The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$19.99 AUD
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
The Squatters: The Story of Australia's Pastoral Pioneers by Barry Stone
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
For the early settlers who came from crowded cities and long established villages, it must have been extraordinary to find you could pack your belongings onto a bullock dray and head off to rural grasslands out of the reach of meddlesome authorities. They could just mark out a parcel of land, bring in s ...Show more
Legionary: The Roman Soldier's (Unofficial) Manual by Philip Matyszak
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Your emperor needs you for the Roman army! The year is 100 CE and Rome stands supreme and unconquerable from the desert sands of Mesopotamia to the misty highlands of Caledonia. Yet the might of Rome rests completely on the armored shoulders of the legionaries who hold back the barbarian hordes and push ...Show more
The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History by DK
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Tells the story of one of the longest and most controversial conflicts in US history. More than 50 years after the outbreak of the world's first televised war, the conduct and strategies employed against the inferior technology of the Viet Cong remain as controversial and fascinating as ever. Created in ...Show more
The Natural History Book: The Ultimate Visual Guide to Everything on Earth by DK
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
A beautiful guide to Earth's wildlife and natural history, including its rocks, minerals, animals, plants, fungi, microorganisms and more!Introducing The Natural History Book - a complete guide to the nature and wildlife of our world and written by a worldwide team of natural history experts. In the 11 ...Show more
Good As Gold by Justin Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
From the acclaimed author of Cooper Not Out comes a delightfully comic novel set in the Melbourne Goldrush era that reimagines the running of the inaugural Melbourne Cup. Some stories are too good to be true ... In the year 1861, there were three campfires burning outside the gold mining town of Mull C ...Show more
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut' Antony Beevor'One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years' Max Hastings'Brilliant and sparkling ... reads like a thriller. I couldn't put it down' Peter Frankopan On a wet afternoon in Sep ...Show more
The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
Secondhand. The gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt, worshipped for over half of recorded history, are among the most fascinating and complex of any civilization. Here is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the deities that lay at the heart of Egyptian religion and society. It examines the evolu ...Show more
The Romanovs: The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
"Epic history on the grandest scale. . . . Game of Thrones seems like the proverbial vicar's tea party in comparison."--Financial Times The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined princip ...Show more
The Tank Book: The Definitive Visual History of Armoured Vehicles by DK
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Get up close to more than 400 of the most important tanks and armoured vehicles ever built. In 1916, the British built a machine that was impervious to enemy fire, and could dominate the battlefield, crushing obstacles and barbed wire in its path. The first tank, or "Mother" as it was known, had arrived ...Show more
The Hitler Bloodline - Uncovering the Fuhrers Descendants by David Gardner
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The astounding story of the quest to find the living descendants of the most monstrous tyrant in history - Adolf Hitler
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more