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Courage in the Skies: The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II
Between 1942 and 1943, Qantas lost eight aircraft during its involvement in Australia's war against the Japanese. Over sixty passengers and crew died as a result. Yet Qantas' exemplary contribution...
Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history
Monash and Chauvel follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. John...
Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journeys to Abandoned and Deserted Destinations Around the Globe
Atlas of Forgotten Places is a collection of maps so unique and left behind that you won't even believe they exist. From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent...
Telegram!: Modern History as Told Through More Than 400 Witty, Poignant, and Revealing Telegrams
$12.00 AUD
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America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams greatly admired the Persian Empire, while Iranians regarded America as an ideal their own government might emulate. Beginning there, how...
Grand Canyon National Park: Past and Present
The Grand Canyon was destined to become an American treasure. Unparalleled in its enormity, visitors come from all over the world to experience this great place. From prospectors and homesteaders...
The Story of English: An Extraordinary Journey
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Have you ever wondered where the roots of the English language lie? This notebook gives you an overview of the transformation of English from being an obscure Germanic dialect to...
The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years
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The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's
Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn...
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
It's time for us to re-examine the past. Our lives are infinitely richer if we take the time to look at what the Greeks and Romans have given us in...
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the...
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior
A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution-leading to the violent attack on the Capitol...
The Anatomists' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the
The Anatomists Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both medical knowledge and illustrated publishing.There is a rich history...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries. Whether or not we trace our families from beyond...
Worlds at War
The differences that divide West from East go deeper than politics, deeper than religion, argues Anthony Pagden. To understand this volatile relationship, and how it has played out over the...
Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War
Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of...
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's
Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn...
The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies
A radical revision of the geographical history of the discovery of the Americas that links Columbus's southbound route with colonialism, slavery, and today's divide between the industrialized North and the...
Dictionary Of Modern Arab Histor
$30.00 AUD
From 1980 until Dr. Bidwell's death in 1994, much of his time was taken up with the writing and compilation of this encyclopaedic work which represents, in the true sense...
London: the Autobiography
In London: The Autobiography the life of the capital is told, for the first time, by those who made it and saw it at first hand. From Roman times to...
The Napoleonic Wars
This outstandingly vivid and accessible book, written by one of Britain's leading historians, provides the essential overview of Napoleon's career. Beginning in revolutionary France with a brilliant young Lieutenant who...
The Making of Medieval History
Essays on the discipline of medieval history and its practitioners, from the late eighteenth century onwards. A hugely interesting set of essays, reflecting on a variety of ways in which...
His Own Man
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Australia: An Illustrated History: 2008
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Gold: The true story of the discovery of gold in Australia and the
'Impostor ', 'greedy' and 'incompetent' - Edmund Hammond Hargraves was beloved by few and reviled by many more. Ask google Who discovered gold in Australia? and you'll promptly get 'Edward...
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient
'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and...
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between
A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's deepest faultline. There is...
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour - secrets were impossible...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade
Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a highly engaging, rare,...
The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe
A monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of early modern Europe The Ottomans have long been viewed as despots who conquered through...
The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams
In the mid-1880s, Henry Adams committed himself to a posture that has since been associated with his name: neglected patrician, doomsayer, literary man whose bereavement at his wife's suicide confirmed...
Roman Conquests: Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia
While conquering Greece and Macedonia the Romans defeated an intervention by the Seleucid Empire, the most powerful of the Hellenistic states founded by Alexander the Great's successors. Soon Roman armies...
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina was founded in 1997 by Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli and named for Professor Bruccoli's father, who...
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the
Gifted storyteller and bestselling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln--a thrilling and page-turning account of how two American...
Early Republic and the Sea:Essays on Naval/Maritime History: Essays on
Examines the diverse relationships between the sea services and maritime commerce during the early years of the United States. Gives fresh insights into the problems of naval policy, communication, law...
The Strassmanns: Science, Politics and Migration in Turbulent Times
Across six generations and two hundred years, this book tells the story of a German- Jewish family who emigrated from Rawicz, Poland, first to Prussian Berlin, and finally to America....
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the
In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, THE VERGE tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world...
Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City
A moving portrait of the lives of six poor city-dwellers, set in early twentieth century colonial Saigon Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor...
Nation in Arms: The British Army in the First World War
The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British Army rapidly...
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois...
Captain Blakely and the Wasp: The Cruise of 1814
The first full biography of America's most accomplished naval commander in the Age of Sail, Johnston Blakeley.
Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize...
A Short History of the Victorian Era
It began with the horse-drawn carriage and ended with the aeroplane...An era, beginning in the 1830s and ending with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, that saw the British...
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of
From the author of bestseller Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars in history. 'A brilliant book.' James O'Brien Whether it's...
Henry VIII: And the Men Who Made Him
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Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new...