The Young Hitler I Knew by August Kubizek; Geoffrey Brooks (Translator); Ian Kershaw (Introduction by)
$57.99 AUD
Category: History
August Kubizek met Adolf Hitler in 1904 and over the next four years they became close friends, eventually sharing a flat together in Vienna. This book tells the story of their extraordinary friendship, and gives fascinating insight into Hitler's character during these formative years.
Theatres of Memory - Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of "heritage" that lies at the heart of every Western nation's obsession with the past. Today, in the age of Downton Abbey and Mad Men, we are once again conjurin ...Show more
Granite Mountain["The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice"] by Brendan McDonough; Stephan Talty (As told to)
$17.99 AUD
Category: History
The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires ...Show more
A History of Women in Medicine - Cunning Women, Physicians, Witches by Sinead Spearing
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
'Witch' is a powerful word with humble origins. Once used to describe an ancient British tribe known for its unique class of female physicians and priestesses, it grew into something grotesque, diabolical and dangerous.A History of Women in Medicine: From Physicians to Witches? reveals the untold story ...Show more
Bedlam - London's Hospital for the Mad by Paul Chambers
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
BETHLEM HOSPITAL is the oldest mental institution in the world, to many famously known as 'Bedlam': a chaotic madhouse that brutalised its patients. Paul Chambers explores the 800-year history of Bethlem and reveals fascinating details of its ambivalent relationship with London and its inhabitants, the ...Show more
Blood Royal: The Wars of Lancaster and York, 1462-1485 by Hugh Bicheno
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
England, 1462. The Yorkist Edward IV has been king for 3 years since his victory at Towton. The former Lancastrian king Henry VI languishes in the Tower. But Edward will soon alienate his backers by favouring the family of his ambitious wife, Elizabeth Woodville. And he will fall out with his chief supp ...Show more
The Queen - 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II (HB) by Ian Lloyd
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
'I get enormously impressed when she walks into a room,' Princess Margaret once said of her sister. 'It's a kind of magic.' Prince William recalled, 'As I learned growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother. What she says goes.'In the year of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, royal biographer Ian Lloyd ...Show more
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
When the fate of the nation is in your hands, who do you call?
Cyrus the Great - Epic and Legendary Leaders by Macgregor Macgregor Morris (Introduction by); J. K. Jackson (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
Cyrus the Great created the first Persian Empire in the 500s BCE, and sealed his pre-eminence as one of the greatest founders of empire. He conquered all major civilizations in his region and his influence reached from the Balkans in the West to the Indus river in the East. His brilliant campaigns broug ...Show more
One on One - 101 True Encounters by Craig Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britain's funniest writer. Life is made up of humans meeting one another. They speak, or don't speak. They get on, or fall out. They laugh, the ...Show more
Memories of a Wartime Childhood in London by Douglas Model
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
This vivid memoir is incredible true story of the author, Douglas Model, growing up amidst the horrors of the Blitz and V bombs falling on London during World War 2. It contrasts his peaceful infant life in suburbia before the war with the terror of bombs falling closer and closer, trembling in an air r ...Show more
Life on the Edge - Tristan Voorspuy's Fatal Love of Africa by Adrian Dangar; Robin Hanbury-Tenison (Foreword by)
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
Once described by Joanna Lumley as "the man with no fear", Tristan Voorspuy spent his life living up to the legend. From his epic Cairo to Cape Town motorbike ride, to extraordinary wildlife encounters and many death-defying light aircraft near misses, Life on the Edge tells the extraordinary story of a ...Show more