Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst of Western triumphalism proclaimed a US-led unipolar ...Show more
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III by Jeremy Black
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through to the longest serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II - and looks forward to the reign of King Charles III. Much more than a linear history, this is the intertwined story of royal ...Show more
Endgame 1944 - How Stalin Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
June 1944- In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German soldiers, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. In the following three weeks, Army Group Centre lost 28 of its 32 divisions.The same month saw the Allies triumph on the beaches of No ...Show more
Young Queens by Leah Redmond Chang
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. 'Alluring, gripping, real: an astonishing insight into the lives of three queens' ALICE ROBERTS 'Takes us into the hearts an ...Show more
Crucible of Hell - Okinawa: the Last Great Battle of the Second World War by Saul David
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Excellent' Antony Beevor 'Saul David is a brilliant historian ... In shocking and jaw-dropping detail, he brings a battle that deserves far greater prominence and understanding vividly back to life' James Holland From award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new narrative of ...Show more
The Secret Life of the Savoy - And the d'Oyly Carte Family by Olivia Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
"For The Gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was served on a silk-lined floating gondola, real swans were swimming in the water, and as a final flourish, a baby elephant borrowed from London Zoo pulled a five-foot hig ...Show more
Men Without Country: The True Story of Exploration and Rebellion in the South Seas by Harrison Christian
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A mission to collect breadfruit from Tahiti becomes the most famous mutiny in history when the crew rise up against Captain William Bligh, with accusations of food restrictions and unfair punishments. Bligh's remarkable journey back to safety is well documented, but the fates of the mutinous men remain ...Show more
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero by Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
During Tasmania’s gruesome Black War of 1823-31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history. His Oyster Bay Nation of southeast Tasmania and his ally Montpelliatta’s Big River Nation of central Tasmania embarked on 710 attacks, killing 182 colonists and wo ...Show more
Avian Illuminations: A Cultural History of Birds by Boria Sax
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
An exquisitely illustrated journey through the complex and crucial relationship between humans and birds. Avian Illuminations examines the many roles birds have played in human society, from food, messengers, deities, and pets, to omens, muses, timekeepers, custodians, hunting companions, decorative mot ...Show more
The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot by Whittell, Giles
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
For the 80th anniversary, the first popular account of Operation Chariot, the most daring British raid of WW2In the darkest months of WW2, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to attack the St Nazaire U-boat base on the Atlantic seaboard, British commandos undertoo ...Show more
Salvador by Joan Didion
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror-its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.As ash travels f ...Show more
Of Marsupials and Men by Alistair Paton
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A brilliantly entertaining history of Australia's weird and wonderful natural scientists 'A fascinating history of Australia's wildlife and the wilder men and women who shot, studied and saved it ... Compelling and entertaining.' -David Hunt Of Marsupials and Men recounts the fascinating and often hilar ...Show more