The Classic: F/A-18A/B Hornet Aircraft in Australian Service by John Quaife
$39.99 AUD
Category: General History
Selected in 1981 as the aircraft that would replace the Mirage IIIO as Australia's new fighter, the F/A-18 Hornet would proceed to establish an un-equaled record of service as Australia's most successful combat aircraft. Designed from the outset to deliver superior performance as an air-to-air fighter a ...Show more
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821 by Michael Broers
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
*A KIRKUS BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2022* An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor's life--from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile--as the world Napoleon has created begins to crumble around him. In 1811, Napoleon s ...Show more
Soviets in Space - Russia's Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier by Colin Burgess
$49.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Kosmos Ser.
A beautifully illustrated history of the Soviet Union's leading role in the space race. In this deeply researched chronology, Colin Burgess describes the then Soviet Union's extraordinary success in the pioneering years of space exploration. Within a decade, the Soviets not only launched the world's fir ...Show more
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
From the international bestselling author of The New Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time. A 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: BBC NEWS * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * FINANCIAL TIMES * NEW EUROPEAN * GUARDIAN * NEW STATESM ...Show more
Cloaked in Bravery: A Rescue Mission Like No Other by Tony Matthews
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Experience the extraordinary journey of a woman who risked everything to follow her man into battle in a desperate attempt to rescue him from the death that inevitably beckoned. Christian, driven by an unwavering devotion to her missing husband, cast aside her comfortable life, family, and even her chil ...Show more
Apres la Guerre: Anzac Stories 1919 - 1939 by John Ramsland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
What really happened to the ex-servicemen in Australia when they returned to civil life?The truth of their stories in peacetime is as shocking as the war they faced. In fact, the line separating the living from the dead was, at times, not clear at all.Many soldiers returned to celebrations, such as the ...Show more
Magic Book by Noel Daniel
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
Art of Enchantment The world's greatest magicians from the Middle Ages through the 1950 Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have always been conduits to a parallel universe of limitless possibil ...Show more
The Celts by Alice Roberts
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil Oliver The Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe: their origins, their treasure and their enduring leg ...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
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Evolution of Charles Darwin is the colorful and dramatic story of the famed naturalist's journey on HMS Beagle. When the young aspiring geologist boarded the Beagle in 1831. he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become the most historic voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the ...Show more
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley
$29.99 AUD
Category: European
Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and the larger picture of the struggle between Islam and Christianity. Co ...Show more
The Jerusalem Files - The Secret Journey of the Menorah to Oak Island by Corjan Mol; Christopher Morford
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A non-fiction Da Vinci Code for the 21st century, this thrilling treasure hunt traces the voyage of the legendary Jewish Menorah from the Jerusalem of the Knights Templar through France, Portugal and North America, providing mind-blowing history and mystery for fans of The Curse of Oak Island. The Jewi ...Show more
The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand by Michael King
$34.99 AUD
Category: General History
This bestselling book by the late Michael King is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. First published in 2003 and hailed as a triumph of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, it has been continuously in print for twenty years and has sold over 300,00 ...Show more