Guts Glory and Blunder: Noreuil, 1917 – The Forgotten Fight by Andrew Faulkner
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is a story of a forgotten battle. Other than in the haunted memories of those who fought there, and the families of those who died there, this battle is a footnote in the history books: a backwater off a side road at the end of a cul-de-sac on the battlefield tour trail. Guts Glory and Blunder reac ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
36.99 AUD
Category: World
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
34.99 AUD
Category: World
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area. Southeast Asia: An introductory historywas first published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in one of the most dynamic and diverse regi ...Show more
Montville Remembers World War One 1914 - 1919 by Gordon Plowman; Cate Patterson (Editor)
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Montville Remembers: World War One 1914 - 1919Montville Remembers tells the stories of 53 young men from Montville who enlisted in World War One and how their community supported and honoured them. It begins with a brief history of this war to provide a context for their service and sacrifice. Then a Ro ...Show more
Montville Post Office 1897 - 2022 by Doug Patterson; Cate Patterson (Cover Design by, Designed by, Editor)
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Montville Post Office 1897 - 2022 is Book 8 in the Montville Stories Series. Although it relies heavily on the centenary history published in 1997, it is much more than a re-print or second edition of that publication. Additional information from the Smith, Cuthbertson and Blair families expanded on th ...Show more
Silky Oaks and Camphor Laurels Centenary of the Opening of Flaxton Provisional (State) School, 1922 - 2022 by Gordon Plowman
20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The book describes the author's school boy memories of his time at Flaxton Provisional School in the 1930s and 40s. The author describes the nature of schooling in this era and the fight by the little community to establish the school and reveals its importance as the only public building in the communi ...Show more
Home on the Range Memories of the Cuthbertson Family 1953 - 1965 by Ruth Barden
20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Home on the Range contains the memories of Grandmother, Ruth Barden, of growing up in Montville in the 1950s. Times were tough. Washing machines took the form of backyard coppers and concrete tubs. Stoves were wood fired. Mum made your clothes. You walked to school - bare footed. You sat on a long form ...Show more
Fifty Years of Boom and Bust 1914 To 1964 by Cate Patterson (Cover Design by, Non-text material selected by, Editor, (various roles)); Doug Patterson ((various roles), Commentaries by, Interviewer, Editor, Introductions and notes by)
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Fifty Years of Boom and Bust is a collection of stories from many different sources that capture Montville's history from 1914 to 1964. The majority were written by members of the Montville History Group (MHG) past and present, based on interviews with those who lived through these times or their famili ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
36.99 AUD
Category: World
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
The Shortest History of Italy: A Captivating Journey from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic by Ross King
27.99 AUD
Category: World
Embark on a captivating journey through 3000 years of Italy's rich history Italian history has always been about resilience and rebirth ... It is a country that for so many centuries has offered up visions of the wonders to which we humans, at our very best, can aspire. Italy was the centre of Europe's ...Show more
History Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events that Shaped the World by DK
65.00 AUD
Category: World
Discover the world's most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years.When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the war of Jenkins' Ear? Who was Rosa Parks? How did the Arab Spring unfold? Discover history's most decisive moments as and when they happen ...Show more
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War by Peter Englund
36.99 AUD
Category: Military
'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVOR'Extraordinary' JULIA BOYDAn intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War - perhaps the century - as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs.At the beginning of November 1942, it l ...Show more