Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821 by Michael Broers
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
*A KIRKUS BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2022* An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor's life--from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile--as the world Napoleon has created begins to crumble around him. In 1811, Napoleon s ...Show more
Australia's Natural Disasters by Richard Whitaker
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
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More Letters of Note : Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters. These letters deliver the same mix of the heartfelt, the historically significant, the tragic, the comic and the unexpected. Discover Richard Burton's fa ...Show more
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
$48.00 AUD
Category: History
An exciting journey of discovery that spans continents and centuries, seeking evidence of humanity's first great civilization.
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as ...Show more
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition ...Show more
Midnight in Chernobyl - The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
--THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER-- 'An invaluable contribution to history.' Serhii Plokhy, Evening Standard'Tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with thriller-like flair. Midnight in Chernobyl is wonderful and chilling ... written with skill and passion.' Luke Harding, The Observer' ...Show more
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S C Gwynne
$36.00 AUD
Category: History
This stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West was a major New York Times bestseller. In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche ...Show more
Magicians of the Gods: Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse by Graham Hancock
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returned with the sequel to his seminal work filled with compl ...Show more
1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
On 8 February 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, 500 foot long junks made from the finest teak and mahogany, were led by Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our li ...Show more
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 by James Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Are you ready for the truth about World War Two? In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war on land, in the air and at sea, James Holland reveals not only the truth behind the familiar legends of the Second World War but he also unveils those lesser known events which were to have ...Show more