The Elite - The Story of Special Forces - From Ancient Sparta to the Gulf War by Ranulph Fiennes
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Inspired by the heroic war time escapades of his father, as well as drawing on his own experiences in the special forces, acclaimed adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes thrillingly explores the history of elite military units, from ancient Sparta to the War on Terror. The best of the best, these elite units h ...Show more
Digging up Britain - Ten discoveries, a million years of History by Mike Pitts
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
Digging Up Britain traces the history of Britain through key discoveries and excavations. With British archaeologist Mike Pitts as a guide, this book covers the most exciting excavations of the past ten years, gathers firsthand stories from the people who dug up the remains, and follows the latest revel ...Show more
The Operators - On the Streets with Britain's Most Secret Service by James Rennie
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Few outside the security services have heard of 14 Company. As deadly as the SAS yet more secret, the Operators of 14 Company are Britain -s most effective weapon against international terrorism. For every bomb that goes off 14 Company prevent twelve. The selection process is the most physically, intell ...Show more
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was the love of her life, her trusted husband and father of their nine children, Prince Albert. But while Victoria is seen as the embodiment of her time, it was Princ ...Show more
The Ancient Ireland Guide by Robert E. Meagher
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
A splendid guidebook to Ireland's spectacular antiquities - its passage tombs, ring forts, castles, Neolithic settlements, and monastic sites. With its witty and erudite explorations of Irish mythology, history, literature, archaeology, and architecture, this travel book makes for an excellent companion ...Show more
The Phoney Victory - The World War II Delusion by Peter Hitchens
$37.00 AUD
Category: British
Was World War II really the `Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the `Good War'. Whilst not cri ...Show more
A Kiap's Story - A Decade in the Life and Work of an Australian Patrol Officer in the Kokoda, New Britain, New Ireland, Madang and Sepik Regions of Papua New Guinea 1948-1958 by Graham Taylor
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Graham Taylor was a 'Kiap', or Patrol Officer in the then Territory of Papua and New Guinea administered by Australia between 1948-1958. His memoir describes those times and provides a useful history of an era and the events for a period often forgotten.
Princes at War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the SecondWorld War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War by Deborah Cadbury
$22.00 AUD
Category: British
In 1936, the monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era - the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V's sorely unequipped sons: Edward VIII abandoned his throne to marry divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson; ...Show more
Natives - Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
'My book of the year. It's personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are now. This is the book I've been waiting for - for years' Benjamin Zephaniah 'A potent combination of autobiography and political history which holds up a mirror to contemporary Britain' Independent 'A history lesso ...Show more
The Caesar of Paris - Napoleon Bonapart, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped an Empire by Susan Jaques
$54.95 AUD
Category: British
Napoleon is one of history's most fascinating figures. But his complex relationship with Rome--both with antiquity and his contemporary conflicts with the Pope and Holy See--have undergone little examination. In The Caesar of Paris, Susan Jaques reveals how Napoleon's dueling fascination and rivalry i ...Show more
Engines of Privilege - Britain's Private School Problem by David Kynaston; Francis Green
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Britain's private, fee-paying schools are institutions where children from affluent families have their privileges further entrenched through a high-quality, richly resourced education. There is an irrefutable link between private schools and life's gilded path: private school to top university to top c ...Show more
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
$20.00 AUD
Category: British
When Graham Robb moved to a lonely house on the very edge of England, he discovered that the river winding around his new home once marked the southern boundary of the legendary Debatable Land. The oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain, the Debatable Land served as a buffer between Sco ...Show more