SALE Quick view The Courtneys: A Victorian Military Family. This history of the Courtney family details their emigration from Ireland to settle in Australia during the Gold Rush. Military service was to become a tradition carried through four generations. Through the history of the family, Austin provides... Publisher's Price Was: $55.00 Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Adrift: A Secret Life of London's Waterways. From deep winter to late autumn, the author and her partner journey on a canal boat exploring the English landscape in all its guises. She now calls London's canals and rivers home and her personal account takes us to places only accessible by boat as... Publisher's Price Was: $27.95 Now: Now: $5.00 Compare
SALE Quick view A Path in the Mighty Waters: Shipboard Life and Atlantic Crossings to the New World. A truly fascinating piece of maritime history it uses diaries and an impressive array of archival collections to reveal what it was like to travel across the Atlantic on voyages that would last around five months. The migrants to America described the... Publisher's Price Was: $59.99 Now: Now: $19.95 Compare
SALE Quick view The Home Front in the Great War: Aspects of the Conflict 1914-1918. The effect of the war on the home front was to be profound and long lasting. As casualties rose and the Germans bombarded the East Coast, war came to the civilian population. Old pleasures died out slowly, race meetings disappeared as did much... Publisher's Price Was: $44.99 Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
SALE Quick view The Fateful Year: England 1914. It was one of the most momentous years in English history. The author attempts to capture the character, spirit and shape of it through stories and episodes that illustrate significant events and different aspects of English life at that time. Many... Publisher's Price Was: $45.00 Now: Now: $14.95 Compare
SALE Quick view This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485-1746. Carlton draws evidence from a vast range of sources as he attempts to provide a balanced overview of the effects of war on the country as a whole, against the personal experiences of battle and bloodshed during this period. There were three periods of... Publisher's Price Was: $34.99 Now: Now: $5.00 Compare
Quick view Eclipse: The Horse That Changed Racing History Forever. In 1769 the chestnut brown thoroughbred was the Winx of his day. The perfect horse's descendants include Secretariat, Phar Lap, Arkle, Nijinsky, Dubai Millennium, and all but three of the Kentucky Derby winners in the past 50 years. In fact you can go to... Publisher's Price Was: Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
SALE Quick view The Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution. Tells the extraordinary story of the invention of a drug that would stop women ovulating. The people behind it included: Margaret Sanger who had fought for 50 years for the right of women to control their own fertility; the wealthy widowed... Publisher's Price Was: $19.99 Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II. When the Japanese overtook Manila many Americans were taken prisoner. Others refused to surrender. This tells the story of the little-known resistance movement and three intrepid people who successfully eluded the Japanese for more than two years and who... Publisher's Price Was: $49.99 Now: Now: $14.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Rare and Curious: The Secret History of Governor Macquarie's Collector's Chest. Around 1818 a wooden cabinet was built in Australia for Governor Macquarie, who filled it with exotic treasures. It was taken back to Great Britain, where it lay forgotten in a Scottish castle until it was rediscovered in the 1970s. The Mitchell Library... Publisher's Price Was: $79.99 Now: Now: $29.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Great Tales from British History: The Downfall of Anne Boleyn. It takes us right into the middle of the story of the second wife of Henry VIII, narrating the events leading up to her death. The author lays much at Henry's door whom he calls '...immensely vain, foolish, weak, and thoroughly dishonest.' Enthralling. ... Publisher's Price Was: $19.95 Now: Now: $5.00 Compare
SALE Quick view Witchfinders: A Seventeeth-Century English Tragedy. In the 17th century world people believed in the unseen power of witchcraft and between 1563 and 1736 witchcraft was an offence punishable by death. In 1645 two men scoured eastern England for witches. Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne were driven by... Publisher's Price Was: $29.95 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Empire's Crossroads: The Caribbean from Colombus to the Present Day. Here in Australia our thoughts probably do not often stray to the history of the Caribbean. It is vivid and thought-provoking as it deals with fortune seekers, pirates, scientists, servants, travellers and tourists. Europeans did not bring order and... Publisher's Price Was: $29.95 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis. Chronicles the exciting story of two historic figures on an unlikely collision course, meeting in one of the greatest showdowns in science, as Robert Koch delivered the antidote the world clamoured for: a remedy for tuberculosis. This isn't just about... Publisher's Price Was: $29.99 Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father. In 1757 Benjamin Franklin, who had been born an Englishman in Boston, went to live in London where he mixed with brilliant powerful people and sought to influence Prime Ministers and the King. For most of his 15 years there he was a committed royalist... Publisher's Price Was: $24.99 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Living with Fire: People, Nature and History in Steels Creek. Steels Creek is a small community in the Yarra Valley of Victoria. In the Back Saturday firestorm 10 lives and two-thirds of the houses were lost. Here are stories of how the people of this area have come to terms with the greatest elemental force... Publisher's Price Was: $49.95 Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Mozart's Starling. Many composers and artists have had birds as pets but Mozart lived with and loved what is now one of the world's most hated birds. The author, who rescued a baby starling of her own, also became enchanted by the creature's intelligence and playfulness... Publisher's Price Was: $54.00 Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Medieval Sieges and Siegecraft. Traces the development of strong points, castles, and fortified towns and considers the architects and masons who built them. Describes the problems of medieval logistics and food supply that confronted both sides during a siege: and pens vivid portraits... Publisher's Price Was: $46.95 Now: Now: $14.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar. A deft and skilful history of the dynastic house that Julius Caesar built, it is a dramatic tale filled with blood and guts, psychopathic cruelty, incest, paedophilia, matricide, fratricide, assassination and depravity. 'Thrilling thunderous prose, a... Publisher's Price Was: $24.99 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Britain and Europe 1500-1780. Sets the history of Britain in its European context though it gives far more space to England than to Wales or Scotland. Recounts the main developments in Britain's political history during this period emphasising the relations between different realms... Publisher's Price Was: $45.00 Now: Now: $5.00 Compare
SALE Quick view White Boots and Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties. London in 1966 was the centre of the universe and right there is Jacky Hyams, a headstrong, pleasure-seeking party girl with a tough East End background, who is determined to throw off her past and make the most of everything on offer. She takes a... Publisher's Price Was: $21.95 Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
SALE Quick view Bosworth 1485. The houses of Lancaster and York clashed in the Battle of Bosworth during the Wars of the Roses. It marked the beginning of the reign of the Tudors with Henry Tudor taking the throne at the end of this fateful day in August. This interpretation of the... Publisher's Price Was: $24.95 Now: Now: $5.00 Compare
SALE Quick view Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence. The soldiers of the Revolutionary War were merchants and mechanics, farmers and fishermen, paragons and drunkards. The populace was divided, supplies were unsatisfactory, and the physical hardships were appalling. But this group of inexperienced warriors... Publisher's Price Was: $53.00 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view My Scotland. This is strictly a work of personal opinion. MacDonnell clearly has a familiarity with history but he is not a historian and his analysis of Scotland and Scotland's relationship with England seems to be based more on the author's preconceptions than on... Publisher's Price Was: $27.99 Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
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