Cathedral: the Story of Its Construction by David Macauley
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
"This marvelous book recreates the building of a French Gothic cathedral from the hewing down of half a forest to the placement of the last sheet of lead on the spire. Macaulay uses voluminous knowledge and pen-and-ink sketches accompanied by a brief clear narrative." -- Time
1776 by David McCullough
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the ...Show more
The Radium Girls: They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice. by Kate Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
'The importance of the brave and blighted dial-painters cannot be overstated.' Sunday Times'A perfect blend of the historical, the scientific and the personal.' Bustle'Thrilling and carefully crafted.' Mail on SundayOrdinary women in 1920s America.All they wanted was the chance to shine.Be careful what ...Show more
Freedom's Forge by Herman Arthur
$45.00 AUD
Category: World History
SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise. And the ...Show more
Last Second in Dallas by Josiah Thompson
$69.99 AUD
Category: World History
Very few investigators-or let's call him a historian, since the case went cold long ago-are prepared to revise a conclusion of their previous major work as Thompson does here. I salute him for it. To borrow his own metaphor, he's taken a jigsaw puzzle he thought he had solved before, pulled it apart, fo ...Show more
MURDER in DALLAS, November 22-24: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED by George Schwimmer
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
A pack of lies. That is what the so-called Warren Commission Report is. There was no "lone gunman" - there were at least seven shooters, none of whom was 'Lee Harvey Oswald'. Three bullets were not fired by "Oswald" - at least eighteen were, in three volleys, including an exploding bullet that blew apar ...Show more
The JFK Assassination Chokeholds - That Prove There Was a Conspiracy by James DiEugenio; Paul Bleau; Matt Crumpton; Andrew Iler; Mark Adamczyk
$44.99 AUD
Category: World History
In JFK Assassination Chokeholds, readers will find up to date evidence that would have compelled any jury to conclude that Oswald was not guilty beyond reasonable doubt, and that there is clear and convincing evidence of both a conspiracy and obstruction of justice to cover it up. The approach taken by ...Show more
The Lumumba Plot - The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid
$79.99 AUD
Category: World History
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller--about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo "This is one of the best books I have read in years . . . gripping, full of colorful characters, and strange plot twi ...Show more
Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America's greatest untold story: the United States' rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials - including exclusive interviews with the ...Show more
France: A Short History by Jeremy Black
$21.99 AUD
Category: World History
A concise history of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities and exploring France's cultural and political influence today. Artists, martyrs, kings, revolutionaries: France's sense of national identity is inextricably linked to its dramatic history, which fas ...Show more
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt by Asne Seierstad
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding In her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Taliban is ...Show more
Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case by Philippa Langley
$65.00 AUD
Category: World History
Philippa Langley took the world by storm when, against all the odds and a seven-year investigation, she discovered the grave of King Richard III (1452-1485) in a Leicester car park. A king finally laid to rest, the rediscovery and reburial of Richard III was watched by an estimated global audience of ov ...Show more