1776 - America and Britain at War by David McCullough
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. A story with a cast of amazing ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Historical Speeches by Brian MacArthur
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Brings together the words of many men and women who changed the world through the sheer power of their oratory. Gladstone and Disraeli, and Pitt and Fox before them, forged the politics of their age through verbal combat in the House of Commons. Abraham Lincoln transformed the way Americans interpret th ...Show more
London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd
19.95 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
"An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd s magisterial biography of the city of London Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcast, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey historical, geographical and imaginative through the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exub ...Show more
Six Wives - Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The Queens of Henry VIII: Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived: CATHERINE OF ARAGON the Catholic Spanish Princess, who suffered years of miscarriages and still births and yet failed to produce a son... She was the mother of Mary Tudor; ANNE BOLEYN, the pretty, clever, French-educated P ...Show more
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Secondhand. "London Under" is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the ...Show more
Doomed to Repeat: The Lessons of History We've Failed to Learn by Bill Fawcett
19.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It. And so we have. Time again the mankind has faced down problems, but have failed to take the hard earned knowledge into the next battle of the same nature. This collection of essays will illuminate those problems we've faced over and over and the common t ...Show more
Memory of the World: The Treasures That Record Our History from 1700 BC to the Present Day by UNESCO
35.00 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, priceless documentary heritage records the diversity of languages, peoples and knowledge that has influenced humanity from the early days of human history to the present. This heritage documents important events, discoveries or inventions that have transformed the world. Th ...Show more
Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton
27.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A brilliant exploration of the role of the intelligence services at the end of Britain's empire. Empire of Secrets is the gripping and largely untold story of the role of the intelligence services in Britain's retreat from empire. Against the background of the Cold War, and the looming spectre of Soviet ...Show more
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: good
A sharp focus snapshot of Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo Affair. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social rev ...Show more
Johnson's Life of London: The People Who Made the City That Made the World by Boris Johnson
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
London is special. For centuries, it has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This sparkling new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners shows in one, personality-packed book that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterpr ...Show more