A Week in September: A story of enduring love from the Burma Railway by Peter Rees
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Through a precious cache of WWII letters, a story of war is revealed. But also, most movingly, a story of love, resilience and survival, from award-winning and bestselling writer, Peter Rees. Doug Heywood was a grown man when he discovered, in a shoe box hidden in a wardrobe, a time capsule of sorts - ...Show more
Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation by Ross McMullin
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Acclaimed historian and biographer Ross McMullin has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in this sequel to Farewell, Dear People, the winner of multiple awards, including the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. Life So Full of Promise, his second multi-biography about Aust ...Show more
SAS: Rogue Heroes by Ben MacIntyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was radical and entirely against the rules- a small undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines. So began the most celebrated and mysterio ...Show more
The Shortest History of Economics: The Powerful Story of Economic Ideas and Forces that Shape Our World by Andrew Leigh
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
'The secret of economics is that the most powerful insights come from a handful of big ideas that anyone can follow.' This small book tells a big story. From ancient times to the modern world, The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transf ...Show more
Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-si ...Show more
Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
"A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, and invasion that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvelous book." --Simon Winchester Ghost Empire is a rare treasure--an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated by a master storyteller. ...Show more
The Nature of Honour by David McBride
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Son, father, soldier, lawyer, adventurer, crusader - tells the colourful and fascinating life story of David McBride. Son of the renowned Sydney obstetrician, Dr William McBride, who raised the alarm on the anti-nausea drug thalidomide in the 1960s and was later struck off the medical register for falsi ...Show more
King and Collector - Henry VIII and the Art of Kingship by Siobhan Clarke; Linda Collins
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A sumptuous guide to the art of Henry VIII--with analysis of what his collection of paintings and artworks reveal about the man and his reign No English king is as well-known to us as Henry VIII: famous for six marriages; for dissolving the monasteries and creating the Church of England; and for the r ...Show more
Cairo 1921 - Ten Days That Made the Middle East by C. Brad Faught
$41.95 AUD
Category: History
The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East
The Ancient Olympics by Nigel Spivey
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The word 'athletics' is derived from the Greek verb 'to struggle/suffer for a prize'. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Greek beauty again, but as war by other means. Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of the Greek Olympics as they really were - fierce contests b ...Show more
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris Masters
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.