We Also Served - The Forgotten Women of the First World War by Vivien Newman
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
We Also Served is a social history of women's involvement in the First World War. Dr Vivien Newman disturbs myths and preconceptions surrounding women's war work and seeks to inform contemporary readers of countless acts of derring-do, determination, and quiet heroism by British women, that went on behi ...Show more
Venice: A New History by Thomas F Madden
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden's majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden weaves a spellbinding ...Show more
RSPB What's That Rock or Mineral? by DK
$12.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the perfect pocket guide to identifying rocks for beginners. RSPB What's That Rock? is ideal if you struggle with how to tell the difference between granite and marble or limestone and sandstone. It's the perfect identification guide for beginners but also a handy field guide for the more season ...Show more
Digging for Richard III: How Archaeology Found the King by Mike Pitts
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
The events of Richard III's reign and his death in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth are known worldwide through Shakespeare's most performed, filmed and translated history play. Digging for Richard III is the page-turning story of how his grave was found, the people behind the discovery and what it tells ...Show more
Reporting the Great War by Stuart Hylton
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Great War on the Home Front Ser.
The Great War of 1914-1918 was the world's first total conflict. It drew the whole population into the war effort as never before. The armed forces recruited on a scale that was previously unimaginable, and the munitions industries drew more and more citizens into the labor market. The entire national e ...Show more
The Nazi Occult War by Michael Fitzgerald
$6.99 AUD
Category: History
A gripping account of the occult and magical thinking that dominated Nazi beliefs and actions in the years leading up to and including the Second World War. Intriguing subjects covered include the Vril Society, The New Teutonic Knights, Black Camelot, the Nazi 'Occuly Bureau', Atlantis and Aryan science ...Show more
Theseus and Romulus - Lycurgus and Numa - Solon and Publicola by Plutarch; Bernadotte Perrin (Translator)
$62.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Plutarch (c. 45 120 CE) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs, one Greek figure and one similar Roman, though the last four lives are single. They not only record careers and illustrious deeds but also offer rounded portraits of stat ...Show more
My Dearest Julia Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife by Grant, Ulysses S
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found by Martin W Sandler
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The exciting true story of the captaincy, wreck, and discovery of the Whydah -- the only pirate ship ever found -- and the incredible mysteries it revealed. The 1650s to the 1730s marked the golden age of piracy, when fearsome pirates like Blackbeard ruled the waves, seeking not only treasure but also l ...Show more
Survivor: A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust by Harry Borden
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Over the course of five years, acclaimed photographer Harry Borden has travelled the globe photographing survivors of the Holocaust. The people featured vary in age, gender and nationality, but are all tied together by their experience and survival of one of the darkest moments in human history. Each ph ...Show more
The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. They have been equally revered and famous since their lifetimes, but our admiration for them exists mostly in isolation of each other. But in 1504 ...Show more
Ancient Dynasties by John D. Grainger
$65.99 AUD
Category: History
Ancient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis and discussion of various features of the ruling dynasties (including the leading families of republican Rome). It examines patterns, simila ...Show more