Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative non-fiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disaster On 1 May, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out ...Show more
Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
A dazzling follow-up to Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. 'We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,' Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, in wh ...Show more
Death by Government - Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 by R. J. Rummel
$83.99 AUD
Category: World History
This is R. J. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide. He presents the primary results, in tables and figures, as well as a historical sketch of the major cases of democide, those in which one million or more people were killed by a regi ...Show more
Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets by Alexandra Lloyd
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
New translations of the White Rose pamphlets, the anti-Nazi writings distributed by University of Munich students. The White Rose (die Wei e Rose) was the name given to a resistance circle at the University of Munich in the early 1940s whose members secretly wrote and distributed anti-Nazi pamphlets ...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
Do No Harm - A Painful History of Medicine by Nick Arnold
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
For the gruesomely curious or medically minded, this romp through the history of medicine packs in the fascinating and often macabre ideas and practices employed during humanity's constant battle against illness and injury. For the gruesomely curious or medically minded, this romp through the history of ...Show more
Domina - The Women Who Made Imperial Rome by Guy de la Bédoyère
$24.95 AUD
Category: World History
"An illuminating and highly readable narrative about the role of women at the center of imperial Rome--fascinating and important." --Lesley Adkins, author of Handbook to Life in Ancient RomeAugustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero--these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empi ...Show more
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
$26.99 AUD
Category: World History
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition ...Show more
Durnford 1879 from Chatham to Isandlwana - Colonel Anthony William Durnford His Life and Mysteries Following His Death by Kristine Herron
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History
It has been 140 years since the Battle of Isandhlwana, on 22nd January 1879, when up to 20,000 Zulu Warriors, attacked Regiments of Queen Victoria's Army, killing them all. A career soldier with the Royal Engineers, Colonel Anthony William Durnford was blamed for the disaster by General Chelmsford. He b ...Show more
East West Street: On the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity by Philippe Sands
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: updated edition
Winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for NonfictionWinner of the 2017 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize"A monumental achievement...a profoundly personal account of the origins of crimes against humanity and genocide, told with love, anger and precision." -John le Carré "A narrative, to my knowledge un ...Show more
Edda Mussolini - The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal. She was her father's confidante during the 20 years of Fascist rule, acting as envoy to both Germany and Britain, and pla ...Show more
Egypt Magnified: With a 3x Magnifying Glass by David Long
$27.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: Magnified
Explore ancient Egypt, from the Nile to the pyramids, and learn what life was life for pharaohs, slaves and scribes in this fascinating search-and-find adventure. Use the magnifying glass to spot over 200 things in each eye-boggling illustration. Look inside temples and houses, and discover how mummies ...Show more