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Holodomor - Silenced Voices of the Starved Children by Lesa Morgan (Editor); Philip Webster (Editor)
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
History of the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-33, a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine.Personal stories of the Ukrainian genocide survivors.
Perth Then and Now by Richard Offen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Archival photographs of Perth have been carefully matched with specially commissioned colour photos to reveal the past and present of this fascinating city. Perth Then and Now accurately matches historic photographs of the city with specially commissioned contemporary views that show how each site looks ...Show more
Defiance - Struggle Against All Odds by Robin Benjamin
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
DEFIANCE delivers a fascinating historical account and personal insights into the history of anti-Semitism and the complexity of the associated political, religious and territorial conflicts in the Middle East.
Teddy Sheean VC - A Selfless Act of Valour by Doctor Tom Lewis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
No-one will ever know what made him do it. In 1942, 18-year-old Edward "Teddy" Sheean was one of the youngest and most inexperienced sailors on board the the corvette HMAS Armidale. Whilst on operation in the Timor Sea this warship came under heavy attack by Japanese aircraft. Armidale began sinking wh ...Show more
Philip and Alexander by Adrian Goldsworthy
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedon from a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire. During his short life Alexander the Great carved out an empire stretching from the Balkans to Central India, re-drawing the map of the ancient worl ...Show more
Cleopatra: The Queen who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity by ALBERTO ANGELA
$34.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
One of Italy's most revered cultural figures reconstructs the extraordinary life of the legendary Cleopatra at the height of her power in this epic story of passion, intrigue, betrayal, and war. Our world today would not be the same without Cleopatra. While she is one of the most famous figures in hist ...Show more
Sea People - The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction 2020. 'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Fascinating and satisfying' Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the ...Show more
Code Breaker - Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she cam ...Show more
The Music Maker of Auschwitz IV by Jaci Byrne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The inspirational true story of an Allied POW appointed Kapellmeister to the Nazis in Auschwitz. When called up to fight in yet another World War, Drum Major Jackson promised his beloved wife Mabel that he would return to lead his band and play for her once more. In May 1940, he was captured at Dunkir ...Show more
The Light of Days by Judy Batalion
$32.99 AUD
Category: European
Judy Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, discovered an extraordinary story of women who fought the Nazis. The "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with Nazis, bought them ...Show more
Victory on Gallipoli and Other What-ifs of Australian History by Peter Stanley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
With a twist of fate - and of historical fact - Gallipoli was a military success, Australia had a female prime minister in the 1920s and Gough Whitlam chose his time to retire from the top job. In Victory on Gallipoli and Other What-ifs of Australian History, prominent historians contemplate how Austral ...Show more
Les Parisiennes : How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s by Anne Sebba
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016 What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until - finally - renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, glamour was eve ...Show more