Dunera Lives A Visual History by Ken Inglis; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: History Ser.
"When scholars of such rigorous and refined erudition engage with a topic of such critical importance it is a cause for celebration, as are the lives themselves, painstakingly recorded so movingly herein. And all of it comes into the world not a moment too soon."--Elliot Perlman *** In July 1940, around ...Show more
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secon ...Show more
1956: The Year Australia Welcomed the World by Nick Richardson
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An engrossing account of a pivotal year in Australia's history.This book debunks one of the hardiest cliches in Australian history- that the 1950s was a dull decade, when the nation seemed only interested in a quiet life, a cup of tea, and a weekend drive. The truth is that, by the time the '60s came ar ...Show more
The Lost Boys by BYRNES
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In the First World War of 1914-1918, thousands of boys across Australia and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent's signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. Though some were as young as thirteen, they soon found they could die as well as any man. Like Peter Pan's lost boys ...Show more
Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy by Ami Ayalon; Anthony David (As told to); Dennis Ross (Foreword by)
$31.82 AUD
Category: History
A highly decorated Israeli military officer, leader, and former director of the internal security service, Shin Bet, sees the light on what his country must do to achieve a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. In this deeply personal journey of discovery, Ami Ayalon seeks input and perspe ...Show more
Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments of oceanic crust, and land newly minted by volcanic ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--throu ...Show more
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers ...Show more
Sex at Dawn : The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan; Cacilda Jethá
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science - as well as religious and cultural institutions - has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fide ...Show more
Queens of the Crusades - Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Successors 1154-1291 by Alison Weir
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: England's Medieval Queens
The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe - these determined ...Show more
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner, 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have m ...Show more
Sicily: A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra by John Julius Norwich
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this beautiful book full of maps and colour photographs. 'I discovered Sicily almost by mistake ...We drove as far as Naples, then put the car on the night ferry to Palermo ...Show more