Clouds Over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub, 1940-41 by Felix Hartlaub
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Category: History
The first English translation of Hartlaub's diaries, which have attained classic status in Germany, perfect for fans of Primo Levi and readers of Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française.
Plagues and Pandemics: Black Death, Coronaviruses and Other Killer Diseases Throughout History by DOUGLAS BOYD
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Category: History
All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travellers spreading the bacterial or viral pathogens. Many prehistoric civilisations died fast, leaving cities undamaged to mystify archeologists. Plague in Athens killed 30% of the population 430-426 BCE. When Roman Emperor Justinian ...Show more
Epic Expeditions - 25 Great Explorations into the Unknown by Ed Stafford
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Category: History
What does it take to survive in the unknown? Explorer and survival expert, Ed Stafford captures the spirit of adventure in 25 of the greatest expeditions of all time. From 1864-2018, intrepid explorers blazed a trail with round-the-world records, the ascent of Everest, crossing the Australian desert ...Show more
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders
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Category: History
7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises her old revolver and fires at the Italian head of state, the darling of Europe's ruling class. The bullet narrowly misses the dictator's bald head, hitting him in the nose. Of all his ...Show more
30 Second Napoleon by Charles Esdaile
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Category: History | Series: 30 Second
Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those with a romantic attachment to ideals of liberty and democracy, on the other are those who would rather see him as an ambitious warlord, bent on establishing a colonial empire in the hea ...Show more
Transcendence How Humans Evolved Through Fire Language Beauty And Time by Vince Gaia
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Category: History
The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann
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Category: History
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.'A magnificent book . . . at once touching, exquisite, devastating and extraordinary.'PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West Street and The Ratline'A vivid, funny, and imperturbable po ...Show more
Einstein in Bohemia by Professor Michael D. Gordin
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Category: History
A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended to make Prague his home, he lived there for jus ...Show more
How the Mind Changed - A Human History of Our Evolving Brain by Joseph Jebelli
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Category: History
'Thrilling, provocative and mind-expanding' Mail on Sunday'Masterful and illuminating' DAVID EAGLEMANDr Joseph Jebelli takes us on a seven-million-year journey through our own heads, drawing on insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, and philosophyto reveal how our brain's evolutio ...Show more
The Early Christian World Pack Vol1 & 2 by Philip Esler (Editor)
$112.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Routledge Worlds Ser.
Since its publication in 2000, The Early Christian World has come to be regarded by scholars, students and the general reader as one of the most informative and accessible works in English on the origins, development, character and major figures of early Christianity. In this new edition, the strengths ...Show more