Equal Justice: My Journey As A Woman, A Soldier And A Muslim by Rabia Siddique
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Growing up as a muslim in the monocultural landscape of 1970s suburban Perth, Rabia Siddique knew what it was like to be different. She became a lawyer, moved to the UK and joined the British army as a military lawyer. She served in Iraq and was taken as a hostage by Islamic insurgents as she tried to n ...Show more
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the erection of temples on Malta around 3500 BC to modern tourism. Ranging across time and the whole extraordina ...Show more
Horrie the War Dog by Roland Perry
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraf ...Show more
Mapping Our World by Peter Barber
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450, is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in ...Show more
The Viking World by James Graham-Campbell
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
For 300 years, from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, the power of the Vikings dominated Western Europe. Their voyaging extended westwards to America and as far south as the Mediterranean and North Africa. As well as being warriors and accomplished seamen, they were jewellers, sculptors and poets of ...Show more
Badlands: Penguin Special by Paul French
$9.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Penguin Specials
An evocative account of the infamous nightlife district of pre-communist Beijing, from the internationally acclaimed author of the book Midnight in Peking. The Badlands, a warren of narrow hutongs in the eastern district of pre-communist Peking, had its heyday in the 1930s. Home to the city's drifters, ...Show more
Berlin - Imagine a City by Rory MacLean
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: good-very good
The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody ce ...Show more
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari SHAVIT
$45.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today. Not since Thomas Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised ...Show more
Tasmania's Convicts by Alison Alexander
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies. Following the lives of do ...Show more
Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials and Myths by R. I. Page
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
There have been many books about the Vikings, but few that see them from their own point of view. Most accounts rely heavily on the records of prejudiced observers (who saw the Vikings only as savage raiders) or the archaeological record, which tells us much about their material culture but little about ...Show more
Redback One: The True Story of an Australian SAS Hero by Robert Macklin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Hachette Military Collection
The command came: 'Stop those vehicles!' It was like a red rag to a bull. Instantly streams of 7.62mm tracer and 50mm calibre machine gun rounds arced across the night sky and smashed into the bus and truck. Elite SAS Patrol Commander Stuart 'Nev' Bonner takes us inside the extraordinary and dangerous w ...Show more
Winston Churchill - Soldier by Douglas S. Russell
$42.95 AUD
$49.99 (14% off)
Category: Military
Considering he has been and will remain to be one of the most studied personalities of the 20th century, relatively little has been written about the miltary service and war experiences of Winston Churchill - even his own writings give scant coverage of this important part of his life, despite his own a ...Show more