Kokoda: 75th Anniversary Edition by Peter FitzSimons
$36.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia, where a small force of young, ill-equipped young men engaged an experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track. This book tells the Kokoda story in a gripping and moving style.
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
$36.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime Berlin There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decade ...Show more
The Basis of Everything: Before Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project there was the Cavendish Laboratory by Andrew Ramsey
$34.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific quest to fathom the secrets of the atom.The unlikely story of an Antipodean friendship that changed the world forever. Before the Manhattan Project, before n ...Show more
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
$24.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed. But the world has.In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a ...Show more
The Rush That Never Ended by Geoffrey Blainey
$39.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
Forget about Ned Kelly and the bushrangers: for my money if you want a really romantic and exciting saga of Australia, take a look at our mining history. It's a turbulent, dramatic story with enough material for a bookshelf full of best-sellers ...a saga of tough men, iron-nerved gamblers, violence, dea ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The as ...Show more
Dethroned: The Downfall of India's Princely States by John Zubrzycki
$34.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. In July 1947, India’s ...Show more
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard
$65.00 AUD
Category: History & Military
Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar ( ...Show more
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin
$35.00 AUD
Category: History & Military
The first account from a prisoner of war in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. A shocking, hugely powerful memoir by British-born Ukrainian marine Aiden Aslin, who spent six months in Russian captivity.Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing ...Show more
The Eagle in the Mirror by Jesse Fink
$34.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century- Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest serving ...Show more
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld
$36.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between t ...Show more
Smuggled: A history of illegal journeys to Australia by Ruth Balint, Julie Kalman
$34.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
‘The sea was rough, waves a few metres, falling on top of us. We were just waiting and hoping and praying that we were going to make it.’ – Taozen, proud Australian, proud HazaraSmuggled offers a previously unseen glimpse into the dangerous and shadowy world of people smuggling. It shares harrowing true ...Show more