The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the Holocaust, award-winning journalist and best-selling novelist Jonathan Freedland uncovers the extraordinary story of the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz, a man who was determined to warn the world--and ...Show more
Days Of Destruction Days Of Revolt by Chris Hedges; Joe Sacco
$25.99 AUD
Category: History
Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the Washington Post Three years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of pr ...Show more
The Careless State: Reforming Australia's Social Services by Mark Considine
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The lives of all Australians are profoundly affected by the quality of social services available, but a long list of royal commissions and public inquiries have revealed them to be failing. In The Careless State Mark Considine shows that the preferred model of reform has failed to adapt and improve.In t ...Show more
Antisemitism - A World History of Prejudice by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Antisemitism has featured in the history of Western civilization for over 3,000 years.Dan Cohn-Sherbok traces its origins and its manifestations, from political opposition to racial persecution to religious and philosophical justification for some of history's most outrageous acts. Against this backgrou ...Show more
Red Baron: A History in Pictures by NORMAN FRANKS
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
Manfred von Richthofen, the iconic Red Baron, has remained at the forefront of First World War studies ever since he became recognised as one of the most illustrious fighter pilot aces of the conflict. As we approach the centenary anniversary of his death and the ending of the Great War, it seems like a ...Show more
Speed, Aggression, Surprise: The Untold Secret Origins of the SAS by Tom Petch
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Ex-SAS Commander and award-winning filmmaker provides a fascinating, myth-busting story of the REAL origins of the SAS, for fans of Ben MacintyreThe Who Dares Wins Pioneers The origins story of the SAS is a myth. This is the real story of how the world's preeminent Special Forces came into existence. Sp ...Show more
Find, Fix, Finish - Inside the Counterterrorism Campaigns That Killed Bin Laden and Devastated Al Qaeda by Aki Peritz; Eric Rosenbach
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
On 9/11 the U.S. had effectively no counterterrorism doctrine. Fast forward ten years: Osama bin Laden is dead; al Qaeda is organizationally ruined and pinned in the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan; there has been no major attack on American soil; and while there has been at least one instance ...Show more
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia by Michael Adams
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to crap-carrier-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kelly looks at the life and times, crimes and demise of Australia's most famous anti-hero from a new perspective: that of the 'rogue and vaga ...Show more
Colditz: The Full Story by P R Reid
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
In Colditz: The Full Story, Major Pat Reid brings together his extensive research and many dramatic discoveries about the supposedly escape-proof prisoner of war camp. From all walks of life, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French, German and Polish prisoners - as well as those from the British Commonwealth and ...Show more
Why the Japanese Lost: The Red Sun's Setting by BRYAN PERRETT
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
This book tells the story of a war unlike any other in history, fought between a nation that believed itself to be invincible, even when its strength was being systematically destroyed by the greatest industrial power in the world. Prior to the middle of the nineteenth century, the Empire of Japan was c ...Show more
Don't Forget Us Here - Lost and Found at Guantanamo by Mansoor Adayfi
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guantánamo Bay for 14 years: a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Guantánamo on the eve of its 20th anniversaryAt the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to ...Show more
Somme Intelligence: Fourth Army HQ 1916 by William Langford
$57.99 AUD
Category: History
For the Somme offensive British Fourth Army headquarters was situated in a chateau at Querrieu on the Albert-Amiens road. In the build up months to Haig's Great Push a steady flow of intelligence was being compiled; captured German documents, intercepted messages, prisoners' letters, diaries and informa ...Show more