100 Battles: Decisive conflicts that shaped the world by Martin J Dougherty
$10.00 AUD
Category: History
Burke and Wills - The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first E ...Show more
Towards the Light : The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West by A.C. Grayling
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The often-violent conflicts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were sparked by the pursuit of freedom of thought. In time, this drive led to bitter fighting, including the English Civil War. Then came revolutions in America and France that swept away monarchies for more representative forms of gov ...Show more
The Woman Who Would be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king's son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was born into a privileged position of the royal household. Married to her brother, she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father' ...Show more
Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain is the social history of the last century through the eyes of those who served. From the butler, the footman, the maid and the cook of 1900 to the au pairs, cleaners and childminders who took their place seventy years later, a previously unheard c ...Show more
Do You Remember The 1980s: Objects and Moments of a Dynamic Era by Patricia Masso
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
A wind of change was blowing in the 1980s, and by the end of the decade the Cold War was history. But what really absorbed a whole generation in these thrilling years ws one question: is there a solution to the Rubik's cube? Prepare yourself for an amazing journey back to the 1980s when technical progre ...Show more
From Democrats to Kings: From the downfall of Athens to the rise of Alexander the Great by Michael Scott
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Athens, 404 BC. The democratic city-state has been ravaged by a long and bloody war with neighbouring Sparta. The search for scapegoats begins and Athens, liberty's beacon in the ancient world, turns its sword on its own way of life. Defining moments of Greek history, culture, politics, religion and ide ...Show more
France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy str ...Show more