Beersheba Centenary Edition: Travels through a forgotten Australian victory by Paul Daley
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A hundred years ago in October 1917 members of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade participated in what is now regarded as the last great successful cavalry charge. Waving bayonets overhead in the dying light, they raced across six kilometres of exposed ground in Palestine, surprising the well-entren ...Show more
The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World by Edith Hall
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidasâe(tm)s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But who were the ancient Greeks? An ...Show more
Underground by Haruki Murakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day. He also interviews members and ex-members ...Show more
Capturing Time: Panoramas of old Australia by Edwin Barnard
$14.99 AUD
$49.99 (70% off)
Category: History
Panoramas, whether painted or photographed, were the nineteenth-century equivalent of IMAX or Google maps. These wide-angled views of landscapes and cities fascinated viewers, who had never before seen such far-reaching perspectives on the world around them. Based on the National Library of Australias e ...Show more
Women to the Front by Heather Sheard; Ruth Lee
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
At the outbreak of World War I, 129 women were registered as medical practitioners in Australia, and many of them were eager to contribute their skills and expertise to the war effort. For the military establishment, however, the notion of women doctors serving on the battlefield was unthinkable. Undau ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVER Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of ...Show more
New Jerusalem by Paul Ham
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
IN FEBRUARY 1534 a radical religious sect whose disciples were being persecuted throughout Europe seized the city of M nster, in the German-speaking land of Westphalia.They were convinced that they were God's Elect, specially chosen by the Almighty to be the first to ascend to Paradise on Judgement Day, ...Show more
Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything by David Christian
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers ...Show more
The Pianist of Yarmouk by Aeham Ahmad
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
One morning on the outskirts of Damascus, two starving friends are walking through their desolate city and come across a familiar street that has been turned to rubble, concrete bridges towering above them like tombs and houses turned inside out. Aeham turns to the only comfort he has left and sits at h ...Show more
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Now in a special new edition perf ...Show more
Vulcan 607 by Rowland White
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943... When Argentine forces invaded the Falklands in the early hours of 2 April 1982, Britain's military chiefs were faced with a real-life Mission Impossible. Its ...Show more
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy: 1945-1975 by Max Hastings
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. From the best-selling author of All Hell Let Loose comes a masterly chronicle of one of the most devastating international conflicts of the 20th century and how its people were affected. 'This is a comprehensive, spellbinding, surprisingly intimate, and altogether magnificent historical nar ...Show more