Dynasty - The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
$26.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus,' their new mas ...Show more
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, Forgotten Warriors puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thi ...Show more
Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania by Paul Kenyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
A vivid, brilliant, darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen. Balanced precariously on the shifting fault line between East and West, Romania's schizophrenic, often violent past is one of the great untold stories of modern Europe. The country th ...Show more
The Worst Military Leaders in History by John M. Jennings (Editor); Chuck Steele (Editor); Jeremy Blackham (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Spanning countries and centuries, a "how-not-to" guide to leadership that reveals the most maladroit military commanders in history--now in paperback. For this book, fifteen distinguished historians were given a deceptively simple task: identify their choice for the worst military leader in history ...Show more
The Lost Boys - The untold stories of the under-age soldiers who fought in the First World War (HB) by Paul Byrnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020They were just boys. And they were to face the horrors of a war more diabolical than any of them could have imagined. This is their story. Hundreds of Australian and New Zealander boys enlisted in the First World War, some as young as 13. No one knows how many went to war, but at ...Show more
Entrepreneurs Who Changed History
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Discover the lives and achievements of more than 90 of the world's most inspirational and influential entrepreneurs and business leaders with this audiobook. Comprehensive in its scope and depth, Entrepreneurs Who Changed History profiles leaders of industry across the world and throughout the ages - fr ...Show more
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--throu ...Show more
Maralinga: The Chilling Expose of Our Secret Nuclear Shame and Betrayal of Our Troops and Country by Frank Walker
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'Utterly gripping. It reads like a thriller.' JON FAINE This edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light as a result of the groundbreaking original publication. Investigative journalist Frank Walker's MARALINGA is a must-read true story of the abuse of our servic ...Show more
1913: The Year before the Storm by Florian Illies
$21.99 AUD
Category: European
A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision 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 possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis ...Show more
North Korea Undercover by John Sweeney
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. It is Orwell's 1984 made reality. The regime controls the flow of information to its citizens, pouring relentless propaganda through omnipresent loud speakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line and the gulag awaits. State spies are everywhere ...Show more
Horrie the War Dog by Roland Perry
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraf ...Show more