Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell by Travis Elborough
32.99 AUD
Category: History
'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed' Martin Luther King In an era where the liberties we often take for granted are under threat, Letters To Change the World is a collection of inspiring letters offering remin ...Show more
The Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom, 1788-1860 by David Kemp
59.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The Land of Dreams- How Australians Won Their Freedom, 1788-1860 tells the story of how Australians became a free people, gaining the liberties they desired to take control of their own lives, the right to govern themselves and the capacity to address their own political problems through democratic inst ...Show more
The Mighty Krait by Ian McPhedran
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: WWII
Over many years, thousands of people have walked past a modest black timber fishing boat bobbing in the waters of Sydney's Darling Harbour, paying it little attention. But appearances can be deceptive.The humble little Japanese-built trawler called the Krait played a crucial role in one of World War II' ...Show more
Nameless Names The by Scott Bennett
49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Few Australians realise that of the 62,000 anzac soldiers who died in the great war, over one-third are still listed as 'missing'. With no marked graves, the only reminders of their sacrifice are the many names inscribed on ageing war memorials around the world. Bennett deftly tells the story of such m ...Show more
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: PMC: An Informal History of the Republican and democratic Conventions of 1968 by Norman Mailer
24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson's ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey ...Show more
The Shadow War - Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America by Jim Sciutto
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Are we losing a war few of us realize we're fighting? Jim Sciutto, CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent, reveals the invisible fronts that make up 21st century warfare, from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weapons. Poisoned dissidents. Election interference. Armed invasions. Int ...Show more
The Hitler Years ~ Triumph 1933-1939 by Frank McDonough
49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'Superbly scholarly and just as readable. A chilling, meticulous record of state brutality that is more compelling than any novel' DAN SNOW on THE GESTAPO. On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the German Chancellor of a coalition government by President Hindenburg. Within a few months he had i ...Show more
Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A killing. A hidden history. A story that goes to the heart of the nation. When Mark McKenna set out to write a history of the centre of Australia, he had no idea what he would discover. One event in 1934 - the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokunnuna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subseque ...Show more
Persians: The Age of The Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
24.99 AUD
Category: History
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, ...Show more
Division Of Light And Power by Kucinich Dennis
54.99 AUD
Category: History
Private, investor-owned utilities in Texas, Ohio, California, Illinois and elsewhere are crushing consumers with sky-high rates, price gouging and criminal behavior. The Division of Light and Power is the thoroughly documented, true story of one courageous American mayor who fought, and beat, a utility ...Show more
Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat by Jeff Benedict
22.99 AUD
Category: History
NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY From Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the Box E. coli infections in 1993. On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lau ...Show more