Haus Publishing imprint: 173 books

William Hughes

Australia

by Carl Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011

The First World War marked the emergence of the Dominions on the world stage as independent nations, none more so than Australia. The country's sacrifice at Gallipoli in 1915, and the splendid combat record of Australian troops on the Western Front not only created a national awakening at home, but...

David Lloyd George

Great Britain

by Alan Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009

David Lloyd George (1863-1945). The end of the First World War saw Britain at the height of its power. Its fleet and air force were the largest in the world. Its armies had triumphed in the Middle East and spearheaded the final attacks in Western Europe that had driven the defeated Germans to seek...
by Michael Köhlmeier
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017

Part dark fairy tale, part mystery, Yiza is the story of three homeless street children on the run. One evening, not long after her arrival in Germany, six-year-old Yiza is abandoned at the market where she spends her days. At a shelter for migrant children she meets two boys, Schamhan and Arian,...

Piip, Meierovics & Voldemaras

The Baltic States

by Charlotte Alston
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011

Conflict on the borders of the Russian 'Empire', whatever the complexion of the government controlling it, has been a constant feature of the past 90 years, most recently with Russia's brief war with Georgia in August 2008. In 1919, as the smaller nations on Russia's borders sought self-determination...

William Massey

New Zealand

by James Watson
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011

The Great War profoundly affected both New Zealand and its Prime Minister William Massey (1856-1925). 'Farmer Bill' oversaw the despatch of a hundred thousand New Zealanders, including his own sons, to Middle Eastern and European battlefields. In 1919 he led the New Zealand delegation to the Paris...
by Andrew Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006

Part of the Prime Ministers Series, Law was a Conservative who opposed Home rule for Ireland
by Hugh Purcell
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006

A biography of the Liberal British Prime Minister, 'Who Won the War'.
by Prudence Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006

This biography concentrates on Cleopatra's ever-shifting identity. Depending on the audience, she might present herself as a goddess, a political leader, or an alluring and exotic woman. Roman statesmen likewise manipulated Cleopatra's image for their own political ends.

Prince Charoon et al

South East Asia

by Andrew Dalby
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011

Southeast Asia needs to be dealt with as a whole, because, although the one national delegation from the region (Siam) took a minor part, nationalist movements in several Southeast Asian countries reached an early climax - significant though inconclusive - in the years 1919-1920. The planned Peace...

Pasic & Trumbic

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

by Dejan Djokic
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

Nicola Pasic and Ante Trumbic: The book will provide the first parallel biographies of two key Yugoslav politicians of the early 20th century: Nikola Pasic, a Serb, and Ante Trumbic, a Croat. It will also offer a brief history of the creation of Yugoslavia (initially known as the Kingdom of Serbs,...

Consequences of Peace

The Versailles Settlement - Aftermath and Legacy

by Alan Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011

Consequences of Peace: The Versailles Settlement - Aftermath and Legacy. This final volume in the Paris Peace Conference series will evaluate the immediate and later effects of the last great peace gathering which sought to settle the world's affairs at a stroke - something that was not attempted...
by Jonathan Clements
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008

The records of the Chinese Yuan dynasty do not mention a Marco Polo at all (and they should), and there aer some suspicious omissions from Polo's text - no tea, no foot-binding, no mention of Chinese printing, or even of the Great Wall. Did Polo even go to China?

Admiral Togo

Nelson of the East

by Jonathan Clements
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010

Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) was born into a feudal society that had lived in seclusion for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the destruction wrought upon his native land by British warships. As the legendary "Silent Admiral", he was at the forefront of innovations in warfare,...

China

An Introduction to the Culture and People

by Kai Strittmatter
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012

It's time we got to know a little more about the Chinese. Did you know they don't eat soup, they drink it? That their surnames come before their first names? That their good sense is to be found not in their heads but in their hearts? Or that white is their colour of mourning? This guide to avoiding...
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