Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags: Australia's most colourful criminal characters by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
An incredible collection of true crime characters from Australia's master storyteller. The bold, the bad and the slightly mad . . . in Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags, Jim Haynes brings us fifteen larger-than-life Aussies - some of the greatest, and most unknown, ne'er do wells from Austral ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more
The Viking Great Army and the Making of England by Dawn Hadley, Julian Richards
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The hidden story of a little-known but transformative period in the formation of England as a nation. The Viking Great Army that swept through England between AD 865 and 878 altered the course of British history. Since the late 8th century, Viking raids on the British Isles had been a regular feature of ...Show more
Plants: Past, Present and Future (First Knowledges) by Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head
$24.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Voices | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Plants are the foundation of life on Earth. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always known thi ...Show more
Winters in the World - A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seasons in medieval England. Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs, and traditions linked to the different ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms (HB) by Richard Fidler
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. When Richard Fidler came across the account of Ibn Fadlan - a tenth-century Arab diplomat who travelled a ...Show more
Greek Myths: A New Retelling, with drawings by Chris Ofili by Charlotte Higgins
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A major new retelling of the Greek myths for a new generation, with original drawings by world-renowned artist Chris Ofili.In this spellbinding new collection, Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of the most enduring stories of all time. Here are myths of the creation, of Heracles and Theseus and Perseu ...Show more
Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
In this monumental book, Ronald Grigor Suny sheds light on the least understood years of Stalin's career, bringing to life the turbulent world in which he lived and the extraordinary historical events that shaped him. Suny draws on a wealth of new archival evidence from Stalin's early years in the Cauca ...Show more
Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court by Simon Thurley
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England. Life in the court of the House of Stuart has been shrouded in mystery: the first half of the century overshad ...Show more
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History by Margalit Fox
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History
The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R) AWARD - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND NPR - "Fox unspools Jones and Hill's delightfully ...Show more
A Short History of the World in 50 Books by Daniel Smith
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A\Short History of the World Ser.
The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining the nature of our extraordinary species and imagining what lies beyond our known world. Books ultimately provide an invaluable and comprehensive record of what ...Show more
France: A Short History by Jeremy Black
$21.99 AUD
Category: History
A concise history of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities and exploring France's cultural and political influence today. Artists, martyrs, kings, revolutionaries: France's sense of national identity is inextricably linked to its dramatic history, which fas ...Show more