Explaining History: 3 books

The 20th Century was the age of the public intellectual and foremost amongst the thinkers and writers who helped interpret the century was George Orwell. His best known works, Animal Farm and 1984 have become the means by which most of humanity in the decades since his death have come to explore the...

This is the essential guide to mastering the Russian Revolution that doesn't simply focus on straight facts but guides students through the essential core arguments and debates. In ten chapters it explores everything from the long term causes of the revolution to the power struggle between Trotsky...

By early 1942 the Japanese appeared to be unstoppable. On land, sea and in the air they have devastated their European and American enemies and in the space of a few months built a vast empire in the Pacific and South East Asia. 1942 would be a year of desperate struggle for the Australians and Americans...