The Forgotten the Chinese Labour Corps and the Chinese Anzacs by WILL. DAVIES
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The Forgotten explores an often-overlooked part of Australia’s rich and diverse history – the service and sacrifice of the Chinese Labour Corps who worked under the British and French on the Western Front during the First World War. It puts the story of the Chinese Labour Corps into the broader history ...Show more
Viking Britain - An Exploration by Thomas Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. To many, the word 'Viking' brings to mind red scenes of rape and pillage, of marauders f ...Show more
Æthelflæd - Lady of the Mercians by Tim Clarkson
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
At the end of the ninth century AD, a large part of what is now England was controlled by the Vikings - heathen warriors from Scandinavia whohad been attacking the British Isles for more than a hundred years. Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, was determined to regain the conqueredlands but his death in ...Show more
Radical Uncertainty by Mervyn King; John Kay
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Uncertainty pervades the big decisions we all make in our lives. How much should we pay into our pensions each month? Should we take regular exercise? Expand the business? Change our strategy? Enter a trade agreement? Take an expensive holiday? We do not know what the future will hold. But we must make ...Show more
Cult of Glory - The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug J. Swanson
$52.99 AUD
Category: History
A twenty-first century reckoning with the legendary Texas Rangers that does justice to their heroic moments while also documenting atrocities, brutality, oppression, and corruption The Texas Rangers came to life in 1823, when Texas was still part of Mexico. Nearly 200 years later, the Rangers are still ...Show more
Milk of Paradise - A History of Opium by Lucy Inglis
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain--and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport, a ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A history of the present by Nick Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the bill ...Show more
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And h ...Show more
Hitler's Horses: The Incredible True Story of the Detective who Infiltrated the Nazi Underworld by Arthur Brand
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The true story of a detective, two bronze horses and the dictator who set the world on fire. When detective Arthur Brand is summoned to a meeting with one of the most dangerous men in the art world, he learns that a clue has emerged that could solve one of the Second World War's unexplained mysteries- w ...Show more
The SS Brotherhood of the Bell by Joseph P. Farrell
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1945, a mysterious Nazi secret weapons project code-named 'The Bell' left its underground bunker in lower Silesia, along with its project documentation, and the 4-star SS general Hans Kammler. Taken aboard a massive six engine Junkers 390 ultra-long range aircraft, The Bell, Kammler, and all project ...Show more
The White Sniper - Simo Häyhä by Tapio Saarelainen
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
The remarkable story of the Finnish marksman nicknamed "White Death" by the Red Army for his record number of confirmed kills. Simo Häyhä is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland from 1939 to 1940, he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a re ...Show more
Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church by Austen Ivereigh
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
This deeply contextual biography centers on the tensions generated by the pope's attempt to turn the Church away from power and tradition and outwards to engage humanity with God's mercy. Through battles with corrupt bankers and worldly cardinals, in turbulent meetings and on global trips, history's fir ...Show more