Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain's Trailblazing Military Hospital by Wendy Moore
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The forgotten and inspiring story of a London hospital during the First World War which was staffed entirely by women. When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louis ...Show more
Migrants: The Story of Us All by Sam Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
We are all descended from migrants. Humans are, in in fundamental ways, a migratory species, more so than any other land mammal. Migration is one of the most toxically controversial subjects of our day, but it is not only an issue of our age. Migrants are expected to assimilate and encouraged to remain ...Show more
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, Forgotten Warriors puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thi ...Show more
Monash's Masterpiece: The battle of Le Hamel and the 93 minutes that changed the world by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WWI. A largely Australian force, commanded by the brilliant Sir John Monash, fought what has been described as the first modern battle - where infantry, tanks, artillery and planes oper ...Show more
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game That Won the War by Simon Parkin
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Category: History
It's 1941. Imagine you're Winston Churchill. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Supply ships ferrying vital weapons, food and fuel from North America are being torpedoed by the German U-boats. You are concealing from the country the number of ships sunk. You are concealing the number of men kil ...Show more
The Palace Papers: The Sunday Times bestseller by Tina Brown
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Category: History
William, Harry, Kate, Meghan, Andrew, Charles, Camilla, Diana … and the Queen. Based on unprecedented sources and research, bestselling author Tina Brown takes readers behind the palace walls to tell the real story of the Windsors over the last twenty years since the death of Diana. Full of powerful rev ...Show more
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922 by Ryan Gingeras
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A new, groundbreaking history of the fall of the Ottoman empire, published to coincide with its centenary In the autumn of 1918, revolution spread across Europe. One by one, grand imperial houses collapsed, allowing new republics to take their place. The fall of the Ottoman Empire is usually understood ...Show more
The Interest - How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery by Michael Taylor
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Category: History
For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation - but no longer.In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in the British col ...Show more
Game Of Mates by Cameron K Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
James is our most mundane villain. His victim is Bruce, our typical Aussie, who bleeds from the hip pocket because of James' actions. Game of Mates tells a tale of economic theft across major sectors of Australia's economy, showing how James and his group of well-connected Mates siphon off billions from ...Show more
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the end of colonialism worldwide A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world. On a sunny ...Show more
After the Romanovs: Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the latest fashions. But it has also b ...Show more
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
ORIENTALISM is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater. Edward Said, the not ...Show more