A History of Wales by John Davies
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. Spanning prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the series of strikes by Welsh miners ...Show more
Europe: A History by Norman Davies
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, this book tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. It was chosen ten times as Book of the Year.
Europe at War 1939-1945 : No simple victory by Norman Davies
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Davies' re-examination reminds us that the war in Europe was dominated by two evil monsters, not by one. The liberators of Auschwitz were servants of a regime that ran still larger concentration camps than those they liberated. The outcome of the war was at best ambigious.
The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece by James Davidson
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Kenneth Dover's 1978 GREEK HOMOSEXUALITY remains the most recent single-volume treatment of the subject as a whole. Drawing on fifteen years of ensuing research, James Davidson rejects Dover's excessively theoretical approach, using a wide variety of sources unknown to him - court cases, romantic novels ...Show more
THE BATTLE AT NGOK TAVAK by DAVIES, BRUCE
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
This is the story of the three Australians, members of AATTV, who commanded and led a company of Montagnards in the western jungle of Vietnam near Laos to report on the 2nd NVA Division moving across the border to do battle. After joining forces with a company of American marines they were attacked by t ...Show more
FOUR DAYS IN NOVEMBER by BUGLIOSI VINCENT
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
"As good a second-by-second reconstruction of the assassination and its aftermath as I've read." --Bryan Burrough, New York Times Four Days in November is an extraordinarily exciting, precise, and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey ...Show more
Capital of the Mind by James Buchan
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
An inspirational account of how Edinburgh in 1745, a smallish dirty city - little more than a single foul-smelling street - was catapulted in two generations to the centre of the modern world. How did a notoriously poor, alcoholic, violent and smelly town, consisting of 40,000 inhabitants, make such an ...Show more
Those Ragged Bloody Heroes by Peter Brune
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
The definitive account of the Australians on the Kokoda Trail - a story told through the eyes of the Australians who fought there, many of whom have now passed away....