The Race to the Future by Kassia St Clair
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of helpers to drag their primitive cars up narrow gorges, lift them over rough terrain and float th ...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
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I've ever read' Guardian 'The greatest sea story ever told' Spectator'A cracking yarn... Grann's taste for desperate predicaments finds its fullest expre ...Show more
Speed, Aggression, Surprise: The Secret Origins of the Special Air Service by Tom Petch
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Awesome!' ANDY McNAB | 'You must read this book' Colonel TIM COLLINS OBE | 'Extraordinary' Sir RANULPH FIENNESForget what you thought you knew. Discover the REAL story of how the SAS was created.From ex-SAS Commander Tom Petch, this is the never-before-told story of how the world's preeminent Special F ...Show more
The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A Spectator Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'An illuminating and riveting read.' - Jonathan DimblebyJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present.In The Making of ...Show more
Four Shots in the Night by Henry Hemming
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'A truly page-turning, compulsive and also profoundly moving narrative. Superb.' JAMES HOLLAND ... 'Gripping, urgent, superbly reported and brilliantly written' DAN JONES HOW THE DEATH OF A SPY IN THE IRA LED TO THE BIGGEST MURDER INVESTIGATION IN BRITISH HISTORY. On 26th May 1986, the body of an unde ...Show more
The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
An extraordinarily dramatic reconstruction of the greatest border breach in Cold War history In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable- they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic. Word had spread of what was going to happen. On wisps of r ...Show more
The Diggers of Kapyong: The Story of the Aussies Who Changed the Course of the Korean War by Tom Gilling
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun We charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many bullets coming that it was like walking, running into a very stiff breeze. Most of the sec ...Show more
When Chairmen Were Patriots by Elizabeth Fysh
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Fergus McMaster started with nothing and with his brothers built a sprawling pastoral empire in western Queensland. Following his return from World War I, a chance meeting outside Cloncurry with Lieutenant Paul McGinness took him on a new path. With Lieutenant Hudson Fysh, the three men followed the ...Show more
Europe: The Enlightening History of a Continent by Jean Baptiste Duroselle
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
A history of the continent uniquely told from a very European viewpointThe first one-volume, complete history of Europe, as told by Europeans themselves, from Homo Erectus to the Celts, to Greek wisdom and Roman grandeur, all of the way to the European phenomenon - the Industrial Revolution.This is the ...Show more
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition ...Show more