The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror by Stephen Grey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
The New Spymasters by Stephen Grey - Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Al-Qaeda. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, many believe that the spy is dead. What use are double agents and dead letter boxes compared to the all-seeing digital eye? They couldn't be more wrong. The spying game ...Show more
Baghdad: City Of Peace, City Of Blood by Justin Marozzi
$25.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great ha ...Show more
Ten Cities That Made an Empire by Tristram Hunt
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised it. Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and the end days of Empire, Britain's ...Show more
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 by Alexander Watson
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
This is Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2014. For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome - rapidly degenerated as invasions of both France and Serbia ended in catastrophe. For four years the fighting now turned i ...Show more
Heroes of the Skies by Michael Veitch
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
'It is somewhere close to midnight on the clock when the men who fought the Second World War will still be with us. I have met just a few of them, sometimes goading them to reveal their experiences, at other times being simply a conduit to the river of their memories, sensing, on occasion, a kind of urg ...Show more
Bonaparte by Patrice Gueniffey
$105.00 AUD
Category: European
Patrice Gueniffey is the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age. This book, hailed as a masterwork on its publication in France, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, the man who in Madame de Stael s words made the rest ...Show more
The Cambridge Economic History of Australia by Simon Ville
$190.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, ...Show more
Changi Book by Lachlan Grant
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the tradition of "The Anzac Book "comes this fascinating collection of accounts of life in the notorious Changi prison camp. No other place is more closely associated with the Australian prisoner-of-war experience of the Second World War than Changi. With 15,000 Australian soldiers captured at the fa ...Show more
How to Catch a Russian Spy by Naveed Jamali
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
In 2008, almost two decades after the Cold War was officially consigned to the history books, an average American guy helped to bring down a top Russian spy based at the United Nations. He had no formal espionage training. Everything he knew about spying he'd learned from books, films, video games and T ...Show more
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the indust ...Show more
Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian
As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relatio ...Show more