Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
$29.95 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: very good
A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest. For Mallory as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What ...Show more
The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
$9.95 AUD
Category: British | Series: Classics Ser.
Completed in 1136, "The History of the Kings of Britain" traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famou ...Show more
The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six Women Who Changed the Course of Australian History by Susanna De Vries
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
This book talks about the stories of committed and resourceful women who demanded something different from the restricted lives of their mothers and grandmothers. The achievements of Australian women have long been overshadowed by the deeds of Australian men. Susanna de Vries has challenged this with he ...Show more
Lancaster Men : The Aussie Heroes of Bomber Command by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Over 10,000 Australians served with Bomber Command, a highly trained band of elite flyers who undertook some of the most dangerous operations of World War II. They flew mission after mission over France and Germany knowing that the odds were against them. Stretched to breaking point, nearly 3500 died in ...Show more
The Big Book of Flight by Rowland White
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
Everybody dreams of flying. For as long as we've been able to look up and see the birds we've wanted to join them. But our efforts to do so have not always been as elegant or accomplished. Instead, there's been danger, excitement, courage and brilliance. The Big Book of Flight is a celebration of it all ...Show more
Maverick One by David Blakeley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The explosive sequel to the bestselling PATHFINDER.For the first time ever an elite British operator tells the gruelling story of his selection into the Pathfinders - Britain's secret soldiers. Pathfinder selection is a brutal physical and psychological trial lasting many weeks. It rivals that of the SA ...Show more
1913: The Year Before the Storm by Florian Illies
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possi ...Show more
Fighting on the Home Front The Legacy of Women in World War One by Kate Adie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Bestselling author and award-winning former BBC Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie reveals the ways in which women's lives changed during World War One and what the impact has been for women in its centenary year. In 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men we ...Show more
The Story of the Jews : Finding the Words 1000BCE - 1492CE by Simon Schama
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes ...Show more
Tudor: The Family Story by Leanda de Lisle
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
The Tudors are a national obsession. From TV bodice-rippers to Booker-prize winning novels and scholarly journals, they are our favourite family in history. Their story is packed with famous and thrilling tales: Henry VIII and his wives, Elizabeth the Virgin Queen, the Princes in the Tower, the Armada. ...Show more
Jack's Journey : An Anzac's Descent into Death, Disaster and Controversy at Gallipoli by Kit Cullen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: General Adult
Jack's Journey is the moving and extraordinary story of an unknown Anzac action at Gallipoli during the period of the Landing on 1 and 2 May, 1915. Kit Cullen began tracing Jack Collyer's story using his three diaries and his service record. The diaries cover the voyage from Australia to training in Egy ...Show more