Justinian's Flea - Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
In the middle of the sixth century, the world's smallest organism collided with the world's mightiest empire. With the death of twenty-five million people, the Roman Empire, under her last great emperor, Justinian, was decimated. Before Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that carries bubonic plague, was fin ...Show more
The Line Upon a Wind : The Greatest War Fought at Sea Under Sail, 1793-1815 by Noel Mostert
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Following the acclaimed Frontiers, Noel Mostert
The First Total War : Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Modern Warfare by David A. Bell
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
In this tour de force of interpretative history, David A. Bell explains that Napoleon's was the first 'total' war in European history, when warfare was transformed into the hideous spectacle that seems ever present today. With a historian's sharp eye for detail, Bell resurrects Napoleonic Europe and bri ...Show more
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
For a thousand years, an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with Roman power, to produce a great and creative civilizatio ...Show more
Breaking the Bank : An Extraordinary Colonial Robbery by Carol Baxter
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
It was the largest bank robbery in Australian history. On Sunday 14 September 1828, thieves tunnelled through a sewage drain into the vault of Sydney's Bank of Australia and stole 14 000 in notes and cash - the equivalent of $20 million in today's currency. This audacious group of convicts not only defi ...Show more
After the Reich by Giles MacDonogh
$27.00 AUD
Category: History
In 1945 Germany was a nation in tatters. Swathes of its population were despairing, homeless, bombed-out and on the move. Refugees streamed towards the West and soldiers made their way home, often scarring the villages they passed through with parting shots of savagery. Politically the country was neute ...Show more
Somme Mud by E.P.F. Lynch
$20.00 AUD
Category: History
"Written with dignity, candour and surprising wit, this soldier s story of the horror of the Western Front trenches is a testament to the power of the human spirit.It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fig ...Show more
Was Napoleon Poisoned? by Peter Haugen
$21.95 AUD
Category: History
This is a timeless treasury of murder and mystery at the top. For the legions of readers who made A Treasury of Royal Scandal a perennial seller, this captivating compendium of intriguing royal doings will be a must read. A treat for history lovers and royal-watchers, it covers such enduring mysteries a ...Show more
Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East - 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
This best-selling history is the first fully comprehensive account of America's involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. As Niall Ferguson writes, "If you think America's entanglement in the Middle East began with Roosevelt and Truman, Michael Oren's deeply researched and ...Show more
A Concise Companion to Aboriginal History by Malcolm Prentis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Provides an overview of Australian Aboriginal history from creation stories involving the Dreaming through to Aboriginal cultural and political activity in the 21st century. Its alphabetically arranged entries include biographies, historical events, pioneering work by anthropologists, historical controv ...Show more
Tobruk by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The number 1 non-fiction bestseller.More than 100,000 copies sold 'What we have, we hold'MOttO OF AUStRALIA'S 2/17tH BAttALIONIn the tradition of his bestselling Kokoda, Peter FitzSimons, Australia's most beloved popular historian, focuses on one of the seminal moments in Australian history: the Battle ...Show more
Rites of Peace : The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
Following on from his epic '1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow', bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Con ...Show more