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
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
The Royal Wardrobe by Rosie Harte
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
A WHOLE NEW ROYAL HISTORY, WITH A VERY STYLISH TWIST Why did women wear such heavy and uncomfortable skirts in the Elizabethan era? What the hell happened to Charles II's pubic hair wig? How did Princess Diana's revenge dress become so iconic? Fashion for the Royal Family has been one of their most powe ...Show more
Gladiator: Fighting for Life, Glory and Freedom by Ben Hubbard
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Landscape History Ser.
He vows to endure to be burned, to be bound, to be beaten, and to be killed by the sword. - Gladiator's oath according to Petronius. Pure unadulterated murder - Seneca's opinion of gladiatorial games. Gladiatorial combat is one of the most defining images of ancient Rome. It encapsulated the brutality o ...Show more
Everywhen - Australia and the Language of Deep History by Ann McGrath (Editor); Jakelin Troy (Editor); Laura Rademaker (Editor)
$129.75 AUD
Category: History | Series: New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia's Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broade ...Show more
The New Despotism by John Keane
$47.95 AUD
Category: History
A disturbing in-depth exposé of the antidemocratic practices of despotic governments now sweeping the world.One day they'll be like us. That was once the West's complacent and self-regarding assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism. But many have hardened into someth ...Show more
The International Brigades - Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War by Giles Tremlett
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal Keane The first major history of the International Brigades- a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism. The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a ...Show more
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History by Margalit Fox
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R) AWARD - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND NPR - "Fox unspools Jones and Hill's delightfully ...Show more