Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor
$34.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focusWe feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. Think of Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeth’s merciless and ultimately self-destructive ambition, or ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants - mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better lif ...Show more
The Apache Wars by Paul Andrew Hutton
$29.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides-the Apaches and the white invaders-blamed him for it. A mixed-blood warrior who moved uneasily between the worlds of the Apaches and the American soldiers, he was never trusted by either but desperate ...Show more
Lure of the Thylacine - True Stories and Legendary Tales of the Tasmanian Tiger by Bailey
$32.95 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Speculation by an ever-growing band of Tasmanian tiger devotees that the thylacine still exists has not wavered, despite the dogmatic stance by the scientific fraternity that the animal is extinct. This collection of actual accounts and anecdotal yarns originated from discussions the author had with an ...Show more
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Voyages Promotion Ser.
Adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas. ENDURANCE is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of t ...Show more
Passchendaele by Nick Lloyd
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Category: HISTORY
The definitive account of Passchendaele, the months-long battle that epitomizes the immense tragedy of the First World WarPasschendaele. The name of a small, seemingly insignificant Flemish village echoes across the twentieth century as the ultimate expression of meaningless, industrialized slaughter. I ...Show more
Storming the Eagle's Nest: Hitler's War in The Alps by Jim Ring
$22.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
From the Fall of France in June 1940 to Hitler's suicide in April 1945, the swastika flew from the peaks of the High Savoy in the western Alps to the passes above Ljubljana in the east. The Alps as much as Berlin were the heart of the Third Reich. 'Yes,' Hitler declared of his headquarters in the Bavari ...Show more
Salt: Selected Essays and Stories by Bruce Pascoe
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Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work. Bruce Pascoe has been described as a 'living national treasure' and his work as 'revelatory'. This volume of his best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected ...Show more
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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Category: HISTORY
A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia--from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"A landmark."--Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyFor more than three decades, Svetlana Ale ...Show more
Lenin 2017 by Slavoj Zizek
$26.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Zizek shows why Lenin's thought is still important todayLenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in this new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's t ...Show more
30-Second Shakespeare The 50 Most Significant Ideas, Themes and Events, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Ros Barber; Mark Rylance (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: 30 Second Ser.
The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words an ...Show more
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson
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Category: HISTORY | Series: Liberation Trilogy
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. I ...Show more