Fascists Among Us by Jeff Sparrow
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The first book since Christchurch to trace the massacre's fascist roots and what it represents. The massacre of more than fifty worshippers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, shocked the world. The murders were not random. They expressed a particular ideology, one that the alleged perpetrator desc ...Show more
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
"Explosive."--The Washington Post "Devastating."--The New Yorker THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT With authoritative reporting honed through nine presidencies, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's W ...Show more
The Big Book of Australian History (PB) by Peter Macinnis
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Did you know that, in 1934, the ABC developed `synthetic¿ cricket, in which radio broadcasters gave a ball-by-ball description of the game, using sound effects to simulate the sound of bat on ball and the applause of the crowd? The Big Book of Australian History features stunning images from the collect ...Show more
The Big Book of Australia's War Stories by Jim Haynes
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Here are the stories of Australia's iconic battles and campaigns from the time of federation to the Vietnam War. Some are still household names, although their historical significance may be a mystery to most Aussies. Others are barely remembered now, but are part in our history and deserve to be retold ...Show more
The Second World War Illustrated - The First Year: September 1939 - September 1940 by Jack Holroyd
$47.99 AUD
Category: History
The first volume covers contributory factors leading up to the outbreak of hostilities. Hitler's amazing success in correcting the real and perceived insults to the German nation resulting from the Great War and the Treaty of Versailles is acknowledged. There followed a military operation - Blitzkrieg - ...Show more
Spitfire! - The Full Story of a Unique Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron by Dilip Sarkar
$85.00 AUD
Category: History
As a child, Dilip Sarkar was fascinated by the haunting image of an anonymous RAF Spitfire pilot. Taken minutes after landing from a Battle of Britain combat, this was Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC, the commander of 19 Squadron, based at Fowlmere - and author of the stirring first-hand account _Spitfir ...Show more
The Triumph of Injustice - How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez; Gabriel Zucman
$43.95 AUD
Category: History
America's runaway inequality has an engine: our unjust tax system. Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have had their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investig ...Show more
We Can't Say We Didn't Know by Sophie McNeill
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Dispatches from an age of impunity by the ABCTV award-winning investigative reporter and former foreign correspondent For more than 15 years, award-winning journalist Sophie McNeill has reported on some of the most war-ravaged and oppressive places on earth, including Syria, Gaza, Yemen, West Bank and I ...Show more
An Elegant Madness - High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
The Regency period was one of the most turbulent ages in British history, one that spanned the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, that witnessed unprecedented industrial progress, artistic accomplishment, and violent social unrest and--paradoxically--the most sparkling social scene English high ...Show more
This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
When information is a weapon, everyone is at war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean. As Peter Pomerants ...Show more