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American Midnight - The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild
49.99 AUD
Category: History
National Bestseller - One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast CompanyFrom legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but ...Show more
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
22.99 AUD
Category: History
In the late 1890s Edmund Morel, a shipping company official working in Antwerp, noticed something suspicious. When his company's ships docked from the Congo, they were filled with valuable cargoes of rubber and ivory. Yet when they sailed back to Africa they carried nothing in exchange. Nothing, that is ...Show more
King Leopold's Ghost - A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo R ...Show more
Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays by Adam Hochschild
54.99 AUD
Category: History
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show t ...Show more
Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays by Adam Hochschild
40.95 AUD
Category: History
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show t ...Show more
Spain in Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild
34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on overthrowing Spain's elected government. Millions of people around the world felt passionately that rapidly ...Show more
Spain in Our Hearts : Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild
19.99 AUD
Category: History
From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failedFor three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish ...Show more
To End All Wars: A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War by Adam Hochschild
21.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 16
In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include the brother and sister whose views on the war could not have been more diametrically ...Show more
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