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The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
$9.95 AUD
Category: British | Series: Classics Ser.
Completed in 1136, "The History of the Kings of Britain" traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famou ...Show more
Sinners Saints & Settlers - Journey by REID Richard
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
From the arrival of the First Fleet to the present, Irish immigrants and their descendants have been at the centre of Australian life. Sinners, Saints and Settlers takes the reader on a journey through the Irish experience in Australia, visiting locations right across the nation where the Irish story un ...Show more
Barney Greatrex by Michael Veitch
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero BARNEY GREATREX - from Bomber Command to French Resistance fighter. A school and university cadet in Sydney, Barney Greatrex signed up for RAF Bomber Command in 1941, eager to get straight into the very centre of the Allied counterattack. Bomb ...Show more
Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales by Graham Seal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter's Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters are r ...Show more
Rome - Eternal City by Ferdinand Addis
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
The sweeping story of the city of Rome, told through twenty-two moments that shaped its history. ***A TimesHistory Book of the Year*** 'Vivid, pacey ... Superb'The Times. 'Grand narrative underpinned by serious reading'Guardian. 'Confident, elegant ... Admirably ambitious'Daily Mail. From Romulus and ...Show more
Tasmania's Convicts by Alison Alexander
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies. Following the lives of do ...Show more
Kokoda by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia, where a small force of young, ill-equipped young men engaged an experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track. This book tells the Kokoda story in a gripping and moving style.
Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Fifth in line to the throne at the time of her birth in 1819, Victoria was an ordinary woman thrust into an extraordinary role. Born into a world where women were often powerless, Victoria went on to rule the most powerful country on earth with a decisive hand. As a teenage queen, she eagerly grasped th ...Show more
James Cook: Master Mariner Navigator and Cartographer, the Man Behind the Myth by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable names in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, navigator and cartographer of his era, an ...Show more
Berlin - Biography of a City by Barney White-Spunner
$32.99 AUD
Category: European
There is a particular frisson about Berlin, a combination of excitement, anticipation, nervousness and the unexpected. Through all its life it has been a city of tensions. Its position, on the frontier of Europe, on the 'Mark', where Christianity met paganism, where the Huns met the Slavs, where Europe ...Show more
Once Upon A Time in Iraq by James Bluemel; Renad Mansour
$55.00 AUD
Category: Military
In war, there is no easy victory. When troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, the gamble we took was a grave mistake, and its ramifications continue to reverberate through the lives of millions, in Iraq and the West. As we gain more ...Show more
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new s ...Show more