World War I: The Definitive Visual History by DK
65.00 AUD
Category: History
The ultimate guide to World War I A uniquely accessible military history of one of the world's most devastating conflicts Now revised and updated, World War I- The Definitive Visual Guide takes you from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles. Experience some of ...Show more
Te Motunui Epa by Rachel Buchanan
49.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
‘This is a story about the power of art to help us find a way through the darkness. It is about how art can bring out the best in us, and the worst. The artworks in question are five wooden panels carved in the late 1700s by relatives in Taranaki.’ This stunning book examines how five interconnected car ...Show more
Trackers : The Untold Story of Australian Dogs of War by Peter Haran
22.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of the Australian army's little-known use of combat tracker dogs during the Vietnam War. A war veteran tells his story with immediacy, blending the terror of hunting and encountering the elusive Viet Cong with the tender relationship between a naive young Australian soldier and his dog. The bo ...Show more
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One by Kate Adie
24.99 AUD
Category: History
A chronicle of the ways in which women's lives changed during World War I and what the impact has been for women today, 100 years laterIn 1914 the world changed forever. This book details how when World War I broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, women emerged from the shadows of their do ...Show more
The Silent Soldiers of Naours by Donna Feichter; Michael Feichter; Gilles Prileaux; Mathieu Beuvin
35.00 AUD
Category: History
Recently rediscovered in hidden chambers in the north of France is an incredible secret of the Battle of the Somme and World War I. The signatures and graffiti of French, English and Australian soldiers tell a story of lives long lost but now found. The Silent Soldiers of Naours is the story of how Fren ...Show more
The Dawn of Language: How We Came to Talk by Sverker Johansson
32.99 AUD
Category: History
Who was "the first speaker" and what was their first message? Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users. The Dawn of Language ...Show more
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Based on her own sweeping research, an award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that we are, and always have been, a truly global culture. In How the World Ma ...Show more
House of Lilies by Justine Firnhaber-Baker
64.99 AUD
Category: History
A sweeping history of the Capetian monarchs One of the great epics of Europe's history, the story of the rise and rise of the Capetian dynasty dominates the Middle Ages. Starting in the tenth century from an insecure foothold around Paris, the Capetians built a nation that stretched from the Atlantic t ...Show more
Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China after Tiananmen Square by Liao Yiwu
45.00 AUD
Category: History
"A series of harrowing, unforgettable tales...Had [Liao Yiwu] not fled the country in 2011, they may never have emerged. An indispensable historical document." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)From the award-winning poet, dissident, and "one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our tim ...Show more
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
45.00 AUD
Category: History
THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decis ...Show more
Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio by Chris Laoutaris
55.00 AUD
Category: History
The true story of how the First Folio creators made ‘Shakespeare’ The year 2023 marks the 400th anniversary of Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, known today simply as the First Folio. It is difficult to imagine a world without The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra ...Show more
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the N ...Show more