France - A History from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
"...This book is written in the belief that the average English-speaking man or woman has remarkably little knowledge of French history. We may know a bit about Napoleon or Joan of Arc or Louis XIV, but for most of us that's about it. In my own three schools we were taught only about the battles we won: ...Show more
The Nonsense of Free Will - Facing up to a False Belief by Richard Oerton
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
Did Myra Hindley deserve to be punished? Does any criminal? Is belief in free will an essential foundation for morality, or an excuse for unwarranted cruelty? Is free will a myth and, if so, can we let go of it? In this entertaining, accessible but deeply serious book, the author brings a refreshingly o ...Show more
The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy by Greg Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
From Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Greg Miller comes an exclusive book uncovering the truth behind the Kremlin's attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win the presidency, Trump's steadfast allegiance to Vladimir Putin and Robert Mueller's ensuing investigation of the ...Show more
The Vietnam War - An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward; Ken Burns
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
**The New York Times Bestseller****The book of the landmark documentary, The Vietnam War, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick**The definitive work on the Vietnam War, the conflict that came to define a generation, told from all sides by those who were there.More than forty years after the Vietnam War ended, it ...Show more
New Jerusalem by Paul Ham
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
IN FEBRUARY 1534 a radical religious sect whose disciples were being persecuted throughout Europe seized the city of M nster, in the German-speaking land of Westphalia.They were convinced that they were God's Elect, specially chosen by the Almighty to be the first to ascend to Paradise on Judgement Day, ...Show more
A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000 by John Gibney
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five 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 throug ...Show more
Babylon : Legend, History and the Ancient City by Michael Seymour
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
Xerxes: A Persian Life by Richard Stoneman
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes' expedition has overshadowed all the other achievements ...Show more
World War I Battlefields: a Travel Guide to the Western Front - Sites, Museums, Memorials by John Ruler; Emma Thomson
$20.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: [Bradt Travel Guide] Bradt Travel Guides
Published to coincide with the centenary of the end of World War I, this new, thoroughly revised edition of Bradt's World War I Battlefields is the only compact practical travel guide to cover both French and Belgian battlefield sites. Produced in a lightweight and portable format, the guide features al ...Show more
World War I Battlefields: Sites, Museums, Memorials by John Ruler
$16.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Bradt Travel Guides
The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in human history and changed the face of foreign policy and European geography forever. Despite the wealth of literature on the subject Bradt's World War I Battlefields is the only compact practical travel guide to cover both French and Belgian batt ...Show more
Australian Heist by James Phelps
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia's Number 1 True Crime Writer on Australia's Greatest Gold Robbery. On 15 June 1862, a gang of bushrangers held up a gold escort at Eugowra, just east of Forbes, NSW. They escaped with a pile of cash and 77 kilograms of gold, worth about $10 million today. It remains the largest gold robbery in ...Show more
Journeys on the Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World's Oldest Printed Book by Joyce Morgan; Conrad Walters
$45.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Globe Pequot Ser.
When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world's great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist t ...Show more