The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories by BOROWSKI TADEUSZ
$41.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The most complete English-language collection of the prose of Tadeusz Borowski, the most challenging chronicler of Auschwitz, with a foreword by Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny "Borowski's sharp-edged descriptions of life in Nazi concentration camps shatter the limits of even Kafka's most surrea ...Show more
The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival by Thomas Geve, Charlie Inglefield
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
‘We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis’ evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our struggle to survive.’ Thomas Geve was just 15 years old when he was ...Show more
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
$28.99 AUD
Category: History
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph 'A story that grabs from the get-go - the moments in which the world teetered on the brink of total annihilation come alive as they would if this were the very best fiction' Justin Webb, Mail ...Show more
The Perfect Holocaust and Who Kept it "Perfect" by Chris Fogarty
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons by Catrine Jarman
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the brilliant bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history of the Anglo-Saxons told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral. A book that unlocks the secrets of the pre-Norman past. In 1642, William Waller and his Parliamen ...Show more
Bethlehem: Biography of a Town (US edition) by Nicholas Blincoe
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to the people who call it home. Today, the city is hemmed in by a wall and surrounded by forty-one Israeli settlements and hostile settlers and soldiers. The popu ...Show more
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired 'Moby Dick' by Nathaniel Philbrick
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century - and inspiration for 'Moby-Dick' - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in December 2015, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy. W ...Show more
The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code - Human Rights in Human Experimentation by George J. Annas (Editor); Michael A. Grodin (Editor)
$62.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The atrocities committed by Nazi physicians and researchers during World War II prompted the development of the Nuremberg Code to define the ethics of modern medical experimentation utilizing human subjects. Since its enunciation, the Code has been viewed as one of the cornerstones of modern bioethical ...Show more
Unforgettable Ancient Sites - Mysterious Sites, Temple Complexes, Ancient Architecture by M. J. Howard
$35.00 AUD
$55.00 (36% off)
Category: History
Unforgettable Ancient Sites includes mysterious megalithic sites that appear to have been built using geometric principles far in advance of their time, pyramids that once ran with sacrificial blood, vast temple complexes, lost cities and stunning works of ancient architecture, these sites all have one ...Show more
Survivors - Children's Lives after the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize and a finalist for the 2021 Cundill History PrizeTold for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust--named a best history book of 2020 by the Daily Telegraph "Impressive, beautifully wri ...Show more
Britannia's Daughters: Women of the British Empire by Joanna Trollope
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: Adult
In Britannia's Daughters, best-selling novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. She draws on a vast range of sources, including diaries and letters home. She provides a panoramic picture of the countless women who departed Britain for Ind ...Show more