The Shortest History of Japan by Lesley Downer
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
Everyone who has ever visited Japan says it feels 'different'. It is a small island nation with few natural resources, limited space and a history of swinging between isolation and openness to the outside world. This past has produced an extraordinary aesthetic culture that has inspired artists, archit ...Show more
Rock and Tempest: Surviving Cyclone Tracy and its Aftermath by Patricia Collins
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
When Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, it was the worst natural disaster Australians had ever experienced. Stationed in the city with the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Patricia Collins not only lived through Tracy but was part of the massive clean-up effort. This is her ext ...Show more
Mawson in Antarctica: To the Ends of the Earth by Joanna Grochowicz
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Douglas Mawson is a national hero and Antarctic explorer, famous for one of the most extraordinary feats of endurance in the history of polar exploration. His amazing story is brought vividly to life in compelling narrative non-fiction by the acclaimed author of Into the White: Scott's Antarctic Odyssey ...Show more
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
*** The New York Times Bestseller ***'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating and original angle. She introduces us to a little known aspect of the period, highlighting the role of clothes in the grimmest of societies imaginable and givin ...Show more
The Darkest Christmas - December 1942 and a World at War by Peter Harmsen
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
December 1942 saw the bloodiest Christmas in the history of mankind. From the islands in the Pacific to the China front, from the trenches in Russia to the battlelines in North Africa, in the skies over Europe and in the depths of the Atlantic, men were killing each other in greater numbers than ever be ...Show more
The Shortest History of Italy: A Captivating Journey from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic by Ross King
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
Embark on a captivating journey through 3000 years of Italy's rich history Italian history has always been about resilience and rebirth ... It is a country that for so many centuries has offered up visions of the wonders to which we humans, at our very best, can aspire. Italy was the centre of Europe's ...Show more
Facing East from Indian Country - A Native History of Early America by Daniel K. Richter
$53.95 AUD
Category: History
In the beginning, North America was Indian country, but Native Americans soon yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States. ...Show more
Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-si ...Show more
100 Books that Changed the World by Scott Christianson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think? In 100 Books that Changed the World, authors Scott Christianson and Colin Salter bri ...Show more
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Arena Books
The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their land, lives and liberty to white settlers pushin ...Show more
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S C Gwynne
$31.95 AUD
Category: History
This stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West was a major New York Times bestseller. In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche ...Show more
The Art of Time Travel : Historians and their Craft by Tom Griffiths
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: 1st
No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us. The art of time travel is to maintain critical poise and grace in this dizzy space. In this landmark book, eminent historian and award-winning author Tom Griffiths explores t ...Show more