The Petrov Affair by Robert Manne
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
In the highly charged atmosphere of the Cold War, the 1954 defection of Soviet diplomats Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov detonated under Australian politics like a nuclear explosion. From the moment the famous photo of Soviet thugs manhandling Evdokia Petrova across the Mascot tarmac hit the newstands, the ...Show more
Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and Her Crew by Mike Carlton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth.Most were young - many were still teenagers - from cities and towns, villages and farms across the nation. In three tumultuous years they d ...Show more
ANZAC Sniper: the Untold Story of One of Australia's Greatest Soldiers by Roland Perry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The extraordinary story of Stan Savige - from Gallipoli marksman to WWII General and the founder of Legacy 'Stan Savige had been on Gallipoli for just two weeks, in the trenches firing at Turks less than 20 metres away. But Sniper's Ridge was a different proposition. Killing took on another dimension. ...Show more
The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy; Hugo Vickers
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year'Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'One of the funniest, most eccentric books of the year'Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's ...Show more
For Valour: Australians Awarded the Victoria Cross by Aaron Pegram, Craig Blanch
$79.99 AUD
Category: Military
For Valour tells the remarkable stories of the 100 Australians who have been awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional acts of bravery and self-sacrifice in battle. From Captain Neville Howse of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps in 1900 to Corporal Cameron Baird of the 2nd Commando Regiment in 201 ...Show more
Island Story - Tasmania in Object and Text by Ralph Crane; Danielle Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
A handsome full-colour book pairing unique items from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery with selections of original writing about the southern island.Indigenous dispossession, a cruel penal history, gay-rights battles; exceptional landscapes, unusual wildlife, environmental activism; colonial archite ...Show more
The Colour of Time - A New History of the World, 1850-1960 by Marina Amaral; Dan Jones
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: New History of the World 1850 - 1960 | Reading Level: very good
The top five Sunday Timesbestseller. 'Breathtaking'Daily Mail. 'Astonishing'Sun. 'Shimmering'Spectator. 'Extraordinary'Daily Telegraph. The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of t ...Show more
The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean by Peter Burness (Editor)
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia's official First World War correspondent Charles Bean saw more of the Australian army's activities and battles on the Western Front than anyone. Bean's private wartime diaries, held by the Australian War Memorial, form a unique and personal record of his experiences and observations throughout ...Show more
A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions and, despite the extraordinarily varied forms it has taken and diverse beliefs it has contained over three millennia, it has been generally understood by both Jews and gentiles as a single entity. There have been many histories of t ...Show more
The New American Judaism - How Jews Practice Their Religion Today by Jack Wertheimer
$70.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
A leading expert provides an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism todayAmerican Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. Like other religions in the United States, it has witnessed a decline in the number of participants over the past forty years, and many who ...Show more
Underground - A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet by Will Hunt
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Will Hunt is an urban adventurer who has explored caves and catacombs, subway systems, and long abandoned, ghostly mines: all varieties of holes in the ground. He's tracked down people who, for one reason or another, have shared his underground fixation: each an incarnation of Hermes, who could see and ...Show more
In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter, Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace by Miranda Seymour
$22.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
'This magnificent, highly readable double biography...brings these two driven, complicated women vividly to life' The Financial Times 'A gripping saga of a double-biography' Daily Mail 'A masterful portrait' The Times 'Vastly enjoyable' Literary Review 'Deeply absorbing and meticulously researched' The ...Show more