Athens: City of Wisdom by Bruce Clark
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization, from Runciman Award winner Bruce Clark 'A stunning retrospect and beautifully written overview of one of the world's greatest cities' Paul Cartledge 'Courageously grand in scale yet sensitive ...Show more
Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds As They Were and As They Are Today by Travis Elborough
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Unexpected Atlases Ser.
Maps offer us a chance to see not just how our world looks today, but how it once looked. But what about the places that are no longer mapped?Cities forgotten under the dust of newly settled land? Rivers and seas whose changing shape has shifted the landscape around them? Or, even, places that have seem ...Show more
August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan by Andrew Quilty
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United Stat ...Show more
Australia & the Pacific: A History by Ian Hoskins
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
There are many ways to present a history of Australia and its Pacific neighbourhood, though there have been remarkably few attempts to do so. Had I worked as a reporter, administrator, aid worker or entrepreneur my insights would be very different. So, too, if I were a missionary or the son of the same. ...Show more
Australian Heist by James Phelps
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia's Number 1 True Crime Writer on Australia's Greatest Gold Robbery. On 15 June 1862, a gang of bushrangers held up a gold escort at Eugowra, just east of Forbes, NSW. They escaped with a pile of cash and 77 kilograms of gold, worth about $10 million today. It remains the largest gold robbery in ...Show more
Australian History in 7 Questions by John Hirst
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'If there are genuine questions about Australian history, there is something to puzzle over. The history ceases to be predictable - and dull.' From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australia's past an ...Show more
Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia by Samia Khatun
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonised by the British Empire to chart a history of South Asian d ...Show more
Australians: From Eureka to the Diggers: Volume 2 by Thomas Keneally
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Australians
In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed our national story are brought vividly to life. Immigrants and Aboriginal resistance figures, bushrangers and pastoralists, working men and pioneering women, arti ...Show more
Australians: Origins to Eureka: Volume 1 by Thomas Keneally
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.
Australians (Volume 3): Flappers to Vietnam by Thomas Keneally
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Australians
'A loving history of the Australian people' - Sydney Morning Herald..'.displays historical literacy, and plenty of humanity, empathy and compassion, all qualities rare in our public culture to be cherished when we find them.' - Weekend Australian. As in the two previous volumes of Australians, Thomas Ke ...Show more
Australians on the Western Front 1918 Vol 1 by David W. Cameron
$8.75 AUD
$34.99 (74% off)
Category: History
In Australians on the Western Front 1918 Volume 1, the first in a two-part series, David Cameron tells the extraordinary story of Australian troops on the Western front in March and April of 1918. These troops were directly responsible for pushing back the German advances on the Somme towards Amiens at ...Show more
Australians on the Western Front 1918 Volume II: Spearheading the Great British Offensive by David W. Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Following on from volume 1 of Australians on the Western Front 1918- The Great German Offensive, volume 2, The Battle for the Hindenburg Line, concludes with a detailed account of the final battles of World War I and the defeat of German armed forces on the Western Front. In compelling detail, David W. ...Show more