Australian Heist by James Phelps
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia's Number 1 True Crime Writer on Australia's Greatest Gold Robbery. On 15 June 1862, a gang of bushrangers held up a gold escort at Eugowra, just east of Forbes, NSW. They escaped with a pile of cash and 77 kilograms of gold, worth about $10 million today. It remains the largest gold robber ...Show more
Book of Sacred Magic of Abramelin...Mage by S. L. MacGregor Mathers (Translator)
$47.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Dover Occult Ser.
Around the turn of the century, when Aleister Crowley was working out his system of Magick, the source that he turned to for basics was the system of Abramelin of Egypt. From Abramelin he took his concepts of protections, purifications, evocations, vestments, and dromena down to specific details. This s ...Show more
The Chipilly Six: Unsung Heroes of the Great War by Lucas Jordan
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
On 9 August 1918, on high ground overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German machine gunners. The battle has raged for 30 hours and more than 2000 Englishmen have fallen, for no gain.Meanwhile, two Australian sergeants, Jack Hayes and Harold Andrews, go absent without ...Show more
History Of The Criminal Justice System in Victoria by Rimington Colin
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
An authoritative, comprehensive account of Victoria’s justice system, starting with a tour of the historic justice precinct which is located on the corner of La Trobe Street and Russell Street, Melbourne. The author takes us back to the earliest days of Victoria’s settlement and introduces the politicia ...Show more
Back to Bangka: Searching for the Truth About a Wartime Massacre by Georgina Banks
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt 'Bud', killed in the Second World War.Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter plane ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on ...Show more
Sound Bites by Ed Le Brocq
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Ed Le Brocq invites you to come on a journey with him through a living tradition that spans a millennium - the tradition of Western classical music. Have you ever wondered where our music comes from? How did we arrive here, a place where we can have a hundred musicians on stage playing the wildest rhyt ...Show more
Elizabeth and Elizabeth by Sue Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of how two women, who should have been bitter foes, combined their courage and wisdom to wield extraordinary power and influence behind the scenes of the fledgling colony.
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited ...Show more
Stuff We Had in the 50s and 60s by Pam Van Der Kooy
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Take a nostalgic trip down memory lane. For those growing up in the `50s and `60s, this book will bring back those beautiful memories of freedom, imagination, mateship, communication and innocence.
He Belonged To Wagga - The Great War, the AIF & Returned Soldiers In An Australian Country Town by Ian Hodges
$44.00 AUD
Category: History
Wagga's volunteers who served in the First World War were the country men of AIF lore. Some who laboured on farms might have been the bushmen of legend; a significant proportion earned their living in the same professions and occupations as city dwellers. Many of the local men who survived were profound ...Show more
Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm by Alan Atkinson
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia’s most respected historians.Arriving in 1790, Elizabeth and John Macarthur, both aged 23, were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, within three years of the initial invasi ...Show more