The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller by Jeremy Dronfield
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The boy is my greatest joy. We strengthen each other. We are one. Inseparable . . . If only we were free; but daily, hourly, death is before our eyes. In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germa ...Show more
Pirate Hunter - The Life of Captain Woodes Rogers by Graham A. Thomas
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
On 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Duchess, on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make him famous. His mission was to attack, plunder and pillage Spanish ships wherever he could. And, as Graham Thomas shows in this tense and exciting nar ...Show more
Hitler's British Traitors - The Secret History of Spies, Saboteurs and Fifth Columnists by Tim Tate
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Tim Tate, in Hitler's British Traitors, [explores] the entire grimy landscape of British treachery during the Second World War and the astonishing rogues' gallery of traitors working to help Nazi Germany win. [He makes] excellent use of the vast trove of material declassified by MI5 in recent years.' - ...Show more
Convicts in the Colonies - Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia by Lucy Williams
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported 'beyond the seas'. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire's most remote colony: Australia. Through ...Show more
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilisation by Justin Marozzi
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent, while Europe cowered feebly at the margins. For centuries the caliphate was both ...Show more
Women of the Home Front - WAAFs, Wrens and the Land Army in Photographs by Mirrorpix; Elisabeth Shipton (Introduction by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Celebrate the women who helped win the Second World War.With so many of the nation's men fighting in Europe or further afield, the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), Women's Land Army (WLA), Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) were essential parts of the Home Fron ...Show more
The Ancient World in 100 Words by Clive Gifford; Gosia Herba (Illustrator)
$12.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: In a Nutshell Ser.
How do you sum up the ancient world in just 100 words? This book takes on the challenge! With 100 carefully chosen words, each explained in just 100 words, this book provides a quick and fun insight into the characters, events and inventions of the ancient world. With entries on the Egyptians, the Ph ...Show more
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists - A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall; Anna D'Amico
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A bold and gripping graphic history of the fight for women's rights The ongoing struggle for women's rights has spanned human history, touched nearly every culture on Earth, and encompassed a wide range of issues, such as the right to vote, work, get an education, own property, exercise bodily auton ...Show more
A House in the Mountains: the Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance during the Second World WarIn the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in the War and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia and ...Show more
I You We Them - Journeys Beyond Evil by Dan Gretton
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A landmark historical investigation into crimes against humanity and the nature of evil that is over two decades in the making. 'The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.' Hannah Arendt I You We Themis a study of the psychology of some of the lea ...Show more
Women of The 1920s by Thomas Bleitner
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Experience the glamor and excitement of the Jazz Age, through the lives of the women who defined it It was a time of unimagined new freedoms. From the caf s of Paris to Hollywood's silver screen, women were exploring new modes of expression and new lifestyles. In countless aspects of life, they dare ...Show more