Titanic: 'Iceberg Ahead' - The Story of the Disaster by Some of Those Who Were There by James W. Bancroft
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
To have sailed on 'the voyage of the century' aboard White Star Line's RMS Titanic - described at the time as 'a floating palace' - was like being one of the first passengers to fly on Concorde.On 10 April 1912, people from all walks of life began embarking on Titanic, then the largest ship afloat, for ...Show more
Going Deep - John Philip Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine by Lawrence Goldstone
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to The Hunt for Red October, readers the world over have demonstrated an enduring fascination with travel under the sea. Yet the riveting story behind the invention of the submarine-an epic saga of genius, persistence, ruthlessness, and deceit-is almost complet ...Show more
A World Transformed - Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power by James Walvin
$30.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the most recent scholarship into a ...Show more
Crassus - The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic a ...Show more
Time's Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism by Rosemary Hill
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
A brilliant exploration of how our understanding of the past was transformed between the French Revolution and the Great Exhibition by a band of long-forgotten antiquariesBetween the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed. The grand narratives of th ...Show more
The Medici by Mary Hollingsworth
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence' TLS 'A lucid and beautifully illustrated family history' The Times ...Show more
Mortal Monarchs - 1000 Years of Royal Deaths by Suzie Edge
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'A brilliant, funny and thought-provoking book' - Jonn Elledge'Compelling, provocative, and utterly brilliant' - Dr Estelle ParanqueHow the monarchs of England and Scotland met their deaths has been a wonderful mixture of violence, infections, overindulgence and occasional regicide. In Mortal Monarchs, ...Show more
The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England by Emily Brand
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Category: History
'A hauntingly beautiful portrait of the Byron dynasty' Rebecca Rideal 'Combining new research with a pacy narrative, Emily Brand introduces the glamorous and flawed Byron dynasty-William, the 'Wicked Lord', pleasure-seeking Isabella, and 'Mad Jack'-a family inheritance to match the wildest imaginings o ...Show more
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Category: History
Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar. Based o ...Show more
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of its foremost historians Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global i ...Show more
Ancient Rome: The Definitive Visual History by DK
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
A definitive history of ancient Rome that tells the story of its dramatic rise and fall in rich visual detailImmerse yourself in the history of ancient Rome - from its origins as a small settlement on the Palatine Hill to its peak as an empire reigning over 90 million people, and its tumultuous decline. ...Show more
In The Shadow Of The Sword - The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World by Tom Holland
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two venerable empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished forever, while the other seemed almost finished. Ruling in their place were the Arabs: an upheaval so profound that it spelt, in effect, the end of the anci ...Show more