Fallout by Lesley Blume
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
New York Times bestselling author Lesley Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century -- the true effects of the atom bomb -- potentially saving millions of lives. In the days following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the J ...Show more
Our Man in New York - The British Plot to Bring America into the Second World War by Henry Hemming
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
"A revelatory and wholly fascinating work of history. Superbly researched and written with gripping fluency, this lost secret of World War II espionage finally has its expert chronicler." - WILLIAM BOYD 'Gripping and intoxicating, it unfolds like the best screenplay.' NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE The gripping ...Show more
Chastise (The Dambusters Story 1943) by Max Hastings
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Möhne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron, was an epic that has passed into Britain's national le ...Show more
The SS Officer's Armchair - In Search of a Hidden Life by Daniel Lee
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas that had been sewn into its cushion. The SS Officer's Armchair is the story of what happened next, as historian Daniel Lee follows the trail of cold calls, documents, coincidences and fa ...Show more
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch
$60.00 AUD
Category: War
While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in southern France and Africa. Thi ...Show more
Law in War - Freedom and Restriction in Australia During the Great War by Catherine Bond
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
During the Great War law was used in everyday life as a tool to discriminate, oppress, censor and deprive many Australians of property, liberty and basic human rights. A nation often amends its laws during war, not least to regulate life at home. Yet few historians have considered the impact of the law ...Show more
Military Strategy - A Global History by Jeremy Black
$65.00 AUD
Category: War
A global account of military strategy, which examines the practices, rather than the theories, of the most significant military figures of the past 400 years Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this new account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship bet ...Show more
Jungle Cavalry - Australian Independent Companies and Commandos 1941-1945 by Gregory Blake
$75.00 AUD
Category: War
The Australian Independent Companies and the Commandos into which they evolved were unique sub-units of the Australian Army during the Second World War. The very concept of such units was a radical one for the deeply conservative Australian Army and came about because of the personal intervention from t ...Show more
The Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Kate Bolick (Introduction by)
$48.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilli ...Show more
The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
When Kate Chopin's classic was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her death, The Awakening is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement and a celebrated work of ear ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb
$30.00 AUD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: War
‘A wake-up call … These women’s stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.’ Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict. Christina Lamb has worke ...Show more
Australian Code Breakers: Our Top-Secret War with the Kaiser's Reich by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret ...Show more