Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City by Matthew Teller
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Original and illuminating ... what a good book this is' Jonathan Dimbleby'A love letter to the people of the Old City' Jerusalem PostIn Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn't reflect the reality of ...Show more
Australia's Great Depression: How a nation shattered by the Great War survived the worst economic crisis it has ever faced by Joan Beaumont
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
How a nation still in grief from the Great War found the courage and resilience to face a new tragedy, the Great Depression. Some generations are born unlucky. Australians who survived the horrors of the Great War and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed were soon faced with the shock of the Great ...Show more
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country 2nd edition: Fully Revised & Expanded, A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia by Marcia Langton
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country 2nd edition is the essential follow-up to Australia's landmark travel guide to Indigenous Australia, Welcome to Country. In this extensively updated edition, Marcia Langton offers a full range of Indigenous-owned or -operated tourism experiences across Australia, incl ...Show more
The Shortest History of the Crown by Stephen Bates
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
" Amidst the turbulence and invasions, upheaval and dissent that characterise British history, one thing has remained remarkably stable. Although there are other monarchies, Britain's Crown stands out due to the continuity of its traditions, and its ability to adapt. Of all the world's countries, forty- ...Show more
Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars by Peter Stothard
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
This is an unusual history of a time that still defines our world - a view of the early Roman empire that its historians never intended us to see. Beginning sixty years after the assassination of Julius Caesar, it graphically depicts a story parallel to that of Caligula and Nero, and shows us those stru ...Show more
Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods, sapphic saints, and queerness through the ages by Dan Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Be captivated by stories of fo ...Show more
Sherpa: Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of Everest by Ankit Babu Adhikari, Pradeep Bashyal
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Changing the narrative of mountaineering books, Sherpa focuses on the people who live and work on the roof of the world. Amid all the foreign adventurers that throng to Nepal to scale the world's highest peaks there exists a small community of mountain people at the foothills of Himalayas. Sherpa tells ...Show more
The School That Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
*JEWISH CHRONICAL CRITICS' CHOICE: NON-FICTION OF THE YEAR 2022*'A devastatingly affecting book. . . Bunce Court! I keep saying the name to myself because it encapsulates all that is gentle and comically charming about wartime England' The Times'Emotionally compelling' Observer'All the violence I had ex ...Show more
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown by Katie Nicholl
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
Vanity Fair Royals correspondent and bestselling author of William and Harry and Kate explores the remarkable life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II and the legacy she has handed down to the next generation.For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. She was constant in her ...Show more
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III by Jeremy Black
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through to the longest serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II - and looks forward to the reign of King Charles III. Much more than a linear history, this is the intertwined story of r ...Show more
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown by Alexander Larman
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI. Meanwhile, as the now-Duke of Windsor awaited the decree that would allow him to marry his mistress ...Show more
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This is the critically acclaimed, best-selling account of the forgotten story of one of history's most brutal massacres. In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and mur ...Show more