Japan 1941 - Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta
32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage | Reading Level: near fine
A "Kirkus Reviews" Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, its leaders, in large part, understo ...Show more
Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi by Fred Burton
19.99 AUD
Category: History
Benghazi, Libya. 9/11/2012. Just over a year after the fall of Gaddafi, and on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a group of heavily armed Islamic terrorists had their sights set on the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence presence in the city. In the prolonged attack, four Americans died, includ ...Show more
True Stories: History, Politics, Aboriginality (1999 Boyer Lectures) by CLENDINNEN Inga
19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Boyer Lectures
The ghosts swarm like angry bees...the early wars, the Stolen Children report, the devastating health statistics, the extravagant incidence of self-destructive acts among Aboriginal adolescents...There has also been a great deal of talk about 'guilt' and 'shame', and what precise mixture of each non-Abo ...Show more
Mapping the World : The Story of Cartography by Beau Riffenburgh
39.95 AUD
Category: History
From the crude maps of ancient Babylon to the satellite-fueled precision of Google Maps, cartography has been both a record of dreams and of discoveries. Maps have played midwife to empires, helped win wars, and encouraged humanity to venture beyond boundaries of space and time. Containing numerous maps ...Show more
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William Mann
39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new fav ...Show more
Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England: Thieves, Tricksters, Bards and Bawds by Terry Deary
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The reign of Elizabeth I - a Golden Age? Try asking her subjects...Elizabethans did all they could to survive in an age of sin and bling, of beddings and beheadings, galleons and guns. Explorers set sail for new worlds, risking everything to bring back slaves, gold and the priceless potato. Elizabeth li ...Show more
The Nashos' War : Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
On 10 March 1965, the first nasho's birthdate was drawn from a lottery barrel at the Department of Labour and National Service in Melbourne. Over the next seven years, a total of 63740 young Australian men would be drafted into the army and face the prospect of being sent to war. The nashos came from al ...Show more
Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
"Australia has always been reliant on great and powerful friends' for its sense of national security and for direction on its foreign policy—first on the British Empire and now on the United States. Australia has actively pursued a policy of strategic dependence, believing that making a grand bargain wi ...Show more
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
19.99 AUD
Category: History
Hitler's Furies is the untold story of the Holocaust. History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau and a loyal cheerleader for the Fuhrer. However, Lower's research reveals an altogether more sinister truth. Lower shows us the ordinary women who became perpetrator ...Show more
Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
35.00 AUD
Category: History
"The ancient Greeks continue to fascinate us - they gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; established artistic and architectural canons visible to this day on all our high streets; laid ...Show more
How Paris Became Paris - The Invention of the Modern City by Joan DeJean
32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: DEJEAN JOAN | Reading Level: very good
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be transformed into the modern and mythic city we know today.Thoug ...Show more
Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad by Gordon Thomas
27.99 AUD
Category: History
'Literally impossible to put down' New York Times Book Review Gordon Thomas has a grasp of history...this is one of the few books to have captured the true nature of the Israeli Government and the thorough process of the Israeli power elite. Ari Ben-Menashe, Former Adviser on Intelligence to the Israeli ...Show more