ANZAC Memories by Don Donovan
16.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
A collection of evocative photographs and quotations honouring the memory of those who served in the First World War. A photographic journey through images and mateship.
Australia Under Attack: The Bombing of Darwin 1942 by Douglas Lockwood
29.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
The morning of 19 February 1942 saw the grim face of war on Australian shores for the first time as a Japanese task force attacked Darwin. A correspondent for the Melbourne Herald at the time of the bombings, author Douglas Lockwood witnessed the event with his own eyes.
Unbelievers: an Emotional History of Doubt by Alec Ryrie
32.99 AUD
Category: History
Why have Western societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? Looking to the feelings and faith of ordinary people, the award-winning author of Protestants Alec Ryrie offers a bold new history of atheism. We think we know the history of faith: how the ratio of Christian believers ...Show more
Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church by John W. O'Malley
45.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1869, some seven hundred Catholic bishops traveled to Rome to participate in the first church-wide council in three hundred years. The French Revolution had shaken the foundations of the church. Pope Pius IX was determined to set things right through a declaration by the council that the pope was inf ...Show more
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson
34.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to arm ...Show more
Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776-1871 by Adam Zamoyski
34.99 AUD
Category: History
From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life. Holy Madness probes into the psyche that was responsible for so many of the founding events of our modern world, and into the instincts that inspire ...Show more
The Last King of Poland by Adam Zamoyski
34.99 AUD
Category: History
A superb study of one of the most important, romantic and dynamic figures of European history. 'A fine book ... the web of political intrigue unfolds like an appetising detective novel' Scotsman The last king of Poland owed his throne largely to his youthful romance with the future Catherine the Great ...Show more
The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England by Emily Brand
32.99 AUD
Category: History
'A hauntingly beautiful portrait of the Byron dynasty' Rebecca Rideal 'Combining new research with a pacy narrative, Emily Brand introduces the glamorous and flawed Byron dynasty-William, the 'Wicked Lord', pleasure-seeking Isabella, and 'Mad Jack'-a family inheritance to match the wildest imaginings o ...Show more
Antigone Rising - The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths by Helen Morales
32.99 AUD
Category: History
A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyoncé. The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways - glossing over misogyny while omitting the seeds ...Show more
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie
22.99 AUD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut' Antony Beevor'One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years' Max Hastings'Brilliant and sparkling ... reads like a thriller. I couldn't put it down' Peter Frankopan On a wet afternoon in Sep ...Show more
Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie
29.99 AUD
Category: History
An immersive exploration of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning author of Sightlines. In this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what recon ...Show more
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 by Antonia Fraser
36.00 AUD
Category: History
A bestselling historian's account of the Gunpowder Plot - 'History as it should be written' - Roy Strong.