Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 by Hillel Cohen
$49.95 AUD
Category: World History
In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as year zero of the Arab-Israeli conflict that persists to ...Show more
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid I. Khalidi
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' Noam Chomsky The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denia ...Show more
Rethinking the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer
$32.95 AUD
Category: World History | Series: Yale Nota Bene S.
A study of the Holocaust, evaluating accepted views of its history and meaning. Yehuda Bauer offers his own interpretation of why the Holocaust occurred and how another can be prevented. He presents opinions on topics ranging from how Jews reacted to the murderous campaign against them to the relationsh ...Show more
The Language Puzzle - How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age by Steven Mithen
$55.00 AUD
Category: World History
'A tour de force' Alice Roberts'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin DunbarThe relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human.The Language Puzzle expl ...Show more
The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin s Disinformation War by Alan Philps
$26.99 AUD
Category: World History
'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' Washington Post'Philps has an eye for detail and a heart for those left behind' The Times'A tale of intrigue and suppression' The New York Times'A compelling and often ...Show more
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III by Jeremy Black
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through to the longest serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II - and looks forward to the reign of King Charles III. Much more than a linear history, this is the intertwined story of royal ...Show more
The Nameless War by Archibald Ramsay
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History
Here is the story that people have said would never be written in our time - the true history of events leading up to the Second World War, told by one who enjoyed the friendship and confidence of Mr Neville Chamberlain during the critical months between Munich and September, 1939. There has long been a ...Show more
Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I - The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir 'Masterful, captivating, page-turning, this is solid gold history at its best.' - Nicola Tallis '(A) thought-provoking, impeccably researched, and moving account uncovering how Anne's family, int ...Show more
The CIA - An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History
A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas. As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support ...Show more
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History
'Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned' Times Literary Supplement 'Vivid and extraordinary' Wall Street Journal From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters. We have all heard of Joan of Arc, but not the cross-dressing soldiers whose disguises were s ...Show more
From Third World to First : the Singapore Story : 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with not only the world's number one airline, best airport, and busiest port of trade, but also the world's fourth ...Show more
Burning the Big House by Terence Dooley
$24.95 AUD
Category: World History
The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923 During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the ground. These "Big Houses" were powerful symbols of conquest, plantation, and colonial oppressi ...Show more