Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance by Robert Gildea
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. 'La Resistance francaise' was not simply a national effort to free the country from German occupation, but a wider struggle, filled with conflicts and division. It included Spanish republicans, Italian an ...Show more
History: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Present Day (3rd Ed) by Adam Hart-Davis
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
Bringing the people and events of history to life, History makes the past accessible and relevant. Featuring the important events and figures that have shaped the present, from the very origins of humanity to key contemporary issues, such as the development of the internet and social media. It reveals c ...Show more
The Battle for Lone Pine by David W. Cameron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
Most Australian have heard of Lone Pine. Too few know why. Over four days in August 1915, Australians and Turks were thrown into some of the fiercest fighting of the war, on a small plateau in Gallipoli known as Lone Pine. Thousands of lives were lost. Seven of Australia's nine Gallipoli VCs were earned ...Show more
Terra Australis: Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia: Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia by TIM FLANNERY (ed)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and comm ...Show more
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead
$22.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
This is a Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller Shortlisted For The Samuel Johnson Prize 2014. From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II. High up in the mo ...Show more
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE. The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers. Over its course, th ...Show more
The Vietnam War Experience by Gerry Souter
$59.95 AUD
Category: Military
The Vietnam War Experience is a dramatic guide to the suffering, sacrifice and heroism of the Vietnam War. It sees the highs and lows of the world's first televised war through the eyes of those who fought in it, both the generals commanding the war and the ordinary soldiers on the ground and in the air ...Show more
Turkey: A Short History by Norman Stone
$21.99 AUD
Category: European
In Turkey: A Short History the celebrated historian Norman Stone deftly conducts the reader through the fascinating and complex story of Turkey's past, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the eleventh century to the modern republic applying for EU membership in the twenty-first. It is an acco ...Show more
Car by Rod Green
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
The Car explores every aspect of the development of the automobile from the evolution of the family car to the desire for speed and the need for "green" technology. Where would we be without the car? From the earliest "horseless carriages" to the wizardry of Formula 1, cars have retained their fascinati ...Show more
Gods of Metal by Eric Schlosser
$8.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Sitting not far below my feet, there was a thermonuclear warhead about twenty times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, all set and ready to go. The only sound was the sound of the wind.' Seventy years after the bombing of Hiroshima, Eric Schlosser's powerful, chilling piece of journa ...Show more
The Great South Land by Rob Mundle
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
How Dutch sailors discovered New Holland and left Australia to a British pirate. For many, the colonial story of Australia starts with Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast in 1770, but it was some 164 years before his historic voyage that European mariners began their romance with the immensity of ...Show more
On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World by John Hughes-Wilson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
From the ancient Greek and Roman origins of human intelligence to its use in the Catholic church to Francis Walsingham's Elizabethan secret service to the birth of the surveillance state in today's digital hi-tech age, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, professional military-intelligence officer and author of ...Show more