On Bloody Sunday by Julieann Campbell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
*****'A momentous chronicle, timely and vital, which highlights that the burden of change rests, as always, upon the shoulders of those who suffered and yet, have nurtured the desire that lessons be learned.' - Michael Mansfield QC, who represented a number of families during the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.' ...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
Into the Forest - A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca Frankel
$54.99 AUD
Category: History
From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is one family's inspiring true story of love, escape, and survival. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. T ...Show more
Rebel Women Who Changed Australia by Susanna De Vries
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Visionaries, pioneers, activists and artists - women who made a difference to Australia An updated and condensed edition of Susanna de Vries' Great Australian Women, this is a celebration of women who broke the mould, crashed through the ceilings, and shaped the nation in the fields of medicine, law, t ...Show more
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
When the fate of the nation is in your hands, who do you call?
The House of Mitford by Jonathan Guiness
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families - an extensively updated new edition.Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney were Nancy, the novelist and historian; Diana, who married fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; ...Show more
Churchill's Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
$38.99 AUD
Category: History
A critical but fair political biography of Churchill that zooms in on crucial moments in his life and career that help us understand the man in his many contradictions.While in A.J.P. Taylor's words, Churchill was 'the saviour of his country', he was also a deeply flawed character, whose personal ambiti ...Show more
A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps, a place where for hundreds of years ordinary people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even here, in the farthest corner of Germany, National Socialism sought to control not only people's lives but also their minds. B ...Show more
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Myth of the Lost Cause by Sarah Churchwell
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Gone With the Wind, the myth of the Lost Cause and what they can tell us about American history and culture today - from Walter Scott and Ladies Fair, to fiery crosses, lynching and the Capitol insurrection. Margaret Mitchell's epic novel, Gone With the Wind, became an overnight bestseller when it was ...Show more
Where Light in Darkness Lies: The Story of the Lighthouse by Veronica Della Dora
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Suspended between sea and sky, battered by the waves and the wind, lighthouses mark the battlelines between the elements. They guard the boundaries between the solid human world and the primordial chaos of the waters; between stability and instability; between the known and the unknown. As such, they ha ...Show more
Out of the Depths A History of Shipwrecks by Alan G. Jamieson
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A highly illustrated voyage through shipwrecks ancient and contemporary. Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across 4,000 years, examining their historical context and significance, and showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, shedding new light on long-departed societies and civili ...Show more
George V - Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley
$42.00 AUD
Category: History
From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath of World War I and whose marriage to the regal Queen Mary was an epic partnershipThe grandfather of Queen ...Show more