Not Your Usual Bushrangers by Peter Macinnis
$29.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Take a journey with one of Australia's most accessible history and science writers into an early Australia that extends beyond the Wild Colonial Boy and the Kelly Gang.Discover the endearing Moondyne Joe and Diver Fitzgerald, scallywags rather than villains, as well as some who affected a gentlemanly fr ...Show more
War Diaries : A Chaplain at Gallipoli -The Great War Diaries of Kenneth Best by Kenneth Best, Gavin Roynon (ed0
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Category: HISTORY
Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War - others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campaign. Best had no military training before the war but he felt that he could only fulfil his pastoral role by getting close to the front line and working wi ...Show more
The Winchester - The Gun That Built an American Dynasty by Laura Trevelyan
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Category: HISTORY
A fascinating history of the family behind the popular firearm that changed America and the world Arguably the world's most famous firearm, the Winchester Repeating Rifle was sought after by a cast of characters ranging from the settlers of the American West to the Ottoman Empire's Army. Laura Trevelyan ...Show more
A History of the World in Numbers by Emma Marriott
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Category: HISTORY
The history of our world can be told through numbers. Numbers can illuminate the broad sweep of history, from vast movements of populations and the expansion of empires to the effects of technological achievements or climatic change. They also allow us to drill into the real detail of history, from the ...Show more
Natural Histories by Brett Westwood
$45.00 AUD
Category: HISTORY
Accompanying Radio 4's landmark six-month-long series presented by Brett Westwood, Natural Histories explores 25 unexpected species that have changed the way we see the world. From cockroaches to coral, and from mammoths to meteorites, their stories are extraordinary and eye-opening: What happened when ...Show more
The Odyssey of Echo Company - The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War by Doug Stanton
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Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
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Monty's Iron Sides by Patrick Delaforce; John Poulter
$24.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY | Series: Amberley Ser.
On 6 June 1944, Major-General Bernard Montgomery chose his 'Iron Sides', the famous British 3rd Division, to spearhead the Allied attack on the Normandy beaches on D-Day. As the only division in the British Liberation Army to participate in the savage fighting from D-Day all the way through to VE-Day, t ...Show more
A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA by Joshua Kurlantzick
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Category: HISTORY
The untold story of how America's secret war in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy. In 1960, President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation few Americans had ever ...Show more
Lenin on the Train by Catherine Merridale
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Category: HISTORY
One of The Economist's Best Books of the Year A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the world. In April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves ac ...Show more
Lady Death by Lyudmila Pavlichenko
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Category: HISTORY
In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies and ignored the offer of a position as a nurse to become one of Soviet Russia's 2000 female snipers.Less than a year later she had 309 recorded kills, including twenty-nine enemy sniper kills. She w ...Show more
People of the First Crusade - The Truth about the Christian-Muslim War Revealed by Michael Foss; Janet Levatin
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Category: HISTORY
"As a concise popular history, People of the First Crusade gives an engaging overview of the reasons for the first great Christian-Muslim ""holy war,"" its gruesome progress and the confused aftermath." --Publishers Weekly Near the end of the eleventh century, Western Europe was in turmoil, beset by ...Show more
Jihad Academy by Nicolas Henin
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Category: HISTORY
Framed by Henin's personal experience as a hostage of ISIS alongside James Foley, Jihad Academy debunks the myths surrounding Islamic extremism and provides a clear and revealing insight into the sect's strange and distorted world. By invading Iraq in 2003 and not intervening in Syria since 2011, the We ...Show more