Tunnel 29 - The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in. It's summer, 1962, and Joachim Rudolph, a student, is digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin - dozens of men, women and children; all willing to risk everything to ...Show more
Turkey: The Passenger by Elif Shafak and Fattima Bhutto, et al.
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: The Passenger
The Big Dig by Elif Batuman -A Story of Dust and Lightby Burhan Sönmez - An Author Recommends by Elif Shafak - plus: the thirty-year coup and the dam that is washing away 12,000 years of history, and more. The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own ...Show more
Tutankhamun - Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma: Lost for Three Thousand Years, Misunderstood for a Century by Joyce Tyldesley
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings made a remarkable discovery: a near-complete royal burial, an ancient mummy, and golden riches beyond imagination. The lost tomb of Tutankhamun ignited a media frenzy, propelled into overdrive by rumours of a deadly ancient curse. ...Show more
Tutankhamun's Trumpet: The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects by Toby Wilkinson
$36.99 AUD
Category: World History
On 26 November 1922 Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian boy-king. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: ‘Yes, yes, wonderful things.’ In Tutankhamun’s Trumpet, acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes a unique approach to a well-worn subject. Inst ...Show more
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
$49.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: Bollingen Series (General) Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we reac ...Show more
Two Houses, Two Kingdoms - A History of France and England, 1100-1300 by Catherine Hanley
$51.95 AUD
Category: World History
An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary storyThe twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings and queens could determine the cours ...Show more
Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland by Karl Schlogel
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History
Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests against oligarchical ...Show more
Underground - A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet by Will Hunt
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
Will Hunt is an urban adventurer who has explored caves and catacombs, subway systems, and long abandoned, ghostly mines: all varieties of holes in the ground. He's tracked down people who, for one reason or another, have shared his underground fixation: each an incarnation of Hermes, who could see and ...Show more
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$36.99 AUD
Category: World History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain by Stuart Ward
$56.95 AUD
Category: World History
How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Second World War. From Indian independence, ...Show more
Unwell - What Makes a Disease a Disease by Mike McRae
$29.95 AUD
Category: World History
Nostalgia used to be a killer nervous condition. Emotional women were once treated with a good orgasm, left-handed folk were beaten to be turned 'right', and rotten teeth pulled to cure the mentally unwell. Just who made these diseases 'diseases' anyway? And what makes us think we understand any better ...Show more