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The Medieval World at War
Price: AUD 75.00 Author: Matthew Bennett (ed)

No matter where the conflict took place, if it happened in medieval times it will feature in this book. The facts of the battles are interwoven with examinations of the political landscapes in which they were fought and the logistics employed.

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The Great Empires of the Ancient World
Price: AUD 75.00 Author: Thomas Harrison

Thomas Harrison, along with his ten collaborators, presents the historical detail of the empires that dominated the ancient world and proceeds to explain the aspects connecting them to each other. He suggests that to understand the influences of this peri

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Venice
Price: AUD 69.95 Author: Peter Ackroyd

An attribute of Peter Ackroyd's writing is the way in which he gives the reader a palpable sense of the city of which he is speaking; in this latest case, Venice. It is as if one is taking in the historical details first-hand from an inhabitant. Largely b

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The Red Flag
Price: AUD 69.95 Author: David Priestland

David Priestland has studied Communism for most of his academic life and brings all his learning to bear on this exhaustive study of the subject. He makes the point that, at a time when the "inequality and instability brought by unfettered global capital

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War
Price: AUD 79.95 Author: Saul David (ed)

From the wars of the ancient world to the battles being waged around the world today, this is the most comprehensive encyclopaedic rendering of the how, what, where, and who of all battles.

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The Three Emperors
Price: AUD 59.95 Author: Miranda Carter

Drawing on correspondence between them, the author offers an in-depth portrait of three emperors who also happened to be related to each other: George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II. By focusing on all three, Miranda Carter effectively chronicles the def

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Hunting Evil
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Guy Walters

Guy Walters pre-empts critics of his book by acknowledging that his account is, at times, both emotional and subjective. The Nazis who escaped at the end of the Second World War, the people who aided their escape, and those who came after to hunt them dow

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The English Rebel
Price: AUD 59.95 Author: David Horspool

The author is proud to be one of a race of troublemakers as he sees the English to be; rebels one and all! Beginning with the Norman occupation of 1066-86, David Horspool proceeds to unveil the thread of rebellion in his country's history and to make the

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The American Civil War
Price: AUD 69.95 Author: John Keegan

In the opening chapter of this book, John Keegan articulates his belief that the America of today is a less exceptional place than in earlier times. He points to the manner of settlement and the rapid changes post settlement as quite simply amazing. It is

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The Secret History of Georgian London
Price: AUD 59.95 Author: Dan Cruickshank

The words "Georgian London" conjure up images of gracious buildings in small cul-de-sacs and people promenading past their doors. Dan Cruick-shank could not offer a more different landscape. He is reporting on the influence, as he sees it, of prostitution

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More than A Game
Price: AUD 45.00 Author: Jan Stradling

Subtitled "When Sport and History Collide", Jan Stradling presents a compelling story of the role of sport in world history and the way individual moments can be seared into our collective memory because of the combination of human endeavour and political

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Renaissance Secrets
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: Jo Wheeler

A recipe or formula was known, in renaissance times, as a secret. This term applied to all areas of endeavour inclusive of the dark arts. Drawing on the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, this book is divided into seven sections, such as Glass

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The Lady in the Tower
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Alison Weir

Anne Boleyn "went to her death an innocent woman" according to Alison Weir (and of course many others). She proceeds to dissect and analyse every aspect of Anne's life and death, inclusive of her arrest, trial and execution.

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Xanadu
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: John Man

Referring to Marco Polo, the author writes: "His Description of the World, or the Travels as it is usually entitled in English editions, is famous for three good reasons: because it was the frst to open Central Asia and China to the West; because of its s

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The Great Cities in History
Price: AUD 75.00 Author: John Julius Norwich (ed)

A.N. Wilson and Simon Schama are two of the contributors to this exploration of sixty-eight cities deemed important historically. Some have long been lost whilst others are rising, as it were, from the ashes of historical events. The selection will no dou

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Dancing in the Dark
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Morris Dickstein

The New York World's Fair in 1939-1940 was a symbol of things to come, the bright wealth-filled days of modernity, as the world came out of the Great Depression. Yet, here we are in 2009, facing an economic crisis that is being compared to the depression

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Battle of Britain
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Patrick Bishop

Covering the period from July 10th to October 31st 1940, this is a daily account of the bomber pilots of the Royal Air Force. As well as diary extracts and personal profiles, the author has also drawn on detailed diagrams and maps of the battle plans, photographs, and official documents. As well, there are descriptions of the aircraft used by both the RAF and the Luftwaffe.

