Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War by Fred Kaplan (CUNY Graduate Center)
52.99 AUD
Category: History
The acclaimed biographer, with a thought-provoking exploration of how Abraham Lincoln's and John Quincy Adams' experiences with slavery and race shaped their differing viewpoints, provides both perceptive insights into these two great presidents and a revealing perspective on race relations in modern Am ...Show more
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler's Valkyries by Clare Mulley
44.99 AUD
Category: History
Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their names in the male-dominated field of flight in 1930s Germany. With the war, both became pioneering test pilots and both were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the ...Show more
Outback Legends by Evan McHugh
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
These people are very different, but they have much in common. They?re the salt of the outback, but they?re not from long ago and far away. You can rub shoulders with them here and now. They?re our outback legends.Immerse yourself in these armchair travels and heart-warming life stories as Evan McHugh, ...Show more
The Twelve Apostles by Tim Pat Coogan
19.99 AUD
Category: History
Ireland, 1919: When Sinn Féin proclaims Dáil Éireann the parliament of the independent Irish republic, London declares the new assembly to be illegal, and a vicious guerilla war breaks out between republican and crown forces. Michael Collins, intelligence chief of the Irish Republican Army, creates an e ...Show more
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton by Susan Bordo
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The result of the 2016 presidential election was widely thought to be a foregone conclusion: a historic victory for an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced and admired candidate against an opponent seen as not just unelectable but unfit for office. As we know, it didn't work out like that. So how ...Show more
Superstition and Science, 1450-1750 : Mystics, Sceptics, Truth-seekers and Charlatans by Derek Wilson
35.00 AUD
Category: History
'O what a world of profit and delight Of power, of honour and omnipotence Is promised to the studious artisan.' Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus Between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Europe changed out of all recognition and particularly transformative were the ardent quest for knowledge and the ...Show more
Traitors by Frank Walker
32.99 AUD
Category: History
In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied powers would 'pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusers in order that justice may be done'. Nowhere did they say th ...Show more
Marching with the Devil - Legends, Glory and Lies in the French Foreign Legion by David Mason
16.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Hachette Military Collec Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'An unpretentious Aussie's experiences in one of the most ramshackle and soul-destroying military organisations on Earth.' COURIER-MAIL A real-life boy's own adventure, MARCHING WITH THE DEVIL is a hell-raising account of five years in the infamous French Foreign Legion. 'In 1894 a French Foreign Legi ...Show more
Too Right: Politically Incorrect Opinions Too Dangerous by James Colley
22.99 AUD
Category: History
A satirical state of the union delivered by the most marginalised voice in Australian media: an angry, white male. Too Right is a treatise delivered by Australia's most controversial far-right columnistunafraid of who is 'offended' by his 'poorly researched' opinions.We'll discover how this wealthy, pri ...Show more
Timekeepers : How the World Became Obsessed with Time by Simon Garfield
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of ...Show more
The Plots Against Hitler by Danny Orbach
42.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler's dominance seemed complete. Yet over the next few years, an unlikely clutch of conspirators emerged - soldiers, schoolteachers, politicians, d ...Show more
Great Australian Outback Nurses Stories by Bill Marsh
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Stories and memories that capture the experience of nursing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories and Great Australian Police Stories. With hearts as big as the outback, rural and remote nurses are a dedicated and gutsy ...Show more