Saga Land - The Island of Stories at the Edge of the World (HB) by Richard Fidler; Kari Gislason
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey.A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author K ri G slason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who set ...Show more
ANZAC Day Then and Now: Australia's Unofficial National Day by Tom Frame
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Acsacs Ser.
Peter Stanley, Jeffrey Grey, Carolyn Holbrook, Ken Inglis, Tom Frame and others explore the rise of Australia's unofficial national day. Does Anzac Day honour those who died pursuing noble causes in war? Or is it part of a campaign to redeem the savagery associated with armed conflict? Do the rituals of ...Show more
The Berlin Airlift: The Relief Operation that Defined the Cold War by Barry Turner
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Berlin, 1948 - a divided city in a divided country in a divided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin wanted the Allies out; the Allies were determined to stay, but had only three narrow air corridors linking the city to the West. Stalin was con ...Show more
History of Norway by John A Yilek
$42.50 AUD
Category: History
Based on exhaustive research, History of Norway is a clear, informative and entertaining description of Norway's history from the earliest cultures of the Stone Age to today's oil and gas economy. Along the way, there are fascinating stories of Vikings, the Sami, kings and queens, farmers and fishermen, ...Show more
Ivory Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with th ...Show more
The Empire Must Die : Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917 by Mikhail Zygar
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
The Empire Must Die portrays the vivid drama of Russia's brief and exotic experiment with civil society before it was swept away by the despotism of the Communist Revolution. The window between two equally stifling autocracies - the imperial family and the communists - was open only briefly, in the last ...Show more
The Plots Against Hitler by Danny Orbach
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler's dominance seemed complete. Yet over the next few years, an unlikely clutch of conspirators emerged - soldiers, schoolteachers, politicians, d ...Show more
A Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England by Dan Jones
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
A vivid, in-the-round portrait of English society in the year of Magna Carta, from the best-selling author of The Plantagenets England in 1215. This was not just the year of Magna Carta and King John's war with his barons, but a year of crusading and church reform, of foreign wars and dramatic sieges, ...Show more
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by ...Show more
Red: A History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLERThe brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages and across multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and art The mere mention of red hair calls to mind vivid pictures. Stereotypes of redheaded wom ...Show more
A Perfidious Distortion of History: the Versailles Peace Treaty and the Success of the Nazis by Jurgen Tampke
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The Versailles Peace Treaty, the pact that ended World War I between the German empire and the Allies, has not enjoyed a high reputation among politicians, historians, and opinion-makers since its signing in June 1919. Conventional wisdom has it that, guided by motives of punishment and revenge, and bas ...Show more
Great City Maps by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff; Caroline Bingham
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A beautifully illustrated history of the world's most celebrated historical city maps, from the hubs of ancient civilization to sprawling modern mega-cities, created in association with the Smithsonian Institution. Great City Maps explores and explains 30 of the world's greatest historical city maps, p ...Show more