The Valley of the Fallen by Carlos Rojas
$49.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Acclaimed translator Edith Grossman brings to English-language readers Rojas's imaginative vision of Francisco de Goya and the reverberations of his art in Fascist Spain This historical novel by one of Spain's most celebrated authors weaves a tale of disparate time periods: the early years of the ninete ...Show more
The Flat White Economy: How the Digital Economy is Transforming London and Other Cities of the Future by Douglas McWilliams
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Since the financial collapse of 2000, the 'flat white economy'-named after the coffee popular with young workers of media, internet and creative businesses-has spawned four times more jobs than the City lost in the crisis. London is now growing one and a half times faster than Hong Kong as a result, wit ...Show more
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia by Rob Mundle
$22.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
FLINDERS brings to life the fascinating story of this exceptional maritime explorer - from the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his cruel imprisonment by the French on Mauritius for six long and harrowing years; the heartbreaking separation from his ...Show more
Four Years on the Western Front: Being the Experiences of a Ranker in the London Rifle Brigade, 4th, 3rd and 56th Divisions by Aubrey Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Restless Creatures The Story of Life in Ten Movements by Matt Wilkinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
From flying pterodactyls to walking primates, the story of life as told through the evolution of locomotion. Most of us never think about how we get from one place to another. For most people, putting one foot in front of the other requires no thought at all. Yet the fact that we and other species are ...Show more
Science in the Soul Selected Shorter Writings by Richard Dawkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The legendary biologist, provocateur, and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time. For decades, Richard Dawkins has been a brilliant ...Show more
Shadows of Anzac: An Intimate History of Gallipoli by David W. Cameron
$29.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Big Sky Publishing Ser.
On 25 April 1915, with the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) below the slopes of Sari Bair on the Gallipoli peninsula, the ANZAC legend was born. Nine months later, having suffered thousands of casualties from disease, hand-to-hand fighting, bombing, sniping and forlorn charge ...Show more
1916: The Easter Rising by Tim Pat Coogan
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The Easter Rising began at 12 noon, 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians, the destruction of many parts of Dublin, and the true beginning of Irish independence. The 1916 Rising was born out of the Conservative and Unionist parties' illega ...Show more
The Greeks: Lost Civilizations by Philip Matyszak
$29.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Lost Civilizations Ser.
This book is a portrait of Ancient Greece--but not as we know it. Few people today appreciate that Greek civilization was spread across the Middle East, or that there were Greek cities in the foothills of the Himalayas. Philip Matyszak tells the lost stories of the Greeks outside Greece, compatriots of ...Show more
The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's greatest explorer by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The extraordinary, must-read story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist, photographer, war hero, aviator, spy and daredevil - brought to life by one of Australia's greatest storytellers. Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who eve ...Show more
The Men Who Came Out of the Ground by Paul Cleary
$19.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
'Breathtaking in its scope and riveting in its research.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD It was early 1942, Australia was in dire straits. The seemingly all-conquering Japanese military forces had rolled over south-east Asia. Singapore had Fallen. Only a few hundred men remained in Timor. These soldiers, the 2/ ...Show more