On History by E.J. Hobsbawm
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world. These wide-ranging papers reflect Professor Hobsbawm's lifelong concern with the relations between past, present and future. ...Show more
History Of The 20th Century Vol 1: 1900-1933 by Gilbert Martin
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
The concise edition of Martin Gilbert's History of the Twentieth Century is the culmination of his magisterial three-volume series, now elegantly woven together into a single text. This definitive narrative history documents significant events across the globe from 1900 through 1999.Gilbert, author of t ...Show more
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught in the middle of a vicioud civil war, and then as an adult who returned to Zimbabwe as a journalist to cove ...Show more
End of Certainty - Power Politics by KELLY Paul
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A bold, invigorating analysis of the decade that revolutionised Australian politics - the 1980s.
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
$19.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well - this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors.
Empire (#4/#5 Narratives of Empire) by Gore Vidal
$26.99 AUD
Category: Political
The fourth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
The Historical Atlas of World War II by Alexander Swanston
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
The Historical Atlas of World War II examines all the key events of the six-year conflict, with thoroughly researched text accompanied by highly detailed maps, offering an entirely original visual reappraisal of the most cataclysmic conflict in human history. From Germany's invasion of its neighbours to ...Show more
The Men Who Came Out of the Ground by Paul Cleary
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
By February 1942 the Japanese had invaded the Dutch East Indies as part of their push south. All that stood in the way of their moving significant resources to take part in the main fighting in Papua New Guinea was a force of 700 Australian commandos and a few hundred Dutch soldiers. After months of ski ...Show more
In Spite Of The Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
India remains a mystery to many Americans, even as it is poised to become the world’s third largest economy within a generation, outstripping Japan. It will surpass China in population by 2032 and will have more English speakers than the United States by 2050. In In Spite of the Gods, Edward Luce, a jou ...Show more
The Architect of Kokoda: Bert Kienzle - The Man Who Made the Kokoda Track by Robyn Kienzle
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
If one person 'made' the Kokoda Track, that man was Bert Kienzle. Part Samoan and German/English, born in Fiji and raised in Germany and Australia, he was managing a rubber plantation and gold mine in Papua New Guinea at the outbreak of World War II. He surveyed and established the Track, and spent more ...Show more
The Berlin-Baghdad Express - The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin
$31.00 AUD
Category: European
The Berlin-Baghdad Express explores one of the most important but least understood stories of the First World War: the bid by the Germans to destroy the British Empire by harnessing the power of Islam. As the Ottoman Empire threw its weight behind Germany, a hugely ambitious project began to unhinge Bri ...Show more
With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson
$59.95 AUD
Category: War
Winston Churchill told the House of Commons in 1940, 'During the first four years of the last war the Allies experienced nothing but disaster and disappointment. That was our constant fear: one blow after another, terrible losses, frightful dangers . . . we repeatedly asked ourselves the question: How a ...Show more