November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War by Peter Englund
36.99 AUD
Category: Military
'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVOR'Extraordinary' JULIA BOYDAn intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War - perhaps the century - as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs.At the beginning of November 1942, it l ...Show more
Uncle Noel Blair Man on a Mission - From Cherbourg to Lake Gkula by Noel Blair; Geoff Evans (Assisted by); Edwina Shaw (Editor)
25.00 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
Memoir of Uncle Noel Blair, who was born at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement in Queensland in the 1940s. Uncle Noel Blair is a fighter. Born in the 1940s, he grew up at Cherbourg under ‘the Act’ – Queensland’s notoriously repressive legislation that controlled the daily life of Indigenous people. Uncle ...Show more
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future (HB) by Ian Johnson
55.00 AUD
Category: History
Using history to challenge Communist Party rule Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future describes how some of China's best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on ...Show more
Journey in Time: The 50,000 year story of the Australian Aboriginal rock art of Arnhem Land by George Chaloupka
59.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
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A Secret Country by John Pilger
27.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
"EXPATRIATE JOURNALIST and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A SECRET COUNTRY, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high political drama."
The Greatest Evil is War by Chris Hedges
27.99 AUD
Category: Military
Now with a new preface for the paperback edition by the author, an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents. Drawn from experience and interviews by Pulitzer-prize-winner Chris Hedges, a devastating look the hidden costs of war, what it does to in ...Show more
The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo
36.99 AUD
Category: History
An extraordinarily dramatic reconstruction of the greatest border breach in Cold War history In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable- they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic. Word had spread of what was going to happen. On wisps of r ...Show more
W. E. H. Stanner: Selected Writings by W. E. H. Stanner
34.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Studies
'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined ...Show more
Rebel Island: The incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
49.99 AUD
Category: World
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle--and the renewed threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a 'ball of mud', Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller tha ...Show more
A Short History of the Tudors by Richard Rex
29.99 AUD
Category: World | Series: Short Histories Ser.
Combining an expertise on the Tudor dynasty with an authoritative understanding of its religious and political make-up, A Short History of the Tudors provides a fresh and accessible perspective of one of the most formative periods of British history.Rex considers the ways in which the Tudors shaped the ...Show more
Napoleon The Great by Andrew Roberts
35.00 AUD
Category: History
Awarded The Prix Du Jury Des Grands Prix De La Fondation Napoleon 2014 From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty ...Show more
Borderlands - South Yorkshire in the Anglo-Saxon and Viking Periods. AD 450-1066 by Phil Sidebottom
59.99 AUD
Category: History
The period AD 450-1066 was a tumultuous time for the British Isles, and this was in particularly true of what became South Yorkshire. Existing on the borderland between the great Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria, South Yorkshire remained contentious in the struggles between the rival polit ...Show more