Demetrius - Sacker of Cities by James Romm
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back againThe life of Demetrius (337-283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander (323-282 BCE), a time of unparalleled turbulence and instability in the ...Show more
Cleopatra - Her History, Her Myth by Francine Prose
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacyThe siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyon ...Show more
The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story by Tessa Dunlop
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories Ser.
'Lively...in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women's own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service' New Statesman 'Dunlop is engaging in her personal approach. Her obvious feminine empathy with the venerable ladies she spoke to gives her book an immediacy and intimacy.' Daily Mail ...Show more
A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt's Treasures by Maria Golia
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
To secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built fortress-like tombs and filled them with precious goods, a practice that generated staggering quantities of artefacts over the course of many millennia, but one which has also drawn thieves and tomb-raiders to Egypt since antiquity. Drawing on m ...Show more
Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution by William Doyle
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book William Doyle describes how he did so, beginning with the three large issues that had destabilized revolutionary France: war, religion and monarchy. Doyle sho ...Show more
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents of warfare modern inventions? Not by a long shot ...Show more
Lost Music of the Holocaust: Bringing the music of the camps to the ears of the world at last by Francesco Lotoro
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
For more than thirty years Francesco Lotoro, an Italian pianist and composer has been on an odyssey to recover music written by the inmates of Adolf Hitler's concentration camps and the gulags of Stalin's Soviet Union. Between 1933, the year of the opening of the Dachau Lager in Germany, to Stalin's de ...Show more
Papyrus - The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
A rich exploration of the importance of books and libraries in the ancient world that highlights how humanity's obsession with the printed word has echoed throughout the ages - from one of Spain's most celebrated authors. Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand-copied on reeds pulled from th ...Show more
Courtiers: The inside story of the Palace power struggles from the Royal correspondent who revealed the bullying allegations by Valentine Low
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Who advises the royal family, what influence do they have and how have they shaped history?Throughout history, the British monarchy has relied on its courtiers - the trusted advisers in the King or Queen's inner circle - to ensure its survival as a family, an ancient institution, and a pillar of the con ...Show more
1939: The Last Season by Anne de Courcy
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War. The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and Queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult ...Show more
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Mongols have long been viewed in the West as violent barbarians who plundered and wrecked the societies they invaded. But in fact the Mongol Empire was highly sophisticated, and through their conquests they built a new world order. Within the space of a single generation, they swept across the Midd ...Show more
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty by Natalie Livingstone
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In The Women of Rothschild, Natalie Livingstone reveals the role of women in shaping the legacy of the famous Rothschild dynasty, synonymous with wealth and power. From the East End of London to the Eastern seaboard of the United States, from Spitalfields to Scottish castles, from Bletchley Park to ...Show more