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
The Lady of Abu Simbel by Mary (TRN) Christian; Feeney Jacq
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ramses
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history. Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land'- a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, origin ...Show more
The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia by David Hill
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in England - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life. David was lucky - his mother was able to follow him out to Australia ...Show more
Hadrian's Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall, by a bestselling author and expert on Ancient Rome. Located at the far-flung and wild edge of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in the 120s AD. Vast in size and stretching from the east to ...Show more
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
On 8 June AD218 a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was victorious. Varius Avitus Bassianus, known to the modern world as Heliogabalus, was proclaimed emperor. The next four years were to be the strangest i ...Show more
The Reign - Life in Elizabeth's Britain Part 1 - The Way it Was 1952-79 by Matthew Engel
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The first part of Matthew Engel's sweeping social history of modern Britain during the reign of Elizabeth II. She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids played on bombsites. Seventy years on, everything has changed utterly - excep ...Show more
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited ...Show more
Convict Orphans by Lucy Frost
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost's painstaking research has uncovered what really happened to the convict orphans. 'This moving story of thousands of cast ...Show more