History

100 tales of extraordinary women - the most highly supported original book ever in the history of crowdfunding.

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human.

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.

Translated into at least 24 languages and with over 12 million copies sold worldwide, Man's Search for Meaning is one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the Second World War.

The compelling account of the Australian troops fighting on the Western front in March and April 1918.

This bloody, chilling, stunning tale is "far and away the greatest story in Australia's history, if not the world's."

On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called on to save the day, the town, and the entire battle.

A fascinating and dramatic investigation into the events that led to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister against the odds

A milestone work of memoir, travel writing and history, The Bush by Don Watson takes us on a profoundly revelatory and entertaining journey through the Australian landscape and character.

The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary troops.

A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. Winner of the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.

The new novel by the number one bestselling author.

In the Trenches of Hell

The prize-winning bestselling historian delivers the first authoritative general account for thirty years.

The most beguiling and acclaimed history book of the year, now in paperback.

'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler

The violent aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing.

These are the last adult witnesses — in their own words.

The first accessible biography in 50 years of one of the most dramatic and bloody reigns in history

A unique collection of historic recordings in which the last brutal encounters of the war and the mixed emotions of the armistice are remembered by troops from both sides