The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
Black War - Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania by Nicholas Clements; Henry Reynolds (Foreword by)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Between 1825 and 1831 close to 200 Britons and 1000 Aborigines died violently in Tasmania’s Black War. It was by far the most intense frontier conflict in Australia’s history, yet many Australians know little about it. The Black War takes a unique approach to this historic event, looking chiefly at the ...Show more
Unnecessary Wars by Henry Reynolds
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a threeyear conflict fought in the heart of Africa that had, ostensibly, nothing to do with Australia. Coi ...Show more
The Shortest History of Japan by Lesley Downer
$27.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Everyone who has ever visited Japan says it feels 'different'. It is a small island nation with few natural resources, limited space and a history of swinging between isolation and openness to the outside world. This past has produced an extraordinary aesthetic culture that has inspired artists, archite ...Show more
Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments of oceanic crust, and land newly minted by volcanic ...Show more
Cromwell : Our Chief of Men by Antonia Fraser
$29.99 AUD
Category: British
No Englishman has made more impact on the history of his nation than Oliver Cromwell; few have been so persistently maligned in the folklore of history. The central purpose of Antonia Fraser's book is the recreation of his life and character, freed from the distortions of myth and Royalist propaganda. C ...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
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
Armageddon and OKRA - Australia's Air Operations in the Middle East a Century Apart by Lewis Frederickson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australian Air Campaign Ser.
The dispatch of an Ottoman Army by Australian-led Imperial air power in the Wadi Fara on 21 September 1918 occurred just five years after the advent of military aviation in Australia. In 1914, the fledgling Australian air service operated the flimsy Bristol Boxkite; four years later it was flying the fa ...Show more
Rum: A Distilled History of Colonial Australia by Matt Murphy
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia and its formation - through the distorted view of a rum bottle. Could the Rum Rebellion have been averted if Major Johnston wasn't too hungover to meet Governor Bligh? Would the Eureka Stockade have played out differently if the rebels weren't pissed? How were prisoners to get drunk if Macqua ...Show more
Passchendaele: A New History by Nick Lloyd
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military
Between July and November 1917, in a small corner of Belgium, more than 500,000 men were killed or maimed, gassed or drowned - and many of the bodies were never found. The Ypres offensive represents the modern impression of the First World War: splintered trees, water-filled craters, muddy shell-holes. ...Show more
Dunkirk by A D Divine
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
This is the story of Dunkirk and of the men who planned it (insofar as it was planned) and of the men who carried it out, and of their ships. Mr Divine, who was himself with the small boats, writes with the authority of direct knowledge. He had the assistance of the men who were intimately concerned wit ...Show more