Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy'Engrossing... Moorehead has a spirited turn of phrase, a keen eye for the telling detail and pungent quote, and a gift for marshaling complex material' Jenny Uglo ...Show more
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindA searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and cl ...Show more
SINKING OF HMAS SYDNEY by Doctor Tom Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one of Australia’s main combat vessels. On the 19th November 1941, off the coast of Western Australia, The Sydney engaged in a fierce and bloody battle with the German raider Kormoran. Following this action, The Sy ...Show more
Murder at the Fort: A Double Homicide Cold Case and Cover Up! by Bob Marmion
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was found on the side of the road. He had been shot a number of times with a military revolver. Despite extensive enquiries by some of the Victoria Police's most experienced homicide detectives, the murderer was ...Show more
Love; A Curious History by Edward Brooke-Hitching
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
From the author of the critically acclaimed The Phantom Atlas and The Madman’s Library (Sunday Times Literature Book of the Year) comes a magnificent new illustrated work. From prehistoric carvings and ancient Egyptian statues, to medieval spell books and Victorian code-writing, this unique collection ...Show more
How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution by Elizabeth Dore
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A powerful account of the decline of the Cuban Revolution, told through the lives of five ordinary Cuban citizens. 'Masterful... Dore uses oral history to tell a history of Cuba from the bottom up' Professor Linda Gordon 'A vital addition to Cuba's rich oral tradition' Will Grant, BBC Cuba Correspondent ...Show more
Clouds over Paris - The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub by Felix Hartlaub; Simon Beattie (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
New paperback of the acclaimed, sharply immediate diary written from the heart of Occupied Paris by a classic German writer
A History of Treason by Diarmaid Macculloch; The National Archives
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The only complete study of treason in Britain from the introduction of the Treason Act in 1352, to the last execution for treason in this country after the Second World War.
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law by Alecia Simmonds
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Award-winning author Alecia Simmonds uncovers a hidden history of love and heartbreak in the archives of law Until well into the twentieth century, heartbroken men and women in Australia had a legal redress for their suffering- jilted lovers could claim compensation for 'breach of promise to marry'. Hu ...Show more
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert D. Kaplan
$54.99 AUD
Category: History
A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century "Continuing Robert D. Kaplan's work as the premier American scholar of geopolitics . . . a book that everyone who wa ...Show more
The China-Australia Migration Corridor: History and Heritage by Denis Byrne, Ien Ang, Phillip Mar
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
A study of the history and impact of Chinese-Australian migration.The China-Australia Migration Corridor traces the legacy of migration from China to Australia from the 1840s until the present day. It offers a multidimensional examination of the footprint of migration as it exists, stretching between Zh ...Show more