The Colour of Time - A New History of the World, 1850-1960 by Marina Amaral; Dan Jones
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: New History of the World 1850 - 1960 | Reading Level: very good
The top five Sunday Timesbestseller. 'Breathtaking'Daily Mail. 'Astonishing'Sun. 'Shimmering'Spectator. 'Extraordinary'Daily Telegraph. The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of t ...Show more
In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter, Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace by Miranda Seymour
$22.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
'This magnificent, highly readable double biography...brings these two driven, complicated women vividly to life' The Financial Times 'A gripping saga of a double-biography' Daily Mail 'A masterful portrait' The Times 'Vastly enjoyable' Literary Review 'Deeply absorbing and meticulously researched' The ...Show more
History Day by Day by Peter Furtado
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
History Day by Day presents an original perspective on over two millennia of human history through 366 quotations, one for each day of the year, including leap years. Each quotation, tied to the anniversary of a significant historical event, captures that moment with the immediacy of an eyewitness or th ...Show more
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire by Roger Crowley
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. In City of Fortune, Roger Crowley, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea, applies his narrative skill to chronicling the astounding five-hundred-year voyage ...Show more
The Great Wall in 50 Objects by William Lindesay
$31.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The culmination of a lifetime's field work and research, William Lindesay selects fifty artefacts from around the world to tell the story of the Great Wall from the second century BC to the late-twentieth century. Abraham Ortelius' pioneering world atlas, the unexpected origins of 'wolf smoke', the prol ...Show more
Young Digger by Anthony Hill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A small boy, an orphan of the First World War, wanders into the Australian airmen's mess in Germany, on Christmas Day in 1918. A strange boy, with an uncertain past and an extraordinary future, he became a mascot for the air squadron and was affectionately named 'Young Digger'. And in one of the most un ...Show more
The Miners: Stories from the Industry That Drives Modern Australia by Barry Avery
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The Miners traces the Australian mining industry and its turning points of discovery and development, the booms and the busts. It tells this story through the eyes of those involved in it, from the captains of the industry, managing directors of small and mid-tier companies, the financiers, the service ...Show more
Revolution: The History of England (Volume IV) by Peter Ackroyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: The History of England
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the ...Show more
Sons of War 10 copy pack by Paul Byrnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Sons of War x10 copy pack
The Almost Complete History of the World by Joseph Cummins
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
"Recorded history is rich with events that have changed the course of human experience-events that have rippled through the centuries, and still others that rumble on today. Here in one amazing volume are 75 of the most important historical events of all time, presented in 75 short, fascinating, fully i ...Show more
Rescue at Los Banos by HENDERSON, BRUCE
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Bruce Henderson has told a wonderfully exciting story of one of war's greatest rescues with verve, style, and panache. I didn't even stop for coffee during my reading: it was so classically unputdownable.' Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Surgeon of Crowthorn Like ...Show more
1864: The Forgotten War That Shaped Modern Europe by Tom Buk-Swienty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The Battle of Dybbol, 1864. Prussian troops lay siege to an outpost in the far south of Denmark. The conflict is over control of the Duchy of Schleswig, recently annexed by Denmark to the alarm of its largely German-speaking inhabitants. Danish troops make a valiant attempt to hold out but are overrun b ...Show more