Greek Myths by Gustav Schwab
$74.99 AUD
Category: History
The Greek myths are timeless classics, whose scenes and figures have captivated us since ancient times. The gods and heroes of these legends embody universal human characteristics and truths - the courage of Perseus, the greed of Midas, the ambition of Icarus, the vengeance of Medea or the hubris of Nio ...Show more
Voices from the Past - A Year of Great Quotations - and the Stories from History That Inspired Them by W. B. Marsh
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical story
The Shortest History of Democracy by John Keane
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In an age of fake news and half-truths, the radical potential of democracy is more important than ever, as this nimble, illuminating history by a celebrated political theorist reveals.From its beginnings in Syria-Mesopotamia - and not Athens - to its role in fomenting revolutionary fervour in France and ...Show more
Albert Camus and the Human Crisis by Robert E. Meagher
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camus's life and influence for those readers who, in Camus's words, "cannot live without dialogue and friendship." As France--and all of the world--was emerging from t ...Show more
France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their own' DAILY TELEGRAPH I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel cross ...Show more
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains'A scholarly yet entertaining synthesis of hundreds of years of history' Financial Times This is the first major history of the Himalaya- an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among ...Show more
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy And The Wrecking Of Henry I's Dream by Charles Spencer
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this' BILL BRYSON 'A brilliant read … Spencer has a real facility for getting these characters to leap fully formed from the page … Game of Thrones but in the real world' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'The medieval Titanic … Charles Spencer explores ...Show more
Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered by Turtle Bunbury
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Why did the Romans never try to conquer Ireland? Why did the King of Spain give his name to an Irish county? And how did brandy change the course of Irish history? Turtle Bunbury explores unexpected corners of the past to offer an informative and entertaining glimpse into 36 lesser-known tales from Iris ...Show more
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
$21.99 AUD
Category: History
Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' Adam Rutherford The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay o ...Show more
Stalin's Wine Cellar by John Baker
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. Always entrepreneurial and up for adventure, he was the perfect person for an occasional business partner to approach with a mysterious wine list that was foreign to anything John, or his second-in-command, Kevin Hopko, ...Show more
The Pathfinders: The Greatest Untold Story of the Air War Against the Nazis by Will Iredale
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History
Dark low-level raids, dodging anti-aircraft flak to make pinpoint-accurate drops - the incredible story of ordinary men and women who took to the skies to mark bomb targets inside Hitler's GermanyThe Pathfinders were the crack team that transformed the hit rate in the RAF's Bomber Command from 24% in Au ...Show more
A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000 by John Gibney
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first centuryFive centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland's modern period and continues through ...Show more