Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World by Alec Ryrie
14.99 AUD
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Category: History
On the 500th anniversary of Luther's rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world. Five hundred years ago Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk - today, it includes a billion people across the globe. The upheaval Martin Luther trig ...Show more
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
37.99 AUD
Category: History
One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history. We have fallen into the belief that women were absent from great events, and ineffectual in normal times. Through a radical reframing of the conventional eras of our history, Normal Women tells the story of our nation - not ...Show more
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the heart of 16th-century Europe' Honor Clerk, Spectator, Books of the Year This is the scarcely believable - and wholly tru ...Show more
Queen of Our Times - The Life of Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman
34.99 AUD
Category: History
The definitive new biography of Her Majesty The Queen by one of Britain's leading royal authorities. With original insights from those who know her best, unseen papers, new interviews with world leaders and a fresh perspective on the longest reign in British history, Robert Hardman tells the full life s ...Show more
The Brotherhood: Inside the Secret World of the Freemasons by Tim Dedopulos
9.95 AUD
35.00 (71% off)
Category: History
Freemasons are a worldwide secret, sacred organisation dating back to the Middle Ages. The Brotherhood offers a fascinating glimpse into this enigmatic institution: its structure and social context, its symbolism and philosophy, its myths and legends, its intrigues - and the challenges it faces in the 2 ...Show more
Hippie by Barry Miles
19.99 AUD
Category: History
Alive with the outrageous personalities and revolutionary upheavals of a time that changed the world, Hippie is trippy and true to the spirit of a time unlike any other. Far out, man. Between the years 1965 and 1971, something happened to make the world on one side of that divide all but unrecognisable ...Show more
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen
32.99 AUD
Category: History
The author of the acclaimed bestseller "Area 51" reveals the explosive dark secrets behind America's post-WWII science programs. In the chaos following World War II, some of the greatest spoils of Germany's resources were the Third Reich's scientific minds. The U.S. government secretly decided that the ...Show more
The Spy Who Changed History: the Untold Story of How Soviet Spies Stole America's Greatest Secrets by Svetlana Lokhova
9.99 AUD
Category: History
On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Blériot, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalin's most audacious intelligence operation. On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of the luxury transatlantic liner SS Europa and into New York. Attra ...Show more
Atlantic - A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the flanks of the planet slowly opened up and eventually evolved i ...Show more
Burke and Wills - The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian 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 E ...Show more
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (75th Anniversary Edition) by Edith Hamilton
42.99 AUD
Category: History
Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the word and established itself as a perennial bestseller. For 75 years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascin ...Show more
Origin Story - A Big History of Everything by David Christian
35.00 AUD
Category: History
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction? Big History creator David Christian gives the answe ...Show more