Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies
$26.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of "Europe: A History", comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the "Sunday Times", "Daily Telegraph", "New Statesman", "Independent", "Guardian" and "Financial Times". Europe's history is littered with kingdoms, duchi ...Show more
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia by Rob Mundle
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Matthew Flinders is a towering figure in Australian history the first to chart our coastline and the leading champion for naming the country Australia. In 1801 he was made commander of the expedition of his life the first close circumnavigation of Terra Australis. Famous for his meticulous charts and su ...Show more
1001 Days That Shaped the World by Michael Wood
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The history of the world through extraordinary moments, decisive encounters, memorable incidents and natural disasters. This book features a detailed and informative account of every event chosen, together with an assessment of the longer term physical, cultural, social or economic impact. Evocative pai ...Show more
The Long Road to Changi by Peter Ewer
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In the 1930s while war raged in Europe, Australians were assured by politicians that the country was safe as long as the Union Jack fluttered over 'Fortress Singapore'. The reality was so different: Britain, over-stretched and under threat, skimped on the forces it needed to hold the base. When Japanese ...Show more
Catastrophe - Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles--the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg--that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a ...Show more
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (HB) by Clare Wright
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The Eureka Stockade. The story is one of Australia's foundation legends, but until now it has been told as though only half the participants were there. What if the hot-tempered, free-wheeling gold miners we learnt about in school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? And what if there ...Show more
The Explorers: Text Classics by Tim Flannery
$12.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Text Classics
The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving frontier between European invaders and the Aboriginal custodians of the continent. This compelling anthology documents almost four centuries of exploration and takes us into a world of dang ...Show more
Tomorrow We Escape by Tom Trumble
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A boy's own adventure that traverses some of the great battlefields of WWII - a story of breathtaking gallantry, resilience and friendship, but also of violence, hatred and cruelty. When 22-year-old sapper Ian Busst boarded the RMS Mauretania bound for Glasgow, it was the beginning of an extraordinary m ...Show more
Descent Into Hell by Peter Brune
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Descent into Hell is a scrupulously researched and groundbreaking account of one of the most traumatic calamities in Australian history - the Malayan Campaign, the fall of Singapore and the subsequent horrors of the Thai-Burma Railway. Unpicking the myths and legends of the war, Peter Brune goes to the ...Show more
A History of Southeast Asia by Arthur Cotterell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A History of Southeast Asia narrates the history of the region from earliest recorded times until today, covering present-day Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, Indonesia and East Timor. Its scope is the whole of Southeast Asia and not just the mainla ...Show more
Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans by Clare Wright
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Clare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing the enduring and dynamic presence of female publicans behind the bar. Wright takes the reader on a pub crawl through this history: from Sarah Bird, the 27-year-old convict who was Australia's fi ...Show more
Dark Fleet by Len Kasten
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
Reveals the Nazi-Reptilian infiltration of the U.S. government, their secret space program, and their slave colonies throughout the solar system - Details "Operation Paperclip," which enabled Nazis and their Reptilian partners to infiltrate the U.S. military-industrial complex, including NASA and th ...Show more