New History
The Great Divide
$49.95$39.95 – Hard back / Orion
he rise and fall of the great civilisations and what this meant for mankind.
In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in Si... Buy or find out more →
Titanic Lives
$35.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The RMS Titanic was built as one of the world′s largest and most luxurious liners. A marine Ritz, it was a 45,000-tonne hotel of thin steel plates, travelling at a speed of 21 knots across the North Atlantic.
On the ni... Buy or find out more →
The Sportsmen Of Changi
$34.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
Japanese World War II POW camps conjure up a notorious picture of deprivation and brutality. The idea that sport, of all things, flourished in such hellish conditions is hard to envisage – but the truth is, it did. Capti... Buy or find out more →
Pyg
$24.95 – Paperback book / Canongate
After escaping the butcher’s knife with the help of his steadfast companion Sam, Toby soon finds himself under the order of the volatile impresario Silas Bisset and his travelling menagerie of performing monkeys, horses,... Buy or find out more →
The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire Of Charles V
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Charles V, Emperor of Europe and the New World, is the central figure in the second volume of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire. It begins with the return of the remnants of Magellan's expedition around t... Buy or find out more →
The Admiral Benbow
$34.99 – Paperback book / Quercus
Admiral John Benbow was an English naval hero, a fighting sailor of ruthless methods but indomitable courage. Benbow was a man to be reckoned with. In 1702, however, when Benbow engaged a French squadron off the Spanish ... Buy or find out more →
Australians Volume 2: Eureka to the Diggers
$59.95$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story, in the second volume of a unique history of Australia.
In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's wide... Buy or find out more →
Into The Silence
$35.00 – Paperback book / Bodley Head
A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest
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If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had... Buy or find out more →
Australia And Appeasement: Imperial Foreign Policy And The Origins Of World War II
$39.95 – Hardcover book / I B Tauris
On 3 September 1939, Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, broadcast to the Australian people the news that their country was at war with Germany. He outlined how every effort had been made to maintain the peace... Buy or find out more →
The Jewish Dark Continent: Life And Death In The Russian Pale Of Settlement
$44.95 – Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr
At the turn of the twentieth century, over forty percent of the world’s Jews lived within the Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews of the Pale created a distinc... Buy or find out more →
Hiroshima Nagasaki
$55.00$49.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
′Nobody is more disturbed,′ said President Truman, three days after the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, ′over the use of the atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanes... Buy or find out more →
Double Entry
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Our world is governed by the numbers generated by the accounts of nations and corporations. We depend on these numbers to direct our governments, our institutions, corporations, economies, societies. But where did they c... Buy or find out more →
Death In The City Of Light
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Little Brown
DEATH IN THE CITY OF LIGHT is the true story of the hunt for Marcel Petiot, a respectable physician by day, who turned out to be a brutal serial killer by night in Nazi-occupied Paris. Petiot was charged with 27 grisly m... Buy or find out more →
Engineers Of The Soul
$19.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Engineers Of The Soul draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. Writers of renown, described by Stalin as ‘Engineers Of The Soul’, were enco... Buy or find out more →
Of The People By The People: A New History Of Democracy
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.' * Churchill had more reason than most to rue the power of democracy, having been thrown out of office a... Buy or find out more →