Fields of Blood - Religion...Violence by Karen Armstrong
24.99 AUD
Category: History
It is the most persistent myth of our time: religion is the cause of all violence. But history suggests otherwise. Karen Armstrong, former Roman Catholic nun and one of our foremost scholars of religion, speaks out to disprove the link between religion and bloodshed. * Religion is as old as humanity ...Show more
Captain Cook's Merchant Ships: Free Love, Three Brothers, Mary, Friendship, Endeavour, Adventure, Resolution and Discovery by Stephen Baines
42.99 AUD
Category: History
While the story of Endeavour is widely known, Captain Cook sailed with eight ships, which began their lives as merchant vessels. This detailed illustrated history tells the story of these vessels and the people who sailed in them. In placing these ships and people in the personal, political, social, fin ...Show more
The Crime Museum Uncovered: Inside Scotland Yard's Special Collection by JACKIE KEILY JULIA HOFFBRAND
32.95 AUD
Category: History
Preserving Our Proud Heritage by L.I & Taubert, S.C Terrett
59.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
The Australian Army's customs and traditions represent the symbols and substance of much of our national character, adopted from Army's forebears and developed since 1901 to where we are today. In the form of the 'Rising Sun', these traditions shape Army's institutional values and to an extent its colle ...Show more
The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story by Tessa Dunlop
22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories Ser.
'Lively...in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women's own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service' New Statesman 'Dunlop is engaging in her personal approach. Her obvious feminine empathy with the venerable ladies she spoke to gives her book an immediacy and intimacy.' Daily Mail ...Show more
On the Psychology of Military Incompetance by DIXON NORMAN F
35.00 AUD
Category: Warfare
This text surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War, through the Boer conflict, to the disastrous campaigns of the First World War and the calamities of the Second. It examines the social psychology of military organizations, provides case studies of individual commanders and inden ...Show more
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
24.99 AUD
Category: History
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? Here at last is an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. First published 2005.
Fromelles and Pozieres : In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
49.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles, in northern France. By the next day, no fewer than 5500 were wounded and just under 1900 were dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial des ...Show more
British Aircraft of the Second World War by John Frayn Turner
59.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
This unique book, now republished, was the first of its kind to be published on British aircraft of the Second World War. Aviation enthusiasts and aero-modelers can see British aircraft as they really were, through magnificently reproduced color photographs. Each of the forty-nine types of aircraft is a ...Show more
History's People: Personalities and the Past by Margaret MacMillan
32.99 AUD
Category: History
In this year's highly anticipated Massey Lectures, internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the memorable figures of the past, women and men, who have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. The actions of Hitler, Sta ...Show more