Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich by Harald Jähner
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The internationally bestselling and prize-winning history of German life in the fallout of the Third Reich, filled with eye-opening, shocking and vitally human stories of ruin, repression and revival.***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021***A 2021 Book of the YearThe Times * Sunday Times * Te ...Show more
The Highland Clans by Alistair Moffat
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of the Highland clans is a gripping one, full of celebrated names and heroic deeds. It is also, as Alistair Moffat reveals, the story of a fearless people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Here, he traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origin ...Show more
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
A magisterial and acclaimed history of Europe in our time, by one of our leading historians. Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known. William Shirer is one of the very few historians to have gained full access to the ...Show more
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Gulag is Russia's forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive. Here, for the first time, is the full, moving story of its countless victims- how they lived, laboured, suffered - and survived to bear witne ...Show more
Dublin: The Story of a City by Peter Stephen & Harbison Conlin
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
A spectacular tour of the evolution of Dublin! Stephen Conlon's meticulous drawings chart the development of Dublin's buildings, history and lifestyle for over 1,000 years. The illustrations reconstruct Dublin through the centuries while new drawings capture contemporary Dublin's key places and building ...Show more
On a Sea of Glass by Tad Fitch
$74.95 AUD
Category: History
On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brand-new, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death in the icy-cold ...Show more
Country of the Heart: An Australian Indigenous Homeland by Deborah Bird Rose, Nancy Daiyi, Kathy Devereaux, Margaret Daiyi, Linda Ford, April Bright
$44.95 AUD
Category: History
Country of the Heart provides an introduction to the connections between Aboriginal people and the land that has sustained and nurtured them for generations. Through the wonderful photographic images and the stories of the MakMak clan women (white-breasted sea eagle), readers are led into the heart of c ...Show more
Flinders Lane - Recollections of Alfred Felton by Russell Grimwade
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Alfred Felton started his fortune during the Australian gold rushes, selling 'Felton's Quinine Champagne' to miners. Later, he partnered with Frederick Grimwade to found a successful pharmaceutical company, Felton Grimwade & Co., and built 'the handsomest drug house in Australia', a bluestone wareho ...Show more
Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
A stunning examination - through words and images - of the epidemic of mass shootings in America today. Among its victims are men, women, teenagers, children, and even babies. The massacres have taken place in churches, schools, movie theatres, and at rock concerts. Auster establishes how America’s lov ...Show more
Sicily '43: The First Assault On Fortress Europe by James Holland
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A major new history of one of World War II's most crucial campaigns-the first Allied attack on European soil-by the acclaimed author of Normandy '44 and a rising star in military history On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion ele ...Show more
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘Excellent … thrilling … Freedland’s book is rich in the kind of details that haunt you long after you have turned the last page’ Sunday Times ‘A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of informat ...Show more