Madhouse at the End of the Earth - The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
$35.00 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: very good
A new classic of extreme endurance - Into Thin Air meets The Perfect Storm in 19th century Antarctica 'The next great contribution to polar literature' -- Hampton Sides 'An unforgettable tale brilliantly told' -- Scott Anderson 'It grips from first sentence to last' -- Lawrence Osborne The harrowing, su ...Show more
Cities that Shaped the Ancient World by John Julius Norwich
$24.99 AUD
Category: General History
John Julius Norwich presents a sweeping tour of forty great cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations - and which in turn have shaped our own. The cities of the ancient world built the foundations for modern urban life, their innovations in architecture and politics essential to cities ...Show more
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War by Brendan Simms, Charles Laderman
$55.00 AUD
Category: General History
'A rare achievement ... sure to become an instant classic' John Lewis Gaddis, Yale UniversityThis gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These five days trans ...Show more
Out of the Depths A History of Shipwrecks by Alan G. Jamieson
$49.99 AUD
Category: General History
A highly illustrated voyage through shipwrecks ancient and contemporary. Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across 4,000 years, examining their historical context and significance, and showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, shedding new light on long-departed societies and civili ...Show more
Witchcraft: A Secret History by Michael Streeter
$29.99 AUD
Category: General History
Witchcraft 1/2s great secret stems from the fact that few people understand its true essence. Here's the book that explains how Wicca, the religion of witchcraft, came into existence. A detailed discussion of witchcraft's origins begins with accounts from ancient civilizations, then progresses forward t ...Show more
A Journey Back in Time Through Maps by Kevin J. BROWN
$79.99 AUD
Category: General History
In our modern day and age, when satellite imagery and GPS services like Google Maps, offer strikingly accurate images of the world, we can easily forget that for most of human history the world was an unknown tabula rasa on which cartographers, scientists, men of god, and kings imprinted their own dream ...Show more
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
$19.99 AUD
Category: General History
In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International communism seemed everywhere on the offensive: all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp; America's monopoly on nuclear weapons was a thi ...Show more
Battles that Changed History by DK
$55.00 AUD
Category: General History
A visual journey through more than 3,000 years of combat, revisiting some of the biggest battles in historyFrom the fury of the Punic Wars to the onslaught of Operation Desert Storm, relive the most famous battles in history in this gripping guide.This military history book takes you on a journey throug ...Show more
The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth by Diana Preston
$54.99 AUD
Category: General History
From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin's journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin b ...Show more
Spitfire: A Very British Love Story by John Nichol
$22.99 AUD
Category: General History
THE SUNDAY TIMES NON FICTION BESTSELLER 'The best book you will ever read about Britain's greatest warplane.' Patrick Bishop, bestselling author of Fighter Boys. 'A rich and heartfelt tribute to this most iconic British machine. By focussing on the men (and women) who flew the Spitfire, John Nic ...Show more
Culture: A New World History by Martin Puchner
$34.99 AUD
Category: General History
Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentiet ...Show more
Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning by Elliot Ackerman
$22.99 AUD
Category: General History
In a refugee camp in southern Turkey, Elliot Ackerman sits across the table from Abu Hassar, who fought for Al Qaeda in Iraq and has murky connections to the Islamic State. At first, Ackerman pretends to have been a journalist during the Iraq War, but after he establishes a rapport with Abu Hassar, he r ...Show more