A Week in September: A story of enduring love from the Burma Railway by Peter Rees
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Through a precious cache of WWII letters, a story of war is revealed. But also, most movingly, a story of love, resilience and survival, from award-winning and bestselling writer, Peter Rees. Doug Heywood was a grown man when he discovered, in a shoe box hidden in a wardrobe, a time capsule of sorts - ...Show more
Visions for a Post Covid World - Defining a Radically New Normal by Joe Gray
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
Hitler's Terror Weapons - From Doodlebug to Nuclear Warheads by Geoffrey Brooks
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the story of the Terror Weapons developed by Hitler and Nazi Germany that were intended to be unleashed with devastating effect on the rest of the World. The book charts the development of the V rockets and their successes against allied targets. It then goes on to look at the even more sinister ...Show more
SAS: Rogue Heroes - Now a major TV drama by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was radical and entirely against the rules- a small undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines. So began the most celebrated and mysterio ...Show more
The Shortest History of Economics by Andrew Leigh
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
'The secret of economics is that the most powerful insights come from a handful of big ideas that anyone can follow.' This small book tells a big story. From ancient times to the modern world, The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transf ...Show more
Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation by Ross McMullin
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Acclaimed historian and biographer Ross McMullin has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in this sequel to Farewell, Dear People, the winner of multiple awards, including the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. Life So Full of Promise, his second multi-biography about Aust ...Show more
The Nature of Honour by David McBride
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Son, father, soldier, lawyer, adventurer, crusader - tells the colourful and fascinating life story of David McBride. Son of the renowned Sydney obstetrician, Dr William McBride, who raised the alarm on the anti-nausea drug thalidomide in the 1960s and was later struck off the medical register for falsi ...Show more
Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
This imaginative reframing of the Renaissance presents its history asthat of connections across Europe, where artists from the north andsouth were products of the brilliantly fertile mix of classical inspiration, observation, and self-consciousness that set European culture alight from the fifteenth to ...Show more
The Ancient Olympics by Nigel Spivey
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The word 'athletics' is derived from the Greek verb 'to struggle/suffer for a prize'. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Greek beauty again, but as war by other means. Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of the Greek Olympics as they really were - fierce contests b ...Show more
King and Collector - Henry VIII and the Art of Kingship by Siobhan Clarke; Linda Collins
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A sumptuous guide to the art of Henry VIII--with analysis of what his collection of paintings and artworks reveal about the man and his reign No English king is as well-known to us as Henry VIII: famous for six marriages; for dissolving the monasteries and creating the Church of England; and for the r ...Show more
Cairo 1921 - Ten Days That Made the Middle East by C. Brad Faught
$41.95 AUD
Category: History
The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East