Queens of Jerusalem - The Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Debut by an exciting young narrative historian - a revisionist history of Medieval Palestine In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an unl ...Show more
Sorry and Beyond: Healing the Stolen Generations by Brian Butler, John Bond
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Brian Butler’s grandmother was taken from her family in 1910. She was 12 years old. Twenty years later her daughter, Brian’s mother, was taken.Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, like Brian Butler’s, have been coping with the trauma of child removal for more than a century. Sorr ...Show more
Zero Fail - The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
'This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work -- the determinative work -- in this field ... Terrifying.'--Rachel Maddow The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years ...Show more
True to the Land: A History of Food in Australia by Paul van Reyk
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Foods and Nations Ser.
Spanning 65,000 years, this book provides a history of food in Australia from its beginnings, with the arrival of the first peoples and their stewardship of the land, to a present where the production and consumption of food is fraught with anxieties and competing priorities. It describes how food produ ...Show more
The Treasures of Tutankhamun by Garry J. Shaw
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
This beautifully illustrated book brings to life the greatest treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Fifty of the most important objects on display today are each accompanied by a short, accessible text giving the reader just enough information to understand their relevance and importance while retaini ...Show more
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the ?American Revolution?: former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while Jo ...Show more
Australian War Memorial: Treasures from a Century of Collecting -SIGNED by Nola Anderson
$89.99 AUD
Category: History
A book for the shelf in every Australian home, showcasing the extensive collection of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and telling the story of Australia's involvement in all theatres of war.
The Crash Detectives by Christine Negroni
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A fascinating exploration of how humans and machines fail - leading to air disasters from Amelia Earhart to MH370 - and how the lessons learned from these accidents have made flying safer. In The Crash Detectives, veteran aviation journalist and air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes the reade ...Show more
Churchill and the King: The Wartime Alliance of Winston Churchill and George VI by Kenneth Weisbrode
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
King George VI and Winston Churchill were not destined to be partners, let alone allies. Yet together, as foils, confidants, conspirators and comrades, the unlikely duo guided Britain through war while inspiring renewed hope in the monarchy, Parliament, and the nation itself. In Churchill and the King, ...Show more
The History of the World: From the Dawn of Humanity to the Modern Age by Frank Welsh
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In a narrative beginning almost 1.5 million years ago with the emergence of Homo erectus, Frank Welsh takes the reader from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the age of terrorism. Using his masterly storytelling skills, he recounts the epic story of human growth, su ...Show more
France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy str ...Show more
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Come On Shore and We Will Kill And Eat You All is a sensitive and vibrant portrayal of the cultural collision between Westerners and Maoris, from Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 to the author's unlikely romance with a Maori man. An intimate account of two centuries of friction and fascina ...Show more