World War II The Definitive Visual Guide by DK
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
World War II is captured in hundreds of compelling images, presenting the people, places, and politics involved in the epic conflict. Inside this complete visual guide is chronological coverage of the lead up to war, major military battles around the globe, and the aftermath that still influences and im ...Show more
World War II: The Definitive Visual History (Volume 1): From the Munich Crisis to the Battle of Kursk 1938-43 by Richard Overy
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: World War II: the Definitive Visual History Ser.
Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this first of two volumes is an outstanding concise history of WWII from the Munich Crisis to the Battle of Kursk. This first of two volumes begins in the period when the Axis powe ...Show more
Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky
$40.99 AUD
Category: History
With this book Immanuel Velikovsky first presented the revolutionary results of his 10-year-long interdisciplinary research to the public, founded modern catastrophism - based on eyewitness reports by our ancestors - shook the doctrine of uniformity of geology as well as Darwin's theory of evolution, pu ...Show more
Written in Stone: A Story of Rock and of Ourselves by Rachel De Moravia
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Stone: timeless, fascinating - and an essential part of human history. From Bernini's marble to Hepworth's abstracts, from cave dwellings to skyscrapers, from dividing walls to linking bridges, from collected pebbles to precious gems, this is an erudite, engaging and constantly surprising history of st ...Show more
X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries by Michael Scott
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing. Michael Scott celebrates the fusion of scholarship and adventure in a book full of both.' DAN SNOWUncovering the physical remains of our past is a quintessential human itch; the pursuit of every society from the ancients through to today. But the stori ...Show more
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis by Leah Garrett
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
During WW2, a group of Jewish refugees (intellectuals, writers, artists and athletes - most from Germany and Austria) escaped to Britain and were interned as 'enemy aliens'. In 1942, they were selected and trained to form a special unit of commandoes who would be sent back into Europe to play a signific ...Show more
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken by DERMOT TURING
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The untold story of the events which drove to the Enigma code-breaking, and the men who made it possible. Everyone 'knows' that the Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park, but what led up to that, and what became of the Polish mathematicians who laid the basis for the code-breaking, is shrouded in myth and ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--thro ...Show more
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The never-before-told story of three women who courageously reported from the frontlines of the Vietnam War. One spent twenty-three days in captivity. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Ka ...Show more
Young Queens by Leah Redmond Chang
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. 'Alluring, gripping, real: an astonishing insight into the lives of three queens' ALICE ROBERTS 'Takes us into the hearts an ...Show more
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Sixteenth-century Europe - Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the C ...Show more
Your Second Life Begins When You Realise That You Only Have One by Raphaëlle Giordano
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
THE #1 FRENCH BESTSELLER MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The feel-good #1 bestselling French novel about a woman whose mission to cure her "routine-itis" leads her to lasting joy and true fulfillment, for fans of The Alchemist and Hector and the Search for Happiness. At thirty-eigh ...Show more