The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler's Valkyries by Clare Mulley
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their names in the male-dominated field of flight in 1930s Germany. With the war, both became pioneering test pilots and both were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the ...Show more
The Encyclopedia of New York by The Editors The Editors of New York Magazine
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The must-have guide to pop culture, history, and world-changing ideas that started in New York City, from the magazine at the center of it all.Since its founding in 1624, New York City has been a place that creates things. What began as a trading post for beaver pelts soon transformed into a hub of tech ...Show more
The Ratline - Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the ...Show more
Beyond the Known - How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars by Andrew Rader
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans' insatiable desire to continually push into new and uncharted territory, from civilization's earliest days to curre ...Show more
A Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of Virginia Hall (WW2's most dangerous spy) by Sonia Purnell
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Virginia Hall from USA who infiltrated Occupied France | Reading Level: very good
In 1942, the Gestapo would stop at nothing to track down a mysterious 'limping lady' who was fighting for the freedom of France. The Nazi chiefs issued a simple but urgent command: 'She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.' The Gestapo's target was Virginia Hall, a ...Show more
Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
$14.99 AUD
Category: Africa & Middle East
The Newbery Honor-winning author of Wolf Hollow and Beyond the Bright Sea returns with the story of an unforgettable young heroine in Depression-era Maine. After the financial crash, Ellie and her family have lost nearly everything--including their home in town. Forced to start over, Ellie has found a ...Show more
Origin Story - A Big History of Everything by David Christian
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction? Big History creator David Christian gives the answe ...Show more
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
$69.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actually meet ...Show more
The Europeans - Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
From the "master of historical narrative" (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work--the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture.The nineteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented artistic achievement. It was also the first age of cultural global ...Show more
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive change Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wante ...Show more
King of the World - The Life of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, dominated his age. In the second half of the seventeenth century, he extended France's frontiers into the Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies in America, Africa and India. Louisiana, which once occupied a third of the territory of the present-day Unit ...Show more
The Hitler Years ~ Triumph 1933-1939 by Frank McDonough
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'One of the books of the year' DAN SNOW. 'This year's Christmas No.1' PETER FRANKOPAN. 'A masterclass in the history of Nazi Germany, with an internationally renowned expert as the teacher' GET HISTORY. On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the German Chancellor of a coalition government by Pre ...Show more