Australian History in 7 Questions by John Hirst
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'If there are genuine questions about Australian history, there is something to puzzle over. The history ceases to be predictable - and dull.' From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australia's past an ...Show more
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner, 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have m ...Show more
Lake Peipus, 1242 by David Nicolle
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Osprey Military Campaign S.
The story of the struggle between the Teutonic Knights and the Russian city state of Novgorod, under their leader Alexander Nevsky. The text is accompanied by six battlescene artworks and three bird's-eye-view maps showing the course of the battle.
The History of World War II by Antony Evans; David Gibbons
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Only six decades ago the greatest war ever fought drew to a close - a global conflict that many people still remember because they were part of it. They can vividly recall what they went through and the dramatic events that unfolded across the globe. Their children and grandchildren hear the stories, se ...Show more
The Rolls-Royce Armoured Car by David Fletcher
$28.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: New Vanguard 189
The first Rolls-Royce armoured car was a privately owned vehicle fitted with a machine-gun and a limited amount of armour plate at a dockyard in France. It was used by a squadron of the Royal Naval Air Service in Flanders in 1914. Backed by First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill more and bet ...Show more
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
____________________________________BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. In 2014, it was found.This is i ...Show more
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
New York Times Bestseller - National Book Critics Circle Finalist - Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2015 - Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 - Economist Books of the Year 2015 - New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2015 A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our f ...Show more
Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, such that in the 1530s he was effectively running the ...Show more
World War I Gas Warfare Tactics by Simon Jones
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Battlefield Gas was first employed in April 1915 at the village of Langemarck near Ypres. At 1700 hours, the Germans released a five mile-wide cloud of 168 tons of chlorine gas from 520 cylinders, causing panic and death in the French and Algerian trenches. Despite initial widespread condemnation and di ...Show more
The Arab Revolt 1916-18 by David Murphy
$40.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Campaign
The Arab Revolt of 1916-18 was one of the most dramatic events of World War I. It resulted in the birth of the modern Middle East and also created one of the most enduring myths of the war: the story of Lawrence of Arabia. This book examines the revolt, describing and analyzing the background and events ...Show more