She and Her Pretty Friend: The hidden history of Australian women who love women by Danielle Scrimshaw
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
A joyous look at the history of lesbian and bisexual women in Australia - from colonisation to convict times, through suffrage and liberation to today.Throughout history, women's relationships have been downgraded and diminished. Instead of lovers, they are documented as particularly close friends; the ...Show more
Saga Land - The Island of Stories at the Edge of the World (HB) by Richard Fidler; Kari Gislason
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey.A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author K ri G slason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who set ...Show more
Australians: A Short History by Thomas Keneally
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed the Australian national story. Here these volumes are brought together for a sto ...Show more
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'Beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn' - CLAIRE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL HOUSE 'Tender, heartfelt and lyrical' - PETINA GAPPAH, AUTHOR OF OUT OF DARKNESS, SHINING LIGHT Since the discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance on the bed of the Antarctic ocean, the ...Show more
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West by Mark Lee Gardner
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
To Hell On a Fast Horse brings to life the thrilling manhunt for the Wild West's most iconic outlaw. It also will be the first dual biography of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, two larger-than-life figures from the American West who are inextricably linked - neither would become the stuff of legend ...Show more
Born of Fire and Ash - Australian Operations in Response to the East Timor Crisis 1999-2000 by Craig Stockings (Editor)
$99.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor Ser.
Australia's involvement in East Timor from 1999-2000 was this nation's largest mission conducted under United Nations auspices, the single largest deployment of ADF personnel since the Second World War, and an instrumental part of Timor-Leste gaining its independence. Critically, it was also one not nes ...Show more
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj by Anita Anand
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The "compelling and] vivid" (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate twenty-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions. When Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the Lie ...Show more
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922 by Ryan Gingeras
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire offers a new way of understanding the twentieth century. The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religiou ...Show more
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst of Western triumphalism proclaimed a US-led unipolar ...Show more
Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the world since 1942 (Updated 2021) by Allan Gyngell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In Fear of Abandonment, expert and insider Allan Gyngell tells the story of how Australia has shaped the world and been shaped by it since it established an independent foreign policy during the dangerous days of 1942. Gyngell argues that the fear of being abandoned - originally by Britain, and later by ...Show more
100 Tales from Australia's Most Haunted Places by Ben Pobjie
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In 100 Tales from Australia's Most Haunted Places, Ben Pobjie communes with the spirit world to reveal Australia's most spooky stories. From the ghostly black horse of Sutton Forest to the butcher of Adelaide Street, a haunted Brisbane lift to the chilling experiments carried out by Doctor Blood of the ...Show more
First Knowledges Country: Future Fire, Future Farming by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: First Knowledges
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. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more