World War 2: A Complete Photographic History by Hal Buell
$39.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
World War II: A Complete Photographic History presents a simultaneous documentary view of every theatre of the war, from the steppes of Russia to the jungles of Malaysia and the Solomons; from the freezing cold of the northernmost fjords to the scorching sands of the Libyan desert; from the bunkers of t ...Show more
Voices of War by MICHAEL CAULFIELD (ed)
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
Drawn from engagements ranging from World War I through to operations in East Timor and Iraq, the stories are taken from the Australians at War Film Archive, a collection of the memories of over two thousand Australians who have served, both on the front line and at home. Some are unbelievably, unbearab ...Show more
VC's of the First World War by Stephen Snelling
$24.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First World War. What had initially been a purely naval enterprise had escalated to become a full-scale Anglo-French invasion, resulting in an eight-month campaign ...Show more
Great War in 3D by Jean-Pierre Verney
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
An innovative package includes a sturdy, metal stereoscopic viewer, 35 stereoscopic photographs of some of the most compelling moments captured on film during WWI. An 176-page paperback provides a brief history of war photography and an overview of the war from 1914 through the Treaty of Versailles, inc ...Show more
Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Eastern
The apparent glamour of the Indian Raj continues to fascinate long after the British quit the subcontinent. But along with the beauty of the Indian landscape and the privilege of servants and holidays in hill stations, British women in that vanished world faced challenges and fears that came from being ...Show more
A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF THE DESTRUCTION O by BAEZ FERNANDO
$45.00 AUD
Category: General History
We Shall Fight on the Beaches: The Speeches That Inspired History by Jacob F. Field
$29.99 AUD
Category: General History
Prefaced by brief historical and biographical introductions, the examples in this book show how words can be used to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse even the most seemingly hard-bitten of listeners. From rallying cries such as Garibaldi's 'To arms, then, all of you!' and Chou En-lai's 'We mu ...Show more
150 Years Melbourne Zoo by Neil Montagnana-wallace
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Times change and so too, do zoos. Gone is the menagerie mentality. The cigarette-smoking Orang-utan or monkey tea-parties are things of the past. Feeding gorillas peanuts in return for a trick, or riding an elephant for kicks are activities that have become quirky anecdotes in the Zoo's history. Today, ...Show more
Arthur: King in the West by Robert Dunning
$29.95 AUD
Category: British
The story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has enthralled people for centuries and this new paperback edition of a classic text provides the reader with a detailed and illustrated guide to the history surrounding the Arthurian legend, Tintagel and Glastonbury. The legend of King Arthur ...Show more
Boudica: Dreaming the Hound by Manda Scott; Philip Stevens (Read by); Jerome Flynn (Read by); Liza Goddard (Read by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: British | Series: Boudica Ser.
AD 57: much of Britannia has been under Roman occupation for over ten years and tribes pay costly tithes to the Emperor in return for the right to continue living on their own lands.On the sacred isle of Mona, the Boudica or 'Bringer of Victory' as Breaca has long been hailed, now knows for certain that ...Show more
Dampier's Monkey - The South Seas Voyages of William Dampier by Adrian Mitchell
$49.95 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
William Dampier, the 'devil's mariner' as he has been called, a far voyager and traveller extraordinaire, lived in an era when, more truly than in other periods of history, the past was being put behind the present, and everything was new - a new world discovered by the first stirrings of the new scienc ...Show more