The American Civil War by John Keegan
$69.95 AUD
Category: History
This magisterial history of the first modern war is on the scale of John Keegan's classics, "A History of Warfare" and "The First World War". In his sweeping, unputdownable narrative he highlights the geography, leadership and strategic logic at the heart of the conflict. John Keegan writes: 'The geogra ...Show more
Churchill's Generals by John Keegan
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
John Keegan has assembled a cast of seventeen generals whose reputations were made (and some of them broken) by Churchill and the Second World War.Churchill's reputation as prime minister during the Second World War fluctuated according to the successes and failures of his generals. Most of them were ho ...Show more
La Vie En Bleu by Roderick Kedward
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Rod Kedward brings to life the great, and often terrible, dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars - the Algerian disaster, the student and worker revolt of 1968, as well as exploring the special worlds of the workplace, immigration, minorities, the role of women, and the politics of everyday ...Show more
Mad About the Mekong : Exploration and empire in South-East Asia by John Keay
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the story of both a dramatic journey retracing the historic voyage of France's greatest 19th-century explorer up the mysterious Mekong river, and a portrait of the river and its peoples today. Any notion of sailing up the Mekong in homage to Francis Garnier has been unthinkable until now. From i ...Show more
Last Post: The end of Empire in the Far East by John Keay
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
John Keay's epic, expert study of the twentieth-century demise of colonial rule in the Far East The names echo like the last long notes of a bugle call: Hiroshima, Dien Bien Phu, Tiananmen Square; MacArthur and Mountbatten; The Quiet American and Bridge over the River Kwai. In a twentieth-century welter ...Show more
The Spice Route - A History by John Keay
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Aromatic spices and exotic trade routes mingle headily in this lush, evocative history. This is an exotic saga with the tang of drama in every voyage. "The Spice Route" transports the reader from the dawn of history to the ends of the earth. "The Spice Route" is one of history's great anomalies. Shroude ...Show more
China : A History by John Keay
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China specialist. Most histories of China appear to have been written by sinologists for sinologists. As Chi ...Show more
China : A History by John Keay
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China specialist. Most histories of China appear to have been written by sinologists for sinologists. As Chi ...Show more