1964: The Year the Swinging Sixties Began by CHRISTOPHER SANDFORD
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
1964 is a living history of one of the most pivotal years in the twentieth century. In Britain, a new Labour government promised to bring the 'white heat of technology'. The Beatles and Rolling Stones cemented their grip on the charts, while the introduction of BBC Two ended the two-channel monopoly and ...Show more
The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus', their new mas ...Show more
The Great South Land by Rob Mundle
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
How Dutch sailors discovered New Holland and left Australia to a British pirate. For many, the colonial story of Australia starts with Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast in 1770, but it was some 164 years before his historic voyage that European mariners began their romance with the immensity of ...Show more
Evolution: the Whole Story by Steve Parker
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Evolution: The Whole Story contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth. Each chapter of this accessible and lavishly illustrated book takes a major living group and presents thematic essays discussing the evolution of particular subgroups as they appeared on ...Show more
How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
How to be a Victorian - a time traveller's guide to Victorian Britain by the BBC's Ruth Goodman. We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your tee ...Show more
Children of the House of Cleves - Anna and Her Siblings by Heather R. Darsie
$68.95 AUD
Category: History
Children of the House of Cleves describes and analyses the lives of Sybylla, Anna, Wilhelm and Amalia, the children of Johann III, Duke of Cleves. Though their parents were staunch Catholics, Wilhelm of Jülich-Cleves-Berg was a Lutheran - when it suited him. He challenged the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles ...Show more
Iraq: A History by John Robertson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Short Histories
Cities, scripts, literature, the rule of law - all were born in Iraq. That so many see this ancient land as nothing more than a violent backwater steeped in chaos is a travesty. This is the place where, for the first 5,000 years of human history, all innovations of worth emerged. It was the cradle of ci ...Show more
The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police by Frank McDonough
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Gestapo was Hitler's secret police force. Popularly depicted as a central part of an all-powerful 'Big Brother' Nazi totalitarian police state, its primary aim was to hunt down 'the enemies of the people'. Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relat ...Show more
Native American Myths by Jake Jackson (Editor)
$19.98 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
The Algonquins, Iroquois, the legend of Hiawatha and The Last of the Mohicans - the tribes of North America and their folk tales are deeply fascinating because they are unique amongst the mythologies of the world. The tribes were isolated from outside influence for thousands of years and developed a fru ...Show more
Norse Myths by Jake Jackson (Editor)
$19.98 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
The Vikings and their norse gods fought a constant battle with nature. Their landscape, with its stark mountains and long nights created a particularly rough mythology, with profound contrasts and unforgettable heroes: Odin, Thor and Loki are just some of the familiar characters that maintain an influen ...Show more
George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley
$79.99 AUD
Category: History
From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath of World War I and whose marriage to the regal Queen Mary was an epic partnershipThe grandfather of Queen ...Show more