Mrs Escobar - My Life with Pablo by Victoria Eugenia Henao
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The closest you'll ever get to the most infamous drug kingpin in modern history, told by the person who stood by his side The story of Pablo Escobar, one of the wealthiest, powerful and violent criminals of all time has fascinated the world. Yet the one person closest to him has never spoken out - until ...Show more
Godless by Paul Ham
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
IN FEBRUARY 1534 a radical religious sect whose disciples were being persecuted throughout Europe seized the city of M nster, in the German-speaking land of Westphalia. They were convinced that they were God's Elect, specially chosen by the Almighty to be the first to ascend to Paradise on Judgement Da ...Show more
Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression by James S Gordon, M.D.
$26.00 AUD
Category: History
Despite the billions spent on prescription anti-depressant drugs and psychotherapy, people everywhere continue to grapple with depression. James Gordon, one of the nation's most respected psychiatrists, now offers a practical and effective way to get unstuck. Drawing on forty years of pioneering work, " ...Show more
Caesar - Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of Julius Caesar's life, Adrian Goldsworthy covers not only the great Roman emperor's accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known chapters. Ultimately, Goldsworthy realizes the full complexity of Caesar's cha ...Show more
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, andthe Mafia by WILLIAMS PAUL L.
$30.00 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe. Journalist Paul L. Williams presents evidence suggesting the existence of "stay-behind" units in man ...Show more
Island off the Coast of Asia - Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy by Clinton Fernandes
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Investigating Power Ser.
Island off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy is an unprecedented 230-year Australian study that reveals the central role of economic actors in defining and pursuing the ‘national interest’. Australia’s search for security has meant much more than protection from m ...Show more
Big Week by James Holland
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. Their goal: to smash the main factories and production centers of the Luftwaffe while also drawing German planes into an aerial battle ...Show more
Last Romantic by Hannah Pakula
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
The granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Tsar Alexander II of Russia, at 17 Marie married the Crown Prince of Roumania. Drawing upon the young queen's diaries and letters, this book describes her struggle to gain an independent footing in the male-dominated court of Roumania, her early years as one of th ...Show more
The Fourth Reich - The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
$40.95 AUD
Category: Political
Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich, anxieties have persisted about Nazism's revival in the form of a Fourth Reich. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reveals, for the first time, these postwar nightmares of a future that never happened and explains what they tell us about Western political, intellectual, and ...Show more
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj by Anita Anand
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Anita Anand tells the remarkable story of one Indian's twenty-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held responsible for the Amritsar massacre of 1919, which cost the lives of hundreds. When Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, ordered Brigadier G ...Show more
I Spy: My Life in MI5 by Tom Marcus
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
Tom Marcus, former MI5, grew up on the streets in the north of England. He joined the Army at sixteen and went on to become the youngest member of the Armed Forces to pass the six-month selection process for Special Operations in Northern Ireland.He was hand-picked from the Army into MI5 as a Surveillan ...Show more
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the heart of 16th-century Europe' Honor Clerk, Spectator, Books of the Year This is the scarcely believable - and wholly tru ...Show more