Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz by Alwin Meyer
$51.95 AUD
Category: History
The children of Auschwitz: this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust. They were deported to the concentration camp with their families, with most being murdered in the gas chambers upon their arrival, or were born there under unimaginable circumstances. While 232,000 chil ...Show more
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
$26.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Will Durant chronicles the lives and ideas of several key philosophical thinkers throughout history in this informative and eminently readable text. Beginning with Socrates and Plato and concluding with Friedrich Nietzsche, with twelve other prominent philosophers in betwee ...Show more
The Great Wall in 50 Objects by William Lindesay
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
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
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 by Ferdinand Mount
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Tears of the Rajas is a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows. They lived through the most appalling atrocit ...Show more
The Amazons by John Man
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of ruthless, hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legend has it they would cut off their breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their boy childr ...Show more
The Dawning of Antarctica by Patrick Quilty
$84.99 AUD
Category: History
The history of human endeavour in Antarctica, which culminated in the International Geophysical Year, represents one of the most inspiring and significant stories of human achievement of all time. This magnificent work, the product of a lifetime of experience and scholarship by a true Antarctican will b ...Show more
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty by Tracy Borman
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Borman approaches her topic with huge enthusiasm and a keen eye for entertaining...this is a very human story of a remarkable family, full of vignettes that sit long in the mind.' Dan Jones, The Sunday Times 'Tracy Borman's eye for detail is impressive; the book is packed with fascinating courtly minu ...Show more
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
$19.98 AUD
Category: History
Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness wit ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** 'An astonishing feat' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times 'An inspiring and moving sideways look at history' Eithne Farry, Sunday Express An eloquent blend of history and memoir, Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we all ...Show more
Tudor Children by Nicholas Orme
$41.95 AUD
Category: History
The first history of childhood in Tudor EnglandWhat was it like to grow up in England under the Tudors? How were children cared for, what did they play with, and what dangers did they face?In this beautifully illustrated and characteristically lively account, leading historian Nicholas Orme provides a r ...Show more
Aristotle - Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher by John Sellars
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
There is in Athens a rather plain ruin; a simple courtyard lined with fragments of wall. Yet, this little patch of land has a claim to be the most significant place in human history. It is the Lyceum, site of Aristotle's school- here the philosopher wandered, discussing his life's work with students, pr ...Show more