Questions I Am Asked about the Holocaust by Hedi Fried; Alice Olsson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.' Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her sister were forced ...Show more
Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero by Douglas Perry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led The Untouchables, took on Al Capone and saved a city's soul. As leader of an unprecedented crime-busting squad, 28 year old Eliot Ness won fame for taking on notorious mobster Al Capone. But the Untouchables' daring raids were only the beginning of N ...Show more
Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
$69.99 AUD
Category: Historical
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
Mary Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Future by John Guy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
Renia's Diary: A Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Renia Spiegel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
July 15, 1942, Wednesday Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I'm separated from the world. Renia is a young girl who dreams of becoming a poet. But Renia i ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do ever ...Show more
Chocolate Cake with Hitler by Emma Craigie
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Chocolate Cake with Hitler' tells the incredible story of Helga Goebbels, the 12 year-old daughter of a leading Nazi who, with her family, spent the last ten days of her life cooped up in a bunker in Berlin with Adolf Hitler. As defeat closes in on the Germans, life in Hitler's bunker becomes increasi ...Show more
Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it beforeA French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became a teenage warrior, leading an army to victory against the English. Eventually captured and ...Show more