Augustus: A Biography by Jochen Bleicken
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young solder training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered that he was the dictator's sole political heir. With the opportunism and instinct for propaganda that were to characterize his rule, Octavian rallie ...Show more
Charles Bean by Ross Coulthart
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On the eve of the centenary of Gallipoli, Ross Coulthart tells the real story of the iconic Australian war correspondent. CEW Bean's wartime reports and photographs mythologised the Australian soldier and helped spawn the notion that the Anzacs achieved something nation-defining on the shores of Gallipo ...Show more
Franklin and Eleanor by Hazel Rowley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths.
Eleanor's Story: an American Girl in Hitler's Germany by Eleanor Ramrath Garner
$25.95 AUD
Category: Historical
ELEANOR'S STORY is the dramatic memoir of Eleanor Ramrath Garner's youth, growing up as an American caught in World War II Berlin. It is a story of trying to maintain stability, hope, and identity in a world of terror and contrasts. During the Great Depression, Eleanor's family moves to Germany, where h ...Show more
The Drowned Man: A True Story of Life, Death and Murder on HMAS Australia by Brendan James Murray
$32.95 AUD
Category: Historical
A chance encounter in a fish-'n'-chip shop set Brendan Murray on the trail of a mystery. Had a gay man been secretly murdered on HMAS Australia during the Second World War? The veteran he spoke to was certain. 'I knew about it,' he said. 'We all did.' But was the story true? If so, who was the dead man? ...Show more
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Prof Kate Clifford Larson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
One of "People" s Top Ten Books of 2015 "[Larson] succeeds in providing a well-rounded portrait of a woman who, until now, has never been viewed in full."" Boston Globe" A biography that chronicles her life with fresh details . . . By making Rosemary the central character, [Larson] has produced a valuab ...Show more
Denial: Holocaust History on Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: good
In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." The following year, after Lipstadt's book was published in the United Kingdom, Irving filed a libel suit aga ...Show more
King of the Air: The Turbulent Life of Charles Kingsford Smith by Ann Blainey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Charles Kingsford Smith was the most commanding flyer of the golden age of aviation. In three short years, he broke records with his astounding and daring voyages- the first trans-Pacific flight from America to Australia, the first circumnavigation around the equator, the first non-stop crossing of the ...Show more
I Want You To Know We're Still Here - My family, the holocaust and my search for truth by Esther Safran Foer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
A moving and powerful inter-generational memoir about story and memory. Mine is a family of readers and writers. Our house is filled with books. There are contemporary design books on the coffee table in the living room, legal books in my husband's home office, and piles of children's books for when my ...Show more
The Lost Cafe Schindler by Meriel Schindler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history. Were they really related to Franz Kafka and Oscar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame? Or Hitler's Jewish doctor - Dr Bloch? What really ...Show more
In My Grandfather's Shadow: A story of war, trauma and the legacy of silence by Angela Findlay
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Fusing memoir, psychology and a historical detective story, a powerful exploration of how trauma can be handed down through the generations.Having wrestled for decades with an inexplicable sense of guilt, Angela Findlay eventually turned to her German roots in the hope of finding answers. There, she dis ...Show more
Elizabeth & Margaret - The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters by Andrew Morton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward VIII decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more, Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called ‘Lillibet’. ...Show more