The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43 by James Holland
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Ranks as a towering work of historical research and writing' - Nigel Jones, BBC History MagazineIn the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War, James Holland examines the momentous turning points of 1941-1943- Hitler's invasion of Russia; America's entry into the conflict; th ...Show more
A Short History of Australia by Manning Clark
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
On 26 January the convict transports moved into their new home as a handful of Aborigines on the shore set up a horrid howl and indicated by angry gestures with sticks and stones that the white man was not wanted.More than a decade after his death, Manning Clark remains Australia's most eminent and cont ...Show more
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000BCE - 1492CE by Simon Schama
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
It is a story like no other- an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more
Chastise: The Dambusters 1943 by Max Hastings
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron on the night of 16/17 May 1943, was an epic that has passed into Britain' ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countr ...Show more
Darkest Hour - How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink by Anthony McCarten
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the world's greatest leaders - and provides a revisionist, more rounded portrait of his leadership. May, 1940. Britain is at war, E ...Show more
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapseto Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the creator of the wildly popular podcast comes Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: History at the Extremes. Dan Carlin has created a new way to think about history. His award-winning podcast is revered for its unique blend of high drama, enthralling narration, and Twilight Zone-style twists. A politica ...Show more
The Gathering Storm: The Second World War by Winston S. Churchill
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The Second World War S.
Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is ...Show more
Inside Seal Team Six: My Life and Missions with America's Elite Warriors by Don Mann
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Seal Team Six Ser.
Don Mann offers an indispensable, ground-breaking narrative of what it takes to make a SEAL and to break a man - very close to the same thing. Pushing himself and his men to extremes, Mann suffered intensely for country and here he'll describe his life in the SEALS and SEAL Team 6, his training and the ...Show more
The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her si ...Show more
The War Diaries Of Weary Dunlop: Java And The Burma - Thailand Railway 1942-1945 by E.E. Dunlop, Edward E Dunlop
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an account of great historical significance but also a testament to the ability of the human spirit to o ...Show more