Old Man's Story: The Last Thoughts of Kakadu Elder Bill Neidjie by Bill Neidjie
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'Right then,' he said with a sigh, and then turned to me with a grin. 'I tell you story, eh!' Then he said something which really floored me: 'I been waiting for you. You been waiting for me.' And so began Bill Neidjie's relationship with English photographer, Mark Lang. Known as 'Old Man' in this b ...Show more
Australian Confederates by Terry Smyth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
IN the summer of 1865, when a Confederate warship sailed into the port of Melbourne, 42 men secretly enlisted to fight for the South in the American Civil War. On the notorious raider Shenandoah scourge of the Yankee merchant fleet they sailed off to adventure and controversy, and fired the last shot of ...Show more
Gallipoli by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail. Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its hist ...Show more
Australia's Most Murderous Prison: Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail by James Phelps
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
BEHIND THE WALLS OF GOULBURN JAIL An unprecedented spate of murders in the 1990s seven in just three years earned Goulburn Jail the ominous name of The Killing Fields'. Inmates who were sentenced or transferred to the 130-year-old towering sandstone menace declared they had been given a death sentence. ...Show more
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings by Jean Manco
$21.99 AUD
Category: History
Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? New research in the fields of archaeology and linguistics, a revolution in the study of genetics, and cutting-edge analysis of ancient DNA are dramatically changing our picture of prehistory, leading us to question what we thought we knew about these anci ...Show more
The Demons of Athens by Vrasidas Karalis
$26.95 AUD
Category: European
The narrator of the book starts a journey of discovery around the meaning of home, in a diary form, with a trip to Athens in the midst of the economic and social implosion of the country. He fuses fiction, reportage and autobiography in an attempt to illustrate the social collapse of Greece after 2009 a ...Show more
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell
$20.00 AUD
Category: European
From the New York Times bestselling author comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought--a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the two-hundreth anniversary of Napoleon's last stand. On June 18, 1815, the armies of France, Britain, and Prussia de ...Show more
Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln P. Paine
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
"A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people fi ...Show more
Eureka Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
$23.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Classic Civilisations
The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role of women ...Show more
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West 1918-1938 by Philipp Blom
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
A sweeping and vibrant history of Europe and America during the inter-war years, by the acclaimed author of The Vertigo Years.
Agincourt: My Family, the Battle and the Fight for France by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt OBE
$20.00 AUD
Category: European
25 October 2015 is the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt - a hugely resonant event in English (and French) history. Sir Ranulph Fiennes casts new light on this epic event, revealing that three of his own ancestors fought in the battle for Henry V, and at least one for the French. This is a un ...Show more
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. Although a story often told, this is the first time Patrick Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnapping of Gene ...Show more