Richard III - In Fact and Fiction by Matthew Lewis
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Fact and Fictions Ser.
King Richard III remains one of the most infamous and recognisable monarchs in English or British history, despite only sitting on the throne for two years and fifty-eight days. His hold on the popular imagination is largely due to the fictional portrayal of him by William Shakespeare which, combined wi ...Show more
1806-1807 - Tsar Alexander's Second War with Napoleon - The Russian Official History by Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky; Peter G. A. Philips (Translator)
$65.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: From Reason to Revolution Ser.
The Russian official history of the second war between Emperor Alexander and Napoleon, in 1806 and 1807. First published in 1846, it is based on original military and diplomatic documents and is backed up with references to official decrees from Russian state archives. It includes extracts from notes ma ...Show more
Royal Mysteries of the Tudor Period by TIMOTHY VENNING
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
The Tudor period is familiar to British public in reading and viewing in books, TV series and film - list is endless, from Shakespeare and Fletcher in the 1600s to Hilary Mantel et al, and involving internationally famous authors and actors. This is backdrop to the 'Royal Mysteries' which reflect aspect ...Show more
How the Country House Became English by Stephanie Barczewski
$57.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of how the country house, historically a site of violent disruption, came to symbolize English stability during the eighteenth century. Country houses are quintessentially English, not only architecturally but also in that they embody national values of continuity and insularity. The English c ...Show more
Publius Quinctilius Varus - The Man Who Lost Three Roman Legions in the Teutoburg Disaster
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
Publius Quinctilius Varus is famous as the incompetent commander duped into an ambush that wiped out three legions in one of the most humiliating defeats in Roman history. Yet this is the first full length biography of the man. Dr Joanne Ball revisits the ancient sources alongside the most recent archae ...Show more
Roman Emperors - A Guide to the Men Who Ruled the Empire by Mario Bartolini
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Roman Emperors is a concise chronological guide to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire. It covers the period from the establishment of the Empire by Augustus in 27 BCE to the abdication of Romulus Augustus in 476 CE, an event that marks the official end of the existence of the Roman Empire as a poli ...Show more
Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England by Rory Muir
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
A portrait of Jane Austen's England told through the career paths of younger sons--men of good family but small fortune In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: What should they do to ...Show more
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, ...Show more
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East by Barnaby Rogerson
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory StewartRogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating' William DalrympleAt the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400- ...Show more
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele, David Perry
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing--a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading."--Slate "Incandescent and ultimat ...Show more
Magicians of the Gods: Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse by Graham Hancock
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returned with the sequel to his seminal work filled with compl ...Show more
A Short History of Russia by Mark Galeotti
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
An essential short history of Russia by acclaimed writer and expert Mark Galeotti, taking us from Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great, to the Russian Revolution, the fall of the USSR and the rise of Vladimir Putin - and updated to include the road to the Ukrainian war.'Fascinating... One of the mo ...Show more