The Times Great War Letters - Notable Correspondence from the First World War by James Owen (Editor); Samantha Wyndham (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
The Times has the most famous letters page of any newspaper. This fascinating selection from 1914-1918 shows precisely why. While many letters relate to issues around the Great War, there is room for a myriad of subjects concerning the great British public of the time which capture the mood of the natio ...Show more
Murphy the Hero Donkey: A True WW1 Story by Isabel George
$12.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Series: HarperTrue Friend - A Short Read
The remarkable true story of an amazing and loyal donkey. The true story of a small brown donkey called Murphy, chosen to be an 'ambulance' in WW1, bringing wounded soldiers over the hilly, craggy terrain to the field hospital. The donkey served his soldier Simpson well and never gave up or complained; ...Show more
Hitler's Scientists by John Cornwell (Director of the Science and Human Dimension Project, Cambridge University)
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Category: World Wars
Nazi Germany had a head start in the science and technologies that dramatically transformed armed conflict in the twentieth century, leading to ultimate weapons of mass destruction, and the means of delivering them, ballistic missiles.In this epic and unique chronicle, Cornwell sets the genius and the e ...Show more
The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two by OVERY RICHARD
$76.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memor ...Show more
Petrograd 1917 - Witnesses to the Russian Revolution by John Pinfold
$49.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution irrevocably changed the course of history, with consequences still being felt a century later. This book offers a dramatic depiction of the chaotic events of the revolution, drawn from selected firsthand accounts. Assembling extracts from letters, journals, diaries, and ...Show more
The SS Officer's Armchair - In Search of a Hidden Life by Daniel Lee
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas that had been sewn into its cushion. The SS Officer's Armchair is the story of what happened next, as historian Daniel Lee follows the trail of cold calls, documents, coincidences and fa ...Show more
The Half Brother by Christine Keighery
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
The bonds of sisterhood were unbreakable. Until him. Hannah and Stef have always been there for each other. Growing up in a loving family, they’re stunned to discover their mother adopted out a child before their parents met. When Alex walks into their lives, the sisters are seduced by his charm, we ...Show more
Road to Surrender - Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas
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Category: World Wars
'Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant' Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb... Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary weight of their decisions... Road to Surrender by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas is a riveting, imm ...Show more
The Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski by Tim Tate
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Category: World Wars
A compelling yet tragic portrait of one of the most important, yet least understood, spies of the early Cold War. This is the dramatic, untold true story of Goleniewski's dealings in espionage and skulduggery.Spring 1958- a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began ...Show more
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
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Category: World Wars
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age ... The War and Peace of history: a book yo ...Show more
Australians on the Western Front 1918 Volume II: Spearheading the Great British Offensive by David W. Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
Following on from volume 1 of Australians on the Western Front 1918- The Great German Offensive, volume 2, The Battle for the Hindenburg Line, concludes with a detailed account of the final battles of World War I and the defeat of German armed forces on the Western Front. In compelling detail, David W. ...Show more