The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends by Tao Tao Liu
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Myths Ser.
The essential guide to the complex, fascinating world of Chinese myths: retelling the stories and exploring their significance in Chinese culture.This is a concise and entertaining guide to the complex tradition of Chinese mythology. While many around the world are familiar with some aspects of Chinese ...Show more
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, ...Show more
Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean by Raoul McLaughlin
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The ancient evidence suggests that international commerce supplied Roman government with up to a third of the revenues that sustained their empire. In ancient times large fleets of Roman merchant ships set sail from Egypt on voyages across the Indian Ocean. They sailed from Roman ports on the Red Sea to ...Show more
Boeing 707 Group: A History by Graham M. Simons
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
The Boeing 707 family - that includes the forerunner Model 367-80, the KC-135 series of military transports and the slightly smaller Model 720 - was the pioneer of the sweptback wing, incorporating podded engines borrowed from the B-47 military bomber. It was the aircraft that many regard as the design ...Show more
ANZAC Memories by Don Donovan
$16.99 AUD
Category: History
A collection of evocative photographs and quotations honouring the memory of those who served in the First World War. A photographic journey through images and mateship.
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruder ...Show more
Aboriginal Place Names by Reed A W
$20.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Aboriginal library
A comprehensive collection of Aboriginal names from all over Australia, and their derivations. Thousands of place names are listed, each followed by the state it is found in and its meaning. There is also a dictionary that gives the Aboriginal translations for common English words.
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922 by Ryan Gingeras
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire offers a new way of understanding the twentieth century. The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religiou ...Show more
The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945 by Catrine Clay
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 40 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families. They moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by neighbour ...Show more
Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers by Garry Linnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Charismatic, intelligent and handsome, George Scott is unlike any other bushranger. Born into a privileged life in famine-wracked Ireland, Scott's family loses its fortune and is forced to flee to New Zealand. There, Scott joins the local militia and fights as a soldier against the Maori in the brutal N ...Show more
Anzac on the Western Front: The Personal Recollections of an Australian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918 by H. R. Williams
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a graphic account of one soldiers service in the First World War an account that is based on a diary he maintained whilst on active service. It has been described by one senior officer as the best soldiers story I have yet read in Australia. H.R. Williams enlisted in 1915, joining A Company, 56t ...Show more
The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People by Michael Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' - Tom Holland ... 'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want - and need - to know about the China of yesterday, today and tom ...Show more