The Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn Macdonald
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War...' Yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking te ...Show more
Persians: The Age of The Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, ...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
The Book of the Poppy by Chris McNab
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Flanders poppy was taken on as an emblem of remembrance shortly after the First World War ended in 1918. Since then, its reach has expanded across the world, and today it reminds us of the great sacrifice paid by so many in so many conflicts. This beautiful commemorative book tells the story of the ...Show more
Union Soldiers in the American Civil War - Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages by Lance J. Herdegen
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
Some Confederates called him a "Bluebelly," "Mudsill," and even a "Lincolnite" (for President Abraham Lincoln), but the name that has carried down through the decades is simply "Billy Yank." Author Lance Herdegen tells his fascinating multi-faceted story in Union Soldiers in the American Civil War. Unio ...Show more
Hitler's Economy - Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933-1936 by Dan P. Silverman
$178.95 AUD
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Category: History
When Hitler assumed the German chancellorship in January 1933, 34 percent of Germany's work force was unemployed. By 1936, before Hitler's rearmament program took hold of the economy, most of the jobless had disappeared from official unemployment statistics. How did the Nazis put Germany back to work? W ...Show more
Confederate Soldiers in the American Civil War - Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages by Mark Hughes
$38.99 AUD
Category: History
Thousands of books have been written about the Civil War, but few cover the story of the soldiers and sailors who wore the gray uniform and fought for the Confederacy. That alone makes Confederate Soldiers in the American Civil War a compelling title worthy of attention. The author uses a format similar ...Show more
War and Peace by Pierre Hazan; Jacques Berchtold; Nicolas Ducimetiere
$79.99 AUD
Category: History
-Published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the creation of the League of Nations in 1919 -With a preface by Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations -Accompanies an exhibition at the Fondation Martin Bodmer, Geneva, in partnership with the United Nations Organization in Gene ...Show more
The Scar That Binds - American Culture and the Vietnam War by Keith Beattie
$62.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Open Access Lib and HC Ser.
At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. The media and other commentators represented the impact of the war through a variety of rhetorical devices, most notably the emotionally charged metaphor of ...Show more
The Tudors and Europe by John Matusiak
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1517, a certain Dr Beale, rector of St Mary Spitall in London, had roused the capital's mob by laying the blame for an increase in poverty squarely upon the shoulders of grasping foreigners. 'God has given England to Englishmen,' he fumed, and 'as birds would defend their nest, so ought Englishmen to ...Show more
The Gunpowder Plot Deceit by Martyn R. Beardsley
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Most people think they know the story of the Gunpowder Plot, and of how a bloody catastrophe was averted at the eleventh hour when Guy Fawkes was caught lurking in the shadows beneath the Houses of Parliament.But what if it wasn't like that at all? How was it that a group of prominent, disaffected Catho ...Show more
At War With War - 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks, Illustrated by Seymour Chwast
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
At War with War visualizes humanity's 5,000-year-long state of conflict, chaos, and violence on a continuous timeline. Seventy pages of stark black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings and woodcuts illustrate history's most notorious battles-from 3300 BCE to the present day. Interspersed are contemplations on ...Show more