A Little History of the World: Illustrated Edition by E. H. Gombrich
$37.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Little Histories Ser.
E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gomb ...Show more
The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England by Dan Jones
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen - from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt - this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today - great history to appeal to readers of Ken Folle ...Show more
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns. Caesar's narrative offers insights into his military strategy & paints a fascinating picture of his encounters with the inhabitant of ...Show more
Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat NotebookThe Complete Middle School Study Guide by Ximena Vengoechea
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Big Fat Notebooks
It's the revolutionary world history study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest. Everything You Need to Ace World History . . . kicks off with the Paleolithic Era and transports the reader to ancient civilizations--from Africa and beyond; the middle ages across the w ...Show more
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination by Richard J. Evans
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the 'post-truth' age The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything that occurs is ...Show more
In Search of the South Pole by Kari Herbert; Huw Lewis-Jones
$9.99 AUD
$39.99 (75% off)
Category: History
In 1911 the world was watching, waiting, hoping, attention focused on a desolate spot at the very end of the earth, as two men raced to conquer the South Pole. A hundred years after Roald Amundsen's triumph and Robert Scott's tragic demise, our fascination with the Antarctic remains as acute as ever. On ...Show more
Gallipoli 1915 by Richard Reid
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Category: History | Series: Battles Series | Reading Level: very good
Magnificently illustrated and absorbing look at Gallipoli that offers fresh and surprising insights into this important story.
The Ship That Never Was by Adam Courtenay
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller. In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from ...Show more
Australia's Natural Disasters by Richard Whitaker
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$24.99 (23% off)
Category: History
'Australia’s Natural Disasters' tells many stories of the devastation that nature has wreaked on our wild country and its people. From the agonies of droughts and oods to the shocks of earthquakes and bush fires, Australia is a country famed as much for its ferocious natural hazards as for its rich e ...Show more
Stasiland by Anna Funder
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson PrizeTruth can be stranger - and more heartbreaking and hilarious - than fiction.In this now classic work, Funder tells extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of ...Show more
A Little History of the United States by James West Davidson
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to gran ...Show more
The Skripal Files by Mark Urban
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'Engrossing . . . Urban tells the story of Skripal's undercover career well, much of it previously unknown and gleaned from around 10 hours of conversations with him at his Salisbury home' Guardian Who is Sergei Skripal? Agent. Prisoner. Target. The Skripal Files tells the story of Sergei Skripal, the ...Show more