Boudica: Dreaming the Hound by Manda Scott; Philip Stevens (Read by); Jerome Flynn (Read by); Liza Goddard (Read by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: British | Series: Boudica Ser.
AD 57: much of Britannia has been under Roman occupation for over ten years and tribes pay costly tithes to the Emperor in return for the right to continue living on their own lands.On the sacred isle of Mona, the Boudica or 'Bringer of Victory' as Breaca has long been hailed, now knows for certain that ...Show more
Dampier's Monkey - The South Seas Voyages of William Dampier by Adrian Mitchell
$49.95 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
William Dampier, the 'devil's mariner' as he has been called, a far voyager and traveller extraordinaire, lived in an era when, more truly than in other periods of history, the past was being put behind the present, and everything was new - a new world discovered by the first stirrings of the new scienc ...Show more
Hitler A Study In Tyranny by Alan Bullock
$21.95 AUD
Category: World Wars | Series: Pelican Ser.
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny was the first major historical study of the life of the Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler.
Runes by Martin Findell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Medieval
From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were inscribing runes on a range of different objects. Once identified and interpreted by experts, runes provide us with invaluable evidence for the early Germanic languages including English, Dutch, German and the ...Show more
Athelstan: The First King of England by Sarah Foot
$49.95 AUD
Category: Medieval | Series: Yale English Monarchs Series
The powerful and innovative King Athelstan reigned only briefly (924-939), yet his achievements during those eventful twelve years changed the course of English history. He won spectacular military victories (most notably at Brunanburh), forged unprecedented political connections across Europe, and succ ...Show more
Birth of the Chess Queen by Marilyn Yalom
$39.95 AUD
Category: Medieval
Everyone knows that the queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. In India, Persia, and the Arab lands, where the game was first played, a general, or vizier (chief counselor to the king), occupied the square where the queen ...Show more
Life Along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield
$29.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Presents the story of the Silk Road in its heyday, through the lives of ten of its inhabitants.
Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant by Shrabani Basu
$24.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: History Press Ser.
The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail, he suddenly found himself a personal attendant to the Empress of India herself. Within a year, he was esta ...Show more
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 by Christopher Andrew
$59.95 AUD
Category: European
This book marks an unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its ...Show more
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
This title lets you explore the world's favourite city with the award-winning author of "The Discovery of France". No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Ro ...Show more
Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern by Simon Winder
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
Offers an introduction to the hidden wonders of Germany. Exploring the region's history, folklore, cuisine, architecture, and landscape, this guide describes Germany's past.