The Secret Game by Scott Ellsworth
32.99 AUD
Category: History
The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental changeIn the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the game's inventor, ...Show more
Tank Men by Robert J. Kershaw
16.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Hachette Military Collection
The First World War saw the birth of an extraordinary fighting machine that has fascinated three generations: the tank. In Tank Men, ex-soldier and military historian Robert Kershaw brings to life the grime, the grease and the fury of a tank battle through the voices of ordinary men and women who lived ...Show more
SAS Operation Storm by Roger Cole
16.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Hachette Military Collection
SAS OPERATION STORM is the inside story - told by those who took part - of the greatest secret war in SAS history. The tipping point, Mirbat, South Oman, 19 July 1972 is one of the least-known yet most crucial battles of modern times. If the SAS had been defeated at Mirbat, the Russian and Chinese plan ...Show more
The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter M. Judson
79.00 AUD
Category: History
In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans. Across divides of language, religion, region, and history, ordinary women and men felt a common attachment to their empire, while bureaucrats, soldiers, ...Show more
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 by Ferdinand Mount
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows. They lived through the most appalling atrociti ...Show more
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers displace terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journali ...Show more
We are Afghan Women: Voices of Hope by George W. Bush Presidential Center
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Afghanistan has been described as "the worst nation in the world to be a woman." More than fifty percent of girls who are forced into marriage are sixteen or younger. Too many women live in fear and in many areas, education and employment for women are still condemned. The women featured in We Are Afgha ...Show more
The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes by Brian Dillon
26.99 AUD
Category: History
The Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable placeIn April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people an ...Show more
The Politics of Identity : Who Counts as Aboriginal Today? by Bronwyn Carlson
39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Award-winning Bronwyn Carlson explores the complexities surrounding Aboriginal identity today. This work is focused in a suburban area of New South Wales, Australia, but many of the findings are relevant to communities around the country. Hers is a valuable overview (and historical context) to the polic ...Show more
Who Bombed the Hilton? by Rachel Landers
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
I unpick and put in chronological order thousands of pieces of paper -- lay out the facts as they arrived the first time, unadorned, uninterpreted, flying in from dozens of sources and every corner of the world. What really went on? Were the police corrupt? Did the conspiracy theorists believe what ...Show more
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution by Kathleen DuVal
29.99 AUD
Category: History
A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society Winner of the "Journal of the American Revolution" Book of the Year Award Finalist for the George Washington Book Priz ...Show more
Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet, 1940-1945 by Jonathan Schneer
21.99 AUD
Category: History
June 1940: France has fallen and Great Britain is the only nation left standing between Nazi Germany and total domination of Europe. Faced by the greatest possible crisis, Winston Churchill's emergency coalition government must lead the way. In this illuminating and engrossing work, award-winning histor ...Show more