Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney by John Birmingham
$23.00 AUD
Category: History
'To peer deeply into this ghost city, the one lying beneath the surface, is to understand that Sydney has a soul and that it is a very dark place indeed.'Beneath the shining harbour, amid the towers of global greed and deep inside the bad-drugs madness of the suburban wastelands, lies Sydney's shadow hi ...Show more
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" recreates epic events with extraordinary viv ...Show more
The Explorers by Tim Flannery (ed.)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest. This bestselling anthology, brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, documents almost four centuries of exploration and takes us beyond the frontier into a world of danger, compassion, humour ...Show more
Lords of the Horizons - A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds and hearts. Over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined; the royal line bent, but never broke, from Osman, born in a desert tent around 1280 to Abdul Mecid, dying in a Paris flat in 1942. Its precipitous rise from a dusty fie ...Show more
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In these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world.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