Coastal Guide to nature and history 3 Western Victoria Point Lonsdale to the South Australian border by Graham Patterson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Lorne & the Great Ocean Road
Graham Patterson finished the final stretch of his four-decade walk along the coast of Victoria in 2018. Coastal guide to nature and history 3: western Victoria covers the coast from Point Lonsdale to the South Australian border. Like Phillip Island, western Victoria has penguin colonies and mutton-bi ...Show more
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick
$36.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she'd stumbled onto the project of a lifetime - a biopic of a ...Show more
Let the Bastards Come: The Battle for Kapyong Korea, 23 – 25 April 1951 by David W. Cameron
$33.99 AUD
Category: History
Anzac Day 2024 represents the 73rd anniversary of the critical battle of Kapyong (23 to 25 April 1951) This book for the first time tells the full story of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American units involved. Fewer than 1,000 Australian and Canadian infantrymen, supported by New Zealand ar ...Show more
A Very Secret Trade: The Dark Story of Gentlemen Collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
Young Elizabeth Princess Prisoner Queen by Nicola Tallis
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Elizabeth I is renowned for the hugely successful reign that has led her to be considered one of the most celebrated monarchs in English history. But what of the trials she faced in her tumultuous early life? Her status as a princess didn’t last long – when she was less than three years old, her mother, ...Show more
The Diggers of Kapyong: The story of the Aussies who changed the course of the Korean War by Tom Gilling
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun We charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many bullets coming that it was like walking, running into a very stiff breeze. Most of the sec ...Show more
Dethroned: The Downfall of India's Princely States by John Zubrzycki
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. In July 1947, India’s ...Show more
The Forbidden Daughter by Zipora Klein Jakob
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan’s survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belonging. Elida Friedman was never supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite th ...Show more
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. FROM THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE 'Elegant, effortlessly readable . . . essential readi ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
$37.99 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
Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before there was any possibility of 'a room of one's own'. In an innovative and engaging narrative of eve ...Show more
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt
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Category: History
September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever. But Diesel never arrives at his destination. He vanishes ...Show more