The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell (updated edition) by David Marr
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
David Marr's explosive bestseller, now expanded and fully updated.In March this year, the nation's most powerful Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, was jailed for child sexual assault. In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man, his career and his ultimate fall. Marr reveals a cleric at ease with power ...Show more
The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation: A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy by J. Randy Taraborrelli
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
From New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes The Kennedy Heirs, his most revealing Kennedy book yet. A unique burden was inherited by the children of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his celebrated siblings, Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy. Raised in a world of enormous privi ...Show more
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 by Robert Macklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The astonishing and unknown story of Narcisse Pelletier - a French cabin boy cast away in 1858 on the Daintree coast of far north Queensland, where he was adopted by the local Aborigines for 17 years - as a full member of the tribe, and had a family. He was then in effect kidnapped and returned to Franc ...Show more
Heligoland - Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea by Jan Rüger
$30.95 AUD
Category: History
On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, fifty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. A long tradition of rivalry was to come to an end her ...Show more
Turning Point: The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 - Japan's first land defeat in World War II by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Aust soldiers in the Milne Campaign of 1942
Told for the first time, this is the epic story of the Milne Bay campaign of 1942 - which saw Japanese land forces suffer their first defeat of the war - and has properly been called the RAAF's forgotten finest hour. September 1942 marked the high-point of Axis conquest in World War II. In the Pacific, ...Show more
Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some a ...Show more
Trim, the Cartographer's Cat: The Ship's Cat Who Helped Flinders Map Australia by Matthew Flinders; Gillian Dooley; Philippa Sandall
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A fun and quirky gift book about a much-loved ship's cat: Trim, who helped Flinders map and lap Australia. Trim was the ship's cat who accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia from 1801 to 1803. Trim, The Cartographer's Cat is a charming ode to t ...Show more
Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times by Thomas R. Martin
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C.E.. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and architecture of Athens in its Golden Age, Martin integrat ...Show more
The Last Bushrangers by Mike Munro
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The story of Australia's last bushranging gang - the murderous Kenniffs. Easter Sunday, 1902, deep in the Carnarvon Ranges a police constable and station manager are slain then later incinerated, their remains stuffed into saddlebags. Accused of the ghoulish crime are two members of the bushranging Ken ...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
Crusoe, Castaways and Shipwrecks in the Perilous Age of Sail by Mike Rendell
$52.99 AUD
Category: History
To mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of Robinson Crusoe, this book looks at some of the stories which inspired Daniel Defoe - stories of bravery, courage, determination and good fortune. It looks at Defoe's life and the monumental success of his novel - sometimes described as being the first ...Show more
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city's colourful thousand year history, Amsterdam will bring the place to life: it ...Show more