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The Road to the Scottish Parliament
This important book provides an invaluable guide to Scoland's new parliament. With his unique insight, gained in more than twenty years of covering Scottish politics as a journalist, Brian Taylor...
Who Paid the Piper?: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War
$60.00 AUD
During the Cold War, both sides looked to govern artistic output. This is the story of the CIA's strategy to insinuate itself in every aspect of cultural life, in order...
The Battle for Empire: The Very First World War, 1756-63
This text explores the conflict that began in 1756 and ended in 1763, generally known as the Seven Years War, which the author believes laid the foundations of the British...
The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of
'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...
The Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720
To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the...
A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival
On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz the...
When the Lights Went Out: What Really Happened to Britain in the
The seventies encompass strikes that brought down governments, shock general election results, the rise of Margaret Thatcher and the fall of Edward Heath, the IMF crisis, the Winter of Discontent...
Arts & Crafts of the Islamic Lands: Principles * Materials * Practice
$140.00 AUD
This book celebrates the thriving world of Islamic arts and crafts, as well as presenting the rich cultural, philosophical and historical heritage that contemporary artists and craftspeople still draw on...
Vienna 1900 and the Heroes of Modernism
$120.00 AUD
Vienna was home to some of the most extraordinary minds of modern times, and was a vigorous melting-pot of radical new ideas and concepts in every field - art, architecture,...
Stranger in My Own Country
As a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked about...
Conversations with Myself
Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts...
Born to Rule
"Born to Rule" tells the fascinating stories of five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria: Alexandra, whose faith in Rasputin and tragic end have become the stuff of legend; Marie, the...
Lowest Common Denominator
A riveting, funny coming-of-age story- the first volume in Pirkko Saisio's award-winning Helsinki trilogy 'Grandpa says everyone should leave me alone. If I want to be a boy, then I'm...
Love is Blind
Love is Blind is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel - set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician,...
Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of
$15.00 AUD
In the winter of 1910, the river that brought life to Paris quickly became a force of destruction. Torrential rainfall saturated the soil, and faulty engineering created a perfect storm...
Lest We Forget Forgotten Voices from 1914-1945
The phenomenally successful FORGOTTEN VOICES series, based on eye-witness accounts taken from the Imperial War Museum's vast sound archive is now collected together for the first time. LEST WE FORGET...
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace
'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal...
Band of Brigands: The First Men in Tanks
The dramatic story of the men who fought a new and terrifying kind of war amidst the carnage of the trenches in World War One: the British pioneer volunteers who...
Jfk: The Cuba Files: The Untold Story of the Plot to Kill Kennedy
First ever publication of the declassified Cuban report into the Kennedy assassination, instigated at the request of the US government. Fabian Escalante, director of Cuba's investigation, describes how Cuban units...
Hollywood: 60 Great Years
This work combines a history of Hollywood with an analysis of how and why the entertainment capital of the world has consistently survived its own limitations to meet changing public...
"Titanic": Destination Disaster - The Legends and the Reality
More than eight decades after the most famous sinking of all time, interest in the Titanic tragedy remains as strong as ever. Here, two of the world's foremost Titanic experts...
Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and
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What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate...
Great Australian Journeys: Gripping stories of intrepid explorers,
'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller' - Warren Fahey AM Australia's history is one of epic journeys, intrepid explorers and mysterious disappearances in far flung places. From perilous...
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village,...
The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ
"We appreciate Roger Stone, he is one tough cookie." - President Trump The sensational New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. Find out how and why LBJ had JFK assassinated....
Alpha Bravo Delta Guide To The Korean Conflict
A comprehensive overview of Koreas troubled past. Put the headlines in context with this comprehensive, yet easy-to-follow overview of Koreas social, political, and military evolution. From its early history as...
The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in America
From the award-winning author of Soldier Girls and Just Like Us , an "extraordinary" ( The Denver Post ) account of refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school and...
Jfk and Vietnam
The book titled Jfk and Vietnam by the author John M. Newman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
A lucid and compelling case for a new American stance toward the Islamic world. What comes after jihad? Outside the headlines, believing Muslims are increasingly calling for democratic politics in...
Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction,
An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...
The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's,
Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records...
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
The extraordinary true story of the triumph of love over repression in Stalin's Russia Almost everything we know about the terrible experience of the Gulag has been based on survivor...
Confessions
'I was at a time in my life where I got to thinking more about people's choices - how everything would be different if just the slightest decision changed...' It...
The Promise
A masterpiece of a family in crisis from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut- 'one of the world's great writers' (Edmund White) and 'the bold, fresh voice of South African fiction'...
Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
$12.00 AUD
On August 18, 1648, with no relief from the siege in sight, the royalist garrison holding Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwell's army firmly ended the rule of Charles I...
Head Hunters: Danny Black Thriller 6
Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Taliban are on the rise. A top-secret SAS kill team is assassinating high-value targets. It is bloody, violent, relentless work, suitable only for the Regiment's most...
Seventies: The Sights, Sounds and Ideas of a Brilliant Decade
When people think of culture in the 1970s they usually conjure up a confetti of kitsch, a jumble of disposable trash in which pet rocks vie for space with the...
City Of Cities: The Birth Of Modern London
A dazzling account of London at its height when it was the largest, richest and most rapidly changing city on earth. There is no period in London's history in which...
A History In Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century
The problem with the history of 20th-century Europe, asserts the author, is that everyone thinks they know it. The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the...
Swap: A Secret History of the New Cold War
From the Wall Street Journal 's award-winning international investigations team comes a spellbinding account of a spy war between the U.S. and Russia that transformed into a ruthless game of...
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Book of the Year for The Times, Financial Times and Waterstones 'This isn't a book; it's a case for revolution' CAMILLA LONG, SUNDAY TIMES...