Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Novelistic and character-driven, Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to deliver a gripping read of the largely unexplor ...Show more
Bligh: Master Mariner by Rob Mundle
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Eighteenth Century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators, men who had shown brilliance as they ascended the ranks in the Royal Navy. They were also bloody good sailors.From ...Show more
Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A compelling history of Blitzkrieg: the 'lightning war' by which Hitler and his generals overwhelmed the Allied armies in Western Europe. 'Blitzkrieg' begins with a chilling portrait of Hitler's rise to power in pre-war Germany, setting the stage for the outbreak of the Second World War and his conquest ...Show more
Blood and Ruins - The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of Britain's foremost military historiansRichard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a centu ...Show more
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of its foremost historians Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global i ...Show more
Bone and Beauty: The Ribbon Boys' Rebellion Of 1830 by J. M. Thompson
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
October 1830 Rebelling from years of maltreatment and starvation, a band of Ribbon Boys liberate eighty convicts from Bathurst farms and lead them inland towards freedom. Governor Darling, fearing that others would also rise up, sends the 39th Regiment in pursuit. Three bloody battles follow, but to who ...Show more
Botany Bay and the First Fleet: The Real Story by Alan Frost
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Now in one definitive volume, Botany Bay and the First Fleet is a full, authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia. In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay, on the east coast of New South Wales. In deciding on Botany Bay, British aut ...Show more
Boundary Crossers: The Hidden History of Australia’s Other Bushrangers by Meg Foster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, ‘Captain Thunderbolt’ and their bushranging brethren are famous. They’re remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of inept and corrupt authorities. But not all Australian bushrangers were white men. And not all ...Show more
Bradman vs Bodyline: The inside story of the most notorious Ashes series in history by Roland Perry
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The definitive story of the most controversial chapter in the history of Australian and English cricket - the notorious Bodyline series, by Roland Perry, author Sir Donald Bradman's authorised biography, The Don. Using new material and his previous unparalleled access to Sir Donald Bradman, Roland Perry ...Show more
Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain's post-war role on the global stage, from Suez to Brexit. In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new role. Nearly sixty years later the rebuke rings true again. Britain's ...Show more
British Dandies: Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation by Dominic Janes
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Reveals how the scandalous history of fashionable men and their clothes is a reflection of changing attitudes to style, gender, and sexuality. Well-dressed men have played a distinctive part in the cultural and political life of Britain over several centuries. But unlike the twenty-first-century hipst ...Show more
Broadcasting Britain: 100 Years of the BBC by Robert Seatter
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Discover the BBC's central role in reflecting our ever-changing world....Created 100 years ago, on 18 October 1922, the BBC transformed people's lives at the turn of a dial, bringing voices out of the ether and conjuring the magic community of radio...Now, our lives are inextricably linked to broadcasti ...Show more