The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations by Frances F. Berdan
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Lost Civilizations Ser.
In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan casts fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, etiquette, origin myths and human sacrifice. While often described as ‘stone age’, the Aztecs’ achievement ...Show more
The Return of a King - The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 by William Dalrymple
$44.00 AUD
Category: History
A Best Book of the Year: The Economist, Slate, Kirkus Reviews In 1839, nearly 20,000 British troops poured through the mountain passes into Afghanistan and installed the exiled Shah Shuja on the throne as their puppet. But after little more than two years, the Afghans exploded into rebellion. The Britis ...Show more
The Philosophers' Library: Books that Shaped the World by Adam Ferner, Chris Meyns
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Liber Historica Ser.
The Philosophers' Library features the most important philosophy manuscripts and books as stepping stones to take your through the history of philosophy. By cataloguing the history of philosophy via its key works, this book reflects the physical results of human thinking and endeavour; brilliant thought ...Show more
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War by Brendan Simms, Charles Laderman
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
'A rare achievement ... sure to become an instant classic' John Lewis Gaddis, Yale UniversityThis gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These five days trans ...Show more
Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans by Christopher Clark
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
A collection of illuminating essays from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century- a remarkable rethinking of the origins of the First World War, which has had a huge impact on how we see both the p ...Show more
Zero Fail - The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
'This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work -- the determinative work -- in this field ... Terrifying.'--Rachel Maddow The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years ...Show more
Proud to Be PLC - 40 Years of Pipe Band History by Lucy Hair (Created by, Appendix by, Original Author, Directed By, Research by); PLC Perth (Executive Producer, Reviewed by, Original editor, Editor, Editor-In-Chief, Cover Design by, Technical editor, Designed by, Managing editor, Research by, Historical advisor, Photographer, Created by, General Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
A history of the first 40 years of the Presbyterian Ladies' College (PLC Perth) Pipe Band, from 1981-2021. Historian, Old Collegian and current parent Lucy Hair has researched four decades of the PLC Perth Pipe Band to bring together an amazing collection of photographs and stories about the origins of ...Show more
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wildest landscapes.It begins between the Creation and Noah's Flood, follows the footsteps of the earliest generation of giants from an age when the children of Cain and the progeny of fallen angels walked the e ...Show more
Into the Forest - A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca Frankel
$54.99 AUD
Category: History
From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is one family's inspiring true story of love, escape, and survival. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. T ...Show more
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king' (W.E.H. Lecky, nineteenth century), 'one of ...Show more
White Malice - The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa by Susan Williams
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by America's systematic interference. Accra, 1958. Africa's liberation leaders have gathered for a conference, full of strength, purpose and vision. Newly independent Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Congo's Patrice Lumumba strike u ...Show more
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History by Thomas Barfield
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
Traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in Afghanistan, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. This title introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in this volatile region of the world.