On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World by John Hughes-Wilson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
From the ancient Greek and Roman origins of human intelligence to its use in the Catholic church to Francis Walsingham's Elizabethan secret service to the birth of the surveillance state in today's digital hi-tech age, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, professional military-intelligence officer and author of ...Show more
The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963 by David Horner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Official History of ASIO Ser.
For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organization, from shaky beginnings to the expulsion of Ivan Skripov in 1963. From the start, ASIO's mission was to ...Show more
A Higher Call - The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War by Adam Makos; Larry Alexander
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bomber's tail - the German pilot was an ace, a man able to ...Show more
Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner by Jonathan Glancey
$45.00 AUD
Category: British
"In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial flight of the supersonic airliner in 2003. It is a tale of national rivalries, ...Show more
Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich by Barry Turner
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
Among the military leaders of World War Two, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz remains a deeply controversial figure. As chief of the German submarine fleet he earned Allied respect as a formidable enemy. But after he succeeded Hitler - to whom he was unquestioningly loyal - as head of the Third Reich, his nam ...Show more
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire by Roger Crowley
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. In City of Fortune, Roger Crowley, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea, applies his narrative skill to chronicling the astounding five-hundred-year voyage ...Show more
The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret by Catherine Hewitt
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamourous existence hid a ...Show more
Church of Spies - The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
A radical reinterpretation of the wartime Pope. Born Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII is perhaps the most vilified and detested Pope in modern history. Pius XII and the Vatican are thought to have appeased Hitler and betrayed international Jewry by staying silent during the Holocaust. The accusation has f ...Show more
The House of Mitford by Jonathan Guiness
$27.00 AUD
Category: History
The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families - an extensively updated new edition.Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney were Nancy, the novelist and historian; Diana, who married fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; ...Show more
Wyoming Range War: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County by John W Davis
$42.00 AUD
Category: American
Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson ...Show more
The Great Wall in 50 Objects by William Lindesay
$31.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The culmination of a lifetime's field work and research, William Lindesay selects fifty artefacts from around the world to tell the story of the Great Wall from the second century BC to the late-twentieth century. Abraham Ortelius' pioneering world atlas, the unexpected origins of 'wolf smoke', the prol ...Show more
Tales of Old Batavia: Treasures from the Big Durian by Kami Ehrich
$50.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Tales
The city of Jakarta, today the capital of Indonesia, has had other incarnations and other names, most notably as the regional headquarters of the Dutch East Indies when it was known around the world as Batavia. As the capital of the Netherlands highly unlikely empire in the far east of Asia, Batavia was ...Show more