Civil War in Syria["Mobilization and Competing Social Orders"] by Adam Baczko; Gilles Dorronsoro; Arthur Quesnay
$34.99 AUD
Category: history | Series: Problems of International Politics Ser.
The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities by Paul Anthony Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: history
'Brilliant for anyone interested in the effervescent oddness of English' --Stig Abell on Word DropsThis is the perfect language gift book: a surprising or obscure word for every day of the year. Paul Anthony Jones has unearthed a wealth of wonderful and strange words: dip into this beautifully designed ...Show more
Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide: The Modern Era, Previously Published as Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide by Leonard Maltin
$62.99 AUD
Category: history
Previously published as Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide, this capstone edition includes a new Introduction by the author. (Note: No new reviews have been added to this edition) Now that streaming services like Netflix and Hulu can deliver thousands of movies at the touch of a button, the only questio ...Show more
The Great Game by Peter HOPKIRK
$26.99 AUD
Category: history | Series: Not a Ser.
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling. When play first began the two riva ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$19.99 AUD
Category: history
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more
Stories from the Sandstone by Peter Hobbins
$44.99 AUD
Category: history
Sailing to Australia in 1835, 16-year-old John Dawson watched in alarm as three of his sisters developed smallpox. Although all survived this dreaded disease, their faces bore tell-tale scars for the rest of their lives. Yet John left an even more enduring memento of his family's perilous voyage in the ...Show more
Tobruk 1941: Text Classics by Chester Wilmot
$12.95 AUD
Category: history | Series: Text Classics Ser.
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Crete: The Battle and the Resistance by Antony Beevor
$24.99 AUD
Category: history
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
$34.99 AUD
Category: history
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secon ...Show more
Bill the Bastard: The story of Australia's greatest war horse by Roland Perry
$29.99 AUD
Category: history
An epic yarn based on the true story of a great Australian war horse who rode with bravery and valour at Gallipoli, the desert campaigns of Egypt, and Palestine.
A Very Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey
$24.99 AUD
Category: history
Following the success of his A Short History of the World, eminent historian Geoffrey Blainey has abridged his account of the grand adventure of human history to create ad eve more accesible version of his absorbing work. A Very Short History of the Worldtraces the story of the world's people during the ...Show more
Treachery by Pincher Chapman
$29.99 AUD
Category: history
From noted intelligence authority and author Chapman Pincher comes an utterly riveting book that reveals in startling detail sixty years of Soviet spying against Great Britain and the United States. Using a huge cache of recently released documents and exclusive interviews, Pincher makes a compelling ne ...Show more