Agent Jack - The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter by Robert Hutton
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
For fans of Transcription by Kate Atkinson and books by Ben Macintyre, this is the astonishing full story of the MI5 agent at the heart of Operation Fifth Column, the covert wartime operation to flush out Nazi sympathisers on British soil. June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and H ...Show more
East West Street: On the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity by Philippe Sands
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: updated edition
Winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for NonfictionWinner of the 2017 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize"A monumental achievement...a profoundly personal account of the origins of crimes against humanity and genocide, told with love, anger and precision." -John le Carré "A narrative, to my knowledge un ...Show more
The Romanovs: The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"Epic history on the grandest scale. . . . Game of Thrones seems like the proverbial vicar's tea party in comparison."--Financial Times The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined princip ...Show more
Maiden Voyages - Women and the Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel by Siân Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A VIVID PORTRAIT OF WOMEN'S LIVES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL Before convenient air travel, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners and never more so than in the glory days of the interwar years. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women. Some trav ...Show more
Theatre of the World - The Maps That Made History by Thomas Reinertsen Berg
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
'Fascinating...sumptuously produced with lots of full-colour images, is a kind of potted treasury of cartographical history that gleams with pieces-of-eight-like snippets of information...this is an enthralling book, and joins the likes of Simon Garfield's On the Map and Jerry Brotton's A History of the ...Show more
The Death of Hitler - The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler s Body by Jean-Christophe Brisard; Lana Parshina
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A dramatic and revelatory new account of the final days in Hitler's bunker, based on new access to previously unseen Soviet archives. After two years of nonstop negotiations with the Russian authorities, Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina were granted access to secret files detailing the Soviets' ...Show more
Who Ate the First Oyster? The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History by Cody Cassidy
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations. Who invented the wheel? Wh ...Show more
American Cipher by Matt Farwell; Michael Ames
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan'A riveting journalistic account of Bowe Bergdahl's disastrous - and weirdly poignant - choice to walk ...Show more
Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen (#3 Six Tudor Queens) by Alison Weir
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Six Tudor Queens
Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen by historian Alison Weir, author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession, is the third enthralling novel in the Six Tudor Queens series. A fascinating look at Henry VIII's third wife. Essential reading for fa ...Show more
Barbarians - Rebellion and Resistance to the Roman Empire by Stephen P. Kershaw
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A fresh new look at the Roman Empire, from the point of view of those regarded by the Romans as 'barbarians'. Kershaw builds a narrative around the lives, personalities, successes and failures both of the key opponents of Rome's rise and dominance, and of the those who ultimately brought the empire down ...Show more
A Brief History of France by Cecil Jenkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
When we think of France, we tend think of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris or the chic beaches of St Tropez. Yet, as the largest country in Europe, France is home to extraordinary diversity. The idea of 'Frenchness' emerged through 2,000 years of history and it is this riveting story, ...Show more
Bethlehem - Biography of a Town by Nicholas Blincoe
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
" Bethlehem] brings within reach 11,000 years of history, centering on the beloved town's unique place in the world. Blincoe's love of Bethlehem is compelling, even as he does not shy away from the complexities of its chronicle." --President Jimmy Carter Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth th ...Show more