Operation Mincemeat - The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II by Ben MacIntyre
$32.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. This book weaves together private documents, photographs, memories, letters and diaries, as well as material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell the full story of Ope ...Show more
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad by Lesley Hazleton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Middle Eastern
Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the prophet of Islam is not well known.
The Fall of the Ottomans - The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920 by Eugene Rogan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Middle Eastern | Reading Level: very good
Sunday Times Top Ten Best-seller. The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War, from best-selling historian Eugene Rogan. For some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East. By 1 ...Show more
A Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey
$39.99 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: good
"Narrated by a distinguished historian, here is an account of the grand adventure of human history. It is the story of the world's people during the last four million years, beginning before the human race moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents, and ending with the recent millenn ...Show more
The History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: General History | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps by Tom Harper
$49.95 AUD
Category: General History
The 20th century was a golden age of map-making, and maps permeated almost every aspect of daily life. It was a century overshadowed by war which was also marked by tremendous social and technological change to which millions of contemporary maps bear witness. Most were created for a specific and immedi ...Show more
Atlas Of The Year 1000 by John Man
$28.00 AUD
Category: General History | Series: Penguin Reference Books S.
An illustrated tour around the world in the year 1000, this text shows the roots of the world as we know it today.
Maps: Their Untold Stories by Rose Mitchell; Andrew Janes
$60.00 AUD
Category: General History
Drawing on 700 years' worth of maps from the National Archives, this stunning and fascinating collection is not just about the history of the maps, but is also an insight into the places and the social history of the time that the mapmakers captured.This magnificent collection, drawn from seven centurie ...Show more
Former People: the Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith
$28.00 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: 16
Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. It is a book filled with chilling tales of looted palaces, burning estates, of despe ...Show more
Bearing Witness the Remarkable Life of Charles Bean and the Legend He Created by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Charles Bean was Australia's greatest and most famous war correspondent. He is the journalist who told Australia about the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. He is the historian who did so much to create the Anzac legend and shape the emerging Australian identity in the years after Federation. ...Show more
Admiral Hornblower: "Flying Colours"; The "Commodore"; "Lord Hornblower"; "Hornblower In the West Indies" by C.S. Forester
$26.95 AUD
Category: General History | Series: A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea
Combines seafaring tales about Horatio Hornblower, namely: "Flying Colours", "The Commodore", "Lord Hornblower" and "Hornblower in the West Indies".