Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant by Michael Vatikiotis
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal in 1869 that united the Mediterranean with the Arabian Sea. It opened the door of opportunity for people living insecurely on the fringes of a turbulent Europe. The Middle East is understood today through the lens of unend ...Show more
Pride - The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement by Matthew Todd
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Pride is a unique and comprehensive account of the ongoing challenges facing the gay community, and a celebration of the equal rights that have been won for many as a result of the sacrifices and passion of this mass movement. This edition is fully updated.
Out of the Depths A History of Shipwrecks by Alan G. Jamieson
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A highly illustrated voyage through shipwrecks ancient and contemporary. Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across 4,000 years, examining their historical context and significance, and showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, shedding new light on long-departed societies and civili ...Show more
Dispatch from Berlin, 1943: The story of five journalists who risked everything by Anthony Cooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'This is a helluva way to get a story.’In December 1943, five brave correspondents join a British bombers air raid on Berlin. They are Australians, Alf King from the Sydney Morning Herald and Norm Stockton from the Sydney Sun; Americans, Ed Murrow from CBS and Lowell Bennett from the International News ...Show more
Difficult Women - A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. Helen Lewis argues that feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search f ...Show more
World Beneath Their Feet - The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas by Scott Ellsworth
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Wordy: Sounding off about high art, low appetite and the power of memory by Simon Schama
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall fo ...Show more
Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte D'Azur, 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
The Golden Maze - A biography of Prague by Richard Fidler
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolution br ...Show more
The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
A new history of the Vikings - told from their own perspective rather than that of their victims The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norwa ...Show more
Hm Bark Endeavour (Special Edition) by Ray Parkin
$200.00 AUD
Category: History
Here, in one accessible volume, is Ray Parkin's highly acclaimed and multi-award winning study of Captain James Cook's Endeavour. This incomparable book is a unique account of a great journey-Endeavour's voyage up the east coast of Australia in 1770-and a remarkable re-creation of the experience of bein ...Show more
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game That Won the War by Simon Parkin
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
It's 1941. Imagine you're Winston Churchill. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Supply ships ferrying vital weapons, food and fuel from North America are being torpedoed by the German U-boats. You are concealing from the country the number of ships sunk. You are concealing the number of men kil ...Show more