Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Napoleon, Nelson, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Marshall, de Gaulle, Eisenhower and Thatcher- each of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the war their nation was embroiled in. How were they alike, and in what ways did they differ? Was their war leadership unique, or did these leaders have so ...Show more
The Story of China: A portrait of a civilisation and its people by Michael Wood
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
China's story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential for reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today.China is the oldest livi ...Show more
Richard III - England's Most Controversial King by Chris Skidmore
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England's most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.Richard III is one of English history's best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare as a hun ...Show more
Missions Impossible - Extraordinary Stories of Daring and Courage by Hazel Flynn
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
110 incredible true stories torn from the pages of history. From Ancient Greece to the hunt and killing of Bin Laden, here are incredible acts of bravery, courage and derring-do that have in one fell swoop changed the world. Missions Impossible: Extraordinary Stories of Daring and Courage is a fascina ...Show more
Philip And Alexander by Adrian Goldsworthy
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedon from a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire. During his short life Alexander the Great carved out an empire stretching from the Balkans to Central India, re-drawing the map of the ancient worl ...Show more
Adventurers, Pioneers and Misfits: Australia's Most Amazing True Life Stories by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
From an eccentric musical genius to an escaped convict who ended up Japan, Jim Haynes reveals some of Australia's most amazing, and sometimes unbelievable, true life stories
What the Colonists Never Knew: A History of Aboriginal Sydney by Dennis Foley, Peter Read
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
What the Colonists Never Knew paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up Aboriginal in Sydney, alongside the colonists, from 1788 to the present.Dennis, the grandson ofClarice Malinda Lougher, the last practising matriarch of the Gai-mariagal clan, was immersed in cultural knowledge and lore ...Show more
The Trial of the Chicago 7: the Official Transcript by George C. McNamee (Editor); Daniel Greenberg (Editor); Aaron Sorkin (Foreword by); Mark L. Levine (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Republished fifty years later to coincide with the release this fall of the film of the same title written and directed by Aaron Sorkin with an all-star cast, this is the classic account of perhaps the most infamous, and definitely the most entertaining, trial in recent American history. In the fall of ...Show more
Girl with a Sniper Rifle - An Eastern Front Memoir by Yulia Zhukova
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In this vivid first-hand account we gain unique access to the inner workings of Stalin's Central Women's Sniper School, near Podolsk in Western Russia.Luliia was a dedicated member of the Komsomol (the Soviet communist youth organisation) and her parents worked for the NKVD. She started at the sniper sc ...Show more
Einstein's War by Stanley, Matthew
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story' Michael Frayn, author of Tony Award-winning Copenhagen In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German ...Show more
King and Emperor - A New Life of Charlemagne by Janet L. Nelson
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European super-state. That is why he is so often called 'Charles the Great'- by the French 'Charlemagne', and by the Germans 'Karl der Grosse'. His strength of character was felt to be remarkable from early in his long rei ...Show more
Following Franco - Spanish Culture and Politics in Transition by Duncan Wheeler
$57.99 AUD
Category: History
The transition to democracy that followed the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 was once hailed as a model of political transformation. But since the 2008 financial crisis it has come under intense scrutiny. Today, a growing divide exists between advocates of the Transition and those wh ...Show more