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
The History of England Volume II: Tudors by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A History of England | Reading Level: good
This is the second volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful history of England: the Tudors. Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with ...Show more
Uncommon Soldier : Brave, Compassionate and Tough, the Making of Australia's Modern Diggers by Chris Masters
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Chris Masters, the country's foremost investigative journalist, turns his penetrating gaze on the modern Australian soldier. Moving away from our ongoing fascination with Anzac story, he looks at the rich and illuminating present to write a character study of the modern Australian soldier - war fighter, ...Show more
Argo - How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History by Matt Baglio; Antonio Mendez
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran - Now a major Ben Affleck film. On 4 November 1979, Iranian militants stormed the US embassy in Tehran and held dozens of Americans hostage. Beneath this crisis another shocking story was known by only a select few- six Americans esc ...Show more
Pacific 360 by Roland Perry
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
On 7 December 1941, Australia was pushed to centre stage as Japan entered World War II and began the offensive which triggered the Pacific War. Roland Perry captures the drama and detail of the Australian Government's political and military struggle with allies and enemies alike as those at home prepare ...Show more
A Sappers' War: How the Legendary Aussie Tunnel Rats Fought the Vietcong by Jimmy Thomson
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
'We make and we break.' They were the forward scouts, the mine clearers, the bridge builders and the tunnel rats. They were frequently not just on the front line, but right at the sharp end of the action. They were the legendary Aussie sappers, the army engineers, who were literally everywhere in the fi ...Show more
Remembering Aboriginal Heroes by Christopher and Ramsland, John Mooney
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
During the 1940s and '50s in Australia, there rose to prominence many icons of Aboriginal descent, representative of the culture of the day and of their own people. Some permanently influenced the minds of Australians and remain famous to this day. Others have been unjustly forgotten. 'Remembering Abori ...Show more
The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Harrowing Account of America's "Tunnel Rats" in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam by Tom Mangold
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only one enemy: U.S. soldiers small and wiry enough to m ...Show more
Mossad: The Great Operations by Michael Bar-Zohar & Nissim Mishal
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
The secrets behind Mossad, the world's most respected and enigmatic Secret Service Organization This book tells what should have been known and isn't - that Israel's hidden force is as formidable as its recognised physical strength. - Shimon Peres, President of Israel Mossad vividly brings alive a boots ...Show more
Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. He was on hi ...Show more
Sandakan by Paul Ham
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
The untold story of the Sandakan Death Marches of the Second World War. This is the story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war until now a barely known episode of unimaginable horror. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors transferred 2500 British and ...Show more
The Passage of Power: The years of Lyndon JohnsonVol. 4 by Robert A Caro
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
This is the fourth volume of Robert Caro's monumental work on American President Lyndon Johnson that spans the years 1958 to 1964, arguably the most crucial years in the life of Johnson and pivotal years for American history. This era saw some of the most frustrating moments of Johnson's career, but als ...Show more