The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In 1850, China was the "sick man of Asia." Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war, and famine. This makes its current position as arguably the m ...Show more
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun by Countess of Carnarvon
$34.99 AUD
Category: General History
From the bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon In November 1922, a new door to the ancient past was opened. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun would be the most astonishing of the young century, revealing the ruler’s sarcophagus and a treasure trove of artefacts: chariots and model boats, b ...Show more
Speed, Aggression, Surprise: The Secret Origins of the Special Air Service by Tom Petch
$24.99 AUD
Category: British
'Awesome!' ANDY McNAB | 'You must read this book' Colonel TIM COLLINS OBE | 'Extraordinary' Sir RANULPH FIENNESForget what you thought you knew. Discover the REAL story of how the SAS was created.From ex-SAS Commander Tom Petch, this is the never-before-told story of how the world's preeminent Special F ...Show more
The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History by James Hall
$42.99 AUD
Category: General History
In this broad cultural survey, James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus and the Christian tradition of bearing witness to the prolific self-image-making of today's contemporary artists. Along the way he reveals the importance of the medieval mirro ...Show more
Assassination of the Butcher of Prague: Reinhard Heydrich Hitler's Protégé by David W. Cameron
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: A\Shot of History Ser.
On 4 June 1942, one of the most powerful figurers of the Nazi Third Riech, Reinhard, Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’ and architect of the ‘Final solution’, died from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt carried out just days before. His death caused shockwaves in the Nazi State, and resulted in ...Show more
Trackers : The Untold Story of Australian Dogs of War by Peter Haran
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of the Australian army's little-known use of combat tracker dogs during the Vietnam War. A war veteran tells his story with immediacy, blending the terror of hunting and encountering the elusive Viet Cong with the tender relationship between a naive young Australian soldier and his dog. The bo ...Show more
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Fascinating and satisfying' Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the World. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remote ...Show more
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire by Eckart Frahm
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history. Assyria's wide-ranging conquests have long be ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more
The Rest is History (The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast) by Tom Holland; Dominic Sandbrook
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past from Alexander the Great to Tolkein, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland ...Show more
Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me by Andra Putnis
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
When she breaks an unspoken family code not to dig too deep into the past, Andra is plunged into the bleak world of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Latvia in World War II, and secret lives of her grandmothers. As children, we'd sneak into Grandma's bedroom on secret missions. Her cupboard was filled ...Show more
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositi ...Show more