Fair Dinkums by Glenn McFarlane
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
FAIR DINKUM (def.): honesty, guts, directness, fortitude, courage, truth. You had to be fair dinkum to enlist after the hell of Gallipoli hit home. A new breed of warrior and patriot stepped up as Anzac's second wave. Among them were 152 men of the 7th Battalion - fruit pickers and farmers, bootmakers a ...Show more
Australian and New Zealand Voices of the First World War by SCOTT FORBES (comp)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The First World War was an unprecedented conflict that reshaped the global political landscape and modern attitudes to warfare, valour and patriotism. And for the fledgling nations of Australia and New Zealand it was yet more: the cauldron in which their identities were forged, the international stage o ...Show more
Eyes in Gaza: 2013 by Mads Gilbert
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
During the course of Israel's twenty-two-day military offensive in 2009 on the Gaza Strip 1,300, mostly civilian, Palestinians were killed, with many thousands more injured. Once again, the Palestinian Community lay in ruins. Despite the Israeli authorities' attempt to shut out aid workers and the media ...Show more
Jihadi John: The Making of a Terrorist by Robert Verkaik
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
It was a defining moment, the first time 'Jihadi John' appeared. Suddenly Islamic State had a face and the whole world knew the extent of their savagery. Weeks later, when his identity was revealed, Robert Verkaik was shocked to realise that this was a man he'd interviewed years earlier. Back in 2010, M ...Show more
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East by James Barr
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them. Sir Mark Sykes was a visionary politician; Francois Georges-Picot a diplomat with a grudge. The deal they struck, which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the Entente Co ...Show more
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A passionate memoir.?Neil MacGregor'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families. A remarkable book.? ...Show more
War Horses: Hoof Prints in Time by Jill Mather
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
This remarkable but true collection has been gleaned from a large variety of World War 1 sources. It records the role animals played in environments which were completely alien to them. For all the animals that served us so well, only a handful left their mark in history.
Gay Sydney: A History by Garry Wotherspoon
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In this vivid book Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since then, including majority support for marriage equality and anti-discrimination legislation. He also ponders the parallel evaporation of a distinctly gay sensibility and the disappearance of once-packed gay bars that have now beco ...Show more
Empire of Things by Frank Trentmann
$69.99 AUD
Category: History
What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraor ...Show more
THE BOLD RIDERS ; BEHIND AUSTRALIA S CORPORATE COLLAPSES by TREVOR SYKES
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Universally acclaimed as the classic book on the 80s, now revised and brought fully up-to-date.
Democracy - A Life by Paul Cartledge
$40.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today - and has been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its meaning changed since it was first coined in ancient Greece? Democracy: A Life is a biography of the concept, l ...Show more