30-Second Mythology by Robert A. Segal
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: 30 Second
The perfect introduction to the study of mythology, covering essential facts and details in one handy volume.
Life: Titanic 100 Years Later: The Epic Disaster Remembered - in Words and Pictures by Editors of Life
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Category: History
One hundred years ago, a ship thought to be indestructible suffered the ill fate to strike an iceberg during its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic. The unthinkable occurred, and the Titanic went to the bottom. What happened on that cold and inky night has haunted and entranced us ever since. Goodn ...Show more
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
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Category: History
Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medici ...Show more
Queens of the Crusades - Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Successors 1154-1291 by Alison Weir
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: England's Medieval Queens
The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe - these determined ...Show more
History of World Trade in Maps by Philip Parker
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Trade is the lifeblood of nations. It has provided vital goods and wealth to countries and merchants from the ancient Egyptians who went in search of gold and ivory to their 21st-century equivalents trading high-tech electronic equipment from the Far East .In this beautiful book, more than 70 maps give ...Show more
Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology by Ellie Mackin Roberts
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Category: History
Goddesses, monsters, humans and the semi-divine - whether courageous or meek, gruesome or irresistible, female characters are ever present on the peripheries of the great Greek myths, but rarely do they take centre stage. Their time has finally come to act as protagonists in their own stories. Heroines ...Show more
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure by Menachem Kaiser
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Menachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the family's apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters w ...Show more
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
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Category: History | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser.
'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES The extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World War In the late summer of 1943, in the midst of German occupation, t ...Show more
Brunel: The Man Who Built the World by Steven Brindle
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Phoenix Press Ser.
In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the epitome of the volcanic creative forces which brought about the Industrial Revolution - and brought modern society into being.
Commandant of Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoess
$14.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Phoenix Press Ser.
An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three million Jews, from the time of its creation (he was responsible for building it) in 1940 until late in 1943, by which time the mass exterminations were half completed. B ...Show more
Reinventing Russia A Study in Revolution - HTAV by Lauren Perfect, Tom Ryan & Scott Sweeney
$50.00 AUD
Category: History