Grant by Ron Chernow
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ulysses S Grant
A dramaticportrait of one of America's most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant, by Pulitzer Prize winnerRon Chernow, author of the book on which the astonishing musical Hamiltonis based. As late as April 1861, when the American Civil Warbroke out, Ulysses S. Grant was a dismal failure ...Show more
Forgotten Women: the Writers by Zing Tsjeng
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Forgotten Women Ser.
'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - Independent The women who shaped and were erased from our history. Forgotten Women is a new ...Show more
Riviera Dreaming: Love and War on the Cote d'Azur by Maureen Emerson
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
..". an effervescent cocktail of a read: one part biography to two parts social history, topped off with a splash of scandal."-Country Life Magazine In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France... With his partner, an ex-officer in the British Army, he ...Show more
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, ...Show more
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World by Alice Roberts
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
**'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling.' BRIAN COX** **'The best popular book on broad-sweep history since Guns, Germs and Steel.'** Peter Forbes The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and an ...Show more
Out of our Minds by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
To imagine – to see that which is not there – is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the pictures in our minds. Traversing the realms of science, politics, religi ...Show more
Imperial Mud - The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England. A population of proud indigenous people fight for generations to preserve their homelands against an expanding empire - an invasion justified as being necessary for 'progress'.After centuries of resistance, their culture and com ...Show more
RAF Bomber Command Operations Manual by Jonathan Falconer
$60.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Haynes Manuals Ser.
Night after night for six years of war, RAF Bomber Command's squadrons pounded away at the cities of Nazi Germany in a determined effort to bring the Third Reich to its knees. Pitted against Bomber Harris's aircrews and aircraft were some of the most effective and deadly defenses the world had seen up u ...Show more
Rolls Roce Armoured Car 1915 to 44 Owners Workshop Manual by Fletcher, David
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
The Black Prince by Michael Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'A clear-eyed and thrilling vision of the man behind the legend' DAN JONES. In 1346, at the age of sixteen, he won his spurs at Crécy; nine years later he conducted a brutal raid across Languedoc; in 1356 he captured the king of France at Poitiers; as lord of Aquitaine he ruled a vast swathe of southwe ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
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Category: History | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the c ...Show more
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
"A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style...Wolfe's great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again." (Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times). Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, ta ...Show more