The Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives by Sinclair McKay
49.99 AUD
Category: History
This is beautifully presented collector's edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park is a comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place, from its prewar heyday as a country estate, its wartime requisition and how it became the place where modern computing was invent ...Show more
The Great War Illustrated 1915: Archive and Colour Photographs of WW I by Roni Wilkinson
80.00 AUD
Category: Warfare
The second in a series of five titles, which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to beco ...Show more
The Adventures of IBN Battuta - A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century by Ross E. E. Dunn
64.00 AUD
Category: History
Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916 by Anne de Courcy
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last four years at Number 10 were a period of intens ...Show more
Mythology: Who's Who in Greek and Roman Mythology by Alexander Stuart Murray; E. M. Berens
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Explore classic stories of the great Greek and Roman heroes, gods, and monsters. Who's Who in Classical Mythology is an indispensable guide to all the Greek and Roman mythological characters, from major deities such as Athena and Bacchus, to the lesser-known wood nymphs and centaurs. Also included, of ...Show more
Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England by Terry Deary
22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Dangerous Days Ser.
The reign of Elizabeth I - a Golden Age? Try asking her subjects...Elizabethans did all they could to survive in an age of sin and bling, of beddings and beheadings, galleons and guns. Explorers set sail for new worlds, risking everything to bring back slaves, gold and the priceless potato. Elizabeth li ...Show more
100 Years of Warfare by Paul Brewer
39.95 AUD
Category: Warfare
Combining journalistic insight with historical hindsight, 100 Years of Warfare is an authoritative record of world military history from 1914 to the current day. Presented in a dramatic newspaper style and covering all major battles, from the First World War to the Global War on Terror, the book is pack ...Show more
I Used to Know That: History by Emma Marriott
14.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: I Used to Know That Ser.
If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmm, I've heard of that - what was that again?', then this is the book for you. This entertaining yet informative book travels back through time to fill in those embarrassing gaps in your knowledge, from the in ...Show more
Five Days in London May 1940 by Lukacs, John
29.99 AUD
Category: History
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Debs of Bletchley Park by Michael Smith
22.99 AUD
Category: History
For Winston Churchill the men and women at Bletchley Park were ‘the geese the laid the golden eggs', providing important intelligence that led to the Allied victory in the Second World War. At the peak of Bletchley's success, a total of twelve thousand people worked there of whom more than eight thousa ...Show more
50 Leaders Who Changed History by Charles Phillips
24.99 AUD
Category: History
What qualities enabled George Washington-celebrated as the 'father of his country'-to lead a sometimes ramshackle army to victory in the American Revolutionary War and then serve with distinction as the first US President in 1789-97? How did Winston Churchill succeed in inspiring the British people in t ...Show more
A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War by WOLF, FAULKS
24.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
This title is edited by the bestselling author of Birdsong and Dr Hope Wolf, this is an original and illuminating non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War. A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son a ...Show more