D-Day The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
"As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be there...It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the excitement". (Giles Foden, "Guardian"). The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking ...Show more
One False Move by Robert Macklin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
It is a story of sheer courage and skill - incredible bravery combined with the precision of a surgeon - as these men defused deadly mines, often dropped in residential areas. The detonators were frequently booby trapped by the Nazis, and these Australians and their British colleagues came to recognise ...Show more
Five Billion Sold: The Amazing Facts Behind the Fiction by Di Buckley
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
You take them to bed, to the beach and even on vacation - but how well do you really know your favourite authors? Five Billion Sold tells the remarkable true stories of 30 of the world's bestselling authors.
History Year by Year by Dorling Kindersley
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
Relive history as it happened - year by year. From the origins of our earliest African ancestors right up until the present day, "History Year by Year" covers the history of cultures and nations around the world in amazing visual detail. Discover the events, individuals, cultures, inventions and ideas t ...Show more
MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery
$29.99 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: From
A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of the best-known intelligence organisation in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of espionage, the two world wars, modern British government and the conduct of international relations in the fi ...Show more
Modern Warfare, Intelligence and Deterrence: The Technologies That are Transforming Them by Benjamin Sutherland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Panzerfaust-3, a German shoulder-fired heat-seeking antitank missile, can punch through a metre of solid steel-far more than any armoured vehicle could carry. The MPR-500, an Israeli precision bomb, can hammer through several storeys of a building and explode on a chosen floor. These and myriad othe ...Show more
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Fergusson
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that our institu ...Show more
Hell's Bells and Mademoiselles by Joe Maxwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Hell's Bells and Mademoiselles is the rollicking eyewitness account of the role of 18th Battalion AIF in the First World War by one of its most decorated soldiers, the irrepressible Joe Maxwell. Maxwell served at Gallipoli before being transferred to the Western Front. In just twelve months during 1917- ...Show more
Battle Castles: 500 Years of Knights and Siege Warfare by Dan Snow
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Join TV's Dan Snow as the fully illustrated 'Battle Castles' brings to thrilling life a cavalcade of medieval fortifications and the clashes that turned empires to dust and mortals into legends. Castles and their ruins still dominate the landscape and are a constant reminder to us of a time when violenc ...Show more
Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain by Stephen Taylor
$39.99 AUD
Category: British
Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest frigate captain in the age of sail. An incomparable seaman, ferociously combative yet chivalrous, a master of the quarterdeck and an athlete of the tops, he was as quick to welcome a gallant foe into his cabin as to div ...Show more
The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige by Burton Feldman
$22.95 AUD
Category: History
Founded by the brilliant, misanthropic inventor of dynamite, the Nobel Prize has for a hundred years claimed to identify the summit of human achievement. But what exactly is the Nobel Institution? How does it choose its winners? Has it ever made a mistake? And why does the prize hold such importance? Wi ...Show more
Flying the Southern Cross : The Adventures of Aviators Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm by Michael Molkentin
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Australian aviators Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm made the first trans-Pacific flight in 1928 in an aircraft constructed largely of timber and fabric, the Southern Cross. With Americans Jim Warner as radio operator and Harry Lyon as navigator, they made the trip from Oakland, California, in ni ...Show more