Southern Highlands Pictorial History by Linda Emery
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pictorial History S.
This book covers the history of the shire from Aboriginal settlement to modern times. Each township and locality is recorded in words and black and white photographs.
The Shortest History of Italy: A Captivating Journey from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic by Ross King
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
Embark on a captivating journey through 3000 years of Italy's rich history Italian history has always been about resilience and rebirth ... It is a country that for so many centuries has offered up visions of the wonders to which we humans, at our very best, can aspire. Italy was the centre of Europe's ...Show more
The Walnut Tree: Untold Histories Of Violence, Women And The Law by Kate Morgan
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A devastating work of non-fiction that reveals a hidden history of women, violence and the law. ' A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they'll be.' So went the proverb quoted by a prominent MP in the Houses of Parliament in 1853. His words - intended ironically in a deb ...Show more
ANZAC Memories by Don Donovan
$16.99 AUD
Category: History
A collection of evocative photographs and quotations honouring the memory of those who served in the First World War. A photographic journey through images and mateship.
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered questio ...Show more
Dharawal: the first contact people - 250 years of black and white relations by Bruce Watt
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'Beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn' - CLAIRE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL HOUSE 'Tender, heartfelt and lyrical' - PETINA GAPPAH, AUTHOR OF OUT OF DARKNESS, SHINING LIGHT Since the discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance on the bed of the Antarctic ocean, the ...Show more
Lovers in Auschwitz - A True Story by Keren Blankfeld
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between t ...Show more
Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land by Rachel Cockerell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
On June 7th 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail into the Atlantic. It is heading not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamt, but to Texas. The man who persuades the passengers to go is David Jochelmann, Rachel Cockerell's great-grandfather. It marks the beginning of the Galve ...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 ...Show more
Paris - A Short History by Jeremy Black
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A\Short History Ser.
Once described as "that metropolis of dress and debauchery" by the Scottish poet David Mallet, Paris has always had a reputation for a peculiar joie de vivre, from art to architecture, cookery to couture, captivating minds and imaginations across the Continent and beyond. In Paris: A Short History, hist ...Show more