London - The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in w ...Show more
Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, "Thames: Sacred River" is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into an extraordinary world, learning about the fishes that swam in the ...Show more
Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses by Lucy Worsley
$27.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, he went into a long and miserable continental exile before returning to England in triumph on the restoration of King Charles II to the t ...Show more
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
"One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography, Alison Weir brings Henry's six wives vividly to life, revealing each as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right. Drawing upon the rich fund o ...Show more
Trickster Travels by Natalie Zemon Davis
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe and Africa during the Renaissance. Trickster Travels offers a virtu ...Show more
In the Footsteps of Private Lynch by Will Davies
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Retrace Australia's role in the First World War from the trenches of Somme Mud to the wider war on the Western Front. Imagine this. You are a country boy and just eighteen. The war has been raging for two years and because of your age, you have not been eligible for enlistment. Your mates, older by a fe ...Show more
The Human Story by James C. Davis
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
The history of humankind is spellbinding. In The Human Story, James C. Davis swiftly and clearly tells how ancient peoples settled down and founded cities, how they conquered neighbors and established religions, and how, much later, humans waged world wars and journeyed into space. Davis writes with ...Show more
White Eagle, Red Star : The Polish-Soviet War, 1919-20 by Norman Davies
$45.50 AUD
Category: History
The Polish- Soviet War 1919-1920 and
Europe East and West by Norman Davies
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Collected here for the first time are some of the numerous essays and lectures by Norman Davies, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed "Europe, The Isles and Rising '44." Spanning more than fifteen years of his remarkable career, this highly accessible collection addresses many of the issue ...Show more
Rising '44 - The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
$30.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
This is a narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th-century history. In August 1944, Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence against the Red Army's march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Red Army reached the river Vistula, the people of Warsaw believed that liberation h ...Show more
Europe East & West by Norman Davies
$59.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Collected here for the first time are some of the numerous essays and lectures by Norman Davies, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Europe, The Isles and Rising
A History of Wales by John Davies
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. Spanning prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the series of strikes by Welsh miners ...Show more