Modern History

Explore the events, people, and movements that shaped the modern world with our Modern History collection at Harry Hartog Bookseller. From World Wars and revolutions to political biographies and global conflict, these engaging titles offer insight, depth, and perspective. Shop online or in-store for history books that bring the past to life.

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Napoleon by Michael Broers - 9781639364657
$39.99
Napoleon
Michael Broers
An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the...
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles - 9781800818200
$20.00
All That She Carried
Tiya Miles
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY...
The Second World War by James Holland - 9780241601327
$59.99
The Second World War
James Holland
The Second World War is brought to life with captivating colour and detail, in this...
The Plots to Kill Hitler by Richard Dargie - 9781789505818
$19.99
The Plots to Kill Hitler
Richard Dargie
From 1919 onwards, there were many people who wanted to kill Hitler. But when he...
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Suffering, Redemption and Triumph by Peter Brune - 9781922896476
$32.99
Suffering, Redemption and Triumph
Peter Brune
Between 1946 and 1966 large numbers of displaced persons (DPs) came to Australia to escape...
The Pacific by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios - 9781460758137
$34.99
The Pacific
Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and...
A World on Edge by Daniel Schoenpflug - 9781509818495
$19.99
A World on Edge
Daniel Schoenpflug
Journey into the heart of Europe, 1918 - a world left ravaged by World War...
Catastrophe by Max Hastings - 9780007519743
$24.99
Catastrophe
Max Hastings
The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity...
All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings - 9780007450725
$24.99
All Hell Let Loose
Max Hastings
'The best single-volume history of the war ever written' DOMINIC SANDBOOK, SUNDAY TIMES 'A masterly...
Resistance by Halik Kochanski - 9780141979014
$16.50
Resistance
Halik Kochanski
A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe Across the whole of...
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The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan - 9780552155144
$35.00
The Lemon Tree
Sandy Tolan
The true story of a friendship spanning religious divisions and four decades of Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
World War II The Definitive Visual Guide by DK - 9780241525685
$55.00
World War II The Definitive Visual Guide
DK
This defining period in world history is explored and explained as never before World War...
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland - 9781529369069
$24.99
The Escape Artist
Jonathan Freedland
THE NEW BOOK THE TRAITORS CIRCLE OUT NOW FROM JONATHAN FREEDLAND SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE...
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder - 9780099551799
$26.99
Bloodlands
Timothy Snyder
A magisterial history of the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany -...
Black Spartacus by Sudhir Hazareesingh - 9780141985060
$26.99
Black Spartacus
Sudhir Hazareesingh
The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The...
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman - 9780241968215
$26.99
The Guns of August
Barbara Tuchman
Tuchman's spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war - reissued...
We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole - 9781784978341
$26.99
We Don't Know Ourselves
Fintan O'Toole
The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed,...
Collapse by Vladislav M. Zubok - 9780300268171
$30.95
Collapse
Vladislav M. Zubok
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led...
Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum - 9780141991672
$26.99
Twilight of Democracy
Anne Applebaum
The Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist anatomizes the personal and ideological dimensions of the current...
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson - 9780141995151
$32.99
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told...
The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore - 9781474600873
$26.99
The Romanovs
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the...
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang - 9780465068364
$29.99
The Rape of Nanking
Iris Chang
In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks,...
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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - 9780241316757
$29.99
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism, a surprise bestseller in 2017 Arendt's classic work explores totalitarianism...
The Last of the Tsars by Robert Service - 9781447293101
$36.99
The Last of the Tsars
Robert Service
A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign...
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku - 9781760980085
$32.99
The Happiest Man on Earth
Eddie Jaku
WINNER OF THE ABIA BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2021 Life can be beautiful if you...
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - 9781784871512
$26.99
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn's masterwork about those who dared to oppose Stalin and the lives shaped, devastated and...
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes - 9780099448549
$26.99
The Fatal Shore
Robert Hughes
'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of...
The Balkans, 1804-2012 by Misha Glenny - 9781783784523
$49.99
The Balkans, 1804-2012
Misha Glenny
In this celebrated, landmark history of the Balkans, Misha Glenny investigates the roots of the...