Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK by Brett Mason
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: 1st
The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampment ...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
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
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60 by Nikhil Krishnan
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to everyday life? What is a good human being? These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century Britain, a period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism. In response to these events, thinkers such as G ...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
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
Silent Landscape at Gallipoli - The Battlefields of the Dardanelles, One Hundred Years On by Simon Doughty; James Kerr (Photographer)
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
In our first book, we explored the impact of the fighting on the landscape of the Western Front - showing how the physical effects of war have left indelible traces; in this book, we follow the same theme, but from a different perspective. The Gallipoli campaign was planned in early 1915 - an imaginativ ...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
$236.00 (24% off)
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
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
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