The Boundless Sea - A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as w ...Show more
The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz by Thomas Geve
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A profoundly moving true story of survival and hope, featuring powerful drawings of his experiences, Thomas Geve was a Birkenau, Auschwitz, Gross Rosen and Buchenwald survivor at just 15 years old. Spending twenty-two months imprisoned at these camps during WW2, Thomas was subject to, and forced to obs ...Show more
The Boy in the Dress by Jonathan Butler
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
On a balmy Townsville night in 1944, a young serviceman, Warwick Meale, is found murdered. The army and police do not, or will not, conduct a proper investigation and history forgets the killer - until now. Nearly eighty years on, Warwick's descendant Jonathan Butler dusts off the case and chases the le ...Show more
The Bridge: The epic story of an Australian icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge by Peter Lalor
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
'... in world terms, that great arch defined Sydney and for the most part, Australia ...' - Hon. Paul Keating, former Prime Minister of AustraliaWhen it was finally opened in March 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge had taken almost nine years to complete at a cost of sixteen lives and more than six millio ...Show more
The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent by Gideon Haigh
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian Book Review.In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy drowned in a ditch that had filled with rain after being left unfenced by council wo ...Show more
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'A gripping, complex and sensational story, told with calm narrative command ... With insight and skill, Penn cuts through the thickets of history to find the heart of these heartless ...Show more
The Bulldog Track - A Grandson's Story of an Ordinary Man's War and Survival on the Other Kokoda Trail by Peter Phelps
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival. March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found ...Show more
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive change Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wante ...Show more
The Bush by Don Watson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
While most of us live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or should be, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a livi ...Show more
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Brutal World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today. Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitz ...Show more
The CIA - An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas. As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support ...Show more
The Case That Stopped a Nation - The Archibald Prize Controversy Of 1944 by Peter Edwell
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
A full account of the events and characters involved in the court case over the awarding of the 1944 Archibald Prize to William Dobell.