Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. One of its most ...Show more
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History by Thomas Barfield
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
Traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in Afghanistan, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. This title introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in this volatile region of the world.
Afghanistan - A History from 1260 to the Present Day (HB) by Jonathan L. Lee
$69.99 AUD
Category: World History
Located at the intersection of Asia and the Middle East, Afghanistan has been strategically important for thousands of years. Its ancient routes and strategic position between India, Inner Asia, China, Persia, and beyond has meant the region has been subject to frequent invasions, both peaceful and mili ...Show more
After the Romanovs: Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the latest fashions. But it has also b ...Show more
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich by Harald Jähner
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History
How does a nation recover from fascism?1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today. Post-war Germany found itself occupied over four zones by the victorious Allied forces. More than h ...Show more
Against the Grain - A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott
$26.95 AUD
Category: World History
An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's s ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa
$49.99 AUD
Category: World History
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City by Edmund Richardson
$22.99 AUD
Category: World History
'This is a jewel of a book' - SUNDAY TIMES'One of the great stories of archaeology, exploration and espionage' - William Dalrymple'Immensely enjoyable' - BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE____________________________________For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and Wes ...Show more
Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains by Edmund Richardson
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
'Full, extraordinary, heart-breaking ... utterly brilliant' - William Dalrymple 'Impressive ... Masson has at last found the intrepid biographer he has so long deserved' - John Keay For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 18 ...Show more
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook by Karina Urbach
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated under the Nazi regime. Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna, but in 1938 she was forced to flee to England, like so many others. Her younger son was imprisoned i ...Show more
Always Remember Your Name: The Children who Survived Auschwitz by Andra & Tatiana Bucci
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
A haunting WWII memoir of two sisters who survived Auschwitz that picks up where Anne Frank's Diary left off and gives voice to the children we lost. On 28 March 1944, six-year-old Tati and her four-year-old sister Andra were roused from their sleep and arrested. Along with their mother, Mira, their au ...Show more
America Before: the Key to Earth's Lost Civilisation by Graham Hancock
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
Until very recently there was almost universal agreement amongst scientists that human beings first entered the Americas from Siberia around 13,000 years ago by walking into Alaska across the Bering landbridge. Over the next two thousand years their descendants supposedly spread out through Central and ...Show more