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A Brief History of Germany: Indispensable for Travellers by Jeremy Black
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, politics, unification, and war. In A Brief History of Germany, Jeremy Black questions how the Germany we know today came to be, chronicling the events tha ...Show more
A Brief History of London by Jeremy Black
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a turning point. This critical moment presents an opportunity to look back, with a distinctive perspective, a focus on London in its national and, perhaps even more importantly, i ...Show more
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III by Jeremy Black
$39.99 AUD
Category: 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 r ...Show more
A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean by Jeremy Black
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Western control or influence over the its islands and shores. There is a particular focus on the period from the 1530s to 1890 with its greater Western coastal and ...Show more
France: A Short History by Jeremy Black
$21.99 AUD
Category: History
A concise history of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities and exploring France's cultural and political influence today. Artists, martyrs, kings, revolutionaries: France's sense of national identity is inextricably linked to its dramatic history, which fas ...Show more
Great Battles of All Time by Black, Jeremy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Twenty-five militaryhistorians from around theworld describe the decisiveconflicts that shaped historyfrom the fifth century BCEto the present. Cannae and Agincourt, Waterloo and Gettysburg, Stalingrad and Midway, this compact volume collects the most influential battles and conflicts in history. Coveri ...Show more
Maps That Changed The World by John O. E. Clark; Jeremy Black (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Narrative
From beautifully engraved sixteenth-century Dutch maps to sinister Nazi maps, this stunning compendium features some of the most famous cartography ever created. Stretching back to when explorers feared dropping off the -edge of the world, - these 65 examples include Lewis and Clark's charting of the Am ...Show more
Paris - A Short History by Jeremy Black
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Guides | Series: A\Short History Ser.
Once described as "that metropolis of dress and debauchery" by the Scottish poet David Mallet, Paris has always had a reputation for a peculiar joie de vivre, from art to architecture, cookery to couture, captivating minds and imaginations across the Continent and beyond. In Paris: A Short History, his ...Show more
Strategy and the Second World War - How the War Was Won, and Lost by Jeremy Black
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and Germany declared war on the United States.In this timely ...Show more
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