The Story of Tutankhamun - An Intimate Life of the Boy Who Became King by Garry J. Shaw
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
A lively new biography of Tutankhamun--published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb's modern discovery The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations across the globe. While Howard Carter emptied its treasures, Tut-mania gripped the world--and in many ways, never left. But who w ...Show more
The Talmud["A Biography"] by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
$47.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
The Titanic Expeditions - Diving to the Queen of the Deep: 1985-2021 by Eugene Nesmeyanov; George Behe (Foreword by); James P. Delgado (Foreword by)
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
The remains of the world's most famous passenger liner, RMS Titanic, were discovered off the coast of Newfoundland in 1985, seventy-three years after it sank.Since then there have been numerous deep-water expeditions to the wreck site, yet little has ever been revealed about the details of these operati ...Show more
The Treasures of Tutankhamun by Garry J. Shaw
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
This beautifully illustrated book brings to life the greatest treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Fifty of the most important objects on display today are each accompanied by a short, accessible text giving the reader just enough information to understand their relevance and importance while retaini ...Show more
The Tree of Life, Book Three - The Cattle Cars Are Waiting, 1942-1944 by Chava Rosenfarb
$55.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Library of World Fiction Ser.
The third volume in this powerful trilogy, The Cattle Cars Are Waiting follows the tragic fate of the inhabitants of the ghetto. Chava Rosenfarb, herself a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, draws on her own history to create characters who struggle daily to retain a sense of hum ...Show more
The Tree of Life, Book Two - From the Depths I Call You, 1940-1942 by Chava Rosenfarb
$55.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Library of World Fiction Ser.
This volume describes the lives of the novel's protagonists in the Lodz Ghetto at the beginning of World War II. Chava Rosenfarb, herself a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, draws on her own history to create realistic characters who struggle daily to retain a sense of humanity ...Show more
The Tree of Life - On the Brink of the Precipice 1939 by Chava Rosenfarb
$55.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Library of World Fiction Ser.
On the Brink of the Precipice, the first volume of the trilogy The Tree of Life, describes the lives of the novel's ten protagonists in the Lodz Ghetto before the outbreak of World War II. Chava Rosenfarb, herself a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, draws on her own history to c ...Show more
The Tunnels of Cu Chi : A Remarkable Story of War in Vietnam by Tom Mangold & John Penycate
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The campaign in the tunnels of Cu Chi was fought with cunning and savagery between Viet Cong guerrillas and special teams of US infantrymen called 'Tunnel Rats'. The location: the 200-mile labyrinth of underground tunnels and secret chambers that the Viet Cong had dug around Saigon. The Tunnel Rats were ...Show more
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
$17.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Based on eyewitness accounts and his own unlimited access to the Emperor Hadrian's Imperial archives, the scholar Suetonius wrote a sweeping account of the lives of twelve of Rome's most powerful emperors. From the empire's most shining examples of ruling competency, such as Julius Caesar and Augustus, ...Show more
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women's history.' In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to wr ...Show more
The World of Late Antiquity AD 150-750 by Peter Brwon
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Library of European Civilization Ser.
This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c.150 and c.750 A.D., came to differ from 'Classical civilization'. These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deep-rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all ...Show more
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Myth of the Lost Cause by Sarah Churchwell
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Gone With the Wind, the myth of the Lost Cause and what they can tell us about American history and culture today - from Walter Scott and Ladies Fair, to fiery crosses, lynching and the Capitol insurrection. Margaret Mitchell's epic novel, Gone With the Wind, became an overnight bestseller when it was ...Show more