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
Fire and Fury - The Allied Bombing of Germany and Japan by Randall Hansen
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
During World War II, Allied bombing obliterated every major German and Japanese city, killing approximately 400,000 Germans and 330,00 Japanese, the vast majority civilians. Fully 83,000 British, Commonwealth, and American airmen lost their lives, as well. A large number of these raids occurred when All ...Show more
Middlemarch by George Eliot
$20.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day'. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a ...Show more
The Hitler Years ~ Triumph 1933-1939 by Frank McDonough
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
'Superbly scholarly and just as readable. A chilling, meticulous record of state brutality that is more compelling than any novel' DAN SNOW on THE GESTAPO. On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the German Chancellor of a coalition government by President Hindenburg. Within a few months he had ...Show more
Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Iain MacGregor
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
'With a gripping narrative and vivid interviews with those on all sides whose lives were directly affected by that grim symbol of the East-West divide that poisoned Europe for almost half a century, [MacGregor] has made an important contribution to the history of our times' Jonathan Dimbleby 'Captures ...Show more
The Lost Boys - The untold stories of the under-age soldiers who fought in the First World War (HB) by Paul Byrnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020They were just boys. And they were to face the horrors of a war more diabolical than any of them could have imagined. This is their story. Hundreds of Australian and New Zealander boys enlisted in the First World War, some as young as 13. No one knows how many went to war, but at ...Show more
The Oarsmen: The Remarkable Story of the Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace by PATTERSON, SCOTT
$34.99 AUD
Category: War | Series: Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace
At the end of the First World War, there were 270,000 demobilised Australian soldiers in Europe. Getting them home after the Armistice was a task of epic proportions that would take more than two years. In the meantime, how to keep these disgruntled, damaged men with guns occupied? In a word: sport. T ...Show more