History

Author: Rochelle Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 A vicious civil conflict erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and sucked 24 nations into a new round of fighting....

Author: Professor in Medieval History Helen Nicholson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history...

Author: Stewart Binns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of...

Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In this entertaining and insightful biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True...

Author: Giles Milton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown...

Author: Peter Eisner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War...

Author: Dr Catherine Bond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 During the Great War law was used in everyday life as a tool to discriminate, oppress, censor and deprive many...

Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot...

Author: Robert Dallek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR "We come to see in FDR the magisterial,...

Author: Alexander Lobrano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he...

Author: Chris Wallace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Riveting." --The New York Times * "Propulsive." --Time * "Reads like a tense thriller." --The Washington Post...

Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...

Author: Martin Gayford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Sunday Times Art Book of the Year 2018 'If you are interested in modern British art, the book is unputdownable. If...

Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A work of remarkable scope' - Guardian FT Best science books of 2018 PRIMATE CHANGE has been adapted into...

Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic,...

Author: Guy de la Bedoyere Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine the ancient world produced. The Roman Empire depended on soldiers not...

Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into...

Author: Tony Matthews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 348 The true story of a deeply murderous intent that lurked menacingly beneath the waves during World War Two. The torpedoes strike...

Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The brilliant new book from the Chief Instructor of SAS: Australia that will explain the principles...

Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable...

Author: Sean Connolly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora 'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times 'For Irish history...

Author: Krista Vane-Tempest Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 In the early hours of 26 February 1918, the British hospital ship Glenart Castle steamed into the Bristol Channel, heading for...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Oscar Wilde is one of the world's most beloved writers.

Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...

Author: Peter Fritzsche Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A profoundly significant exploration of how Europeans--both Germans and those under German occupation--struggled to make sense of the conflict.' - Richard...

Author: Pico Iyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 "Arguably the greatest living travel writer" (Outside magazine), Pico Iyer has called Japan home for more than three decades. But, as...

Author: David Nasaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after...

Author: Sybil Oldfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 In 1939, the Gestapo created a list of names: the Britons whose removal would be the Nazis' first priority in the...

Author: Jeff Apter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Was Jeff Buckley, as he described himself, 'rootless trailer trash', a 'male chanteuse' or, as Bono famously stated, 'a...

Author: James Weston Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Secrets in the Skies delves deep into the life and discoveries of the world's most famous stargazer, Galileo Galilei, and...

Author: Kathryn Dun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 This stunning collection of portraits shows sheep as you've never seen them before. Featuring commissioned studio photography of champion...

Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which...

Author: Simon King, OBE Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Why doesn't rain fall all at once? Can technology change the track of a hurricane? What's the weather like on...

Author: Paul Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in...

Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...

Author: Professor John Szwed Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection forBiography Published in celebration of Holiday s centenary, the first biography to focus on...

Author: Carolyn Vaughan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest poets of the sixteenth century. He also filled hundreds of sheets of paper with...

Author: Aubrey Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 0 0

Author: Lesley M M Blume Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals...

Author: Timothy C. Winegard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 **The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* "Hugely impressive, a major work."-NPR A pioneering and groundbreaking work of...

Author: Martin Kemp Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Living with Leonardo is a set of highly focused memoirs, a personal journey interwoven with historical research that encapsulates the author's...

Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...

Author: Matthew Nicholls Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 30-Second Ancient Rome presents a unique insight into one of the most brilliantly governed societies, where military might and expansive...

Author: William J. Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln's election...

Author: Helene Munson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker's, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This...

Author: Don Hale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Commander Lionel 'Buster' Crabb was a drinker and gambler, who loved women, fast cars and gadgets. A bomb disposal expert, he...

Author: Ian Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Geography is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical...

Author: Alexis Bergantz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 **Shortlisted, NSW Premier's History Awards 2022, Australian History Prize The French have been integral to the Australian story since European colonisation....