Nazi Wives - The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany by James Wyllie
$40.99 AUD
Category: History
'[Wyllie] recounts their stories with a bracing combination of scholarship and an almost cinematic approach to spinning a compelling narrative.' Washington Post 'Highlighting similarities in the women's backgrounds, Wyllie provides a distinctive prism through which to view the period.' The Guardian 'Wyl ...Show more
The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This riveting book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most imp ...Show more
Tally-Ho - RAF Tactical Leadership in the Battle of Britain, July 1940 by Patrick G. Eriksson
$56.95 AUD
Category: History
The tactical abilities of small unit leaders were critical in winning the Battle of Britain and the many innovations and even experiments which they tried out during the active fighting merit examination. The pre-war Fighter Area Attacks ‒ much beloved of the Air Ministry and founded on the notion that ...Show more
Lost Music of the Holocaust: Bringing the music of the camps to the ears of the world at last by Francesco Lotoro
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Italian pianist and composer Francesco Lotoro has been on a lifelong quest to find the music written by the inmates of concentration camps during the Second World War. Lost Music of the Holocaust movingly pieces together the human stories of those whose only solace during their imprisonment was their mu ...Show more
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ... 'There's something that hits the mark on every page' - Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of wa ...Show more
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England by Alison Weir
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In Newgate Street, in the city of London, stand the meagre ruins of Christ Church. On the same site once stood a royal mausoleum set to rival Westminster Abbey in the fourteenth century. Among the many crowned heads buried there was Isabella of France, Edward II's queen - one of the most notorious femme ...Show more
In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World by Danielle Clode
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A voyage of discovery, nature and untold histories - in the vein of Clare Wright, Edmund de Waal and Helen Macdonald. When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed her journey in 1775, she returned home without any fanfare at all. Jeanne Barret, an impoverished peasant from Burgundy, disgui ...Show more
Infamy - The Crimes of Ancient Rome by Jerry Toner
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Rome is an empire with a bad reputation. From its brutal games to its depraved emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless wars, its name resounds down the centuries like a scream in an alley. But was it as bad as all that? Join the historian Jerry Toner on a detective's hunt to discover the extent of Ro ...Show more
Eyre: The Forgotten Explorer by Ivan Rudolph
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Edward John Eyre was one of the most intrepid explorers to tackle the unforgiving Australian outback - and one of the youngest. Lake Eyre, the Eyre Highway between Adelaide and Perth, and many other landmarks are named after him, yet so little is known of his time here. Author Ivan Rudolph shows how thi ...Show more
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One of the outstanding books of the year' The Times An epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of history's most venerated military and religious heroes opens a window on the Islamic and Christian worlds ...Show more
The King's War by Mark Logue; Peter Conradi
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more