The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 by James Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Are you ready for the truth about World War Two? In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war on land, in the air and at sea, James Holland reveals not only the truth behind the familiar legends of the Second World War but he also unveils those lesser known events which were to have ...Show more
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors by Alison Weir
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: England's Medieval Queens Ser.
The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the subject of Alison's most successful book. The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens ...Show more
Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches 1937-58 by Albert Camus
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures 'Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...' This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. From a pr ...Show more
MY PEOPLES SONGS How an Indigenous Family Survived Colonial Tasmania by Joel Stephen Birnie
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Tarenootairer (c.1806–58) was still a child when a band of white sealers bound her and forced her onto a boat. From there unfolded a life of immense cruelty inflicted by her colonial captors. As with so many Indigenous women of her time, even today the historical record of her life remains a scant threa ...Show more
The Five Million Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture by Peter Bellwood
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural era Over the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally dominant species Homo sapiens. Along the way, humans ...Show more
Because A White Man'll Never Do It by Kevin Gilbert
$16.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
Kevin Gilbert's powerful expose of past and present race relations in Australia is an alarming story of land theft, attempted racial extermination, oppression, denial of human rights, slavery, ridicule, denigration, inequality and paternalism. First published in 1973, Gilbert's controversial account of ...Show more
Tragedy At Évian: How the World Allowed Hitler to Proceed with the Holocaust by Tony Matthews
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In July 1938 the United States, Great Britain and thirty other countries participated in a vitalconference at Évian-les-Bains, France, to discuss the persecution and possible emigration of the European Jews, specifically those caught under the anvil of Nazi atrocities. However, most of those nations rej ...Show more
The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Second-hand, paperback in as new condition. 'An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world's religious texts can be a force for good today' John Barton, author of A History of the Bible In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to ...Show more
The Book of Unexplained Mysteries - On the Trail of the Secret and the Strange by Will Pearson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Everybody loves a good mystery and sometimes the questions can be more interesting than the answers.Will Pearson investigates twenty unique mysteries with their broad spectrum of strangeness. Some, like the sudden disappearance of the sailing ship Mary Celeste's passengers and crew have gained universal ...Show more
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown that Shaped the Modern World by Giles Milton
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us what an excellent story-teller he is' - Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny. Berlin was in ruins when Soviet forces fought their way towards the Re ...Show more
Grog War by Alexis Wright
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A revamped Magabala classic by Miles Franklin award‑winning author Alexis Wright.First published in 1997, this vivid portrayal of how the Indigenous people of Tennant Creek worked together to achieve community-wide alcohol restrictions, is more relevant now than ever. A searing account of what transpire ...Show more
The Wolf Age - The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A thrilling work of popular history that gives a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo Saxon conflicts and brings the bloody period vividly to life. In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers, to get soldiers they ne ...Show more