The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, His Heirs and the Founding of Modern China by John Man
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
The untold story of the world's greatest empire and the creation of modern China. Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire ...Show more
A Train in Winter - A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
$19.95 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: very good
On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. The youngest was a schoolgir ...Show more
Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and My Fight for Freedom by Sam Pivnik
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the story of his life, a true tale of survival against the most extraordinary odds. Sam Pivnik is the ultimate survivor from a world that no longer exists. On fourteen occasions he should have been killed, but luck, his physical strength and his d ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as ...Show more
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators - her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the ea ...Show more
Chocolate Cake with Hitler by Emma Craigie
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Chocolate Cake with Hitler' tells the incredible story of Helga Goebbels, the 12 year-old daughter of a leading Nazi who, with her family, spent the last ten days of her life cooped up in a bunker in Berlin with Adolf Hitler. As defeat closes in on the Germans, life in Hitler's bunker becomes increasi ...Show more
Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero by Douglas Perry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led The Untouchables, took on Al Capone and saved a city's soul. As leader of an unprecedented crime-busting squad, 28 year old Eliot Ness won fame for taking on notorious mobster Al Capone. But the Untouchables' daring raids were only the beginning of N ...Show more
Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it beforeA French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became a teenage warrior, leading an army to victory against the English. Eventually captured and ...Show more
Historic Maps and Views of San Francisco by The Granger Collection
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The 24 maps and views included in each book date from as far back as the early seventeenth century and up until the preset day. The selection include some of the earliest known maps of each city or area, as well as topographical maps, views of iconic locations throughout the city transit maps and more. ...Show more
Betsy and the Emperor: The True Story of Napoleon, a Pretty Girl, a Regency Rake, and an Australian Colonial Misadventure by Anne Whitehead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the fallen emperor was charmed by the pretty teenage daughter of a loc ...Show more
The Invention of Memory: An Irish Family Scrapbook by Simon Loftus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the arrival of his first ancestor in Dublin in 1560, Simon Loftus traces the fascinating story of his family's heritage in Ireland - piecing together fragments of legend and biography that span over 350 years of Irish history. The background is the colonial conquest of Ireland and the clash of reli ...Show more
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition by Sian Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Queen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs Greville, who cultivated relationships with Edward VII, as well as Lady Londonderry, Lady Cunard, Laura Corrigan and Lady Colefa ...Show more