The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E Hoffman
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history "The Dead Hand" comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and apenetrating portrait of the CIA s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War While driving out of ...Show more
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney Rn by Suzanne Rickard; Peter Cochrane (Foreword by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney RN is about the young James Burney's experience of shipboard life and the momentous events that took place during the second voyage of exploration when he sailed with Captain Cook on the Resolution and then on the Adventure between 1772 and 1 ...Show more
Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945 by Francis Pike
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
In his magisterial 1,152 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles, Franci ...Show more
Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality - On Care for Our Common Home by Pope Francis
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
With an exclusive introduction by the acclaimed Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes, this is the complete text of the landmark encyclical letter by Pope Francis that has 'rocked the international community' (Time). The only secular edition of the Pope's remarks, the Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequali ...Show more
Kidnapped by Mark Tedeschi
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Kidnapped is about Stephen Bradley, who perpetrated the 1960 kidnapping for ransom and murder of eight-year-old Sydney schoolboy, Graeme Thorne. This was not only a vivid example of murder for greed, but also marked the beginning in Australia of modern forensic science as a tool in the investigation of ...Show more
No Mission is Impossible by Michael/Mishal, Nissim Bar-Zohar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
The 30 boldest missions of the Israeli Special Forces since the inception of Israel. No Mission is Impossible is an episodic treatment of the greatest missions of the Israeli Special Forces, characterized by its lead piece, an intriguing story of the rescue of 200 hijacked airline passengers at Entebbe, ...Show more
The Reith Papers by Peter K. Reith
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
Peter Reith was a senior federal Cabinet minister from 1996 to 2001. He was the face of the Coalition government's tough waterfront reforms, a major contributor to the Fightback! policy, a potential leader of the Liberal Party, the architect of sweeping industrial laws and defence minister during the ti ...Show more
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 by James Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Are you ready for the truth about World War Two? In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war on land, in the air and at sea, James Holland reveals not only the truth behind the familiar legends of the Second World War but he also unveils those lesser known events which were to have ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres : In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: War
On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles, in northern France. By the next day, no fewer than 5500 were wounded and just under 1900 were dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial des ...Show more
Royal Visits to Australia by Jane Connors
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Out of Australia's total population of around nine million, an estimated seven million people turned out to catch a glimpse of the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. Sixty years later, in April 2014, television news bulletins, newspapers and social media were awash with stories of the royal visit ...Show more
Eighties: the Decade That Transformed Australia by Frank Bongiorno
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Winner of the ACT Book of the Year Award It was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America's Cup and the Bicentenary. It was perhaps the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over land rights and immigration, th ...Show more
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason
$42.99 AUD
Category: Political
Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason wonders whether today we are on the brink of a change so big, so profound, that ...Show more