Classical Mythology A to Z: An Encyclopedia of Gods & Goddesses, Heroes & Heroines, Nymphs, Spirits, Monsters, and Places by Annette Giesecke
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
An encyclopedic A-to-Z guide, this beautifully designed and illustrated volume offers hundreds of rich and fascinating definitions of 700 major and minor characters, creatures, and places of classical mythology. Classical Mythology A-to-Z is a comprehensive and engrossing guide to Greek and Roman mythol ...Show more
Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
"A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, and invasion that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvelous book." --Simon Winchester Ghost Empire is a rare treasure--an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated by a master storyteller. ...Show more
The Witches: Salem, 1692 - A History by Stacy Schiff
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ...Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMES It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a ...Show more
Alexander the Great - Epic and Legendary Leaders by Alexandra F. Morris (Introduction by); J. K. Jackson (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
Alexander the Great died in 336 BCE, when he was only thirty two. His military campaigns had swept across Ancient Greece, through Asia Minor, Arabia, Persia, Egypt and North Africa to North West India, forging one of the largest empires in recorded history. He was undefeated in battle and is widely cons ...Show more
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
FULLY UPDATED'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'INDEPENDENT. Flat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern national movement dates back to the early ninet ...Show more
Shackleton's Dream - Fuchs, Hillary and the Crossing of Antarctica by Stephen Haddelsey
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
In November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton watched horrified as the grinding floes of the Weddell Sea squeezed the life from his ship, Endurance, before letting her slip silently down to her last resting place. Caught in the chaos of splintered wood, buckled metalwork and tangled rigging lay Shackleton's d ...Show more
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The true story of the woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The thrilling and previously unknown story of the woman who led one of the largest anti-Nazi resistance groups in Germany, now a New York Times bestseller.
Crassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military gloryMarcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic am ...Show more
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz: A heartbreaking true story of courage and survival by Henry Oster and Dexter Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Of the 2,011 Jews who were rounded up by the Gestapo and deported from Cologne, Henry Oster was one of only 19 German-speaking Jewish boys to emerge alive from the concentration camps after the war. Henry Oster was just five years old, a wide-eyed boy from the beautiful ancient city of Cologne, Germany, ...Show more
The Way It Was - Life in Elizabeth's Britain, 1952-1979 by Matthew Engel
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A wonderfully witty and illuminating social history of post-war Britain, by the author of Engel's England and Eleven Minutes Late.
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
"This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all names, dates or ungraspable historical headwinds, but instead show how it's really just a bunch of random stuff that happened with a fe ...Show more
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
______________________________ A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI's involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of one of the most infamous cases in American history. Twenty years ago, reporting for a routine magazine p ...Show more