The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
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Category: History | Reading Level: good
'As gripping as any spy thriller ... Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times 'Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph 'A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history ... royall ...Show more
Buckley's Chance by Garry Linnell
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Category: History | Reading Level: 3 Biography
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England ...Show more
Stasiland by Anna Funder
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Category: History
Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson PrizeTruth can be stranger - and more heartbreaking and hilarious - than fiction.In this now classic work, Funder tells extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of ...Show more
The Hollow Crown - The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to the death for the right to rule. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in history were thrown togeth ...Show more
Ghost Riders When US and German Soldiers Fought Together to by Felton Mark
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Category: History
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis by Elizabeth Letts
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . From the author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the remarkable story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the closing days of World War II WINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR RESEARCH NONFICTION In the chaotic last days of the war, a small troop of battle-weary American soldi ...Show more
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
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Category: History
The conventional view of Genghis Khan as a ruthless leader who destroyed societies is turned on its head in this New York Times bestseller. Scholar and researcher Jack Weatherford shows how Khan was the first ruler to grant religious freedom and how he instituted diplomatic immunity and outlawed torture ...Show more
My Mother's Secret: Based on a True Holocaust Story by J. L. Witterick
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Category: History
Franciszka and her daughter are unlikely heroines. They are simple people who don't stand out#65533; that is, until there is a crisis. In 1939, the Nazis come to Poland and start to persecute the Jews. These are unreasonable times when providing shelter to a Jew has become a death sentence. Despite this ...Show more
The Price of Peace - Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter
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Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
A page-turning biography of world-changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the transformative ideas that outlived him At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law's motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that ...Show more
Agent Sonya - Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1945, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she w ...Show more
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt
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Category: History
WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE. The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers. Over its course, the Thir ...Show more