Catastrophe - Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles--the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg--that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a ...Show more
Carthage Must be Destroyed Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
A tale of battles and empire-building, of bitter rivalry and destruction, and of the great civilisation of Carthage city, which played key role in shaping European culture and history.
Captured Lives: Australia's Wartime Internment Camps by Peter Monteath
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Captured Lives peers behind the barbed wire drawn around people deemed threats to Australia's security during the two world wars. Civilians from enemy nations, even if born in Australia, were subjects of suspicion and locked away in internment camps. Prisoners-of-war were shipped from the other side of ...Show more
Captain Cook and the Pacific: Art, Exploration and Empire by John Mcaleer; Nigel Rigby
$69.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Britain`s Soldiers (BOYD) Ser.
British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geographic questions, and inspired some of the most influen ...Show more
Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House by Professor of History Robert Dallek (Boston University University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles Boston University University of California, Los Angeles Boston University)
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In Camelot's Court, acclaimed JFK biographer Robert Dallek takes an insider's look at the brain trust whose contributions to the successes and failures of Kennedy's administration were indelible. Kennedy purposefully assembled a dynamic team of advisers noted for their brilliance and acumen, but the gro ...Show more
Camelot's Court by Robert Dallek
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In his critically acclaimed biography An Unfinished Life, Robert Dallek revealed John F. Kennedy, the man and the leader, as never before. In Camelot's Court, he takes an insider's look at the brain trust whose contributions to the successes and failures of Kennedy's administration - including the Bay o ...Show more
Calamities and Catastrophes : The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History by Derek Wilson
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
From the Mongol Invasion of Persia, through the Siege of Leningrad, to the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, in this brilliantly vivid, entertaining book, Derek Wilson picks the ten very worst years in world history, describing a catalogue of calamities, catastrophes and cock-ups that will make you hair curl. ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more
Burke & Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.' MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first ...Show more
Byron's Women by Alexander Larman
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Ni ...Show more
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin - the new biography of Teddy Roosevelt from the bestselling author of Team of Rivals, the inspiration for Spielberg's Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the acclaimed multi-million copy bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, now ...Show more
Burke & Wills: The Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition by D. A. McCann
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills expedition. The Royal Society of Victoria initiated the Victorian Exploring Expedition as a serious scientific exploration of the hitherto unexplored centre of Australia. Members ...Show more