The Lost Cafe Schindler by Meriel Schindler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history. Were they really related to Franz Kafka and Oscar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame? Or Hitler's Jewish doctor - Dr Bloch? What really ...Show more
King of the Air: The Turbulent Life of Charles Kingsford Smith by Ann Blainey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Charles Kingsford Smith was the most commanding flyer of the golden age of aviation. In three short years, he broke records with his astounding and daring voyages- the first trans-Pacific flight from America to Australia, the first circumnavigation around the equator, the first non-stop crossing of the ...Show more
Denial: Holocaust History on Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: good
In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." The following year, after Lipstadt's book was published in the United Kingdom, Irving filed a libel suit aga ...Show more
After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak by Alice Nelson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson presents a powerful collection of fourteen narratives by Australian Holocaust survivors told in thei ...Show more
Augustus: A Biography by Jochen Bleicken
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young solder training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered that he was the dictator's sole political heir. With the opportunism and instinct for propaganda that were to characterize his rule, Octavian rallie ...Show more
Franklin and Eleanor by Hazel Rowley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths.
Eleanor's Story: an American Girl in Hitler's Germany by Eleanor Ramrath Garner
$25.95 AUD
Category: Historical
ELEANOR'S STORY is the dramatic memoir of Eleanor Ramrath Garner's youth, growing up as an American caught in World War II Berlin. It is a story of trying to maintain stability, hope, and identity in a world of terror and contrasts. During the Great Depression, Eleanor's family moves to Germany, where h ...Show more
The Drowned Man: A True Story of Life, Death and Murder on HMAS Australia by Brendan James Murray
$32.95 AUD
Category: Historical
A chance encounter in a fish-'n'-chip shop set Brendan Murray on the trail of a mystery. Had a gay man been secretly murdered on HMAS Australia during the Second World War? The veteran he spoke to was certain. 'I knew about it,' he said. 'We all did.' But was the story true? If so, who was the dead man? ...Show more
Flinders: The Man Who Mapped Australia by Rob Mundle
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Matthew Flinders is a towering figure in Australian history the first to chart our coastline and the leading champion for naming the country Australia. In 1801 he was made commander of the expedition of his life the first close circumnavigation of Terra Australis. Famous for his meticulous charts and su ...Show more
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Prof Kate Clifford Larson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
One of "People" s Top Ten Books of 2015 "[Larson] succeeds in providing a well-rounded portrait of a woman who, until now, has never been viewed in full."" Boston Globe" A biography that chronicles her life with fresh details . . . By making Rosemary the central character, [Larson] has produced a valuab ...Show more
No Mercy: True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality by Eleanor Learmonth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Disaster strikes. A ship goes down, a plane crashes, a party of travellers is cut off. But when the panic and confusion subside and the dead are counted, the survivors must find a way to keep surviving. And in desperation, unconstrained by law or conventional authority, the tactics they resort to can be ...Show more
In My Grandfather's Shadow: A story of war, trauma and the legacy of silence by Angela Findlay
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Fusing memoir, psychology and a historical detective story, a powerful exploration of how trauma can be handed down through the generations.Having wrestled for decades with an inexplicable sense of guilt, Angela Findlay eventually turned to her German roots in the hope of finding answers. There, she dis ...Show more