Rise of Isis by Jay Sekulow
$16.99 AUD
Category: History
THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON ISISJay Sekulow, one of America's most influential attorneys, closely examines the rise of the terrorist groups ISIS and Hamas, explains their objectives and capabilities and how, if left undefeated, their existence could unleash a genocide of historic proportions. Recently, the w ...Show more
The New York Times the Complete World War II: 1939-1945 All the Coverage from the Battlefields and the Home Front by Tom Brokaw
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Hundreds of the most riveting articles from the archives of The Times--including first-hand accounts of major events and little-known anecdotes--have been selected for inclusion in The New York Times Complete World War II. The book covers the biggest battles of the war from the Battle of the Bulge to th ...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
Australian Moment by George Megalogenis
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2012 Walkley Book Award, and Australia's bestselling political book of 2012 The book of the TV series Making Australia Great There's no better place to be during economic turbulence than Australia. Brilliant in a bust, we've learnt to use our brains in ...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
How Desolate Our Home Bereft of Thee by Sue Jensen Weeks
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
In April, 1866, at the height of the Black Hawk Wars, Mormon settlers in the new village of Circleville, Utah, took a number of Paiute Indians hostage and subsequently murdered twenty-six men, women and children. Sue Jensen Weeks' great-great-grandfather, James Tillman Sanford Allred, was one of those r ...Show more
From the Trenches: The Best ANZAC Writing of World War I by Mark Dapin
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In the centenary of World War One, here are the Anzacs in their own words. From the Trenches is a collection of gripping, awe-inspiring and sometimes terrifying accounts of life at the front, recorded by those who lived through the fighting. Drawn from diaries, memoirs and letters, as well as poetry, ...Show more
Bedlam: London and Its Mad by Catharine Arnold
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Bedlam!' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who, in plate eight of his 1735 Rake's Progress series, depicts the anti-hero in Be ...Show more
Isis Inside the Army of Terror by Michael Weiss
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
In ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who behead Western hostages in slickly produced videos and have ...Show more
Silent Shock: The Men Behind the Thalidomide Scandal and an Australian Family's Long Road to Justice by Michael Magazanik
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'The baby started to come out. Head first, everything OK. But then I saw that there were no arms. And then no legs. The little girl had only a torso and a head.' Lyn Rowe was born in Melbourne in 1962, seven months after her mother Wendy was given a new wonder drug for morning sickness called thalidomid ...Show more
Australians at the Great War 1914-1918 Images and Stories from the Collections of the Australian War Memorial by Australian War Memorial
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia's contribution to the Great War has become part of the core of its national identity, and this work from the Australian War Memorial's Peter Burness offers a compact, thoroughly illustrated and authoritative survey of the founding of the ANZAC tradition. From the shores of Gallipoli, through t ...Show more
The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present by Anthony Pagden
$45.95 AUD
Category: History
Despite the long history of debate and the recent resurgence of interest in empires and imperialism, no one seems very clear as to what exactly an empire is. The Burdens of Empire strives to offer not only a definition but also a working description. This book examines how empires were conceived by thos ...Show more