Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A groundbreaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? Famed investigative journ ...Show more
Commanders by R G Grant
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
From Alexander the Great's conquest of the known world to generals leading today's campaigns in the Middle East, "Commanders" illuminates the leaders who have forged history on the battlefield. Each entry features key data, a timeline, and an analysis of the commander's strengths and weaknesses, making ...Show more
Colonial Cousins: A Surprising History of Connections Between India and Australia by Joyce P. Westrip
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Colonial Cousins explores the historic relationships and connections between Australia and India, two colonies of the British Empire. The work considers affinities of landscape and culture, and documents relationships in trade and government, as well as anecdotal links from the time of Gondwana, when th ...Show more
Colonial Spirits - A Toast to Our Drunken History by Steven Grasse
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In Colonial Spirits, Steven Grasse presents a historical manifesto on drinking, including 50 colonial era- inspired cocktail recipes. The book features a rousing timeline of colonial imbibing and a cultural overview of a dizzying number of drinks: beer, rum and punch; temperance drinks; liqueurs and cor ...Show more
Collins Tracing Your Family History by Anthony Adolph
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The new, fully-updated edition of Collins Tracing Your Family History is the definitive handbook for anyone interested in tracing their family's past.
Tartans & Highland Dress - Collins Scottish Archive by HarperCollins Publis
$15.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Collins Scottish Archive
A small format gift book which is a reproduction of the popular Collins book 'Tartans & Highland Dress' published in 1961. This is a detailed guide to how to correctly wear the Scottish national dress along with profiles of the main tartans. There are few ancient forms of dress so widely used and wo ...Show more
Cold War Games by Harry Blutstein
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Cold War Games shows vividly how the USSR and US exploited the Melbourne Olympic Games for propaganda, turning athletic fields, swimming pools and other sporting venues into battlefields in which each fought for supremacy.The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games have become known as the 'friendly games', but Ea ...Show more
Code Breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks by Craig Collie
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break Japan's military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers, including some with achievements in mathematics and the Classics and others who had lived or grown up in Japan. Th ...Show more
Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt OBE
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Few humans have evolved who can survive and thrive in the bitter cold. Below a certain temperature, death is inevitable. This book is about this aspect of our environment and about Sir Ranulph Fiennes' own life experiencing the extreme cold, from his adventuring apprenticeship 40 years ago on the Greenl ...Show more
The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury, and Obsession on the trail of a $50,000 coat by Meg Lukens Noonan
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
In today's world of fast fashion, is there a place for a handcrafted $50,000 coat? To answer that question, Meg Noonan unravels the story of the coat's provenance. Her journey takes readers to the Sydney studio of John Cutler, a fourth-generation tailor who works magic with scissors and thread; to the r ...Show more
Cnut: England's Viking King 1016-35 by M.K. Lawson
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
King Cnut ruled England from 1017 to 1035 and left behind him a legacy of peace, law and order. However, the beginnings of his kingship were less auspicious. He was a cruel and vicious warrior, who invaded England with his father Swegen Forkbeard, perhaps at a tender age. After Swegen's death in 1014 ...Show more
Clydesdale and Working Horses: A Pictorial History by Garry Lee Gaston (Drawings by); Almar Zaadstra (Drawings by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
The Clydesdale originated from Scotland and was named after the river Clyde, which flows through the district of Lanarkshire. Over the years, the Scots, through careful breeding had developed a draught horse they were proud of.