Gallipoli: A Ridge Too Far by Ashley Ekins
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
In early August 1915, after months of stalemate in the trenches of Gallipoli, British and Dominion troops launched a series of assaults in an all-out attempt to break the deadlock and achieve a decisive victory. The 'August offensive' resulted in heartbreaking failure and costly losses on both sides. Ma ...Show more
Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens by Richard Seymour
$22.95 AUD
Category: History
Among the ranks of the ex-Leftists, most of whom are readily forgotten, Christopher Hitchens stands out as someone determined to do just that. Rejecting the well-worn paths of hard-right evangelism and capitalist "realism," he identified with nothing outside his own idiosyncrasies. A habitual mugwump wh ...Show more
Anzacs in Arkhangel by Michael Challinger
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
With humour and an eye for irony, Michael Challinger tells the story of how this group of 150 Aussies was seconded to help to protect the British from a rearguard attack from northern Russia. Stationed in the small town of Arkhangel, the soldiers became embroiled in what was to become the Russian revolu ...Show more
A History of Modern Israel by Colin Shindler
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Colin Shindler's remarkable history begins in 1948, as waves of immigrants arrived in Israel from war-torn Europe to establish new cities, new institutions, and a new culture founded on the Hebrew language. Optimistic beginnings were soon replaced with the sobering reality of wars with Arab neighbours, ...Show more
The Great War Explained by Philip Stevens
$45.99 AUD
Category: History
Almost a century on, interest in The Great War could be expected to have faded and died; after all, the last who fought in it have passed on. Yet indisputably interest is increasing, not falling. Families seek their own connection both with ancestors who fought and all too often died and with those at h ...Show more
Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack by Rupert Shortt
$32.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
The aim of this book is twofold: One is to counter the huge weight of column inches being spent on the perceived, and actual, persecution of Islam. The second is to turn up the volume on the side of Christians rather than Atheists (a position which has been underpinned so vociferously by Dawkins et al i ...Show more
I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener by Gore Vidal
$17.99 AUD
Category: History
"I exist to say, 'No, that isn't the way it is, ' or 'What you believe to be true is not true for the following reasons.' I am a master of the obvious. I mean, if there's a hole in the road, I will, viciously, outrageously, say there's a hole in the road and if you don't fill it in you'll break the axle ...Show more
Australian Intellectuals: Their Strange History and Pathological Tendencies by Gregory Melleuish
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
Why are Australian Intellectuals and academics so hostile to contemporary Australian life? Why do they so often hold disparaging views of their fellow Australians? This was not always the case. In the nineteenth century Australians of an intellectual disposition sought to work with their fellow Australi ...Show more
The Misogyny Factor by Anne Summers
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website. Within weeks of their delivery Prime Minister Julia Gillards own speech about misogyny and sexism went viral and was celebrated around the world. Summers makes the case that Aus ...Show more
Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation by Laura Tingle
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In this brilliant short book - an expanded version of her acclaimed Quarterly Essay - Laura Tingle shows that the reason for this goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of gover ...Show more
When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence by Stephen D. King
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous economic growth has come to seem normal. But such an era of continuously rising living standards is an historical anomaly, economist Stephen D. King warns, a ...Show more
50 People Who Stuffed Up Australia by Guy Rundle
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Our Great Southern Land started out just that - Great. But what has happened after several centuries of white settlement and "development" and "progress". Has greatness been chipped away at and just who is responsible? Enter Guy and Dexter who point the finger at 50 people and (sometimes entire family d ...Show more