King and Outlaw - The Real Robert the Bruce by Chris Brown
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The iconic figure of Robert the Bruce has gone down through the centuries as one of the most remarkable leaders of all time. With equal parts tenacity and ruthlessness, he had himself crowned King of Scotland after murdering one of his most powerful rivals, and so began the rule of an indomitable milita ...Show more
DARK HISTORY OF TEA by HOLLINS SEREN CHARRINGTON
55.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A Dark History
A look at Britain's storied history with the beloved beverage, including slavery, war, drug smuggling, fortune telling, and the economy's globalisation.A Dark History of Tea looks at our long relationship with this most revered of hot beverages. Renowned food historian Seren Charrington-Hollins digs int ...Show more
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S C Gwynne
50.00 AUD
Category: History
This stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West was a major New York Times bestseller. In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche ...Show more
The SS Officer's Armchair - In Search of a Hidden Life by Daniel Lee
35.00 AUD
Category: History
It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas that had been sewn into its cushion. The SS Officer's Armchair is the story of what happened next, as historian Daniel Lee follows the trail of cold calls, documents, coincidences and fa ...Show more
The Restaurant - A History of Eating Out by William Sitwell
49.99 AUD
Category: History
Tracing its earliest incarnations in the city of Pompeii, where Sitwell is stunned by the sophistication of the dining scene, this is a romp through history as we meet the characters and discover the events that shape the way we eat today. Sitwell, restaurant critic for The Telegraph and famous for his ...Show more
HYMNS OF THE REPUBLIC STORY OF THE FINAL YEAR OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR by GWYNNE, S. C.
49.99 AUD
Category: History
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose
24.99 AUD
Category: History
'I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I had found this book earlier.' - The New York Times
Endell Street - The Suffragette Surgeons of World War One by Wendy Moore
34.99 AUD
Category: History
The forgotten and inspiring story of a London hospital during the First World War which was staffed entirely by women.
The Little Book of the Tudors by Annie Bullen
24.99 AUD
Category: History
What did a Tudor man wear under his doublet and hose?What was the show-stopping centrepiece at a royal Tudor wedding?Why did everyone, from the king downwards, fear the 'sweating sickness'?The Tudors may have been a comparatively short-lived dynasty, lasting 118 years between 1485 and 1603, but during t ...Show more
Hitler's Piano Player: Ernst Hanfstaengl, Confidant of Hitler, Ally of FDR by Peter Conradi
29.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 by Götz Aly
51.99 AUD
Category: History
From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole. The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousand ...Show more
1939: A People's History by Frederick Taylor
21.99 AUD
Category: History
In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in a newly safe and stable era. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to war, a war that would h ...Show more