The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli: The many lives and tragic death of Harry Freame, the Anzac hero betrayed by his nation by Ryan Butta
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The many lives and tragic death of Harry Freame, the Anzac hero betrayed by his nation Harry Freame was the first Australian to win the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Gallipoli. Raised as a samurai, he risked his life again and again to scout the beaches and hills of the battlefield, reporting invaluabl ...Show more
Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation by Leon McCarron
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
For thousands of years, the Tigris has acted as a lung exhaling life into Mesopotamia. Its cycles of flooding created seasons of plenty and seasons of scarcity. Water was once everywhere, from the northern mountains to the southern marshlands. But it is now beginning to falter, becoming clogged and erra ...Show more
Nazi Billionaires - The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Packed with revelations, this history traces the corrupt, bloody money that was hoarded by Nazi families during and after the Second World War – and how that money has translated into wealth and power for well known companies and tycoons today. Three weeks after Hitler seized power in Germany he called ...Show more
Aboriginal Myths - Tales of Dr by Reed A W
$18.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Aboriginal Library
A collection of stories exploring dreamtime myths through ancient images, such as the Rainbow Snake, the discovery of fire, and the first man and woman. Divided into three sections, The Great Father, Totemic Ancestors and Creation Myths, it seeks to provide an insight into Aboriginal culture.
Lavender Bay to the Spit: Lavender Bay to the Spit by Joan Lawrence
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pictorial History Series
A history of the foreshores from North Sydney to Mosman, covering the suburbs of Lavender Bay, McMahons Point, Milsons Point, Careening Cove, Neutral Bay, Cremorne, Clifton Gardens, Balmoral, Mosman, The Spit and Beauty Point. The Aboriginal history, white settlement, early land division, speculating an ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
Dive!: Australian Submariners at War by Mike Carlton
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Submariners are a special breed. Not for them a life on the ocean wave, the fresh air and sunshine of other naval sailors. With stealth and daring they go deep and dark, alone and unseen, in often dangerous waters. They sometimes call themselves the Silent Service, with good reason.Australian submariner ...Show more
The Muse of History - The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the 20th Century by Oswyn Murray
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which eac ...Show more
Colony: Australia 1770 1861 / Frontier Wars by Cathy Leahy, Judith Ryan
$80.00 AUD
Category: History
This publication explores Australia's shared history. Featuring works from the National Gallery of Victoria and key collections throughout Australia, it highlights the multiple perspectives on our colonial history through new scholarship and first-person statements from contemporary artists. This volume ...Show more
The Opera House: The extraordinary story of the building that symbolises Australia the people, the secrets, the scandals and the sheer genius by Peter FitzSimons
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.' - Louis Kahn, US architect If only these walls and this land could talk ... The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Ma ...Show more
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England by Marc Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'[A] clever, lively ... splendid new book'DAN JONES, SUNDAY TIMES'A big gold bar of delight'SPECTATORSixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and establis ...Show more
Captain James Cook by Rob Mundle
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A biography that puts you on the quarterdeck with history's greatest sailor Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers in world history. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the eighteenth century, Cook unravelled the oldest mystery surround ...Show more