Ancient Egypt: Everyday Life in the Land of the Nile by Bob Brier
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A vivid view of life in ancient Egypt. More than 5,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians founded one of the world's oldest civilizations. We know of its pyramids, art, and pharaohs. But what was life really like then? Ordinary citizens in ancient Egypt lived and worked in much the same ways as the averag ...Show more
The Civil Wa r: A History by Harry Hansen
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Category: History | Series: Signet Classics (Paperback)
Presented in one comprehensive volume, this is the Civil War as it really was - the forces and events that caused it, the soldiers and civilians who fought it, and the ideas and values that are its legacy today. Revised reissue.
17 Carnations - The Windsors, the Nazis and the Cover-Up by Andrew Morton
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Category: History
The story of the love affair between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII, and his abdication in order to marry the divorcee, has provoked fascination and discussion for decades. However, the full story of the couple's links with the German aristocracy and Hitler has until now remained untold. Meticulous ...Show more
Myths and Legends by Jake Jackson
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Category: History
Creation myths, quests, the eternal battle between good and evil, these are some of the classic tales that feed the ravenous beast of modern culture. For many the classical traditions of the Greeks and the Romans occupy the imagination but the ancient world was a lively and fertile source of stories, re ...Show more
Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947 by Thomas Goodrich
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
It was the most deadly and destructive war in human history. Millions were killed, billions in property was destroyed, ancient cultures were reduced to rubble--World War II was truly man's greatest cataclysm. Thousands of books, movies and documentary films have been devoted to the war. There has never ...Show more
A Kim Jong-Il Production - The Story of North Korea and the Most Audacious Kidnapping in History by Paul Fischer
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer - love, films and kidnapping in North Korea, the world's wildest regime. Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's film industry. He directed every film made in the country but knew they were nothing compared to Ho ...Show more
Lost London 1870-1945 by Philip Davies
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Described as a publishing phenomenon, Lost London transports the reader back in time with amazing and evocative photographs. For this revised edition another 16 pages and approximately 50 previously unpublished photographs have been added
Salonica, City of Ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries ...Show more
Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land by Joel Brinkley
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
A generation after Pol Pot's regime killed one quarter of the nation's population, Cambodia shows every outward sign of having overcome its devastating history the streets of Phnom Penh are paved; skyscrapers dot the skyline. But behind this facade lies a country still haunted by its years of terror. In ...Show more
Women in the War Zone: Hospital Service in the First World War by Anne Powell
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Category: History
In our collective memory, the First World War is dominated by men. The sailors, soldiers, airmen and politicians about whom histories are written were male, and the first half of the twentieth century was still a time when a woman's place was thought to be in the home. Yet there were some women who cont ...Show more
The Declaration of the Rights of Women: The Originial Manifesto for Justice, Equality and Freedom by Olympe de Gourges
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Category: History
** NEW** Olympe de Gouges was the most important fighter for women's rights you've never heard of. An activist and writer in revolutionary Paris, she published 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 1791, and was beheaded two years later, her articulate demands for equality proving too much fo ...Show more
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester
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Category: History
Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water, and - in matters economic, political and military - the ocean of the future. The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the Boeing Company. It ...Show more