The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot by Whittell, Giles
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
For the 80th anniversary, the first popular account of Operation Chariot, the most daring British raid of WW2In the darkest months of WW2, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to attack the St Nazaire U-boat base on the Atlantic seaboard, British commandos undertoo ...Show more
America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger by Isaac Stone Fish
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
A timely, provocative expose of the US's political and business leadership's deep ties to China- a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing - at a profound and often hidden cost to American and Western interests.The past few years have seen a shift in the relations between China and ...Show more
The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History in Eleven Vessels by Tom Nancollas
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
A sharply poignant history of British seafaring, from the Bronze Age to the present day If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an ...Show more
Iran - Five Millennia of Art and Culture by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
$90.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A beautifully illustrated journey in time across Iran's rich artistic history. Iran: Five Millennia of Art and Culture presents 360 objects from the time of the first advanced civilizations during the third millennium BCE until the end of the Safavid Empire in the early eighteenth century. Amid sear ...Show more
In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I by David A. Yallop
$36.00 AUD
Category: History
An investigation into the murder of Pope John Paul I.
New York: An Illustrated History by Ric Burns
$120.00 AUD
Category: American
A revised and expanded edition of the landmark, ravishing history of New York City-the companion volume to the acclaimed PBS series-that begins in 1624 and brings its 400-year-long story up to the current moment.This edition of the biography of this great and ever-evolving city includes two new chapters ...Show more
Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War by Phillip Deery
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own spy-hunting agency- ASIO. By the 1950s its counterespionage activities were increasingly supplemented by attempts at counter ...Show more
The Lion House: The Coming of A King by Christopher de Bellaigue
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Venice, 1522. Sensitive intelligence arrives from the east confirming the European powers' greatest fear- the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has amassed all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, Suleyman the Magnificent has his hand on their entrails. From t ...Show more
Making Australian History by Anna Clark
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet there has been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. Making Australian History responds to this critical gap in Australian histori ...Show more
A Witness of Fact: the peculiar case of chief forensic pathologist Colin Manock by Drew Rooke
$33.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The compelling story of South Australia's disgraced former chief forensic pathologist and the legal scandals in which he became implicated.For nearly three decades, Dr Colin Manock was in charge of South Australia's forensic pathology services, and played a vital role within the state's criminal justice ...Show more
Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labour by Anna Qu
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A young Chinese girl forced to work in a New York sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful memoir about labour and self-worth, economic revolution, and cultural dislocation. As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is ...Show more
Contest for the Indo-Pacific: Why China Won't Map the Future (Updated Edition) by Rory Medcalf
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Updated edition covering the strategic impacts of Covid-19, China's economic coercion against Australia, the Afghanistan withdrawal, Joe Biden, the Quad and US-China rivalry.The Indo-Pacific is both a place and an idea. It is the region central to global prosperity and security. It is also a metaphor fo ...Show more