Espana: a Brief History of Spain by Giles Tremlett
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles. 'Tremlett is a fascinating socio-cultural guide, as happy to discuss Spain's World Cup win as its Moorish rul ...Show more
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 by David Blackbourn
$74.95 AUD
Category: History
With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification--and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previous ...Show more
Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America's Deadliest Waterway by Randall Sullivan
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure and memoir, bringing to life one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world.
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever. But Diesel never arrives at his destination. He vanishes ...Show more
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others? In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mi ...Show more
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history. We have fallen into the belief that women were absent from great events, and ineffectual in normal times. Through a radical reframing of the conventional eras of our history, Normal Women tells the story of our nation - not w ...Show more
The Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194: The Normans in Sicily Volume II by John Julius Norwich
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
When on Christmas Day, 1130, Roger de Hauteville was crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was fantastically cosmopolitan; and to an atmosphere of racial and religious toleration un ...Show more
The Normans in the South, 1016-1130: The Normans in Sicily Volume I by John Julius Norwich
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Chronicling the 'other Norman invasion', The Normans in the South is the epic story of the House of Hauteville, and in particular Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer between the times of Caesar and Napoleon. In one year, 1084, he had both the Eastern and Western Emperors ...Show more
Fear An Alternate History by Robert Peckham
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A ground-breaking examination of the societal impact of fear that gives us a thrilling new insight on world history. It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been dr ...Show more
The Last Princess by Matthew Dennison
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Queen Victoria's favourite child - the true story of a royal mother-daughter relationship that changed history Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was four and as Matthew Dennison relates Victoria came to depend on her youngest daughter absol ...Show more