Forgotten Women: The Scientists by Zing Tsjeng
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Forgotten Women Ser.
'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - indy100 'Here's to no more forgotten women.' Evening Standard The women who shaped and ...Show more
The Sisters of Auschwitz by Roxane van Iperen
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
THE TRUE STORY OF TWO JEWISH SISTERS RESISTANCE IN THE HEART OF NAZI TERRITORY WINNER of the Opzij Literature Prize 2019! During the Second World War two Jewish sisters - Janny and Lien Brilleslijper - run one of the largest hideaways in The Netherlands: The High Nest, a villa in The Gooi area. While th ...Show more
Uncrowned Queen - The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch by Nicola Tallis
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
The first comprehensive biography in three decades on Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the Tudor Dynasty.During the bloody and uncertain days of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort was married to the half brother of the Lancastrian king Henry VI. A year later she endured a traumatic birth that brou ...Show more
Grant by Ron Chernow
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ulysses S Grant
A dramaticportrait of one of America's most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant, by Pulitzer Prize winnerRon Chernow, author of the book on which the astonishing musical Hamiltonis based. As late as April 1861, when the American Civil Warbroke out, Ulysses S. Grant was a dismal failure ...Show more
Forgotten Women: the Writers by Zing Tsjeng
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Forgotten Women Ser.
'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - Independent The women who shaped and were erased from our history. Forgotten Women is a new ...Show more
Riviera Dreaming: Love and War on the Cote d'Azur by Maureen Emerson
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
..". an effervescent cocktail of a read: one part biography to two parts social history, topped off with a splash of scandal."-Country Life Magazine In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France... With his partner, an ex-officer in the British Army, he ...Show more
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
$37.99 AUD
$39.99 (5% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, ...Show more
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World by Alice Roberts
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
**'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling.' BRIAN COX** **'The best popular book on broad-sweep history since Guns, Germs and Steel.'** Peter Forbes The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and an ...Show more
Out of our Minds by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
To imagine – to see that which is not there – is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the pictures in our minds. Traversing the realms of science, politics, religi ...Show more
Imperial Mud - The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England. A population of proud indigenous people fight for generations to preserve their homelands against an expanding empire - an invasion justified as being necessary for 'progress'.After centuries of resistance, their culture and com ...Show more
RAF Bomber Command Operations Manual by Jonathan Falconer
$60.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Haynes Manuals Ser.
Night after night for six years of war, RAF Bomber Command's squadrons pounded away at the cities of Nazi Germany in a determined effort to bring the Third Reich to its knees. Pitted against Bomber Harris's aircrews and aircraft were some of the most effective and deadly defenses the world had seen up u ...Show more
Rolls Roce Armoured Car 1915 to 44 Owners Workshop Manual by Fletcher, David
$50.00 AUD
Category: History