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A Day in Pompeii
Price: AUD 19.95 Author: Museum Victoria

In our last book guide, we highlighted the landmark exhibition A Day in Pompeii presently being held at Museum Victoria. This is the official book that accompanies the exhibition, and is an instructive and engaging record. The exhibition has been enormously successful and this book will remain a wonderful reminder of the opportunity to experience A Day in Pompeii.

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One Morning in Saravejo
Price: AUD 27.00 Author: David James Smith

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was riding in a motorcade through the streets of Saravejo on the 28th June, 1914 when he and his wife were assassinated by a member of the Black Hand, a Serbian terrorist group. This book focuses on that momentous day and all the people who played a part.

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Four Queens
Price: AUD 27.00 Author: Nancy Goldstone

The period is the thirteenth century and the setting is the household of the Count and Countess of Provence. The four queens of the title are the daughters of that household, women who would dominate European politics and society whilst they reigned. England, Germany, Italy, and France were their domains.

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Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: Andrew Lambert

Captain Sir John Franklin was on his last Arctic expedition to find the North-West Passage in the year 1847, when he and his men perished. He was a career naval officer and polar explorer. Andrew Lambert, Professor of Naval History at King’s College, London, presents a fascinating account of Franklin and his arctic journeys.

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Destiny Disrupted
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Tamim Ansary

While our western historians have been weaving their understanding of world events into stories for our edification, there have been others who have also been telling those stories but from a totally different perspective. Tamim Ansary presents an historical chronology from the Islamic perspective thus completely altering the emphasis and depicting an alternate view of the world’s shared history.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II
Price: AUD 26.95 Author: Christopher Clark

This is essentially a study on the power wielded by the last German Kaiser who ruled from 1888 to 1918. Wilhelm II had grown up with his father largely ineffectual and his grandfather the source of all authority, and the author takes this generational conflict as the beginning of his interpretation of the Kaiser’s rule.

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Killing
Price: AUD 34.99 Author: Jeff Sparrow

Jeff Sparrow has clearly been deeply affected by his journeys through Australia and America, talking with people about killing, a subject rarely confronted in polite conversation. He talks with people engaged in the act of killing and attempts to understand what is at work when violent acts occur.

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The Black Death
Price: AUD 27.00 Author: John Hatcher

Medievalist and Cambridge academic, John Hatcher, believes that the minutiae of everyday life is rarely documented. In this study of the Great Plague that killed an estimated seventy-five million people, Hatcher painstakingly recreates everyday life at the time and, by so doing, gives the reader the full impact of what it meant for these individual townsfolk when the plague struck.

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Bloody Victory
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: William Philpott

The Battle of the Somme in July 1916 is treated by the author in the context of a defining moment of the twentieth century. Rather than representing it as a singularly British military event, William Philpott places it on the world stage and identifies what he considers to be its political, social, and cultural impact.

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The Uses and Abuses of History
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Margaret Macmillan

Margaret Macmillan implores the reader to view history as a critical influence in how we live in the present. She provides examples of how history has been shaped to suit particular purposes at specific points in time and how this use and abuse of it undermines the way we decide how we ourselves will live.

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The Illustrious Dead
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Stephan Talty

A chance uncovering of bones in a field being cleared for construction in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2001 led to a most remarkable discovery. By the time the 2,000 skeletons had been exhumed and the most modern testing done on the remains, the story of how Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Armee had been felled by the killer, Typhus, would have come to light.

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House of Treason
Price: AUD 55.00 Author: Robert Hutchinson

Tudor England is seen through the prism of the Howard family, the family who would become known to the Monarchy as the House of Treason. The influence exerted by these Dukes of Norfolk, from medieval times through the reign of Henry VIII, is breathtaking.

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A Great and Terrible King
Price: AUD 27.95 Author: Marc Morris

This comprehensive study of Edward I differs from other recent works on the subject in that it follows Edward`s life chronologically and so offers a fresh perspective on the impact of his rule within the context of the period in which he lived. It is the first book to take this approach in more than fifty years.

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