Rasputin: The Biography by Douglas Smith
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. The spectre of the lustful Siberian holy man and peasant still casts its eerie shadow over Russia's bloody twentieth century. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysteri ...Show more
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
"This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king, familiar to millions as Longshanks, conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William Wallace ( Braveheart ). Edward was born to rule England, but believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of th ...Show more
Signed by hand by National Library of Australia
$19.98 AUD
Category: History
Signed by Hand is a little gem of a book that displays images of a wide variety of autographed items from the National Library of Australia collections. This beautiful book represents and celebrates famous and influential people in Australia's history through sixty-six personal, hand written inscription ...Show more
The King's Assassin : The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I by Benjamin Woolley
$19.98 AUD
Category: History
The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615, the young gallant enraptured James, Britain's first Stuart king, royal adoration reaching such an intensity that the king declared he wanted the courtier to become his ...Show more
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 by Robert Macklin
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1858, fourteen-year-old French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was aboard the trader Saint-Paul when it was wrecked off the eastern tip of New Guinea. Scrambling into a longboat, Narcisse and the other survivors crossed almost 1000 kilometres of the Coral Sea before reaching the shores of Far North Quee ...Show more
Their Fiery Cross of Union: A Retelling of the Creation of the Australian Federation, 1889-1914 by William Coleman
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
'Better than any other account, Their Fiery Cross of Union shatters the myths Australians have cherished about Federation. It both sets out those myths and-in gripping prose-exposes their limitations and contradictions. Using, without ever being heavy-handed, all the tools of modern social science, it m ...Show more
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter by Emma Soames
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'I am not a great or important personage, but this will be the diary of an ordinary person's life in war time. Though I may never live to read it again, perhaps it may not prove altogether uninteresting as a record of my life - or rather the life of a girl in her youth, upon whom life has shone very bri ...Show more
The Wolf Age - The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A thrilling work of popular history that gives a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo Saxon conflicts and brings the bloody period vividly to life. In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers, to get soldiers they ne ...Show more
Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
'Exceptionally sumptuous ... This vivid history brings to life the vices and virtues of the feuding ruling families of Italy' Michael Prodger, The Times, Book of the Week A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons - the prin ...Show more
Symbols of Australia: Uncovering the stories behind the myths by Richard White (Editor); Melissa Harper (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia is a land of symbols. The Southern Cross. The Sydney Opera House. The kangaroo. Vegemite. But what do they actually mean? Where do national symbols come from and what makes them popular? Why are some symbols so hotly contested? Does Australia have more than its fair share?Symbols of Australia ...Show more
Mutineers: A True Story of heroes and Villains by Robert Hadler
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of five young Australian sailors seeking adventure in a far off war who fell foul of British Imperial authority and sparked one of the most controversial events in the annals of the RAN. Mutineers explores the use and abuse of power by our military and political leaders at a critical time in o ...Show more
The Viking Wars - War and Peace in King Alfred's Britain: 789 - 955 by Max Adams
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
A history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954. In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in t ...Show more