Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I had found this book earlier.' - The New York Times
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the rise and fall of dynastic power during this period; he examines its numerous material, social and cultural ...Show more
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us about Old Age and Death by Peter Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two thousand years ago. Romans inhabited a world where man, k ...Show more
Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans In 1945 by Florian Huber
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 1945, as the army retreated, the German people were surrendered to the enemy with no means of defence. A wave of suicides rolled across the country as thousands chose death-for themselves and their children-rather than face the defeat of the Third Reich and what they feared might follow. Drawing on e ...Show more
Horrie The Wog-Dog: The Original Tail by Ion Idriess
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military
'The true story of Horrie the Wog-Dog who was adopted by the Australian Signal Platoon of the M/G Battalion, in spite of all rules against keeping pets, and how Horrie not only won his stripes as a valuable addition to the group but had the further distinction of being smuggled into Australia on their r ...Show more
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organised the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus, he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, pet ...Show more
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily MailThe ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence w ...Show more
In the Reign of King John - A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England by Dan Jones
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A vivid and richly illustrated portrait of English society in the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history. 1215 is chiefly remembered for King John attaching his seal to Magna Carta in a quiet Thames-side water-meadow - a milestone in the history of libert ...Show more
The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military HistoryIn a sweeping narrative, Peter Cozzens tells the gripping story of the wars that destroyed native ways of life as the American nation continued its expansion onto tribal lands after the Civil War, setting off a conflict that would last nearly three ...Show more
The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Ch�teau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 19 ...Show more
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In this highly original and enjoyable book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on the massive, all-encompassing and hugely costly business of actually preparing a crusade. The efforts of many thousands of men and women, who left their lands and families in Western Europe, and marched off to a highly uncertain ...Show more
Letter from Birmingham Jail (Mini Modern Classics) by Martin Luther King
$2.50 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.