerges Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. However, its most striking and...

Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...