Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome`s Imperial Bodyguard by Guy De La Bédoyère
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Founded by Augustus around 27 BC, the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. But as the centuries unfolded, praetorian soldiers became more than protectors - they grew into political players with the power to make or break an emperor. Fiercely loyal to some ...Show more
Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East by Alistair Urquhart
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died and Urquhart ...Show more
After Hitler by Michael Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Donitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet remarkably, the war in the rest of Europe went on for another ten days. A ...Show more
Carrying the Fire - Astronaut's Jou by COLLINS Michael
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events - technical and spiritual - of our lifetime. In ...Show more
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings by John Gray
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Why is the human imagination to blame for the worst crimes of the twentieth century? Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why is contemporary atheism just a hangover from Christian faith? John Gray, author of "Straw Dogs" and "Black Mass", is one of the most original and iconoclastic thinkers of our time. ...Show more
Unfinished Business - Paul Keating by LOVE David
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
David Love, a veteran economic and financial observer, explores the story of Keating's revolution - a story that has never before been fully told - and sounds a timely warning that the failure to finish the job Keating started has left our new-found prosperity vulnerable, in the current climate of inter ...Show more
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality by Gail Dines
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
An unflinching and intimate look at porn - its hardcore and racist content, its unchecked profits - and how it distorts our identities. Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and ...Show more
In the Firing Line: Diary of a Season by Ed Cowan
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Ed Cowan, opening left-hand batsman for Tasmania, has always been a bit of a scribbler. It started with to-do lists and notes to self, but then he started keeping a cricket diary a batting bible with thoughts on the game, other players, motivational philosophies and records of performances. The diary h ...Show more
The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller "The White Nile" -- the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on earth. Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-t ...Show more
Left Turn by Anthony Loewenstein
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
In the Australian election of 2010, more than a million voters chose not to cast a ballot. Of those who did vote, almost 730,000 voted informal. The figures provide a statistical confirmation of what had already become apparent during the campaign - namely, that vast numbers of Australians find the poli ...Show more
Europe: A History by Norman Davies
$64.96 AUD
Category: History
From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, this book tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. It was chosen ten times as Book of the Year.