The Story of Australia's People - Volume 1 by Geoffrey Blainey
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin. The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to ter ...Show more
Lee Miller's War - Beyond D-Day by Anthony Penrose
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Lee Miller's work for Vogue from 1941-1945 sets her apart as a photographer and writer of extraordinary ability. The quality of her photography from the period has long been recognized as outstanding, and its full range is shown here, accompanied by her brilliant despatches. Starting with her first repo ...Show more
The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story by Matt Bondurant
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant's grandfather and two granduncles, The Wettest County in the World is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County, Virginia, during Prohibition a ...Show more
Ayesha's Gift - A daughter's search for the truth about her father by Martin Sixsmith
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
From the author of the bestselling Philomena, made into the award-winning film starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, comes the story of a young woman, born in Pakistan, living in Britain, whose life is thrown into desperate turmoil by the violent death of her father. The Pakistani authorities talk of su ...Show more
Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War by Lynne Olson
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
As Hitler's Blitzkrieg vanquished one European country after another in the chaos-filled spring of 1940, and the United States and the Soviet Union were still on the sidelines, London suddenly found itself the de facto capital of Europe, a haven for Europe's struggling governments in exile- Holland, Cze ...Show more
Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War.Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and cer ...Show more
Devil's Diary: Hitler's High Priest and the Hunt for the Lost Papers of the Third Reich by Robert K. Wittman; David Kinney (As told to)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
An unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia told through the recently discovered lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's 'philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology. Only recently discovered by former FBI agent Robert ...Show more
The History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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100 Documents that Changed the World From Magna Carta to WikiLeaks by Scott Christianson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
100 Documents That Changed the World brings together the most important written agreements, declarations and statements in history. The documents included here have changed the course of history by rewriting laws, granting freedoms and laying out constitutions. But as well as official charters and presi ...Show more
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European slaves by Giles Milton
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. Using ...Show more
Palaces and Stately Houses of Britain & Ireland Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Castles by Charles Phillips
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
This is a magnificent visual account of Britain's architectural and historical heritage celebrated in over 500 beautiful photographs, fine-art paintings, drawings and maps. It is a truly impressive reference to the historic buildings of the United Kingdom - the castles, royal palaces, stately homes, for ...Show more
Maps by Mizielinska, Aleksandra
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Maps
Explore the world with this lavish book of maps. This collection of 52 highly illustrated maps details not only geographical features and political borders, but also places of interest, iconic personalities, native animals and plants, local peoples, cultural events, and many more fascinating facts assoc ...Show more