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Warriors in Scarlet: The Life and Times of the Last Redcoats by Ian Knight
RRP: £30.00£20.64Ian Knight's Warriors in Scarlet is a comprehensive and stirring history of the Victorian army between 1837 to 1860, from the Battle of Bossendon Wood to the Crimean War, a period of seismic change.An acclaimed military historian, Knight draws on... -
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
RRP: £14.99£10.95An award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenting the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian... -
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture by Bruce Pascoe 9781911344780
RRP: £12.99£8.56History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men,... -
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson
RRP: £12.99£8.48Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history 'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan ... -
Las Voces del Desierto / Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
RRP: £13.95£9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788498722680Author Marlo MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint B de BolsilloPublisher Penguin Random House Grupo EditorialWeight(grams)... -
Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare by Philip Short 9780719565694
RRP: £14.99£9.80Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia desended into madness and his name became a byword for... -
The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia by Thomas Keneally
RRP: £12.99£9.09The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting. From this situation was born the Sydney experiment, with criminals perceived to be damaging... -
The Throwaway Children by Diney Costeloe
RRP: £9.99£7.11Gritty, heartrending and unputdownable - the story of two sisters sent first to an English, then an Australian orphanage in the aftermath of World War II. Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a... -
A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads by Anthony Reid 9781118513002
RRP: £28.95£25.472016 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Textbook in the Humanities A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilizations and religious patterns up to the... -
Australian Bushrangers 1788-1880 by Ian Knight
RRP: £11.99£8.43The first 'bushrangers' or frontier outlaws were escaped or time-expired convicts, who took to the wilderness - 'the bush' - in New South Wales and on the island of Tasmania. Initially, the only Crown forces available were redcoats from the small,... -
Australia by R. M. Crawford
RRP: £12.99£9.09Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. Through the... -
Pity the Swagman - The Australian Odyssey of a Victorian Diarist by Bethan Phillips 9781800995024
RRP: £16.99£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800995024Author Bethan PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 36mm -
Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island by Steven Roger Fischer 9781861892829
£20.83Famed for its breathtaking isolation, Easter Island was a verdant South-Sea idyll when a small canoeful of Polynesians arrived in c. AD 700. Centuries later the island's statues were famous throughout the world. This book presents a comprehensive history... -
'Ten Pound Poms': A Life History of British Postwar Emigration to Australia by A. James Hammerton
RRP: £15.99£12.20More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'ten pound Poms' and this is their story. Illuminated by the fascinating testimony of migrant life histories, this is the first substantial history of... -
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover 9780733339813
RRP: £12.99£8.48The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be - and just how far we have come. 'It was simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'.There's plenty of... -
Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash
£3.39 - £8.60When the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and children were on board. While some headed off in a lifeboat to seek help, 250 of the survivors ended up on a... -
How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics by Wes Hill
RRP: £44.99£39.28Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art... -
The Road to Singapore: the Myth of British Betrayal by Augustine Meaher
RRP: £25.00£15.84Generations of Australians have been reared on the belief the fall of Singapore in February 1942 was a British betrayal that exposed Australia to Japanese invasion. In The Road to Singapore a young American historian, using archival records from across... -
A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of an Island Paradise by Willard A. Hanna
RRP: £13.99£9.20This book tells the story of Bali-the "paradise island of the Pacific"-its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and... -
Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines by Greg Bankoff
RRP: £47.99£41.81Engagingly written with 34 graphs and 15 tables showing climate changes and the history of hazards in the PhilippinesWith the current threat of global warming, this is something that will affect other countries in the futureThis study will be of interest... -
The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally
RRP: £9.99£6.80By the Booker-winning author of Schindler's Ark, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens' son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback.In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child, sixteen-year-old Edward, to Australia. Posted to... -
