Fromelles – Naming the Dead: The Scientists' Story by Margaret Cox, Peter Jones, Louise Loe
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the extraordinary story of the engagement between 250 young Australians, who enlisted in 1915 and died in the Battle of Fromelles of 1916, their families, and three British scientists. In 2009, the bodies of these 250 soldiers were excavated by Oxford Archaeology. Among them were the Wilson br ...Show more
Hudson Fysh by Grantlee Kieza
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wings Hudson Fysh was a decorated World War I hero who not only founded Australia's national airline, Qantas, but steered it for almost half a century from its humble beginnings with two ...Show more
The Complete Book of Ducati Motorcycles: Every Model Since 1946 by Ian Falloon
$89.99 AUD
Category: History
The Complete Book of Ducati Motorcycles, 2nd Edition updates the story, racing successes, and models offered by Italy's greatest motorcycle manufacturer.
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
On 21 November 1915, the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's ship, finally succumbed to the immense pressures of the surrounding ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, just like that, it was gone. Over a century later, an audacious plan to locate the ship was hatc ...Show more
August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan by Andrew Quilty
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United Stat ...Show more
The Shortest History of the World by David Baker
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
A fascinating journey through life, the universe and everythingHow did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that we're all made from stars? The Shortest History of the World follows the continuum of historical change in the ...Show more
China After Mao - The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
'A leading historian of modern China. He is a rare scholar, adept in both Russian and Chinese . . . Combined with this linguistic skill, Dikutter has a writer's gift' EVENING STANDARD From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake ...Show more
The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time.You think of a forgotten friend. Out of the blue, they call.But what if you knew that something terrible was going to happen? A sudden flash, the words CHARING CROSS. Four days later, a packed express train comes off the rails outside the stat ...Show more
The Opera House: The extraordinary story of the building that symbolises Australia the people, the secrets, the scandals and the sheer genius by Peter FitzSimons
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.' - Louis Kahn, US architect If only these walls and this land could talk ... The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Ma ...Show more
The Shortest History of Democracy by John Keane
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In an age of fake news and half-truths, the radical potential of democracy is more important than ever, as this nimble, illuminating history by a celebrated political theorist reveals.From its beginnings in Syria-Mesopotamia - and not Athens - to its role in fomenting revolutionary fervour in France and ...Show more
Making Australian History by Anna Clark
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet there has been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. Making Australian History responds to this critical gap in Australian histori ...Show more
The Girl Who Helped Ned Kelly by Charles Taylor
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Originally serialised around Australia in 1929, this is a romanticized version of the Kelly story, by a writer who interviewed Jim Kelly and several sympathisers at the time. With original drawings by Ray Wenban, and introduced by Gabriel Bergmoser.