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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Souls is a chronological account of four hundred years of Black America as told by ninety of America's leading Black writers. Curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the number one bestseller How To Be an Antira ...Show more
Postmark Paris by Leslie Jonath
$21.99 AUD
Category: History
The colorful world-within-a-world of postage stamps illustrates this lyrical account of a young girl's experiences in Paris. When she and her family move to the city, her adventures are magically captured in the dainty images of the postage stamps she collects.
Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds by Stuart Kells
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
'Fascinating and lucid ... a valuable insight into an industry once widely praised but now undervalued by a nation that relies on it so strongly.' GEOFFREY BLAINEY The remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has a rich history and unique geography. In the 1960s De Beers, the world's largest diamo ...Show more
Secret and Special by Will Davies
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Soon after the declaration of war on Japan, a secret military reconnaissance unit was established, based on the British Special Operations Executive (known as SOE) and called the Inter-allied Services Department. The unit was tasked with the role to "obtain and report information of the enemy ... weaken ...Show more
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Woman Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The never-before-told story of three women who courageously reported from the frontlines of the Vietnam War. One spent twenty-three days in captivity. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Ka ...Show more
The Spymaster of Baghdad by Margaret Coker
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
'Authentic, moving, visceral, chilling, utterly revelatory, truly masterful. A stunning tour de force by an author who has lived every word of it on the ground. A story of our time that absolutely needs to be told' Damien Lewis, author of Zero Six Bravo The Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of ...Show more
Bastard Behind the Lines: The Extraordinary Story of Jock Mclaren's Escape from Sandakan and His Guerrilla War Against the Japanese by Tom Gilling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military History
He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's greatest World War II guerrilla fighters. 'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I lik ...Show more
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination by Richard J. Evans
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the 'post-truth' age The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything is the result ...Show more
An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky; Jackie Smith (Translator)
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
A dazzling cabinet of curiosities from one of Europe's most acclaimed and inventive writers. Judith Schalansky's strange and wonderful new book, recalling writers as different as W.G. Sebald and Christa Wolf, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, sees her return to the territory she explored so successfully w ...Show more
The Splendid and the Vile - A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz--an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis One of Chicago Tribune's Best Books of the Year So Fa ...Show more
The Crown: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years That Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977 by Robert Lacey
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The fascinating royal and social history that inspired the second and third seasons of The Crown, from the show's historical consultant.
The Bravest Voices by Ida Cook
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
This timeless memoir documents two sisters' bravery leading up to WWII - a singular historical account that shines a light on one of humanity's darkest hours. Ida and Louise Cook are two ordinary Englishwomen, seemingly destined never to stray from their quiet London suburb and comfortable jobs - Ida as ...Show more