The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle by Anna Shechtman
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Category: History
Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest. The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” ...Show more
Four Shots in the Night by Henry Hemming
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Category: History
'A truly page-turning, compulsive and also profoundly moving narrative. Superb.' JAMES HOLLAND ... 'Gripping, urgent, superbly reported and brilliantly written' DAN JONES HOW THE DEATH OF A SPY IN THE IRA LED TO THE BIGGEST MURDER INVESTIGATION IN BRITISH HISTORY. On 26th May 1986, the body of an unde ...Show more
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass
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Category: History
In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the victorious powers turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. To them, it was clear that Japan's militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for their crimes. For the Allied ...Show more
The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
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Category: History
A Spectator Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'An illuminating and riveting read.' - Jonathan DimblebyJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present.In The Making of ...Show more
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War by Peter Englund
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Category: History
'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVOR'Extraordinary' JULIA BOYDAn intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War - perhaps the century - as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs.At the beginning of November 1942, it l ...Show more
In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City by John Kampfner
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Category: History
No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obses ...Show more
Eve Bites Back - An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
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Category: History
Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literature 'Essential reading.' Claire Tomalin Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. ...Show more
Dinner with Joseph Johnson - Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age by Daisy Hay
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022*'Hugely engrossing... An exciting blend of ideas and personalities' John Carey, Sunday Times'As immersive and engaging as a multi-plot Victorian novel' Times Literary Supplement'Impressive... An elegant account... Dinner with Joseph Johnson reminds us of th ...Show more
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
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Category: History
What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succes ...Show more
City of Lions - Portrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and Now by Jozef Wittlin; Philippe Sands; Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
The Ukrainian city Lviv's many names (Lviv, Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg, Leopolis) bear witness to its conflicted past - it has, at one time or another, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Russia and Germany, and has brought forth numerous famous artists and intellectuals. My Lwow, Jozef Wittlin's ...Show more
Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War by Max Hastings
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Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator'A masterful performance' Sunday Times'By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for ...Show more
A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? T ...Show more