Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery by David Attenborough; Susan Owens; Martin Clayton; Rea Alexandratos
$42.95 AUD
Category: History
From the fifteenth century onwards, as European explorers sailed forth on grand voyages of discovery, their encounters with exotic plants and animals fanned intense scientific interest. Scholars began to examine nature with fresh eyes, and pioneering artists transformed the way nature was seen and under ...Show more
SAS Operation Storm by Roger Cole
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Hachette Military Collection
SAS OPERATION STORM is the inside story - told by those who took part - of the greatest secret war in SAS history. The tipping point, Mirbat, South Oman, 19 July 1972 is one of the least-known yet most crucial battles of modern times. If the SAS had been defeated at Mirbat, the Russian and Chinese plan ...Show more
Ghost Platoon by Frank Walker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Hachette Military Collection
An eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold ...until now. 'thoroughly researched and compelling ...a chilling account' - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 men were thrown together at Nui Dat, Vietnam. It was so slapdash a group it didn't even have an officer or a sergeant in ...Show more
SAS Insider: An Elite SAS Fighter on Life in Australia s Toughest and Most Secretive Combat Force by Robert Macklin
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Hachette Military Collection
Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today. He is an insider with the long view and this is his unique story of life in the SAS. As a bus ...Show more
The Australian Light Horse: The magnificent Australian force and its decisive victories in Arabia in World War I by Roland Perry
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Hachette Military Collection
The Australian Light Horse was a unique force, first raised during the Boer War, and then reformed for World War I. Most of the men were from the outback, had a special bond with their horses (which were all brought from Australia) - and they knew how to survive and fight in the desert. The greatest par ...Show more
If This is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant gates. Whipping ...Show more
On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World by John Hughes-Wilson
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
From the ancient Greek and Roman origins of human intelligence to its use in the Catholic church to Francis Walsingham's Elizabethan secret service to the birth of the surveillance state in today's digital hi-tech age, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, professional military-intelligence officer and author of ...Show more
Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott by Andrew P Street
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Poor people don't drive cars. People have the right to be bigots. I'm a fixer. Team Australia. Shirtfonting. Choppergate. Stop the boats. Coal is good for humanity. No cuts to health. Sir Prince Philip. The flags. It's all the fault of the febrile media. And that whole onion thing.In August 2013, Austra ...Show more
European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche by Frank M. Turner; Richard A. Lofthouse (Editor)
$36.95 AUD
Category: European
One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures--lucid, accessible, beautifully written, and delivered with a notable ...Show more
Liberty or Death: The French Revolution by Peter McPhee
$55.95 AUD
Category: European
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century France and Europe ...Show more
The Great Wall in 50 Objects by William Lindesay
$32.00 AUD
Category: History
The culmination of a lifetime's field work and research, William Lindesay selects fifty artefacts from around the world to tell the story of the Great Wall from the second century BC to the late-twentieth century. Abraham Ortelius' pioneering world atlas, the unexpected origins of 'wolf smoke', the prol ...Show more
1066 and All That by W C Sellar
$21.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: A\Methuen Humour Classic Ser.
One of the most well-loved and best-selling British humor titles of all time "Canute began by being a Bad King on the advice of his Courtiers, who informed him (owing to a misunderstanding of the Rule Britannia) that the King of England was entitled to sit on the sea without getting wet." This humor ...Show more