The Oarsmen: The Remarkable Story of the Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace by PATTERSON, SCOTT
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace
At the end of the First World War, there were 270,000 demobilised Australian soldiers in Europe. Getting them home after the Armistice was a task of epic proportions that would take more than two years. In the meantime, how to keep these disgruntled, damaged men with guns occupied? In a word: sport. T ...Show more
The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown by Nick Barratt
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumultuous struggle for supremacy between the first Plantagenet king, Henry II, and his four sons - a drama that tore apart the most powerful family in western Europe and shaped the future of two nations. As well as exploring the personalities and crises ...Show more
A Bite-Sized History of France - Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment by Stéphane Hénaut; Jeni Mitchell
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A "delicious" (Dorie Greenspan), "genial" (Kirkus Reviews), "very cool book about the intersections of food and history" (Michael Pollan)--as featured in the New York Times "The complex political, historical, religious and social factors that shaped some of France's] . . . most iconic dishes and culinar ...Show more
Great Aussie Car Fails by MORLEY, DAVE
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
With more than 30 years of experience as a motoring journalist, author Dave Morley has come across his fair share of epic car stuff-ups. Great Aussie Car Fails explores the biggest stuff-ups in motoring history, from the supercar with an engine prone to exploding, to Peter Brock's Energy Polariser, the ...Show more
The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: 11-Sep
* "The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." The Times "Although many years have passed since 9/11, this book, told with such immediacy, brings so vividly back to mind the shock of that day, and why it continues to shape the tragic history that has followed." Lawrence Wright, author of T ...Show more
The Nile: History's Greatest River by Terje Tvedt
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
The greatest river in the world has a long and fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the world's leading experts on the history of waterways, travels upstream along the river's mouth to its sources. The result is a travelogue through 5000 years and 11 countries, from the Mediterranean to Ce ...Show more
The Last Duel: Now a major film starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer by Eric Jager
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The gripping, atmospheric true story of the duel to end all duels- a trial by combat pitting a knight against a squire accused of violating the knight's beautiful young wife. Now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott. In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive crowd gathered at a Paris mon ...Show more
The Shipwreck: The true story of the Dunbar, the disaster that broke the colony's heart and forged a nation's spirit by Larry Writer
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The epic story of one of Australia's greatest maritime disasters, the wreck of The Dunbar. At the top of The Gap, the haunted cliffs that front the coast of Sydney's Watsons Bay, sits a massive, battered anchor. It belonged to the Dunbar, an 1186-tonne three-masted clipped en route to Sydney from Plymou ...Show more
The Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set ...Show more
Hitchens vs Blair : Be it Resolved Religion is a Force for Good in the World by Christopher Hitchens
$14.99 AUD
Category: History
On November 26, 2010, intellectual juggernaut and staunch atheist Christopher Hitchens went head-to-head with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of the Western world's most openly devout political leaders, on the highly charged topic of religion. Few world leaders have had a greater hand in s ...Show more
Titans of History by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a pre-read / used book. Good condition. minor maks Simon Sebag Montefiore, one of our pre-eminent historians, presents the lives of the giants who have made our world. The cast varies from conquerors, poets, kings, empresses and whores to psychopaths, composers and explorers. Informative, en ...Show more
The Great Depression: A Diary by Benjamin Roth
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depre ...Show more