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Killing for Country: A Family Story (Indie Book of the Year 2024) by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Ma'am Darling - 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE SOUTH BANK SKY ARTS LITERATURE AWARD 2018 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' Mail on Sunday 'I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich' Observer She made John Lenn ...Show more
Mr Todd's Marvel: How one man telegraphed Australia to the modern world by Adam Courtenay
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1855 Charles Todd had a bold dream to build a telegraph line across Australia to connect it to the world. By 1870, Singapore had joined the global network: now for Australia. Todd and his men succesfully erected thousands of telegraph poles - one every 80 metres - across land that was relentlessly in ...Show more
Rome's Vestal Virgins by Robin Lorsch Wildfang
$79.99 AUD
Category: History
Comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date, this volume offers a brand new analysis of the Vestal Virgins' ritual function in Roman religion. Undertaking a detailed and careful analysis of ancient literary sources, Wildfang argues that the Vestals' virginity must be understood on a variety of different lev ...Show more
Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-si ...Show more
The Chipilly Six: Unsung Heroes of the Great War by Lucas Jordan
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
On 9 August 1918, on high ground overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German machine gunners. The battle has raged for 30 hours and more than 2000 Englishmen have fallen, for no gain.Meanwhile, two Australian sergeants, Jack Hayes and Harold Andrews, go absent without ...Show more
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited ...Show more
The Golden Maze: A biography of Prague by Richard Fidler
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Beloved ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolu ...Show more
The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Australia's Unknown Hero by Simon Nasht
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Hubert Wilkins was truly the last - and one of the greatest - explorers. And much more. Born in South Australia, he spent most of his life out of the country - but always remained an Australian. He travelled through every continent, and was a pioneer of aviation. He survived crashes and disasters, firin ...Show more
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The cross-dressing horse thief who became Australia's first female business tycoon In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery ...Show more
Threads of Peace - How Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Changed the World by Uma Krishnaswami
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
"Inviting and original." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Mohandas Gandhi and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. both shook and changed the world in their quest for peace among all people, but what threads connected these great activists together in their shared goal of social revolution? A lawyer and act ...Show more
You Wouldn't Want to be in the Trenches in World War One! by Alex Woolf
$18.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: You Wouldn't Want to be...
It's August 1914. You are 16-year-old Tommy Atkins, living in London. Set against a backdrop of the war just broken out in Europe, find out what your life was like after joining up and being sent to the trenches. From sharing your bed with rats and lice to a diet of bully beef, bread and biscuits, disco ...Show more