Les Parisiennes : How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s by Anne Sebba
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016 What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until - finally - renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, glamour was ever ...Show more
Magnificent Rebels - The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self (TP) by Andrea Wulf
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind. The rulers of Europe had ordered their peoples how to think and act for too long. Based in the small Ger ...Show more
Tunnel 29: Love, Espionage and Betrayal: the True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Merriman excels at recreating the physicality of their experiences: the smell of dense clay, the click-clack of a woman walking down the street above in high heels... Merriman has burrowed her way deep into interviews, news reports and Stasi files to fashion an impressive real life page-turner.' Guardi ...Show more
Of Marsupials and Men by Alistair Paton
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A brilliantly entertaining history of Australia's weird and wonderful natural scientists 'A fascinating history of Australia's wildlife and the wilder men and women who shot, studied and saved it ... Compelling and entertaining.' -David Hunt Of Marsupials and Men recounts the fascinating and often hilar ...Show more
The Lost Boys by BYRNES
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In the First World War of 1914-1918, thousands of boys across Australia and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent's signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. Though some were as young as thirteen, they soon found they could die as well as any man. Like Peter Pan's lost boys ...Show more
A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean by Jeremy Black
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Western control or influence over the its islands and shores. There is a particular focus on the period from the 1530s to 1890 with its greater Western coastal and ...Show more
Messalina - A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery by Honor Cargill-Martin
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world.The scandalous image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless and sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work of Roman historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius, has ...Show more
The Rest is History (The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast) by Tom Holland; Dominic Sandbrook
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past from Alexander the Great to Tolkein, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland ...Show more
The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld by Jake Adelstein
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start fr ...Show more
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony, was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were defeated by the future Roman emperor Augustus at the Battle of Actium. Paraded as a prisoner in a Roman triumph, then brought up in the household of August ...Show more
Scotland's Forgotten Past - A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood by Alistair Moffat
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
A charming, lively and often amusing tour of 36 forgotten episodes and overlooked people and places of Scottish history.Scotland's history is full of famous kings, queens, saints and warriors. But what about its lesser-known places, people and events? In this collection of half-forgotten tales, Alistair ...Show more
Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area. Southeast Asia: An introductory historywas first published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in one of the most dynamic and diverse regi ...Show more