True Grit by Pappas Theodore
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
How did the great men and women who changed the world actually do it? Were they simply smarter and more talented than the rest of us? What was their secret? The accomplishments of the great are widely known, but their many battles with adversity, frequent setbacks and defeats, and the personal and profe ...Show more
Arthur and the Kings of Britain by Russell Miles
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Written in 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) purported to chronicle the British monarchy from the arrival of the Trojan Brutus, grandson of Aeneas, through to the seventh century AD. The Historia was a medieval best-seller, and copies spread ac ...Show more
Into the Abyss by Meyer Gj
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
'Thundering, magnificent... a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure... It will earn generations of admirers.' (The Washington Times) 'Meyer's sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire . . . are lifelike and plausible. His accou ...Show more
Sir John Soane's Museum by Boucher Bruce
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
This new edition (the thirteenth) provides a comprehensive description of Sir John Soane's Museum in London's Lincoln's Inn Fields and reflects recent changes to the Museum including the immaculate recreation of the Private Apartments, the Lobby off the Breakfast Room, and the Catacombs, all of which we ...Show more
Harry and Meghan the Wedding Album by Jobson Robert
$69.95 AUD
Category: History
Featuring exquisite photography from throughout the royal couple's lives and the wedding itself, this high-end coffee table book will be the publication to mark the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Retreat: a Story of 1918 by Benstead Charles R
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
Retreat, A Story of 1918 by Charles R. Benstead was first published by Methuen in 1930, as First World War fiction was moving from positive accounts of combat heroism towards narratives of disillusionment and loss. Retreat spans both phases through its tragic portrayal of an army chaplain driven to madn ...Show more
Mind at Play by Sonni Jimmy Goodman Rob
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
This is the extraordinary story of the little-known man who influenced very computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded. He wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution, which has been called 'the Magna Carta of the Information Age.' His discoveries would lead contemporaries to co ...Show more
In the Enemy's House by Blum Howard
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lampshere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to unco ...Show more
Through Spain With Wellington by Greenwood Adrian
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Gazetted into the 9th Foot as an ensign in 1808, Peter Le Mesurier saw action from the earliest days of the Peninsular War almost to its end. The `Fighting Ninth' were in the thick of it, and his letters describe nearly every major engagement of the war; the retreat to Corunna, the Walcheren Expedition, ...Show more
Brutalism by Reading Billy
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
The rise and fall and subsequent rise again of Brutalist architecture in Britain is a fascinating story of an architectural style that strove to unify but in reality divided public opinion, and continues to do so. Derived from the French phrase beton brut, meaning raw concrete, the name brutalism identi ...Show more
Art Deco by Green Oliver
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Art deco refers to a striking range of decorative design styles that emerged in the early twentieth century. Original art deco is characterised by bold colours, geometric shapes, and sweeping curves. Novel materials and advances in technology suggested a mechanised design future over a hand crafted past ...Show more
Urban Maori: the Second Great Migration by Haami Bradford
$43.95 AUD
Category: History
The post-1945 migration to the cities by Maori transformed Aotearoa New Zealand forever. Exploring whatbeing Maori means today, bestselling author Bradford Haami looks back to the experience of the first migrants, and traces the development of an urban Maori identity overthe interceding years. Numerous ...Show more