DK Eyewitness Sydney by DK
RRP: £13.99£9.75The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring Sydney.Marvel at the iconic silhouette of the Sydney Opera House, take surfing lessons on Bondi Beach or sip coffee... -
Operation Jericho: Freeing the French Resistance from Gestapo jail, Amiens 1944 by Robert Lyman
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance... -
Pacific Profiles Volume 10: Allied Fighters: P-47d Thunderbolt Series Southwest Pacific 1943-1945 by Michael Claringbould 9780645700404
RRP: £29.95£18.79The ongoing Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of aircraft which served throughout the South Pacific. Volume 10 covers the P-47D Thunderbolt which flew combat missions in the New Guinea theatre until mid-1945, serving with a... -
The Lives of Colonial Objects by Annabel Cooper
RRP: £22.50£18.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927322024Author Annabel CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 1270g -
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch
RRP: £19.99£13.35'Readers look for and admire good writers and great writing. They will find it, in spades, in The Battle of the Bismarck Sea.' - The Canberra TimesIn the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for... -
Alchemy and Rose: A sweeping new novel from the author of The House Between Tides, the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year by Sarah Maine
RRP: £8.99£6.20A beautiful and sweeping historical novel that takes the reader from the west coast of New Zealand, to Scotland and Melbourne in the 1870s'Its portrayal of life in a gold-rush town is vivid, and Rose's story is absorbing' The Times'Worth reading for its... -
James Cook: The story of the man who mapped the world by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: £20.00£13.75Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook?The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in... -
Making a New Land: Enviromental Histories of New Zealand by Eric Pawson 9781877578526
RRP: £34.95£16.45Making a New Land presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonization of New Zealand's temperate islands. This is a new edition of... -
Spitfire VC vs A6M2/3 Zero-sen by Peter Ingman
RRP: £13.99£9.75Just weeks after Pearl Harbor, Darwin was mauled by a massive Japanese attack. Without a single fighter to defend Australian soil, the Australian government made a special appeal to Britain for Spitfires. A year later the Spitfire VC-equipped No 1... -
Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir by Cal Flyn
RRP: £10.99£7.25Cal Flyn was very proud when she discovered that her ancestor, Angus McMillan, had been a pioneer of colonial Australia. However, when she dug deeper, she began to question her pride. McMillan had not only cut tracks through the bush, but... -
Breaker Morant: The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: £20.00£13.75The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero?Most people have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But... -
The Mongols by David Morgan 9781405135399
RRP: £32.95£29.14The revised second edition of this highly praised introduction to the Mongol Empire takes account of recent scholarship in the field. Provides an overview of the government, religion, and politics of the Mongolian Empire Considers the effects of Mongol... -
War At The End Of The World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945 by James P. Duffy 9780593471722
RRP: £11.99£8.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593471722Author James P. DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce 9781863954914
RRP: £19.95£16.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Tasmanian Book Prize 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781863954914Author James BoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Black Inc.Publisher Black Inc... -
HMAS Sydney: Australia's Greatest Naval Tragedy by Tom Frame
RRP: £8.99£6.20The complete and authoritative account of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney, and the finding of her wreck in 2008. On 19 November 1941, the pride of the Australian Navy, the light cruiser Sydney, fought a close-quarters battle with the German armed raider... -
The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Volume 1: The Origins of the Falklands War by Lawrence Freedman 9780415419123
RRP: £47.99£41.81Drawing on a vast range of previously classified government archives as well as interviews with key participants, this first volume of the official history of the Falklands Campaign is the most authoritative account of the origins of the 1982 war. In the... -
A Secret Country by John Pilger
RRP: £14.99£10.95Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high... -
The Falklands Conflict Twenty Years On: Lessons for the Future by Stephen Badsey 9780415350303
RRP: £47.99£41.81A fascinating new insight into the Falklands Conflict, covering every aspect of its origins and the political and diplomatic response to the Argentinean action as well as illuminating accounts of the military action to retake the islands, at every level... -
Maori Philosophy by Dr Georgina Stewart
RRP: £17.99£16.05Covering the symbolic systems and worldviews of the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand, this book is a concise introduction to Maori philosophy. It addresses core philosophical issues including Maori notions of the self, the world, epistemology,...