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Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
by Peter FitzSimons
Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December, 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a ...
ISBN: 9781741666601
Binding: Hardback Book
$49.95
A History of the World in 100 Objects
by Neil MacGregor
Neil MacGregor's "A History of the World in 100 Objects" takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, "A History of the World in ...
ISBN: 9780241951774
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.99
by Watkin Tench & Tim Flannery
"I do not hesitate to declare that the natives of New South Wales possess a considerable portion of that acumen, or sharpness of intellect, which bespeaks genius." In 1788 Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Sydney Cove with the First Fleet.
ISBN: 9781921922312
Binding: Paperback Book
$12.95
The Unfinished Revolution
by Peter FitzSimons
Eureka Stockade - the Unfinished Revolution ...The Eureka Stockade was Australia's answer to the Boston Tea Party, to the French people's storming of the Bastille. It was the moment when the diggers sense of outraged justice united them into a ...
ISBN: 9781742755250
Binding: Hardback Book
$49.95
by Paul Ham
This is the story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war u a barely known episode of unimaginable horror. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors transferred 2700 British and Australian prisoners ...
ISBN: 9781864711400
Binding: Hardback Book
$49.95
by Paul Johnson
Applies a wide lens and an unconventional approach to illuminate the various phases of Churchill's career. From his adventures as a young cavalry officer in the service of the Empire to his role as an elder statesman foretelling the advent of the ...
ISBN: 9780143117995
Binding: Paperback Book
$19.95
The Only Thing Worth Dying for
How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan
by Eric Blehm
<p> On a moonless night just weeks after September 11, 2001, a U.S. Special Forces team of Green Berets known as ODA 574 infiltrated the mountains of southern Afghanistan with a seemingly impossible mission: to foment a tribal revolt and force ...
ISBN: 9780061661235
Binding: Paperback Book
$29.99
Muslims' Stories of Detention and Deportation in America After 9/11
by Irum Shiekh
This book collects personal narratives of immigrants from Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Palestine who were racially profiled and detained following the September 11 attacks. Exploring themes of transnationalism, racialization, and the global war on ...
ISBN: 9780230103818
Binding: Hardback Book
$138.00
Harry Patch and the Legacy of War
by Peter Parker
This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations. On 11 November 1920, huge crowds lined the streets of London for the funeral of the ...
ISBN: 9780007357963
Binding: Paperback Book
$21.99
by Peter FitzSimons
'What we have we hold' MOTTO OF AUSTRALIA'S 2/17TH BATTALION In the tradition of his bestselling Kokoda Peter FitzSimons Australia's most beloved popular historian focuses on one of the seminal moments in Australian history: the Battle of ...
ISBN: 9780732286316
Binding: Paperback Book
$35.00
The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege
by Dan Mills
We all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed 'Grenade!' simultaneously. Then everything went into slow motion. The grenade took an age to travel through its 20 metre arc. A dark, small oval-shaped package of misery the size of a peach ...
ISBN: 9780141029016
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.95
How Britain Made the Modern World
by Niall Ferguson
Shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all history, how it ended, and how - for better or worse - it made our world what it is today.
ISBN: 9780141037318
Binding: Paperback Book
$9.95
Curious Histories of How to Live
by Roman Krznaric
There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be ...
ISBN: 9781846683930
Binding: Hardback Book