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
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
'As gripping as any spy thriller ... Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times 'Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph 'A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history ... royall ...Show more
Buckley's Chance by Garry Linnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 3 Biography
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England ...Show more
Stasiland by Anna Funder
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson PrizeTruth can be stranger - and more heartbreaking and hilarious - than fiction.In this now classic work, Funder tells extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of ...Show more
The Hollow Crown - The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to the death for the right to rule. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in history were thrown togeth ...Show more
Ghost Riders When US and German Soldiers Fought Together to by Felton Mark
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis by Elizabeth Letts
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . From the author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the remarkable story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the closing days of World War II WINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR RESEARCH NONFICTION In the chaotic last days of the war, a small troop of battle-weary American soldi ...Show more
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The conventional view of Genghis Khan as a ruthless leader who destroyed societies is turned on its head in this New York Times bestseller. Scholar and researcher Jack Weatherford shows how Khan was the first ruler to grant religious freedom and how he instituted diplomatic immunity and outlawed torture ...Show more
My Mother's Secret: Based on a True Holocaust Story by J. L. Witterick
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Franciszka and her daughter are unlikely heroines. They are simple people who don't stand out#65533; that is, until there is a crisis. In 1939, the Nazis come to Poland and start to persecute the Jews. These are unreasonable times when providing shelter to a Jew has become a death sentence. Despite this ...Show more