Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Fascinating and satisfying' Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the World. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remote ...Show more
Australian Code Breakers: Our Top-Secret War with the Kaiser's Reich by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret ...Show more
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents-some never before seen-and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utiliz ...Show more
Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War by Phillip Deery
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own spy-hunting agency- ASIO. By the 1950s its counterespionage activities were increasingly supplemented by attempts at counter ...Show more
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China by Kevin Rudd
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Written by one of Australia's former prime ministers and China expert, this book challenges the politicians, strategists and generals on both sides as they happily embark on the slippery slope of decoupling, containment, confrontation, conflict and Cold War. Possibly even the unthinkable: war itself. ...Show more
History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A HISTORY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their battle for survival. There has been human habitation in Britain, regular ...Show more
The Explorers: Text Classics by Tim Flannery
$12.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Text Classics
The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving frontier between European invaders and the Aboriginal custodians of the continent. This compelling anthology documents almost four centuries of exploration and takes us into a world of dang ...Show more
Sons Of The Southern Cross: rebels, revolutions, Anzacs and the spirit of Australia's fighting flag by Grantlee Kieza
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Ever since the Southern Cross flag was 'born' in the minefields of Victoria it's been a symbol for a rebellious Australian spirit - from the battles of Eureka to those of Ned Kelly, from the birth of the Labor Party to the Anzacs at Galliopoli. The men and women involved took the flag as their symbol. B ...Show more
The Great War For Civilisation: The Conquest Of The Middle East by Robert Fisk
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists in the city a ...Show more
Paper Emperors: The rise of Australia's newspaper empires by Sally Young
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
'A tour de force.' -- Professor Rodney Tiffen Beforenewspapers were ravaged by the digital age, they were a powerful force,especially in Australia -- a country of newspaper giants and kingmakers. Thismagisterial book revealswho owned Australia's newspapers and how they used them to wield politicalpower. ...Show more
White Mughals - Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair-un-Nissa
The World's Greatest Enigmas52 Mystical Sites by Roberto Giacobbo
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
From Egypt's ancient Sphinx to Area 51, from Peru's Nazca lines to Dracula's castle, every enigmatic place examined within these pages invites the reader on a journey into mystery and wonder. They all raise eternally fascinating questions of what came before, how civilizations rose and fell, what hidden ...Show more