The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present by Anthony Pagden
$45.95 AUD
Category: History
Despite the long history of debate and the recent resurgence of interest in empires and imperialism, no one seems very clear as to what exactly an empire is. The Burdens of Empire strives to offer not only a definition but also a working description. This book examines how empires were conceived by thos ...Show more
Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban: How the Aussie Sappers in Afghanistan Took the Fight to the Taliban by Jimmy Thomson
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
They were young, they were tough and they were everywhere. They were both the backyard builders and the frontline troops in Australia's war against the Taliban. This is the powerful story of the sappers, the Army engineers in Afghanistan whose raw courage and skills were inspired by the original Austral ...Show more
Blood Revenge: Murder on the Hawkesbury by Lyn Stewart
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Blood Revenge examines the first time that white men in Australia were held to account in a criminal court of New South Wales for killing Aborigines. It happened in 1799, just 11 years after the New South Wales colony began. This book answers the disturbing question: Why were five men found guilty of ki ...Show more
Machine Rules A Political Primer by Stephen Loosely
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
But does a powerbroker like Stephen Loosley ever leave the political word? In his candid memoir, Loosley writes about defending the indefensible, the best way to start and kill off rumours, the value of truth in campaigning, how to use humour to squash a scandal, the key to fundraising and why bullshit ...Show more
The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak: In the Words of the Survivors by Dilip Sarkar
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939. Royal Oak was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland when she became the first of the five Royal Navy battleships and battle cruisers sunk in the Se ...Show more
The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 by Dan Van der Vat
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
The Grand Scuttle became a folk legend in both Germany and Britain. However, few people are aware that Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter became the only man in history to sink his own navy because of a misleading report in a British newspaper; that the Royal Navy guessed his intention but could do nothing ...Show more
Titans of Tech: Edison to Gates by Flash Guides
$12.99 AUD
Category: History
Titans of Tech: Edison to Gates explores the curiosity, creativity, and improvement of American technology throughout the 20th and 21st century. From Josephine Cochran s pragmatic invention of the dishwasher to Tim Cook s cutting-edge Apple watch, Titans takes its reader on a 100-year journey of technol ...Show more
1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History by R. G. Grant
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: 1001
Since the first recorded armed conflicts in Sumeria in 2500 BCE, battles have been fought for geographical and political gain. Early combats were small in scale, involving only a few thousand infantry and primitive chariots, but successive campaigns in the region gave the city-states of Babylon and Agad ...Show more
A Good Place to Hide: How One French Community Saved Thousands of Lives in World War II by Peter Grose
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'A story resonant in our age ...a grand narrative ...a book to cherish and recommend.' - Thomas Keneally..'Terrific ...an important story deftly told.' - David Williamson..Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they w ...Show more
In the Skin of a Jihadist: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks by Anna Erelle
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Twenty year-old Melanie, a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an Islamist brigade on Facebook. In forty-eight hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her day and night, urges her to marry him, join him in Syria to enjoy a life of paradise - and join his jihad. Anna Erelle is the undercov ...Show more