Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams by James Holland
34.95 AUD
Category: History
It is the night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industri ...Show more
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime Berlin There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decade ...Show more
Berlin: The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller by Antony Beevor
24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks ...Show more
Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton
32.99 AUD
Category: History
A landmark work of oral history interrogating everything and anything related to porn. How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, her extr ...Show more
After Stalingrad - Seven Years As a Soviet Prisoner of War by Adelbert Holl; Tony Le Tissier (Translator)
34.99 AUD
Category: History
The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. Graphic firsthand accounts of the fighting have been published by soldiers of all ranks on both sides, so we have today an extraordinarily precise ...Show more
New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by Wright Matthew
49.95 AUD
Category: History
In The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front, historian Matthew Wright goes to the heart of how the First World War affected the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. The book analyses what it was like for New Zealand soldiers at the two main battle fronts where they fought, and frames i ...Show more
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One by Kate Adie
24.99 AUD
Category: History
A chronicle of the ways in which women's lives changed during World War I and what the impact has been for women today, 100 years laterIn 1914 the world changed forever. This book details how when World War I broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, women emerged from the shadows of their do ...Show more
Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Secondhand. In this story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, Jeremy Scahill exposes America's new approach to war: fought far from any declared battlefield, by units that do not officially exist, in thousands of operations a month that are never publicly acknowledg ...Show more
ACTIVIST: PORTRAITS OF COURAGE by K. K. Ottesen
65.00 AUD
Category: History
A speech on the radio. A high school literature class. A promise made to a mother.Activism begins in small ways and in unexpected places. In this inspiring book, over forty activists from Billie Jean King to Senator Bernie Sanders and Grover Norquist to Al Sharpton recount the experiences that sparked t ...Show more
The Briefing by Sean Spicer
29.99 AUD
Category: History
As a key player during the election campaign and transition, and Donald Trump¿s press secretary for the first seven months in the White House, Sean Spicer found himself on the front line between Trump and the press ¿ regularly jousting with the media and having to explain the President¿s policy decision ...Show more
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Best Books of 2022 - Financial Times ... 'A literary phenomenon.' - Times Literary Supplement ... 'Imaginative, lively and contemporary...masterly.' - Economist ... 'Vallejo enlivens history with imagination and personal anecdote' - Observer ... 'A mindboggling history of the earliest books... the stor ...Show more
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Ash Garton
39.99 AUD
Category: History
'A moving love letter to Europe' - Lea Ypi, author of FreeHomelands is a stunning blend of contemporary history, investigative reporting and intimate memoir by our greatest writer about Europe.Drawing on half a century of travel and thinking, Homelands tells the story of Europe since its emergence from ...Show more