Bolshoi Confidential - Secrets of the Russian Ballet - from the Rule of the Tsars to the Age of Putin by Simon Morrison
$34.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin. The crime, organized by a lead soloist, dragged one of Russia's most illustrious institutions into scandal. Under Vladimir Putin, the Bolshoi Theatre has been called on ...Show more
Under Full Sail by Rob Mundle
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
How the mighty clipper ships transformed Australia from convict outpost to a nation. The story of the Clipper ships, and the tens of thousands of migrants they bought to the Australian colony of the nineteenth century, is one of the world's great migration stories. For anyone who travelled to Australia ...Show more
Australians: A Short History by Thomas Keneally
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam gave us a robust, vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed the Australian national story. Here these volumes are brought together for a sto ...Show more
The Miners: Stories from the Industry That Drives Modern Australia by Barry Avery
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The Miners traces the Australian mining industry and its turning points of discovery and development, the booms and the busts. It tells this story through the eyes of those involved in it, from the captains of the industry, managing directors of small and mid-tier companies, the financiers, the service ...Show more
Revolution: The History of England (Volume IV) by Peter Ackroyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: The History of England
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the ...Show more
Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War by Larry Hedrick
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1906, a stilted English translation of "Xenophon of Athens", story about Cyrus the Great's military campaigns was published. Now, a century later, a much more accessible edition of one of history's most extraordinary and successful leaders is emerging. Among his many achievements, this great leader o ...Show more
Jewish Anzacs Jews in the Australian Military by Mark Dapin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Acclaimed journalist, novelist and military historian Mark Dapin tells the personal, often extraordinary stories of Australia's Jewish servicemen and women. Over 7000 Jews from Australia - and overseas - have fought in the nation's military conflicts. Sir John Monash may be the best known, but Dapin als ...Show more
The Quest For Mary Magdalene by Michael Haag
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Mary Magdalene is a larger figure than any text, larger than the Bible or the Church; she has taken on a life of her own. She has been portrayed as a penitent whore, a wealthy woman, Christ's wife, an adulteress, a symbol of the frailty of women and an object of veneration. And, to this day, she remains ...Show more
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume III: The Age of Revolution: The Age of Revolution by Sir Winston S. Churchill
$32.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire tho ...Show more
The Billion Dollar Spy: A true Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman
$29.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: good
January, 1977. While the chief of the CIA's Moscow station fills his gas tank, a stranger drops a note into the car. In the years that followed, that stranger, Adolf Tolkachev, became one of the West's most valuable spies. At enormous risk Tolkachev and his handlers conducted clandestine meetings across ...Show more
Smile, Particularly in Bad Weather - The Era of the Australian Airline Hostess by Prudence Black
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Air hostesses took to the skies in the 1930s, proud and excited to have the most glamorous job in the world. This was a job like no other-filled with adventure, shiny new technology, and work that was thrilling, demanding and exhausting. Young women flocked in droves to be measured, weighed, and squeeze ...Show more
The Desert War : The Classic Trilogy on the North African Campaign 1940-1943 by Alan Moorehead
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: General Adult
In 1940, Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War - later collected as his 'African Trilogy' - were swiftly acclaimed as a classic account of the tu ...Show more