The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women's history.' In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to wr ...Show more
A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth
22.99 AUD
Category: History
From the internationally bestselling author of The Etymologicon, a lively and fascinating exploration of how, throughout history, each civilization has found a way to celebrate, or to control, the eternal human drive to get sloshed Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there ...Show more
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia. Today's Russia is an oligarchy propped up by illusions and falsities. But it also represents the fulfilment of tendencies already present i ...Show more
Stuff They Don't Want You to Know by David Southwell; Graeme Donald
35.00 AUD
Category: History
Taking each theory in turn, Stuff They Don't Want You to Know considers more than 80 conspiracies, examining the evidence and key suspects in an explosive account of the world's secrets. Meticulously researched, it contains fresh revelations on historical conspiracies that won't go away, as well as info ...Show more
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and the larger picture of the struggle between Islam and Christianity. Co ...Show more
Great Australian Horse Stories by Anne Crawford
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
Great Australian Horse Stories brings to life true stories - funny, poignant and sometimes dramatic - of horses from all over the nation, spanning generations. Outback legends. Loyal carthorses. Spectacular high jumpers. Trusty stock horses. Horses that have defied the odds to win - or just to live. Wit ...Show more
Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot by Giles Milton
22.99 AUD
Category: History
'It reads like fiction, but it is, astonishingly, history' The Times In 1917, an eccentric band of British spies is smuggled into newly-Soviet Russia. Their goal? To defeat Lenin's plan to destroy British India and bring down the democracies of the West. These extraordinary spies, led by Mansfield Cum ...Show more
The Nasho's War: Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin
24.99 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
The Battle of Long Tan by David W. Cameron
22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, a rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, Australian troops fought one of their bloodiest, most significant battles of the Vietnam War.The Australians had arrived at Nui Dat four months earlier to open up the province. While out on patrol, Delta Compan ...Show more
Portrait of Australia: Best Stories from 30 years of Australian Geographic by Australian Geographic
59.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Reading Level: Grade 05-08
For 30 years Australian Geographic journalists have revealed the rich diversity of a nation. From schoolyards to parliament and the outback to the ocean, they have reported on Australia and Australians, both ordinary and extraordinary, going about their daily lives. Within these pages are photographs of ...Show more
A Christmas Cornucopia by Forysth, Mark
24.99 AUD
Category: History
"For something that happens every year of our lives, we really don't know much about Christmas. We don't know that the date we celebrate was chosen by a madman, or that Christmas, etymologically speaking, means 'Go away, Christ'. Nor do we know that Christmas was first celebrated in 243 AD on 28 March - ...Show more
Bill the Bastard: The story of Australia's greatest war horse by Roland Perry
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
An epic yarn based on the true story of a great Australian war horse who rode with bravery and valour at Gallipoli, the desert campaigns of Egypt, and Palestine.