Hero on the Western Front: Discovering Sergeant York's WWI Battlefield by MICHAEL KELLY
$75.00 AUD
Category: history
They knew it was the end. Weakened by four years of war, the reality had finally dawned on the Germans that their armies could never stop the combined might of the Allied forces, now bolstered by the fresh, enthusiastic Americans, who were now determined to be involved in the conflict that had engulfed ...Show more
The Second World War Explained by Michael O'Kelly
$59.99 AUD
Category: history
Over seventy years on the terrible events and outcome of the Second World War remains hugely relevant and important. Far from diminishing interest in this truly global conflict is increasing. The internet has enabled detailed research into ancestors' war records to an extent unimaginable a decade or so ...Show more
The Celts by Alice Roberts
$22.99 AUD
Category: history
'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil Oliver The Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe: their origins, their treasure and their enduring leg ...Show more
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
$26.99 AUD
Category: history
Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, ...Show more
Stasiland by Anna Funder
$22.99 AUD
Category: economics politics business
Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson PrizeTruth can be stranger - and more heartbreaking and hilarious - than fiction.In this now classic work, Funder tells extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of ...Show more
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
$36.99 AUD
Category: history
Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was bound ...Show more
Civil War in Syria["Mobilization and Competing Social Orders"] by Adam Baczko; Gilles Dorronsoro; Arthur Quesnay
$34.99 AUD
Category: history | Series: Problems of International Politics Ser.
The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities by Paul Anthony Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: history
'Brilliant for anyone interested in the effervescent oddness of English' --Stig Abell on Word DropsThis is the perfect language gift book: a surprising or obscure word for every day of the year. Paul Anthony Jones has unearthed a wealth of wonderful and strange words: dip into this beautifully designed ...Show more
Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide: The Modern Era, Previously Published as Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide by Leonard Maltin
$62.99 AUD
Category: history
Previously published as Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide, this capstone edition includes a new Introduction by the author. (Note: No new reviews have been added to this edition) Now that streaming services like Netflix and Hulu can deliver thousands of movies at the touch of a button, the only questio ...Show more
The Great Game by Peter HOPKIRK
$26.99 AUD
Category: history | Series: Not a Ser.
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling. When play first began the two riva ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$19.99 AUD
Category: history
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more
Stories from the Sandstone by Peter Hobbins
$44.99 AUD
Category: history
Sailing to Australia in 1835, 16-year-old John Dawson watched in alarm as three of his sisters developed smallpox. Although all survived this dreaded disease, their faces bore tell-tale scars for the rest of their lives. Yet John left an even more enduring memento of his family's perilous voyage in the ...Show more