The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic by Sandy Winterbottom
$36.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: David Suzuki Institute Ser.
"Urgent and moving."--Publishers Weekly ★An elegant blend of "polemic, industrial history, nautical writing, elegy and ecology" (The Scotsman), The Two-Headed Whale charts the tragic history of the post-war whaling industry alongside the author's thrilling memoir of sailing the Antarctic.In 2016, Sandy ...Show more
Demetrius: Sacker of Cities by James Romm
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar ( ...Show more
All the Knowledge in the World - The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by Simon Garfield
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults cleared their shelves in the belief that wisdom was now effortlessly accessible in their living rooms. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gandhi helped mill ...Show more
Making History: Storytellers Who Shaped The Past by Cohen Richard
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons by Charlotte Gray
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A captivating biography of two famous women whose sons, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt, would change the course of the 20th century--by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.Born into upper class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano and Jennie Jerome refused to settle into predictabl ...Show more
Hitler and Stalin - The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
$20.00 AUD
Category: History
Two twentieth-century tyrants stand apart from all the rest, Laurence Rees has met more people with direct experience working for Hitler and Stalin than any other historian. Using their evidence, he has pieced together a compelling, comparative portrait of evil in which idealism is polluted by bloody pr ...Show more
The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society. 'Liebe Mitstreiter', he says. Dear comrades in arms. Today we are going to learn about the sonnet. Berlin, 1962. Morale is at rock bottom in East Germany, thrown into chaos by the new Berlin Wa ...Show more
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorhouse
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the untold story of The Lados Group, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists based in Switzerland during the Second World War who conceived an extraordinary operation to produce false identity documents and passports, often to Latin American countries. These were smuggled into occupied ...Show more
A House in the Mountains - The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
$15.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser.
NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance against the Nazis and the Fascists during the Second World War.In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in WWII and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an ...Show more
Piccadilly: The Circus at the Heart of London by Midge Gillies
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus.From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught. Its streets and alleyways merge into an intoxicating thoroughfare, with the power to propel an individual onwards to adventure, romance ...Show more