The Forever War by Nick Bryant
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more
The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open 'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?' Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London ...Show more
Fighting Nature: Travelling menageries, animal acts and war shows by Probyn-Rapsey, Fiona
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Toward an Atlas of the European Delta Landscape by Chiara Tosi
$47.99 AUD
Category: History
This book addresses the deltaic territories in Europe that are both fragile and affected by important climate changes.
The NYPD's First Fifty Years: Politicians, Police Commissioners, and Patrolmen by Bernard Whalen
$45.99 AUD
Category: History
The New York Police Department is an iconic symbol of one of the world's most famous cities. The blue uniforms of the men and women who serve on the force have long stood for integrity and heroism in the work to serve and protect the city's residents. And yet, as in any large public organization, the NY ...Show more
Burma's Spring: Real Lives in Turbulent Times by Rosalind Russell
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
"Rosalind Russell has written an extraordinarily beautiful, comprehensive and compelling story of Burma in a remarkably human way - essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Burma today." Benedict Rogers, author of Burma: A Nation At the Crossroads. "Burma's Spring is like nothing else wr ...Show more
Codename Intelligentsia - The Life and Times of the Honourable Ivor Montagu, Filmmaker, Communist, Spy by Russell Campbell
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
He was the son of a hereditary peer, one of the wealthiest men in Britain. At the age of 21 he founded The Film Society, and became a pioneering standard-bearer for film as art. He was a collaborator of Hitchcock, rescuing The Lodger and later producing his groundbreaking British thrillers The Man Who K ...Show more
The Mistress of Mayfair -Men, Money and the Marriage of Doris Delevingne by Lyndsy Spence
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
THE plot could have been inspired by Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, but unlike Waugh's novel - which parodies the era of the 'Bright Young Things' - The Mistress of Mayfair is a real-life story of scandal, greed, corruption and promiscuity at the heart of 1920s and '30s high society, focusing on the wily, ...Show more
Before Wallis - Edward VIII's Other Women by Rachel Trethewey
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Wallis Simpson is known as the woman who stole the king's heart and rocked the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII's first or only love.This book is about the women he adored before Wallis dominated his life. There was Rosemary Leveson-Gower, the girl he wanted to marry and who would have been the pe ...Show more
Disaster Before D-Day by Stephen Wynn
$52.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a book of two stories. The first is the sad tale of how at least 749 American servicemen lost their lives on a pre-D-Day landing exercise, code-named 'Operation Tiger, ' on the evening of 23/24 April 1943. The second, was the unanswerable question of whether the attacking E-Boats of the German K ...Show more
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
$23.99 AUD
Category: History
As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, ha ...Show more
The Archaeology of the Second World War - Uncovering Britain's Wartime Heritage by Gabriel Moshenska
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Second World War transformed British society. Men, women and children inhabited the war in every area of their lives, from their clothing and food to schools, workplaces and wartime service. This transformation affected the landscapes, towns and cities as factories turned to war work, beaches were p ...Show more