Breaking the Sheep's Back: The Shocking True Story of the Decline and Fall of the Australian Wool Industry (Prize Winner PM's shortlist 2012) by Charles Massy; Jack Lewis (Foreword by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Breaking the Sheep's Back is the untold story of the events that led to Australia's biggest industry disaster. Once a great nation-building icon, the wool business today is but a third of its size when Australia 'rode on the sheep's back'. Compared to the more recent Australian Wheat Board scandal, 40 t ...Show more
Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Pre-read / Used. Fair to Good Condition. inscription in front cover. spine creasing. He raises hackles or receives resounding cheers, he's loved or hated but never ignored. Christopher Hitchens is possibly the most provocative writer of our time, fearless and forthright with no subject off limits. T ...Show more
The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives by Richard Holmes
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
"The World at War" is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast in 1973, the result was a unique and irreplaceable record sin ...Show more
Berlin: The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller by Antony Beevor
$26.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks ...Show more
'I Have a Dream': Inspiring Words and Thoughts from History's Greatest Leaders by Terry Breverton
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
'I Have a Dream' is an anthology of history's most inspiring words and thoughts from history's greatest leaders from all ages and nations. Each of the 370 quotations is accompanied by an extended annotation that tells the story of the speaker or explains the circumstances that gave rise to the quotation ...Show more
Rome by Robert Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and artistic centre of the world. Hughes vividly recreates the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Nero, Caligula, Cicero, Martial and Virgil. With the artistic blossoming of the Renaissance, he casts his unwavering critical eye ov ...Show more
On Dangerous Ground : A Gallipoli Story by Bruce Scates
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
In 1915 Lt Roy Irwin goes missing at Gallipoli. The young woman who loves him, and the men who fought beside him, begin their search. In 1919, historian CEW Bean returns to Anzac Cove with artist George Lambert and soldier Harry Vickers to solve the greatest mystery of the campaign, to discover Gallipol ...Show more
Missionary Position: Mother Teresa In Theory And Practice by Christopher Hitchens; Thomas Mallon (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than The Missionary Position, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous and searing study of the life and deeds of Mother Teresa--and it is now available as a Signal deluxe paperback. A Nobel Peace Prize recipient canonized by the Catholic Church ...Show more
Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived by Andrew Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In the early hours of 15 April 1912, after the majestic liner Titanic had split apart and the 1,500 men, women and children struggled to stay alive in the freezing Atlantic, the sea was alive with the sound of screaming. Then, as the ship sank to the ocean floor and the passengers slowly died from hypot ...Show more
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Fergusson
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that our institu ...Show more
The History of England Volume II: Tudors by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A History of England | Reading Level: good
This is the second volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful history of England: the Tudors. Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with ...Show more
Uncommon Soldier : Brave, Compassionate and Tough, the Making of Australia's Modern Diggers by Chris Masters
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Chris Masters, the country's foremost investigative journalist, turns his penetrating gaze on the modern Australian soldier. Moving away from our ongoing fascination with Anzac story, he looks at the rich and illuminating present to write a character study of the modern Australian soldier - war fighter, ...Show more