View from the Wings: 60 Years in British Aviation by Colin Cruddas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A View From The Wings
The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis by QUIGLEY, CARROLL
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
"The Evolution of Civilizations" is a comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilisations. Quigley defines a civilisation as "a producing society with an instrument of expansion". A civilisation's decline is not inevitable but occurs when its instrument of expansio ...Show more
Unsuitable For Publication: Editing Queen Victoria by Yvonne M. Ward
$29.99 AUD
Category: British
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, two literary gentlemen took on a monumental task: selecting and editing her vast correspondence. The book they produced would influence perceptions of Victoria for generations to come - but it was not the full story. The Queen's two editors, Viscount Esher and Arthur B ...Show more
Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot by Giles Milton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
RUSSIAN ROULETTE tells the story of the first global plot and the British spies who were sent to thwart it. The Soviet plot was breathtaking in scale: its aim was to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. It was to bring together two deadly forces - Soviet ...Show more
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans But Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
'Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it' Bettany Hughes, Sunday Telegraph The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us - from our calendar and coins, to our lan ...Show more
Broken Nation by Joan Beaumont
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The Great War was, for the majority of Australians, one that was fought at home. As casualties of this monstrous war mounted, they triggered a political crisis of unprecedented ferocity in Australian history. Faultlines emerged in the ensuing years that would forever change the political landscape, rend ...Show more
Illustrated History of Australia 2013 by Five Mile Press The
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This vivid book traces the history of the island continent from the age of the dinosaurs through to the coming of the Aboriginal people and their unique culture, to the fateful impact of the first Europeans.
GottlandMostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia by Mariusz Szczygiel
$54.99 AUD
Category: European
"Extraordinary, hypnotizing and disturbing tales."A cultural history of Czechoslovakia, told through the stories of artists, writers, and performers whose lives were completely and often strangely altered by the various pressures of the times.The story of Eduard Kirchberger is one of the fascinating and ...Show more
Spy Who Changed The World by Mike Rossiter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Brilliant German physicist Klaus Fuchs worked on the Manhattan Project and developed many of the significant calculations that led to the creation of nuclear weaponry. He was also a spy. When the three leaders of the victorious allies, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, met at Potsdam in J ...Show more