Nazis of Copley Square - The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front by Charles Gallagher
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Winner of a Catholic Media Association Book Award"A great, but deeply unsettling, revelation This book is more than an account of Boston in wartime. It is a warning."-Boston Globe"The rare book by a scholar that is such a page-turner it is hard to put down A potent brew of spy story, detective story, an ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Tom Holland; Dominic Sandbrook
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past from Alexander the Great to Tolkein, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland ...Show more
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar ( ...Show more
Unfortunate Ends On Murder and Misadventure in Medieval England by Soren Lily
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
From the author of Twitter’s Medieval Death Bot comes Unfortunate Ends: On Murder and Misadventure in Medieval England, an illuminating collection of in-depth looks at the most interesting cases from medieval coroners’ rolls Thomas, son of Henry Robekyn, died 1286 after cutting off his left foot and the ...Show more
Young Elizabeth Princess Prisoner Queen by Nicola Tallis
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Elizabeth I is renowned for the hugely successful reign that has led her to be considered one of the most celebrated monarchs in English history. But what of the trials she faced in her tumultuous early life? Her status as a princess didn’t last long – when she was less than three years old, her mother, ...Show more
The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic by Sandy Winterbottom
$36.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: David Suzuki Institute Ser.
"Urgent and moving."--Publishers Weekly ★An elegant blend of "polemic, industrial history, nautical writing, elegy and ecology" (The Scotsman), The Two-Headed Whale charts the tragic history of the post-war whaling industry alongside the author's thrilling memoir of sailing the Antarctic.In 2016, Sandy ...Show more
Napoleon and the Rebel by Marcello Simonetta; Noga Arikha
$15.00 AUD
Category: History
Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but who also had a promising political career of his own. He was a romantic, an idealist, and an anti-monarchist whose love for Alexandrine, the woman he married in spite of Napoleon's ...Show more
Hitler and Stalin - The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
$20.00 AUD
Category: History
Two twentieth-century tyrants stand apart from all the rest, Laurence Rees has met more people with direct experience working for Hitler and Stalin than any other historian. Using their evidence, he has pieced together a compelling, comparative portrait of evil in which idealism is polluted by bloody pr ...Show more