Four Hours of Fury: The Untold Story of World War II's Largest Airborne Invasion and the Final Push into Nazi Germany by James M. Fenelon
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
"Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authority...A riveting read" (Donald L. Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of the Air) about World War II's largest airborne operation--one that dropped 17,000 Allied paratroopers deep into ...Show more
Flight by Zack Scott
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Flight is the story of humankind's most ambitious undertaking. From thousand-year-old flying machines and the trailblazing 'birdmen' who risked their lives to test them, to the Wright brothers' legendary first flight and the iconic spacecraft of the modern era, Flight weaves together the extraordinary h ...Show more
Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 by Götz Aly
$51.99 AUD
Category: History
From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole. The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousand ...Show more
East West Street: On the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity by Philippe Sands
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: updated edition
Winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for NonfictionWinner of the 2017 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize"A monumental achievement...a profoundly personal account of the origins of crimes against humanity and genocide, told with love, anger and precision." -John le Carré "A narrative, to my knowledge un ...Show more
Enemy of All Mankind - A true story of piracy, power and history's first global manhunt by Steven Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
“Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet.” Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly i ...Show more
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness (HB) by Sinclair McKay
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war al ...Show more
Democratic Adventurer: Graham Berry and the Making of Australian Politics by Sean Scalmer
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Biography Ser.
Graham Berry (1822-1904) was colonial Australia's most gifted, creative and controversial politician. A riveting speaker, a newspaper proprietor and editor, and the founder of Australia's first mass political party, he wielded these tools to launch an age of reform: spearheading the adoption of a 'prote ...Show more
Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands (HB) by Dan Jones
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades - the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods, in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from Islamic rule ...Show more
Crucible of Hell: Okinawa - Stalingrad of the Pacific by Saul David
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'Excellent' Antony BeevorFrom award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new narrative of the Battle of Okinawa - the last great clash of the Second World War, and one that had profound consequences for the modern world. For eighty-three blood-soaked days, the fighting on the isl ...Show more
Captain James Cook by Rob Mundle
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A biography that puts you on the quarterdeck with history's greatest sailor Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers in world history. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the eighteenth century, Cook unravelled the oldest mystery surround ...Show more
The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt by Ken Gelder
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished food source, an object of scientific fascination, ...Show more
Captain Cook's Epic Voyage by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent. 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of that voyage, and Cook's 'discovery' of Australia. Captain Cook's Epic Voyage reveals the hardships and adventure of this remarkable quest, and the euphori ...Show more