My Darlinghurst by Clark, Anna, Kemmis, Gabrielle, Pietsch, Tamson
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Growing up in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs in the 1980s and 90s, I remember the pull of Darlinghurst. As a teenager, I would catch the 380 bus, get off at Taylor Square and dive gratefully into the slipstream broadmindedness — of lives lived imaginatively.Darlinghurst, a triangle of 80 hectares, sits on the ...Show more
Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars by Helen Fry
$54.95 AUD
Category: History
A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world wars, far ...Show more
Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia by Nora Krug
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Immediately following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Nora Krug connected with two anonymous subjects - 'K.', a Ukrainian journalist, and 'D.', a Russian artist - and began what would become a year of correspondence. Deeply moved by the rawness of their responses, she felt that through th ...Show more
Nazi International: The Nazis' Postwar Plan to Control the Worlds of Science, Finance, Space, and Conflict by Joseph P. Farrell
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
Physicist and Oxford educated historian Joseph P. Farrell continues his best-selling series of exposes on secret Nazi technology, Nazi survival, and post-war Nazi manipulation of various manufacturing technologies, economies and whole countries. Beginning with pre-War corporate partnerships in the USA, ...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
The Origins of Multiculturalism in Australian Politics by Lopez, Mark
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
This book answers such fundamental questions as: what is multiculturalism; how did it originate; and how did it become a basis for the Australian government's ethnic affairs policy? Researched from primary evidence--much of it made available to the author exclusivelymdash;it is an essential and solid f ...Show more
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons by Catrine Jarman
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the brilliant bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history of the Anglo-Saxons told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral. A book that unlocks the secrets of the pre-Norman past. In 1642, William Waller and his Parliamen ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more
SAS - An Illustrated History of the SAS During the Second World War by Joshua Levine
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
AN AUTHORISED HISTORY OF THE SAS This is the authorised history of the SAS by bestselling author Joshua Levine. Never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories bring the history of this special force to life in vivid colour and astonishing detail. Created during the Second World War, the SAS was a s ...Show more
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great - one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earl ...Show more
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
‘Lucid and damning … an absorbing – and infuriating – tale of complicity, coverup and denial’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II – and how the world allowe ...Show more
Apres la Guerre: Anzac Stories 1919 - 1939 by John Ramsland
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
What really happened to the ex-servicemen in Australia when they returned to civil life?The truth of their stories in peacetime is as shocking as the war they faced. In fact, the line separating the living from the dead was, at times, not clear at all.Many soldiers returned to celebrations, such as the ...Show more