The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan by David Kilcullen, Greg Mills
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson of America's role in supporting the mujahideen against the Soviet Union. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' The scandal-prone US Congressman lamented the absence of support for Afghanistan after that war, a vac ...Show more
Mao's Last Revolution by Macfarquhar & Schoe
$51.95 AUD
Category: History
The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People's Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to keep the population under control. But during the ...Show more
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City by Tom Chivers
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
'Tom Chivers, with the forensic eye of an investigator, the soul of a poet, is an engaging presence; a guide we would do well to follow.' Iain Sinclair, author of The Last LondonWhat secrets lie beneath a city?Tom Chivers follows hidden pathways, explores lost islands and uncovers the geological mysteri ...Show more
These Great Athenians: Retold Passages for Seldom Heard Voices by Valentine Carter
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Carter's fierce debut gives voice to the mostly forgotten and maligned female characters of Homer's epic The Odyssey. It is a celebratory ode to those who survive within and outside of gender norms. Faithful Penelope waits for her husband's return as she weaves a shroud that foretells her doom, Scyl ...Show more
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and The Sacrifice by Patrick Bishop
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
A grand tale of heroic failure during the Dieppe raid of 1942, grippingly told by the bestselling author of Bomber BoysOn the warm night of 18 August 1942, a flotilla pushed out into the flat water of the Channel. They were to seize the German-held port of Dieppe, destroy key installations, seize intell ...Show more
Conquistadores: A New History by Fernando Cervantes
$27.00 AUD
Category: European
NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY 'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary Review The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends a ...Show more
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our worldSince the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11 September 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - Covid-19. Each was an asymmetric ...Show more
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king' (W.E.H. Lecky, nineteenth century), 'one of ...Show more
Pure Narco by Jesse Fink, Luis Navia
$23.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
How does a young student majoring in Portuguese at Georgetown University in Washington, DC become one of the biggest drug smugglers on Earth? And how does he survive 25 years in the trade - and encounters with some of its most powerful and ruthless figures, from Pablo Escobar to Narcos- Mexico's Alberto ...Show more
The Story of the Country House - A History of Places and People by Clive Aslet
$39.95 AUD
Category: British
The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present
Secdef - The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense by Charles A. Stevenson
$36.00 AUD
Category: American
SECDEF offers an expert's insights into one of the most difficult jobs in Washington. Of the twenty-one men who have held the post of secretary of defense since it was created in 1947, only half served more than eighteen months. The first, James Forrestal, committed suicide soon after leaving the Pentag ...Show more
The Man in the Iron Mask - The True Story of Europe's Most Famous Prisoner by Josephine Wilkinson
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
A vivid, dramatic, and eye-opening historical narrative, The Man in the Iron Mask reveals the story behind the most enduring mystery of Louis XIV's reign. The Man in the Iron Mask has all the hallmarks of a thrilling adventure story: a glamorous and all-powerful king, ambitious ministers, a cruel and ...Show more