The Cathars by Malcolm D. Lambert
$73.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Peoples of Europe Ser.
This is the first comprehensive account in English of the most feared and the most mysterious of medieval heretics.
The Home Front Pocket Manual 1939-1945 by Luci Gosling (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Pocket Manual Ser.
Compiled from the Mary Evans archives, this manual brings together articles from fashionable contemporary magazines including Britannia & Eve, the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, and Tatler, on all aspects of the home front in WWII. These fascinating articles cover complying with black-out r ...Show more
The Origin of Empire Rome from the Republic to Hadrian (264 BC - AD 138) by David Potter
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
Capturing the pivotal moment when Rome transformed from a republic to a world empire, spanning over three hundred action-packed years. In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that this crossing would be Rome's first step on its journey from local ...Show more
Witches and Witch-Hunts - A Global History by Wolfgang Behringer
$124.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Themes in History Ser.
In this major new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present. Drawing on the latest historical and anthropological findings, Behringer sheds new light on the history of European witchcraft, while demonstrating that witch-hunts are not simply part of the European past. ...Show more
The Mask of Command by Ian Ross
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Twilight of Empire
When a treacherous act of murder throws the western provinces into turmoil, Aurelius Castus is ordered to take command of the military forces on the Rhine. But he soon discovers that the frontier is a place where the boundaries between civilisation and barbarism, freedom and slavery, honour and treason ...Show more
Norse Myths (Usborne Illustrated) by Alex Frith
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Usborne Illustrated Story Collections
A brand-new collection of Viking myths that tell the story of the Norse gods from creation to the story of how the world will end, including Odin's quest for wisdom, the battles of Thor the thunder god, and the tale of Sigurd the Dragonslayer and the curs. Beautifully bound with head and tail bands and ...Show more
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H Nicholas
$32.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage
The treasures of Quedlinburg . . . the Trojan gold . . . the Amber Room. These fabled objects are only the tiny summit of an immense mountain of artifacts - artistic, religious, historic - that were sold, confiscated, stolen, dismembered, defaced, destroyed, or buried as Europe succumbed first to the gr ...Show more
Mary Queen Of Scots by Antonia Fraser
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Women in History Ser.
'Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph 'Reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday Times An infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political sense - formed ...Show more
The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$28.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: revised edtion
The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpat ...Show more
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 1: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid by John Romer
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument - from specialist John Romer. This exceptional book draws on a lifetime of research and thought to recreate the previously untold story of how a civilization which began with h ...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