Somme Intelligence: Fourth Army HQ 1916 by William Langford
$57.99 AUD
Category: History
For the Somme offensive British Fourth Army headquarters was situated in a chateau at Querrieu on the Albert-Amiens road. In the build up months to Haig's Great Push a steady flow of intelligence was being compiled; captured German documents, intercepted messages, prisoners' letters, diaries and informa ...Show more
Tutankhamun by T. G. Henry James; Araldo De Luca (By (photographer))
$105.00 AUD
Category: History
A gorgeous volume celebrating the eternal splendor of the boy pharaoh. On November 4th, 1922, after months of unsuccessful expeditions and excavations, a young Howard Carter was close to giving up his Egyptian experience in the Valley of the Kings when, unexpectedly, he and his team discovered one of th ...Show more
Who Cares?: Life on Welfare in Australia by Eve Vincent
$33.00 AUD
Category: History
The welfare state meets the 2020s in AustraliaThe twentieth-century Australian welfare state made the bold promise to care for its citizens. But since the 1990s, social security has become increasingly conditional and punitive in its provision of this so-called care. Who Cares? outlines the perspectives ...Show more
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A critical and radical biography of the last great Imperialist The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to be magisterial, has adopted many of his hero's man ...Show more
Wild History: Journeys through Lost Scotland by James Crawford
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the SkyYou scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past. Perhaps they are marked by a tiny symbol on your map, ...Show more
The Storm Before the Storm - The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Michael Duncan
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. After its founding in 509 BCE, Rome grew from an unremarkable Italian city-state to the dominant superpower of the Mediterranean world. Through it all, the Romans never allowed a single man to seize control of ...Show more
Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire by David Chanteranne, Emmanuelle Papot
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Explore the rise and fall of a legend. Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire offers an unprecedented insight into the life of a man labelled conqueror, emperor, lover and tyrant. Thoroughly researched by expert authors, it examines Napoleon's story from humble beginnings to leader of a vast empir ...Show more
Capitalism - A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country's 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India's gross domestic product. The rest of the population are ghosts within a system beyond their control. This includes the millions that live on less than $2 a day; or the hundreds of thousan ...Show more
Inglorious Empire - What the British did to India by Shashi Tharoor
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and cause ...Show more
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s forgotten atomic tests in Australia by Elizabeth Tynan
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the south. But Emu Field has its own secrets, and the fact that it was largely forgotten makes it more intriguing. Only at Emu Field did a terrifying black mist speed across the la ...Show more
The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An illuminating account of the war in Ukraine - its historical roots, its course, its possible outcomes - from the bestselling, award-winning author of Chernobyl On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who we ...Show more
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, Forgotten Warriors puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thi ...Show more