Maps: Their Untold Stories by Rose Mitchell; Andrew Janes
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
Drawing on 700 years' worth of maps from the National Archives, this stunning and fascinating collection is not just about the history of the maps, but is also an insight into the places and the social history of the time that the mapmakers captured.This magnificent collection, drawn from seven centurie ...Show more
The Concise Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone; Peter Kuznick
$22.99 AUD
Category: American | Reading Level: very good
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth century right up to the Obama administration. Looking at American intervention in foreign conflicts in Latin American, Asia and the Middle East, including taking ...Show more
Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
"The ancient Greeks continue to fascinate us - they 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; established artistic and architectural canons visible to this day on all our high streets; laid ...Show more
The Search for HMAS Sydney : An Australian Story by Ted Graham et al
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In November 1941 HMAS Sydney, the pride of Australia's wartime fleet, and its crew of 645 disappeared without a trace off the Western Australian coast. All that was known was Sydney had come under fire from the German raider HSK Kormoran, which also sank. After numerous unsuccessful searches from the mi ...Show more
Stealing Athena by Karen Essex
$32.99 AUD
Category: European
Stealing Athena is the story of two women, separated by centuries but united by their association with some of the world's greatest and most controversial works of art. Aspasia, a philosopher and courtesan to visionary politician Pericles during Athens's Golden Age, defies societal restrictions to becom ...Show more
In the Company of Cowards by Michael Mori
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
On a beautiful, balmy evening in Cuba in 2007, David Hicks walked out of Guantanamo Bay, in that moment ceasing to be a detainee of the United States and regaining his rights as an Australian citizen. Watching on was the man who had fought for four long years for Hicks's right to go home: Major Michael ...Show more
Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales by Graham Seal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter's Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters are r ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People - Volume 1 by Geoffrey Blainey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin. The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to ter ...Show more
Eyewitness by Garrie Hutchinson
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military
In Eyewitness, Garrie Hutchinson has selected the cream of writing from Australia's wars. Many of our finest writer-reporters are featured - C.E.W. Bean, Alan Moorehead, Paul McGeough, Kenneth Slessor, Ray Parkin, Osmar White, John Martinkus, Peter Ryan and more. The settings range from the beach at Anz ...Show more
Poisoner's Handbook The : Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Professor Deborah Blum
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie" (The New York Observer) A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and murder, The Poisoner's H ...Show more
History's Greatest Discoveries by Joel Levy
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A lighthearted but informative look at fifty of the most important and spectacular discoveries in the history of science and exploration.
Stalin's Agent: The Life and Death of Alexander Orlov by Boris Volodarsky
$61.95 AUD
Category: European
This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. There are almost certainly people who would like it never to be told. It is the story of General Alexander Orlov. Stalin's most loyal and trusted henchman during ...Show more