Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 by Daniel Cowling
$54.99 AUD
Category: History
Germany, spring 1945. Hitler is dead and his armies crushed. Across the conquered Reich, cities lie devastated by Allied saturation bombing; their traumatised populations, exhausted and embittered by defeat, face a future of acute privation and hardship. Such was the broken state of the nation in which ...Show more
The Great Hunger : Ireland, 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British 'obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance' - and stubbo ...Show more
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe by Julia John; Fox Guy
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever. The story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is one of the most remarkable in history: a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding and then a coronation, ending j ...Show more
The Colony: a History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: General Adult
The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city. From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blu ...Show more
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich by Harald Jähner
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The internationally bestselling and prize-winning history of German life in the fallout of the Third Reich, filled with eye-opening, shocking and vitally human stories of ruin, repression and revival.***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021***A 2021 Book of the YearThe Times * Sunday Times * Te ...Show more
The Highland Clans by Alistair Moffat
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of the Highland clans is a gripping one, full of celebrated names and heroic deeds. It is also, as Alistair Moffat reveals, the story of a fearless people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Here, he traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origin ...Show more
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
A magisterial and acclaimed history of Europe in our time, by one of our leading historians. Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known. William Shirer is one of the very few historians to have gained full access to the ...Show more
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Gulag is Russia's forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive. Here, for the first time, is the full, moving story of its countless victims- how they lived, laboured, suffered - and survived to bear witne ...Show more
Dublin: The Story of a City by Peter Stephen & Harbison Conlin
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
A spectacular tour of the evolution of Dublin! Stephen Conlon's meticulous drawings chart the development of Dublin's buildings, history and lifestyle for over 1,000 years. The illustrations reconstruct Dublin through the centuries while new drawings capture contemporary Dublin's key places and building ...Show more
On a Sea of Glass by Tad Fitch
$74.95 AUD
Category: History
On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brand-new, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death in the icy-cold ...Show more