In Spite Of The Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
India remains a mystery to many Americans, even as it is poised to become the world’s third largest economy within a generation, outstripping Japan. It will surpass China in population by 2032 and will have more English speakers than the United States by 2050. In In Spite of the Gods, Edward Luce, a jou ...Show more
The Architect of Kokoda: Bert Kienzle - The Man Who Made the Kokoda Track by Robyn Kienzle
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
If one person 'made' the Kokoda Track, that man was Bert Kienzle. Part Samoan and German/English, born in Fiji and raised in Germany and Australia, he was managing a rubber plantation and gold mine in Papua New Guinea at the outbreak of World War II. He surveyed and established the Track, and spent more ...Show more
The Berlin-Baghdad Express - The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin
$31.00 AUD
Category: European
The Berlin-Baghdad Express explores one of the most important but least understood stories of the First World War: the bid by the Germans to destroy the British Empire by harnessing the power of Islam. As the Ottoman Empire threw its weight behind Germany, a hugely ambitious project began to unhinge Bri ...Show more
With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson
$59.95 AUD
Category: War
Winston Churchill told the House of Commons in 1940, 'During the first four years of the last war the Allies experienced nothing but disaster and disappointment. That was our constant fear: one blow after another, terrible losses, frightful dangers . . . we repeatedly asked ourselves the question: How a ...Show more
Interrogator : A CIA Agent's True Story by Glenn Carle
$32.95 AUD
Category: War | Series: INTCIT
This is the never-before-told first-hand story of the 'dark side' of the Bush Administration's Global War on Terror, and of one of the CIA's biggest failures - the kidnapping, rendition, and torture of the wrong man - as told by a man who conducted the interrogation. It is an indictment of the CIA's enh ...Show more
The Bushrangers: Australia's Greatest Self-made Heroes by Evan McHugh
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and Her Crew by Mike Carlton
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth.Most were young - many were still teenagers - from cities and towns, villages and farms across the nation. In three tumultuous years they d ...Show more
Victoria by Elizabeth Longford
$33.00 AUD
Category: British
Queen Victoria, a woman of diminutive stature and superabundant temperament, gave her name to something more than an age. Using unrestricted access to material from the Royal Archives, including previously unpublished passages Queen Victoria's celebrated Journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic account re ...Show more
The Threat Matrix by Garrett M. Graff
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
THE THREAT MATRIX is the story of a small group of FBI agents who believed that they could confront a new generation of international terrorists like al Qaeda without sacrificing America's moral high ground. At the heart of this classic good versus evil battle are decades of tensions between the FBI and ...Show more
Total War: From Stalingrad to Berlin by Michael Jones
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
In February 1943, German forces surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad and the tide of war turned. By May 1945 Soviet soldiers had stormed Berlin and brought down Hitler's regime. Total War follows the fortunes of these fighters as they liberated Russia and the Ukraine from the Nazi invader and fough ...Show more
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World by Jacqueline Yallop
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
NAGASAKI : THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENT AND UNKNOWING by Craig Collie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midnight on the day of the second bombing in Nagasaki In a compelling narrative based on eyewitness accounts, contemporary di ...Show more