The Best of Times, the Worst of Times - A History of Now by Michael Burleigh
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
In the decades since the end of World War II, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the 21st century--first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath and, second, the fi ...Show more
Cecil Healy - The Epic Tale of Australia's Only Olympic Gold Medallist to Die at War by John Devitt; Larry Writer
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
When John Devitt won Olympic 100-metre freestyle gold in 1960, his inspiration was Healy. He always wanted to write his hero's biography. Now, on the centenary of Healy's death, Devitt has joined with Larry Writer to produce an extraordinary tale of a man who was born to swim, earned sporting immortalit ...Show more
Three Stones Make a Wall - The Story of Archaeology by Eric H. Cline; Glynnis Fawkes
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, "I see wonderful things." Carter's f ...Show more
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
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Category: History
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, "Once that first stack got going, it was `Goodbye, Charlie ...Show more
Fifty Ships that Changed the Course of History by Ian Graham
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the Stone Age to the present day, no technology has had a more profound impact on mankind than watercraft. Boats and ships made possible the settlement and conquest of new worlds. They determined the victors of history-changing wars and aided the spread of new philosophies, technologies, and religi ...Show more
The Sisters of Auschwitz by Roxane van Iperen
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Category: History
THE TRUE STORY OF TWO JEWISH SISTERS RESISTANCE IN THE HEART OF NAZI TERRITORY WINNER of the Opzij Literature Prize 2019! During the Second World War two Jewish sisters - Janny and Lien Brilleslijper - run one of the largest hideaways in The Netherlands: The High Nest, a villa in The Gooi area. While th ...Show more
The Royal Art of Poison - Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
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Category: History
Replete with royal conspiracies as venomous as the toxins they used to obtain power, beauty and revenge. The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, t ...Show more
The Ratline - Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
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Category: History
As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the ...Show more
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee - Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
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Category: History
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR"An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this na ...Show more
A Short History of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey Blainey
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Category: History
Takes us on an incredible global journey through a tempestuous hundred years and brings to vivid life many of the events that marked the 20th century: two world wars, the rise and fall of communist states, the worst economic slump, the decline of European monarchies ane empires, the ascent of the first ...Show more
Titanic: a Journey Through Time by Charles A. Haas; Jack P. Eaton
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
A unique chronology, Titanic: A Journey Through Time tells the captivating full story, moment by moment, from the birth of the key players to the latest expeditions, recovery and exhibition of artifacts. Herein is a feast of information and illustrations as well as the latest scientific information fro ...Show more
Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949 by David Cesarani
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Category: History
The Holocaust has never been so widely commemorated, but our understanding of the accepted narrative has rarely, if ever, been questioned. David Cesarani's sweeping reappraisal challenges accepted explanations for the anti-Jewish politics of Nazi Germany and the inevitability of the 'Final Solution'. Th ...Show more