The Forgotten Islands: One Man's Voyage into a Truly Gothic Australia by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Michael Veitch has long been fascinated by the islands of Bass Strait, between mainland Australia and Tasmania - a multitude of cold, dark isles, regularly pounded by atrocious weather and hardly visited, but rich in atypical Australian history. This is the story of his personal odyssey among them (plag ...Show more
The Shortest History of India by John Zubrzycki
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
An illuminating and concise telling of the 5000 years of turbulent history that led India from the ruins of ancient civilisations to emerging global superpowerOne of the oldest civilisations and the largest democracy in the world, India is an amalgam of customs, races, castes, languages and spiritual be ...Show more
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and the ordinary citizen' Kai Bird Best-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear dis ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. ...Show more
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance agains ...Show more
The Ship That Never Was by Adam Courtenay
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia's best-loved storyteller. In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from ...Show more
Three Sheets to the Wind by Adam Courtenay
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
How a motley crew of merchant seamen walked 500 miles to save 7000 gallons of rum by the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was. When Campbell & Clark, Scottish merchants based in India, dispatched an Indian ship hurriedly renamed the Sydney Cove to the colony of NSW in 1797, they were hopin ...Show more
The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England by Dan Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen - from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt - this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today - great history to appeal to readers of Ken Folle ...Show more
Migrations by David Olusoga
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A visual exploration of the movements of peoples, cultures, and ideas that brings a human perspective to a global phenomenonDiscover how the migration of peoples has shaped the modern worldThis beautifully-illustrated book details the movement of people and cultures around the world - from the early mig ...Show more
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
A personal, spirited, and concise chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most fascinating countries in the world--Israel.Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 miles away but remains a hot button issue and a thorny topic of debate. But while everyone ...Show more
Thames Mudlarking - Searching for London's Lost Treasures by Jason Sandy; Nick Stevens
$21.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Shire Library
A beautifully illustrated introduction to mudlarking which tells the incredible, forgotten history of London through objects found on the foreshores of the River Thames.Often seen combing the shoreline of the River Thames at low tide, groups of archaeology enthusiasts known as 'mudlarks' continue a trad ...Show more