Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia by Michael Adams
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to crap-carrier-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kelly looks at the life and times, crimes and demise of Australia's most famous anti-hero from a new perspective: that of the 'rogue and vaga ...Show more
Beirut Spy by Said Aburish; Charles Glass (Introduction by)
$33.99 AUD
Category: History
, An insider's account of true espionage, intrigue and conspiracy in the post-war Middle East, which reads like a Bond-esque thriller. Spies, journalists, politicians, tycoons, would-be assassins and oil sheiks mingle in the luxurious St George Hotel bar, the cosmopolitan centre of Beirut. From the 195 ...Show more
Belfast '69 by Andrew Walsh
$46.99 AUD
Category: History
A devastating analysis of how the events of August 1969 fuelled lasting conflict in Northern Ireland. Belfast, August 1969. A campaign for civil rights in Northern Ireland (which had begun less than two years previously) degenerates into intercommunal violence as centuries of mistrust, animosity, and bl ...Show more
Athens: City of Wisdom by Bruce Clark
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization, from Runciman Award winner Bruce Clark 'A stunning retrospect and beautifully written overview of one of the world's greatest cities' Paul Cartledge 'Courageously grand in scale yet sensitive ...Show more
The Medici by Mary Hollingsworth
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence' TLS 'A lucid and beautifully illustrated family history' The Times ...Show more
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire by Bart Van Loo
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages. 'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year'Thrillingly colourful and entertaining' Sunday Times'A thrilling narrative of the brutal dazzlingly rich wildly ambitious duchy' Simon Sebag Montefiore'5 stars!' Daily Te ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past', George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this glorious work of history, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world. The Story of Russia begins in the firs ...Show more
Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. One of its most ...Show more
Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station by Shannyn Palmer
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A new work of history that seeks to unmake mythologies of pioneers, pastoralism and possession in the Northern TerritorySome stories dominate how we see and interpret a place, while others are obscured from view. Angas Downs is a pastoral station in Central Australia, but pastoralism is only a fraction ...Show more
Cultural Treasures of the World: From the Relics of Ancient Empires to Modern-Day Icons by DK
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
A stunning collection of the world's most celebrated and culturally significant objectsTake a guided tour through history and discover the most precious, iconic, and celebrated objects ever created.Revered, admired, and protected - every country and culture has certain artefacts that are prized above al ...Show more
The Age of Uncertainty: How the Greatest Minds in Physics Changed the Way We See the World by Tobias Hurter
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and Albert Einstein didn't only revolutionise physics; they redefined our world and the rea ...Show more
The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones by Lesley-Ann Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The Rolling Stones juggernaut appraised and dissected as never before - the good, the bad, the ugly. On 12 July 1962, the Rollin' Stones performed their first-ever gig at London's Marquee jazz club. Down the line, a 'g' was added, a spark was lit and their destiny was sealed. No going back. These five w ...Show more