Embarrassed Colonialist by Sean Dorney
$9.99 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
Forty years after independence, Papua New Guinea is the largest single recipient of aid from Australia. Yet Australians seem to be largely ambivalent about the country. Few Australians know the history of our colonial rule in PNG and our long ties to the country are quickly being forgotten. PNG expert S ...Show more
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy by Masha Gessen
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
An important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsar ...Show more
Witches of America by Alex Mar
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
"Witches are gathering."When most people hear the word "witches," they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers when she sets out to film a doc ...Show more
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance by Robert Gildea
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. 'La Resistance francaise' was not simply a national effort to free the country from German occupation, but a wider struggle, filled with conflicts and division. It included Spanish republicans, Italian an ...Show more
The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze
$28.00 AUD
Category: War
On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world - from Adam Tooze, the Wolfson Prize-winning author of The Wages of Destruction Financial Times and New Statesman Books of the Year 2014. In the depths of the Gr ...Show more
Albion's Seed - Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer
$70.00 AUD
Category: American
Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly influenced by folkways transplanted from Britain to the New World with the first settlers. Residual, yet persistent, aspects of these 17th Century folkways are indent ...Show more
Realpolitik: A History by John Bew
$37.95 AUD
Category: History
Realpolitik is approaching its 160th birthday, though it has existed as a form of statecraft for centuries and is arguably as old as the conduct of foreign affairs itself. Associated with great thinkers from Machiavelli to Kissinger, it is deeply rooted in the history of diplomacy yet also remains strik ...Show more
Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery by David Attenborough; Susan Owens; Martin Clayton; Rea Alexandratos
$42.95 AUD
Category: History
From the fifteenth century onwards, as European explorers sailed forth on grand voyages of discovery, their encounters with exotic plants and animals fanned intense scientific interest. Scholars began to examine nature with fresh eyes, and pioneering artists transformed the way nature was seen and under ...Show more
SAS Operation Storm by Roger Cole
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Hachette Military Collection
SAS OPERATION STORM is the inside story - told by those who took part - of the greatest secret war in SAS history. The tipping point, Mirbat, South Oman, 19 July 1972 is one of the least-known yet most crucial battles of modern times. If the SAS had been defeated at Mirbat, the Russian and Chinese plan ...Show more
Ghost Platoon by Frank Walker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Hachette Military Collection
An eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold ...until now. 'thoroughly researched and compelling ...a chilling account' - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 men were thrown together at Nui Dat, Vietnam. It was so slapdash a group it didn't even have an officer or a sergeant in ...Show more
SAS Insider: An Elite SAS Fighter on Life in Australia s Toughest and Most Secretive Combat Force by Robert Macklin
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Hachette Military Collection
Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today. He is an insider with the long view and this is his unique story of life in the SAS. As a bus ...Show more
The Australian Light Horse: The magnificent Australian force and its decisive victories in Arabia in World War I by Roland Perry
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Hachette Military Collection
The Australian Light Horse was a unique force, first raised during the Boer War, and then reformed for World War I. Most of the men were from the outback, had a special bond with their horses (which were all brought from Australia) - and they knew how to survive and fight in the desert. The greatest par ...Show more