The Bounty: The true story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
More than two centuries have passed since Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lt. Bligh on a small armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. Caroline Alexander focu ...Show more
A Shameful Act : The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by Taner Akcam
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
In 1915, the Turkish government systematically organised the wholesale slaughter of a complete race, the Armenians. Under the cover of World War 1, through the secret organisation of unofficial gangs of Kurds, released prisoners, German officers and Turks who had lost their lands in the war against the ...Show more
An Irish History of Civilization : Volume One, comprising Books 1 and 2 by Don Akenson
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
Part one of a two-volume comprehensive history - less a history of Ireland, more a history of civilization in an Irish kind of way St Patrick catching sight of Ireland for the first time as he is taken there as a prisoner; Joyce and Yeats eating sticky buns in a Dublincaf . There has never before been a ...Show more
The Jewish People by Shmuel Ahituv
$36.95 AUD
Category: History
Contributors to this book include Anson F. Rainey, Shmuel Safrai, Haim Beinart, and Evyatar Friesel. This is the first atlas of its kind to document in such great detail the turbulent history of the Jewish people. A work of prodigious and meticulous scholarship by some of Israel's most brilliant scholar ...Show more
The War for All the Oceans by Roy Adkins
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
As France emerged from revolution, a young general named Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt, hoping next to march overland to India. It would not happen. Britain swung her forces into action to battle for control of the world's sea-lanes and thus all international trade. The Battle of the Nile and then at ...Show more
Trafalgar : The Biography of a Battle by Roy Adkins
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
A superbly researched, gripping account of the most important naval battle in British history, which thwarted Napoleon at sea and created a national hero in Nelson. This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of t ...Show more
Churchill: The Unexpected Hero by Paul Addison
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
During the Second World War, Winston Churchill won two resounding victories. The first was a victory over Nazi Germany, the second a victory over the legion of skeptics who had derided his judgment, denied his claims to greatness, and excluded him from high office on the grounds that he was sure to be a ...Show more
Shadows of War by Ryoko Adachi
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
World War 2 in the Asia-Pacific still casts many shadows. The shadows fall on the lives of Australian ex-POWs, soldiers and their families. Veterans are aged but recall horrors under Japanese Imperial Forces as fresh as yesterday. Dark, too, are the shadows cast on civilians trapped in the conflict - in ...Show more
Hideous Absinthe A History of the Devil in a Bottle by Adams Jay
$38.00 AUD
Category: History
Mysteriously sophisticated, darkly alluring, almost Satanic: absinthe was the drink of choice for Baudelaire, Verlaine and Wilde. It inspired paintings by Degas and Manet, van Gogh and Picasso. It was blamed for conditions ranging from sterility to madness, to French defeats in World War I. The campaign ...Show more
Firestorm : The bombing of Dresden, 1945 by Paul Addison & Jeremy A Crang (eds)
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
On the night of 13 and 14 February 1945 the RAF bombed the city of Dresden, causing devastating fires which obliterated the historic city centre and killed many thousands of people. Sixty years later these raids remain one of the most notorious, and also one of the most controversial, episodes in the hi ...Show more