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
Globe: Life in Shakespeares's London by Catharine Arnold
34.99 AUD
Category: History
The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and tragedy. Triumph came when Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men, opened the Globe playhouse on B ...Show more
Monopolists, The by Pilon Mary
24.99 AUD
Category: History
With its origins rooted in one of the Wall Street Journal's most emailed stories, The Monopolists is the inside story of how the game of Monopoly came into existence, the heavy embellishment of its provenance by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one ...Show more
Contest Of The Century: The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dyer [No relation]
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Description: By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it seeks to translate its considerable economic heft into a larger role on the world stage, challenging American supremacy. Yet he als ...Show more
I Met Lucky People :The Story Of The Romani Gypsies by YARON MATRAS
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Description: In I Met Lucky People, Yaron Matras, the world's leading authority on the Romani, explains why we need to reconsider how we view their culture. Who are the Romani people? As one of the last remaining societies in the Western hemisphere with a strictly oral culture, they have no written reco ...Show more
Warrior A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier by Libby Connors
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Connors lays down the hard truth. Not all our warriors were Anzacs. Not all our wars were just.' - John Birmingham, author and columnist In the 1840s, white settlement in the north was under attack. European settlers were in awe of Aboriginal physical fitness and fighting prowess, and a series of deadly ...Show more
The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front by Max Arthur
19.99 AUD
Category: History
On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness settled over the country. The majority of those men would never return. This is the story of that extraordinary 24 hours. Using a wealth of first person testimonies, renowned histor ...Show more
Royal Visits to Australia by Jane Connors
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Out of Australia's total population of around nine million, an estimated seven million people turned out to catch a glimpse of the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. Sixty years later, in April 2014, television news bulletins, newspapers and social media were awash with stories of the royal visit ...Show more
Kill Chain by Andrew Cockburn
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Assassination by drone is a subject of deep and enduring fascination. Yet few understand how and why this has become our principal way of waging war. Kill Chain uncovers the real and extraordinary story; its origins in long-buried secret programs, the breakthroughs that made drone operations possible, t ...Show more
The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze
24.99 AUD
Category: History
On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world - from Adam Tooze, the Wolfson Prize-winning author of The Wages of Destruction Financial Times and New Statesman Books of the Year 2014. In the depths of the Gr ...Show more