Where Light in Darkness Lies: The Story of the Lighthouse by Veronica Della Dora
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Suspended between sea and sky, battered by the waves and the wind, lighthouses mark the battlelines between the elements. They guard the boundaries between the solid human world and the primordial chaos of the waters; between stability and instability; between the known and the unknown. As such, they ha ...Show more
Out of the Depths A History of Shipwrecks by Alan G. Jamieson
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A highly illustrated voyage through shipwrecks ancient and contemporary. Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across 4,000 years, examining their historical context and significance, and showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, shedding new light on long-departed societies and civili ...Show more
George V - Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley
$42.00 AUD
Category: History
From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath of World War I and whose marriage to the regal Queen Mary was an epic partnershipThe grandfather of Queen ...Show more
Lost Realms - A History of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings by Thomas Williams
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
From the author of Viking Britain, this history travels back to the dark ages to show how warring kingdoms forged medieval Britain and the country as we know it today - and how easily things could have taken a radically different path. When history looks back at the time after functioning Roman governme ...Show more
Amazing and extraordinary facts London Underground (HB) by Stephen Halliday
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Nazi Wives - The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany by James Wyllie
$40.99 AUD
Category: History
'[Wyllie] recounts their stories with a bracing combination of scholarship and an almost cinematic approach to spinning a compelling narrative.' Washington Post 'Highlighting similarities in the women's backgrounds, Wyllie provides a distinctive prism through which to view the period.' The Guardian 'Wyl ...Show more
The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This riveting book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most imp ...Show more
1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris
$41.95 AUD
Category: History
This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly op ...Show more
Tally-Ho - RAF Tactical Leadership in the Battle of Britain, July 1940 by Patrick G. Eriksson
$56.95 AUD
Category: History
The tactical abilities of small unit leaders were critical in winning the Battle of Britain and the many innovations and even experiments which they tried out during the active fighting merit examination. The pre-war Fighter Area Attacks ‒ much beloved of the Air Ministry and founded on the notion that ...Show more
The Private Life of Lord Byron by Antony Peattie
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
The Private Life of Lord Byron is a richly woven and intensely researched portrait of an unexamined side of the great literary figure. Lord Byron starved himself compulsively for most, though not all, of his life. His behaviour mystified his friends and other witnesses. Yet he never imagined he was ill; ...Show more