Soldier Boy: The Militarisation of Australian and New Zealand Schools for World War 1 by Maxwell N. Waugh
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
While 'voluntary' cadet training was a feature of Australian and New Zealand schools during the mid-nineteenth century, a form of 'compulsory' cadet training becam the norm from 1910 through to the 1920s, in both government and non-government schools. In this respect, Australia was 'more British than th ...Show more
The Muslim Problem: Why We're Wrong About Islam and Why It Matters by Tawseef Khan
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A provocative exploration of what it means to be a Muslim today. Why do we see Muslim men as inherently violent? Does the veil violate women's rights? Is Islam stopping Muslims from integrating? Across western societies Muslims are more misunderstood than any other minority. But what does it mean to bel ...Show more
Kokoda SecretIan Hutchison: Australian Hero by S. P. Ramage
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
A military history biography of Colonel Ian Hutchison, a revered soldier and one of the great figures in Australian military history. It covers the events which shaped Hutchison and prepared him for command in both the Second World War and the Korean War. It sheds new light on key issues and campaigns i ...Show more
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich by Harald Jähner
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
How does a nation recover from fascism?1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today. Post-war Germany found itself occupied over four zones by the victorious Allied forces. More than h ...Show more
Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot : Inventing North Korea and Flying Free by Blaine Harden
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
An ambitious and gripping exploration of the world's most secretive state through the intertwined lives of two North Koreans, one infamous, one obscure: Kim Il Sung, the former North Korean leader and No Kum Sok, once the state's youngest jet fighter pilot. Shortly before the Korean War ended, their pat ...Show more
Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency by Michael Wolff
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Fury and Siege completes the trilogy on the epic presidency of Donald J. TrumpWith Fire and Fury Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; in Siege he wrote an explosive account of a presidency under fire. In Landslide Wolff closes the story ...Show more
Castaways - Adrift and Abandoned: Thrilling Tales of the Sea (Volume 3) by GRAHAM FAIELLA
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Thrilling Tales of the Sea Ser.
Following on from Cannibals and Carnage and Misery, Mutiny and Menace, the third of Graham Faiella's thrilling collections of tales gathers stories of castaways. Terrible tales of being adrift on the ocean, clinging to life on coral reefs or fighting for survival on a range of inhospitable and desolate ...Show more
The Clarke Gang: Outlawed, Outcast and Forgotten by Peter C. Smith
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
Who were the Clarke Gang? Ten years or more before Ned Kelly became famous the Clarke brothers and their associates were terrorising an area stretching from present day Canberra to the coast from 1865 to 1867. They intimidated, assaulted, robbed and murdered police and civilians alike. They had no hesit ...Show more
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by HASTINGS MAX
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
‘A fascinating collection of military stories … The sort of book that can be picked up at intervals … [but] once tasted, is hard to put down' - Washington Post. From bestselling author Max Hastings, a collection of the most extraordinary stories of war, courage, tragedy, strategy and survival. Soldiers ...Show more
1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History by R. G. Grant
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: 1001
Since the first recorded armed conflicts in Sumeria in 2500 BCE, battles have been fought for geographical and political gain. Early combats were small in scale, involving only a few thousand infantry and primitive chariots, but successive campaigns in the region gave the city-states of Babylon and Agad ...Show more
The Witches - Salem, 1692 - A History by Stacy Schiff
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated m ...Show more
The True Story of the Bilderberg Group by ESTULIN D
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Delving into a world once shrouded in complete mystery and impenetrable security, this investigative report provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world's most powerful people--the Bilderberg Group. Since its inception in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the small Dutch town of Oost ...Show more