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
Pioneer Women of the Bush and Outback by Jennifer Isaacs
45.00 AUD
Category: History
This book is a fascinating insight into the daily lives of women from a variety of backgrounds - including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Chinese, Indian and German. Pioneer Women provides a unique portrait of how women set up and ran their remote bush homes and ...Show more
Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail by Marcus Rediker
35.00 AUD
Category: History
Outlaws of the Atlantic turns maritime history upside down, exploring the dramatic world of seafaring adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and other builders of empire, but rather from the point-of-view of common people whose labors made that world possible - sailors, slaves, inde ...Show more
Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd by Quentin Beresford
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania and its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled old-growth forests. A pulp mill was central to its expansion plans ...Show more
The Third Reich in History and Memory by Richard J. Evans
55.00 AUD
Category: History
In the seventy years since the demise of the Third Reich, there has been a significant transformation in the ways in which the modern world understands Nazism. In this brilliant and eye-opening collection, Richard J. Evans, the acclaimed author of the Third Reich trilogy, offers a critical commentary on ...Show more
They Dared ReturnThe True Story of Jewish Spies Behind the Lines in Nazi Germany by Patrick K. O'Donnell
26.99 AUD
Category: History
At the height of World War II, with the Third Reichs final solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who had barely escaped the Nazis did the unthinkable: They went back. Spies now, these men took on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. They Dared Return is their storya tale of adventure, e ...Show more
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman
34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
"The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it."--Barbara W. Tuchm ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
52.99 AUD
Category: History
It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known. William Shirer is one of the very few historians to have gained full access to the ...Show more
Last Stalinist: The Life of Santiago Carrillo by Paul Preston
29.99 AUD
Category: History
The life of the complex, ruthless adversary of General Franco, whose life spanned much of Spain's turbulence in the 20th century. From 1939 to 1975, the Spanish Communist Party, effectively lead for two decades by Santiago Carrillo, was the most determined opponent of General Franco's Nationalist regime ...Show more
Hundred Days: The End Of The Great War by Nick Lloyd
22.99 AUD
Category: History
The brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World WarOn the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent. The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an end, marked a seminal moment in modern European and World history. Yet the story of ...Show more
A Night To Remember by Walter Lord
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a completely riveting account of the Titanic's fatal collision and the behavior of the passengers and cre ...Show more