One Day in August - Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe by David O'Keefe
49.99 AUD
Category: History
A new history of the hitherto inexplicable Dieppe raid of 1942 and its true purpose.
The Infiltrators - The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler
39.99 AUD
Category: History
'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony BeevorSummertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet - and one of history's greatest conspiracies is born.Harro Schulze-Boysen had already shed blood ...Show more
Exposure by Robert Bilott
19.99 AUD
Category: History
ERIN BROCKOVICH meets SILENT SPRING in this astounding true story of a lawyer who spent two decades building a case against one of the world's largest chemical companies, uncovering a shocking history of environmental pollution and heartless cover-up. The story that inspired the forthcoming motion pict ...Show more
Our Women on the Ground by Zahra Hankir
19.99 AUD
Category: History
'Determination, grit and humour shine through' Lindsey Hilsum, Observer Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection. A growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat - female journalists - ...Show more
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
45.00 AUD
Category: History
From the author of the critically acclaimed and globally successful The Phantom Atlas, The Golden Atlas and The Sky Atlas comes a stunning new work. The Madman's Library is a unique, beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of literature, delving into its darkest territories to hunt do ...Show more
Mecca: The Sacred City by Ziauddin Sardar
19.99 AUD
Category: History
The Sacred City Mecca is the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction towards which Muslims turn when they pray and the site of pilgrimage which annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world. Yet Mecca's importance goes beyond religion. What happens ...Show more
Enigma: The Battle For The Code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The complete story of how the German Enigma codes were broken. Perfect for fans of THE IMITATION GAME, the new film on Alan Turing's Enigma code, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another ...Show more
The Wars of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family by William J. Mann
32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America’s greatest and most influential families—the Roosevelts—exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic flair. Drawing on p ...Show more
All the Money in the World FTI (previously Painfully Rich) by John Pearson
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Inspired by the fortunes and misfortunes of the Getty family, whose most extraordinary and troubled episode - the kidnap and ransom of grandson Paul Getty - is now a major motion picture, directed by Ridley Scott, from a screenplay written by David Scarpa and starring Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg ...Show more
The Commonwealth Of Thieves by Tom Keneally
19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by Booker Prize-winning author Tom Keneally.In 1787, Britain banished its unwanted citizens - uneducated petty thieves, streetwalkers, orphan chimneysweeps and dashing highwaymen - to the fringes of the known world. So remot ...Show more
The Gutenberg Bible by Stephan Fussel
225.00 AUD
Category: History
The Book That Changed the World A complete reprint of the revolutionary Gutenberg Bible The printing press has been called the greatest invention of the second millennium. Published in Mainz around 1454, the Gutenberg Bible was the first major Western publication to be printed with movable metal type, u ...Show more
Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning
24.99 AUD
Category: History
By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the founder of Singapore and Governor of Java, having left school in his early teens to become a clerk for the British East India Company. Charismatic and daring, Raffles forged an extraordinary path for himself in South East Asia - refus ...Show more