Hitler's Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures by Susan Ronald
24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became known as a man who never was - he didn't have a bank acc ...Show more
The First Fleet by Rob Mundle
24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A biography of unprecedented expedition under sail The role of the sailor through history should never be underestimated. Over centuries battles were won and new lands discovered and settled by their skills and nerve. Rob Mundle is back on the ocean to tell one of the great stories of an expedition unde ...Show more
Captain James Cook by Rob Mundle
24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
A biography that puts you on the quarterdeck with history's greatest sailor Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers in world history. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the eighteenth century, Cook unravelled the oldest mystery surround ...Show more
Making Headlines by Chris Mitchell
32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
As editor-in-chief of The Australian Chris Mitchell ran the largest stable of journalists with the largest editorial budget in the country for over a dozen years. In this humorous and revealing book he gives first hand details about the quirks and foibles of some of the most powerful politicians and med ...Show more
101 Stumbles in the March of History: What If the Great Mistakes in War, Government, Industry, and Economics Were Not Made? by Bill Fawcett
24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Bill Fawcett, author of 100 Mistakes That Changed History (Penguin, 2010), offers a new compendium of 101 mammoth mistakes - from the ill-fated rule of Emperor Darius III to the equally ill-fated search for WMDs in Iraq - that will, unfortunately, never be forgotten by history.
Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family: A Glorious Illustrated History by DK
59.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A magnificent tribute to the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest reigning monarch, and a celebration of the British royal family. Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family is a stunning visual guide to the Queen, taking you from her childhood all the way up to the celebrations surround ...Show more
Big History: Our Incredible Journey, from Big Bang to Now by DK
49.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
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The Dismissal by Troy Bramston; Paul Kelly
24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
"Forty years on, the dismissal remains one of the most damaging and controversial events in Australian politics. This groundbreaking book by two of our leading journalists provides a startling reinterpretation of events. It tells the story of the clash between extraordinary personalities- two political ...Show more
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True GirtIn this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chi ...Show more
Paul Keating by Troy Bramston
49.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
"Drawing on extensive interviews with Keating, coupled with access to his personal files, this book tells the story of a political warrior's rise to power, from the outer suburbs of Sydney through Young Labor and into parliament at just 25 years of age, serving as a minister in the last days of the Whit ...Show more
Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language by Peter Jones
29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In this original and highly accessible book, Peter Jones takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the highways and byways of Roman life and culture, telling the amazing stories behind the original Latin meanings and uses of hundreds of our everyday words. Taking in every aspect of the ancient wor ...Show more
Keating by Kerry O'Brien
34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political and economic reform in Australia's history. Twenty years on, there is still no story from the horse's mouth of how it all came about. No autobiography. No memoir. Yet he is the supreme story-teller of poli ...Show more