A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja by Joost R. Hiltermann
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
In March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, thousands were killed in a chemical attack in a remote town in Iraqi Kurdistan. In the aftermath of the horror, confusion reigned over who had carried it out, each side accusing the other in the ongoing bloodbath of the Iran-Iraq war. As the fog lifted, the respo ...Show more
Signs of Life : Why Brands Matter by Stephen Bayley
$56.99 AUD
Category: History
Nietzsche said all of life is a question of taste. And he was right. But nowadays all of life is also a question of branding. A brand is not something concocted by graphic designers and marketing consultants: it is "the intangible aspects of an intangible thing", as Massimo Vignelli (who re-branded the ...Show more
Valor in Vietnam - Chronicles of Honor, Courage and Sacrifice: 1963 - 1977 by Allen B. Clark; Dave R. Palmer (Foreword by)
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
2014 Military Writers Society Bronze Award Winner in the History Category Every war continues to dwell in the lives it touched, in the lives of those living through that time, and in those absorbed by its historical significance. The Vietnam War lives on famously and infamously dependent on political po ...Show more
Ancient Greeks in 100 Facts by Chrystal Paul
$28.50 AUD
Category: History
Ancient Greece was never just one nation: it was a disparate collection of independent city states, often embroiled in war, with separate governments, their own armies and distinct politics, economies and societies. However, together these vibrant and diverse peoples made one of the greatest civilisatio ...Show more
COTSWOLD ARTS & CRAFTS ARCHITECTURE by GORDON CATHERINE
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Between 1890 and 1930, Arts and Crafts architecture proliferated within the Cotswolds. The range and quality of the buildings was exceptional, as the region provided the perfect environment for the Movement's ideals and principles to flourish. Arts and Crafts architects relished the robust vernacular pr ...Show more
King and Saint - The Life of Edward the Confessor by Peter Rex
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Often depicted as a virginal, pious simpleton, Edward was in fact a devious, wily king who struggled to control his violent temper. As a young man in 1016 he fought against the Danish king Canute's invasion of England; as an ageing, childless monarch he cunningly played off his potential rivals and succ ...Show more
Tyne and Weird by Robert Kilburn
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Since man uttered his first word he has been telling stories for entertainment, to serve as warnings and to simply pass the time'Huddled up against the end of Hadrian's Wall, the county of Tyne and Wear is known for its wealth of historical sites, for castles, the Venerable Bede, and stotty cakes. But ...Show more
Tea with Hitler - The Secret History of the Royal Family and the Third Reich by Dean Palmer
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
After the Second World War, war crime prosecutors charged two of King George VI's closest German relatives, Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Prince Philipp of Hesse, with 'crimes against humanity'. American soldiers discovered top-secret documents at Marburg Castle, exposing treacherous fami ...Show more
The Hitler Conspirator - The Story of Kurt Freiherr Von Plettenberg and Stauffenberg's Valkyrie Plot to Kill the Fuhrer by Eberhard Schmidt
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
Kurt Freiherr von Plettenberg (1891-1945) was the descendant of Westphalian aristocratic family, and a soldier in both world wars. The expectations, which he along with many of his later fellow conspirators of the 20 July 1944 plot to kill Hitler initially had of the Third Reich, are soon disappointed, ...Show more
Nimrod Boys - True Tales from the Operators of the RAF's Cold War Trailblazer by Tony Blackman; Joe Kennedy (As told to)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Jet Age Ser.
Nimrod Boys is a collection of eighteen first-hand accounts of operating the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod - an aircraft which served at the forefront of the Cold War. As the first jet-powered maritime aircraft, it could reach critical points for rescues or for operational requirements in rapid time. Its outst ...Show more
Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia by Richard Evans
$44.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Roman Conquests Ser.
While conquering Greece and Macedonia the Romans defeated an intervention by the Seleucid Empire, the most powerful of the Hellenistic states founded by Alexander the Great's successors. Soon Roman armies crossed to Asia for the first time to carry the war to the Seleucids. Here they faced one of the mo ...Show more
The Little Book of Mary Queen of ScotsThe Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots by Mickey Mayhew
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Mary Queen of Scots is perhaps one of the most controversial and divisive monarchs in regal history. Her story reads like a particularly spicy novel, with murder, kidnap, adultery, assassination and execution. To some she is one of the most wronged women in history, a pawn used and abused by her family ...Show more