East West Street: On the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity by Philippe Sands
$26.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: updated edition
Winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for NonfictionWinner of the 2017 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize"A monumental achievement...a profoundly personal account of the origins of crimes against humanity and genocide, told with love, anger and precision." -John le Carré "A narrative, to my knowledge un ...Show more
The Dragon and the Kangaroo by Robert Macklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today. Chinese 'presence' in Australia extends from well before the time of Captain Cook - trading with northern Australia long before Europeans came here - right through to t ...Show more
Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue Pows on the Eastern Front by Lee Trimble
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
As the Red Army advanced across Poland in 1945, thousands of freed Allied POWs - viewed by the Soviets as cowards or potential spies - were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front. In total secrecy, the OSS - wartime forerunner to the CIA - conceived an undercover mission to rescue them. The man ...Show more
Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky
$23.99 AUD
Category: History
From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world. Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways ...Show more
Stealth Raiders: A Few Daring Men in 1918 by Lucas Jordan
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1918 a few daring low-ranking Australian infantrymen, alone among all the armies on the Western Front, initiated stealth raids without orders. These stealth raiders killed Germans, captured prisoners and advanced the line, sometimes by thousands of yards. They were held in high regard by other men of ...Show more
Burke & Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.' MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first ...Show more
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European slaves by Giles Milton
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. Using ...Show more
Error Australis by Ben Pobjie
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
We're obsessed with reality television these days yet we so often neglect the greatest reality of all: the reality of our nation, and how it came to be. In Error Australis, TV columnist, comedian and history buff Ben Pobjie recaps the history of Australia from its humble beginnings as a small patch of r ...Show more
Heaven's Wind - Nakamur Tempu by Stephen Earle
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
For the first time in English, Stephen Earle tells the epic story of Nakamura Tempu, one of Japan's most inspirational twentieth-century thinkers and teachers, whose mind-body approach to personal transformation influenced hundreds of thousands, including prominent leaders in government, industry, and t ...Show more
New Jerusalem by Paul Ham
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
IN FEBRUARY 1534 a radical religious sect whose disciples were being persecuted throughout Europe seized the city of M nster, in the German-speaking land of Westphalia.They were convinced that they were God's Elect, specially chosen by the Almighty to be the first to ascend to Paradise on Judgement Day, ...Show more
From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest by T. Z Lavine
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"From Socrates To Satre" presents a rousing and readable introduction to the lives, and times of f he great philosophers. This thought-provoking book takes us from the inception of Western society Plato's Athens to today when the commanding power of Marxism has captured one third of the world. T.Z. Lavi ...Show more