Old Is Gold
-
The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War IIThe prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account. On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane engines. He went...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Murdering McKinleyWhen President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the commander-in-chief. Eric Rauchway's brilliant Murdering McKinley restages...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at WarNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A prize-winning historian's "effervescent" (The New Yorker) account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism "High-speed, four-lane storytelling...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Amache RememberedDuring World War II, over one hundred thousand American citizens were corralled behind barbed wire with watch towers, search beacons and armed guards, simply because they had Japanese faces and names. These people have earned a place in history; they have earned the right...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American DreamWinner of the Chicago Tribune's 2013 Heartland Prize A critically acclaimed history of Chicago at mid-century, featuring many of the incredible personalities that shaped American culture Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop in Chicago, and this flow of...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover AmericaA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the New Deal Book AwardAn immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America, in the midst of the Great Depression--and employed some of the biggest names in American letters...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Korean WarIt was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Max Hastings--preeminent military historian--takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of ModernityA bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable. --Mervyn Jones, New Statesman. The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new environments to replace the old--all have...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government's Greatest HumanitarianFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography comes a sweeping yet intimate story of the most influential humanitarian you've never heard of--Bob Gersony, who spent four decades in crisis zones around the world. "One of the best accounts examining...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry AdamsA "marvelous...compelling" (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams--one of America's most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States' dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation. Henry Adams is perhaps the...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Maoism: A Global History*** WINNER OF THE 2019 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDINGSHORTLISTED FOR DEUTSCHER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING***'Revelatory and instructive... a] beautifully written and accessible book' The...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960First published in 1983 and praised by the likes of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Thomas Sugrue, Arnold R. Hirsch's Making the Second Ghetto is the rare book that has only become more piercingly prescient over the years. Hirsch's classic and groundbreaking work of urban history...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Other EightiesIn this engaging book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember--one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese EmpireIn a riveting narrative that includes information from newly declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading up to the dropping of the atomic bomb. Frank explains how American leaders learned in the summer of...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924A Financial Times Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year "A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events."--Times Literary Supplement "Brilliantly researched and written...casts a careful eye upon the ghastly events that took place...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Colossus: The Turbulent, Thrilling Saga of the Building of Hoover DamAs breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America's most awe-inspiring, if dubious, achievements. This epic story of the dam--from conception to design to construction--by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik exposes the tremendous hardships and...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Revolution of Everyday LifeOriginally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the "society of the spectacle" from the point of view of individual experience. Whereas Debord's masterful analysis of the...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a TimeNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Featured in the PBS documentary The Harvey Girls: Opportunity BoundThe legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations--from the 1880s all the way through World War II--and still influence our...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of AmeriNAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW From the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call--this "rigorously historical" (The Washington Post) and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile CrisisThe Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history. In this dramatic narrative written especially for students and general readers, Sheldon M. Stern, longtime historian at the John F. Kennedy Library, enables...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per