Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King Lear. 1606 proved to be an especially grim year for ...Show more
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? Here at last is an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. First published 2005.
From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories by Mark McKenna
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In March 1797, five British sailors and 12 Bengali seamen struggled ashore after their longboat broke apart in a storm. Their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove were stranded more than 500 kilometres southeast in Bass Strait. To rescue their mates and to save themselves the 19 men must w ...Show more
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
"Glorious, horrifying... D-DAY is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women."--Time Renowned historian Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem, and the man who "single-handedly transformed the reputation of military history" (The G ...Show more
The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. "Captivating and compelling." --The New York Times "Niall Ferguson has again written a ...Show more
The Honourable Company - A history of the English East Indai Company by John Keay
$32.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there wo ...Show more
Outback Midwife by Beth McRae
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
"Call the Midwifemeets In the Middle of Nowherein this heartwarming memoir of an adventurous Aussie midwife's life 'catching babies'. Outback Midwifeis the story of Beth McRae's 40 years as a midwife, from her terrifying first day witnessing a birth as a na've student nurse to her training as a midwife ...Show more
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in.When Gustav ...Show more
History of Britain and Ireland by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Combining over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with accessible text, the History of Britain and Irelandis an invaluable resource for families, students, and anyone seeking to learn more about the fascinating story of the England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Spanning six distinct periods of British ...Show more
Wine and War - The French, the Nazis and France's greatest treasure by Don Kladstrup; Petie Kladstrup
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Hungry Student Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
In the vineyards, wine caves, and cellars of France as war and occupation came to the country winemakers acted heroically not only to save the best wines but to defend their way of life.
Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail.Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its histo ...Show more