Flesh in Armour: War Popular Penguins by Mann Leonard
9.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
Nearly 420 000 Australians enlisted during the First World War, and more than half were killed, wounded or captured. the conflict was the most costly in Australia's history. In the fates of his protagonists in his acclaimed Flesh in Armour - one dies valiantly, one dies in an abject and mentally unhinge ...Show more
Gallipoli Diaries : The Anzacs' Own Story, Day by Day by Jonathan King
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
For the first time the full story of what happened at Gallipoli is told in the words of the soldiers fighting in the trenches. Starting with the landing right up until the last day of the campaign, this is a daily account in the world of the Gallipoli soldier taken from letters and diaries of the men wh ...Show more
World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone
22.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a pacy, compelling and penetrating account - from the great Norman Stone. "The best short primer on the war in twenty years". (Andrew Roberts). Norman Stone's gripping book tells the narrative of the Second World War in as brief a compass as possible, making a sometimes familiar story utterly fr ...Show more
Firearms: An Illustrated History by DORLING KINDERSLEY
49.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the definitive visual guide to the history of firearms and guns. The Illustrated History of Firearms charts the evolution and history of the gun, from the pistol, flintlock musket and rifle to the shotgun, machine gun and revolver. This book features over 300 firearms and guns spanning centuries ...Show more
From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town by Ingrid D. Rowland
53.95 AUD
Category: History
When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for Pompeii's inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life tha ...Show more
Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis by Robert M. Edsel
26.95 AUD
Category: History
On the eve of the 1943 invasion of Italy, just weeks before Allied bombs nearly destroyed Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect mankind's greatest cultural treasures. In May 1944, two unlikely American heroes - an artist and a scho ...Show more
Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz by Yehuda Koren
17.99 AUD
Category: History
'Through thick and thin, never separate. Stick together, guard each other, and live for one another.' As Hitler's war intensified, the Ovitz family would have good reason to stand by their mother's mantra. Descending from the cattle train into the death camp of Auschwitz, all twelve emerged in 1945 as s ...Show more
The First World War in 100 Objects by Gary Sheffield
49.95 AUD
Category: History
he First World War was one of the seminal events in world history. The First World War in 100 Objects offers a unique perspective on the world's first truly global conflict. It traces its history through the examination of iconic items like the Zeppelin, the gas mask and Winston Churchill's Cigar, to pe ...Show more
Operation Paperclip: The CIA's Secret Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The explosive, dark secrets behind America's post-WWII science programs from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. In the chaos following WWII, some of the greatest spoils of Germany's resources were the Third Reich's scientific minds. The U.S. government secretly decided that the value o ...Show more
The Parthenon Enigma - A Journey into Legend by Joan Breton Connelly
49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A radical new interpretation of the meaning and purposes of one of the world's most iconic buildings. For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of Western culture and its highest ideals. It was understood to honour the city-state's patron deity, Athena, and its sculptures ...Show more
The Great War for Peace by William Mulligan
49.95 AUD
Category: History
"The war to end all wars" rings out a bitter mockery of the First World War, often viewed as the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century, the crucible from which Soviet, Fascist and Nazi dictatorships emerged. Today's conventional wisdom is that the Great War attuned the world to large-scale slaugh ...Show more
Gondola by Donna Leon
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Of all the trademarks of Venice - and there are many, from the gilded Basilica of San Marco to the melancholy Bridge of Sighs - none is more ubiquitous than the gondola. In Gondola, the internationally acclaimed 'American with the Venetian heart', Donna Leon, tells its fascinating story. First used in m ...Show more