Nimrod Boys - True Tales from the Operators of the RAF's Cold War Trailblazer by Tony Blackman; Joe Kennedy (As told to)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Jet Age Ser.
Nimrod Boys is a collection of eighteen first-hand accounts of operating the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod - an aircraft which served at the forefront of the Cold War. As the first jet-powered maritime aircraft, it could reach critical points for rescues or for operational requirements in rapid time. Its outst ...Show more
Telling Tennant's Story: The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence by Dean Ashenden
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Tennant Creek and Australia's Unresolved Past The tale of a town, and a nation Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a boy, Dean Ashenden finds Tennant Creek transformed, but its silence about the past still mostly intact.Provoked by a half-hidden account, Ashenden sets out ...Show more
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very goo
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future. The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths- to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable history; to Chin ...Show more
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'A charming, absorbing history that takes us on a journey from the silk roads to sportswear, from ruffs to spacesuits . . . I devoured this quietly feminist book' SUNDAY TIMES All textiles begin with a twist. From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
'This brilliant and heartbreaking book is a masterpiece. It reads like a novel, yet is all sadly true. I finished it in tears' - James Rebanks. A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years ...Show more
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein
$44.95 AUD
Category: History
"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."—Noam Chomsky "No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book." —The InterceptThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely populat ...Show more
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then that many who passionately believe in social justice have co ...Show more
Ukraine War - Volume 1 - Armed Formations of the Donetsk People's Republic by Edward Crowther
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Europe@War Ser.
The title focuses on the armed formations of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the largest of the two separatist entities in the east of Ukraine. War in the Ukraine: Armed formations of the Donetsk People's Republic aims to provide an overview of their formation in 2014, present status, and combat eq ...Show more
The Diggers of Kapyong: The story of the Aussies who changed the course of the Korean War by Tom Gilling
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun We charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many bullets coming that it was like walking, running into a very stiff breeze. Most of the sec ...Show more
Tea with Hitler - The Secret History of the Royal Family and the Third Reich by Dean Palmer
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
After the Second World War, war crime prosecutors charged two of King George VI's closest German relatives, Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Prince Philipp of Hesse, with 'crimes against humanity'. American soldiers discovered top-secret documents at Marburg Castle, exposing treacherous fami ...Show more
Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled by Kate Fullagar
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Aus ...Show more
My Inestimable Friend - An Account of the Life of Rear-Admiral William Brown (1764-1814) by Alastair R. BROWN
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
In 1779 when William Brown was a fourteen-year-old midshipman on the Frigate Apollo, a French sharp-shooter's musket ball passed through the brim of his hat but injured only his left hand. Many years later, on the deck of HMS Victory, Admiral Lord Nelson would not be so fortunate when a French sharp sho ...Show more