War Horses: Hoof Prints in Time by Jill Mathers
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
This book not only commemorates the role our Australian and New Zealand horses played in a war which saw eight million animals perish in the bloodiest of battles, but preserves this collection of stories to be re-told almost one hundred years later. Here the author presents the deeds of the unknown, alo ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms: Winner Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year. The thrilling story of an empire's rise & fall from the best-selling author of GOLDEN MAZE & GHOST EMPIRE. by Richard Fidler
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
Women in White Coats - How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Meet the pioneering women who changed the medical landscape for us all For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionising the way women receive health care. In the ...Show more
The Warmth of Other Suns - The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize-winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for n ...Show more
True Pleasures: a Memoir of Women in Paris by Lucinda Holdforth
$19.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
What better respite is there from down-under diplomacy and politics than to wander the Parisian haunts of some of the most influential women in recent western history? Australian Lucinda Holdforth abandoned her speech-writing job to do just that, exploring the intriguing Paris lives and locales of Nancy ...Show more
Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage by Nathalia Holt
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA - women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace).
The Unforgiven: Missionaries or Mercenaries? The Untold Story of the Rebel West Indian Cricketers Who Toured Apartheid South Africa by Ashley Gray
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
In the early 80s, 20 West Indian cricketers were paid more than $100,000 each to take part in rebel tours of apartheid South Africa. When they returned home to the Caribbean they were banned for life and shunned by their countrymen. Some turned to drugs, some to God, while others found themselves beggin ...Show more
The Good, The Bad & the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office d ...Show more
Exiles - Three Island Journeys by William Atkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor. 'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.'EDMUND DE WAAL'Atkins spins a marvellous tapestry of co ...Show more
A Cold Spell: A Human History of Ice by Max Leonard
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies - and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from our planet. 'In a bracingly original book, Max Leonard makes something we all take for granted into ...Show more
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, Forgotten Warriors puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thi ...Show more