The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942 by Zachary Gorman
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
How did Menzies develop as the giant of Australian politics? Sir Robert Menzies is a towering figure in Australian history. As the nation's longest-serving prime minister, he transformed and ultimately dominated the political landscape, implementing policies that laid the foundations of modern Australia ...Show more
Bad Jews - A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities by Emily Tamkin
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
A journalist and author of The Influence of Soros examines the history of Jewish people in America and explores their ever-evolving relationship to the nation's culture and identity--and each other. What does it mean to be a Bad Jew? Many Jews use the term "Bad Jew" as a weapon against other members o ...Show more
Six Wives - Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The Queens of Henry VIII: Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived: CATHERINE OF ARAGON the Catholic Spanish Princess, who suffered years of miscarriages and still births and yet failed to produce a son... She was the mother of Mary Tudor; ANNE BOLEYN, the pretty, clever, French-educated P ...Show more
Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars by Frank Ledwidge
$32.95 AUD
Category: Military
This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall military performance since 2011-including Libya, ISIS, and ...Show more
Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow by Lucy Worsley
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era A passionate princess, an astute and clever queen, and a cunning widow, Victoria played many roles throughout her life. In Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life, Lucy Worsley introduces her as a woman leading a truly extra ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by David W. Cameron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, a rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, Australian troops fought one of their bloodiest, most significant battles of the Vietnam War.The Australians had arrived at Nui Dat four months earlier to open up the province. While out on patrol, Delta Compan ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The bestselling historian with the real story of WW2's 'inescapable' Nazi prison camp In a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop, an unlikely band of prisoners plotted a daring escape from the clutches of their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchanged and unchallenged for 70 years. ...Show more
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on ...Show more
Rum: A Distilled History of Colonial Australia by Matt Murphy
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia and its formation - through the distorted view of a rum bottle. Could the Rum Rebellion have been averted if Major Johnston wasn't too hungover to meet Governor Bligh? Would the Eureka Stockade have played out differently if the rebels weren't pissed? How were prisoners to get drunk if Macqua ...Show more
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia by Billy Griffiths
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian's inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate ...Show more
Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Mountains of the Mind is a beautifully written synthesis of climbing memoir and cultural history. Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride.In this ground-breaking, cl ...Show more
Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War by Phillip Deery
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own spy-hunting agency- ASIO. By the 1950s its counterespionage activities were increasingly supplemented by attempts at counter ...Show more