Radio Girl: The Story of the Extraordinary Mrs Mac, Pioneering Engineer and Wartime Legend by David Dufty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
All around Australia, former WRANs and navy men regard the woman they know as Mrs Mac with a level of reverence usually reserved for saints. Yet today no-one has any idea of who she was and how she rescued Australia's communication systems in World War II.
The Dismissal by Troy Bramston; Paul Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"Forty years on, the dismissal remains one of the most damaging and controversial events in Australian politics. This groundbreaking book by two of our leading journalists provides a startling reinterpretation of events. It tells the story of the clash between extraordinary personalities- two political ...Show more
Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict by David McKittrick
$29.99 AUD
Category: European
'I would strongly advocate that it be made compulsory reading for everyone in Northern Ireland because for the first time it is our history, all of it warts and all, presented in a clear and understandable way' Irish News First published ten years ago, Making Sense of the Troubles is widely regarded as ...Show more
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
More tracks the development of the world economy, starting with the first obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7000 years before Christ, and ending with the Sino-American trade war that we are in right now. Taking history in great strides, More illustrates ...Show more
The Battles for Kokoda Plateau: Three Weeks of Hell Defending the Gateway to the Owen Stanleys by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A powerful new insight into the critical first weeks of fighting to halt the Japanese advance across Papua New Guinea to Port Moresby.
A Schoolmaster's War - A British Secret Agent in World War II by Jonathan Ree
$30.95 AUD
Category: History
The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry R e, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry R e renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted into central France in April 1 ...Show more
Traitors and Spies by John Fahey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The history of Australia's intelligence operations in the early 20th century reveals the dark underside of Australian politics, including early infiltration by Russian agents, persecution of innocent civilians, and corruption, right up to the prime minister's office. Dozens of Russian anarchists, social ...Show more
A Short History of World War II by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
A reformatted, monochrome edition of The Civil War in a classic compact hardcover format. This is the definitive narrative history of the people, politics, and events of the Second World War - the epic conflict that shaped the modern world From the build-up to the fighting, through to the reverberations ...Show more
Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis; Bill Gammage; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera Lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second ...Show more
The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945 by Catrine Clay
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 40 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families. They moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by neighbour ...Show more
Eleven Bats: A Story of Combat, Cricket and the SAS by Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt spent more than twenty years in the SAS. His decades of service and his multiple tours in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan made him one of the regiment's most experienced and recognised figures. Alongside the SAS, Harry's other lifetime love is cricket. An improvised game of cr ...Show more
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700 by Charles Freeman
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakeningtraces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the ruins of the Roman Empire. The process of preservatio ...Show more