Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy by Michael Pembroke
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
Australians know Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales. But few know the real story of this mercurial man. Arthur Phillip was a career soldier, a mercenary and a spy for the British Empire long before he captained the First Fleet and founded Sydney. Through meticulous res ...Show more
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Winner, Jewish Book Council's Everett FAmily foundation award, Jewish Book of the Year Winner, American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal for Best Jewish Book of the Year Editors' Choice, New York Times Book Review In restoring Jewish sovereignty to the Holy City during 1967's Six-Day War, the ...Show more
Over the Top A Cartoon History of Australia at War by Tim Benson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Gallipoli landings, this groundbreaking book is a history of Australia at war as seen through the published work of Australia's finest cartoonists. Australia has had, over the years, a political-cartoon heritage second to none. From Livingstone Hopkins, No ...Show more
The Last Anzacs by Tony Stephens
$40.00 AUD
Category: Military
More than 75,000 Australians and New Zealanders went to war on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. They shared a horror, but their courage on a battlefield of tragic errors and unimaginable suffering helped build a legend, the legend of the Anzacs. The Anzacs lost more men on the Western Front than they di ...Show more
No Ordinary Determination by Hatwell Jeff
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
An epic tale of two ordinary individuals thrown into the extraordinary and surreal world of the Gallipoli campaign as soldiers of the First AIF in WWI. Percy Black and Harry Murray were plain hard-working Australians whose paths crossed in Western Australia when they enlisted in support of country and e ...Show more
The Battle For Lone Pine by David Cameron
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Surprisingly, as we near the 100th anniversary of the legendary Gallipoli campaign, this is the first book solely dedicated to one of its key battles - that at Lone Pine, where Australian and Turkish soldiers fought an ultimately futile battle that claimed thousands of lives in incredibly close quarters ...Show more
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more
Rescue at Los Banos by HENDERSON, BRUCE
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Bruce Henderson has told a wonderfully exciting story of one of war's greatest rescues with verve, style, and panache. I didn't even stop for coffee during my reading: it was so classically unputdownable.' Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Surgeon of Crowthorn Like ...Show more
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Susan Dworkin; Edith H. Beer
$19.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: General Adult
#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged ...Show more
President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial and Mourning by Harold Holzer
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
For the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, Harold Holzer (The Civil War in 150 Objects) presents an unprecedented first hand chronicle of one of the most pivotal moments in American history. The fateful story is told in more than 80 original documents, eyewitness reports, medical records, tri ...Show more
Turkish Awakening: Behind the Scenes of Modern Turkey by Alev Scott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
Born in London to a Turkish mother and British father, Alev Scott moved to Istanbul to discover what it means to be Turkish in a country going through rapid political and social change, with an extraordinary past still linked to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and an ever more surprising present under the leaders ...Show more
1864: The Forgotten War That Shaped Modern Europe by Tom Buk-Swienty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The Battle of Dybbol, 1864. Prussian troops lay siege to an outpost in the far south of Denmark. The conflict is over control of the Duchy of Schleswig, recently annexed by Denmark to the alarm of its largely German-speaking inhabitants. Danish troops make a valiant attempt to hold out but are overrun b ...Show more