Discovering Bells and Bellringing by John Camp
$14.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Shire Discovering Ser.
This book explains for the layman and the beginner what change-ringing is about, why it is unique to Britain, and how it was developed.
Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Over seventy years the dinner table became a stage for Churchill's brilliant conversational talents, an intimate world in which both gossip and diplomatic secrets could be shared, and a confidential arena where he could debate with the great minds of his time the problems of a difficult century and thei ...Show more
Digging for Victory - Gardens and Gardening in Wartime Britain by Twigs Way; Mike Brown
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
Beans as bullets', 'Vegetables for Victory' and 'Cloches against Hitler': these slogans convey just how vital gardening and growing food were to the British war effort during the Second World War. Exhorted to 'Grow More Food', then to 'Dig for Victory', Britain's 'allotment army' was soon out in force, ...Show more
Devil's Diary: Hitler's High Priest and the Hunt for the Lost Papers of the Third Reich by Robert K. Wittman; David Kinney (As told to)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
An unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia told through the recently discovered lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's 'philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology. Only recently discovered by former FBI agent Robert ...Show more
Descent Into Hell by Peter Brune
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Descent into Hell is a scrupulously researched and groundbreaking account of one of the most traumatic calamities in Australian history - the Malayan Campaign, the fall of Singapore and the subsequent horrors of the Thai-Burma Railway. Unpicking the myths and legends of the war, Peter Brune goes to the ...Show more
The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: history of the Americas
"The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the most spectacular the world has ever seen. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked, and architect and a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the chief builder of ...Show more
Denial: Holocaust History on Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." The following year, after Lipstadt's book was published in the United Kingdom, Irving filed a libel suit aga ...Show more
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Sixteen years after Rene Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes' bones traverse a continent, passing between kings, philosophers, poets, and paint ...Show more
Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded by Ron Ed; Stapley Rayner
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
$44.95 AUD
Category: History
Before there was money, there was debtEvery economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to suppo ...Show more
Death or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia - 1788-1868 by Tony Moore
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
This is the first narrative history that brings together the stories of the political prisoners sent as convicts to Australia from all over Britain and parts of the British Empire, spanning the early days of the penal settlement at Sydney Cove, until transportation ended in 1868. Author Tony Moore asks ...Show more