Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more
Barbarossa - How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
$35.00 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: very good
Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, was the largest military operation in history, its aim nothing less than 'a war of extermination' to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create lebensraum for the so-called German master race. But it led to the destruction of the Thir ...Show more
The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II by Mark Baker
$34.95 AUD
Category: World Wars | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force – the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 – who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal ...Show more
The Florentines from Dante to Galileo by Paul Strathern
$32.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: near fine
A sweeping 400-year history of the Florentines who gave birth to the Renaissance, by the author of The Medici and The Borgias. Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which transformed the entire culture of western civilisation. Painting, sculpture and arch ...Show more
The Private Life of the Diary: From Pepys to Tweets - A History of the Diary as an Art Form by Sally Bayley
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In a beautiful literary exploration, Sally Bayley tracks the evolution – and the potential twenty first century death of – the diary, mourning what it means to lose the art of writing simply for oneself. Diaries hold all manner of things: they allow us a moment to be completely personal, to self-aggrand ...Show more
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich by Harald Jähner
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
How does a nation recover from fascism?1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today. Post-war Germany found itself occupied over four zones by the victorious Allied forces. More than h ...Show more
The Western Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
$49.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
In the annals of military history, the Western Front stands as an enduring symbol of the folly and futility of war.However, The Western Front, by bestselling military historian Nick Lloyd, reveals that the story is not, as so many assume, one of pointlessness and stupidity. Rather, it is an epic triumph ...Show more
World War II The Definitive Visual Guide by DK
$49.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
World War II is captured in hundreds of compelling images, presenting the people, places, and politics involved in the epic conflict. Inside this complete visual guide is chronological coverage of the lead up to war, major military battles around the globe, and the aftermath that still influences and im ...Show more
Dreamtime Heritage by Ainslie Roberts (Illustrator); Melva Roberts
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian History
A man's Dreaming merged with the Dreamtime. Everything in life, whether tangible or intangible, had been influenced by the people of the Dreamtime: the creators of the world and those who lived in the beginning. Therefore, everything that he saw, did, felt, and experienced was to some degree sacred. The ...Show more
The Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski by Tim Tate
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Spring 1958- a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West. His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important, least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War. Even his death is shrouded in mystery and ...Show more
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo; Patricia Welch (Foreword by); James B. Harris (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edowaga Rampo's best stories—bizarre and blood-curdling expeditions into the fantastic, the perverse, and the strange, in a marvelous homage to Rampo's literary "mentor," Edgar Allan Poe.
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Ancient Civilisations
Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece into a globe-spanning empire. In so doing, they changed the course of history. By the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had eclipsed the power of Persia, crossed the Hindu Kush and marched into what is now Pakistan, ...Show more