Silent Shock: The Men Behind the Thalidomide Scandal and an Australian Family's Long Road to Justice by Michael Magazanik
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
'The baby started to come out. Head first, everything OK. But then I saw that there were no arms. And then no legs. The little girl had only a torso and a head.' Lyn Rowe was born in Melbourne in 1962, seven months after her mother Wendy was given a new wonder drug for morning sickness called thalidomid ...Show more
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble by Antony Beevor
49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgian/German border. Although Hitler's generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the venge ...Show more
Gurkha: Better to Die Than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour-Sergeant Kailash Khebang
35.00 AUD
Category: History
For the first time in its 200 year history, a soldier of the Brigade of Gurkhas has been given permission to tell his story in his own words Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu was born in one of the most remote hill villages of Nepal. His family had no running water or electricity. The nearest town was sever ...Show more
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 by Mark Greengrass
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Mark Greengrass' gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous change Sunday Times and Financial Times Books of the Year 2014. This addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led ...Show more
Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle That Gave Birth to the Globe by Chris Laoutaris
24.99 AUD
Category: History
This book was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize One of the Telegraph's 'Best Books of 2014'. In November 1596 a woman signed a document which would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare ...Who was the woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespeare's life? Ne ...Show more
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King
21.95 AUD
Category: History
Odessa was the Russian Empire's gateway to the Middle East, its greatest commercial seaport and home to one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in all of Europe. Created as a model of enlightenment by Catherine the Great, and developed by colourful adventurers such as Grigory Potemkin, Jose de Ribas ...Show more
Abandoned Women: Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas by Lucy Frost
22.99 AUD
Category: History
In the early nineteenth century, crofters and villagers streamed into the burgeoning cities of Scotland, and families splintered. Orphan girls, single mothers and women on their own all struggled to feed and clothe themselves. For some, petty theft became a part of life. Any woman deemed 'habite repute ...Show more
The 13th Labour of Hercules: Inside the Greek Crisis by Yannis Palaiologos
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Since the revelation of its massive hidden deficit in late 2009, Greece has been at the centre of the world's attention. Observers around the globe have watched with morbid fascination as the country has repeatedly flirted with political and financial chaos, as one failed rescue programme has followed a ...Show more
Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682 by Robert Goodwin
50.00 AUD
Category: History
In the sixteenth century, the Spaniards became the first nation in history to have worldwide reach; across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and India. Goodwin tells the story of Spain and the Spaniards, from great soldiers like the Duke of Alba to literary figures and artists such as El ...Show more
The Western Front Diaries: the Anzacs' Own Story, Battle by Battle (Revised Edition) by Jonathan King (Curator, British Museum)
39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: World War I Diaries
A special 100th-anniversary edition. Long overshadowed by the national obsession with the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign, the breathtaking story of what really happened on the Western Front has finally been brought into the bright light of day. The ANZACs' Western Front campaign had a greater impact than ...Show more
Blockbuster!: Fergus Hume and the Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Lucy Sussex
32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Before there was Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, there was Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab-the biggest- and fastest-selling detective novel of the 1800s, and Australia's first literary blockbuster. Fergus Hume was an aspiring playwright when he moved from Dunedin to Melbourne in 1885. He ...Show more
There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond by Meline Toumani
45.00 AUD
Category: History
A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a "love thine enemy" experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use-and abuse-our personal histories Meline Toumani grew up in a close-knit Armenian community in New Jersey where Turkish restaurants were shunned and products made in Turkey w ...Show more