Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones; James Nightingale (Editor)
22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Classic Civilisations
The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us, from our calendar and coins to our language and laws, but how much do we really know about them? Help is at hand in the form of this bookwhich tells the remarkable, and often surprising, story of the Romans and th ...Show more
A Higher Call - The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War by Adam Makos; Larry Alexander
22.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bomber's tail - the German pilot was an ace, a man able to ...Show more
A Little History of the World: Illustrated Edition by E. H. Gombrich
44.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Little Histories Ser.
E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gomb ...Show more
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization by Arthur Herman
64.99 AUD
Category: History
A magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture--and how their rivalry shaped the essential features of our culture down to the present day Plato came from a wealthy, connected Athenian family and lived a comforta ...Show more
The Histories: A New Translation by Tom Holland by Herodotus
49.99 AUD
Category: History
'The two sides rained arrows down upon one another from a distance; then, when all their missiles were spent, they clashed and grappled together in close combat, stabbing with spears, fighting hand to hand with daggers.' The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of non-fic ...Show more
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-hunting in the Raj by Anne De Courcy
22.99 AUD
Category: History
From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible me ...Show more
Horrie the War Dog by Roland Perry
27.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraf ...Show more
The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death by Catherine Bailey
19.99 AUD
Category: History
A Plotting Duchess, a Mysterious Death and a Castle Full of Intrigue in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a makeshift bed in a dank cramped suite of rooms in the serva ...Show more
A Brief History of the Roman Empire - Rise and Fall by Stephen Kershaw
14.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's "Satires" to recent archaeological finds. He examines extraordinary personalities such as Caligula ...Show more
Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War by Bruce Davies
35.00 AUD
Category: Warfare
Vietnam remains one of most controversial and difficult wars that has been fought. On the 50th anniversary of Australia's first involvement comes Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War, for anyone who wishes to understand why Australia went to war, and wants to make sense of the intensely unr ...Show more
No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen
19.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
No Easy Day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer is the first-person account of Bin Laden's execution. For the first time anywhere, a first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from inside the US Navy SEAL team who carried out the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist maste ...Show more
Dam Busters by Bowman Martin
26.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Guy Gibson's 617 Squadron was founded for one reason only - Operation Chastise - the raid on the Ruhr dams. Using Barnes Wallis' revolutionary bouncing bomb, the hand-picked crews trained day and night over British reservoirs, perfecting the techniques required to deliver the new weapon to its targe ...Show more