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Silver Stars (The Front Lines series)
The second novel in the epic new young adult series that Michael Grant is calling his best yet! It's WWII but not as you know it from school. This time...
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose...
On the Estate: Memoirs of a Russian Lady Before the Revolution
These are the reminiscences of Mariamna Davydoff, born in 1871 and forced to flee the country in 1919. Mariamna's vivid, detailed watercolours and writings reveal the intimate details of life...
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of
What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands?With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and...
Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist
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One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, one focusing solely on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young...
Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War
$30.00 AUD
Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era--the decade after World War II when the...
Nein!: Standing up to Hitler 1935-1944
From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler.'Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and places...
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile the Making of a Revolutionary
The father of Communist Russia, Vladimir Ilych Lenin now seems to have emerged fully formed in the turbulent wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. But Lenins character...
Some Liked It Hot
Women have been involved with jazz since its inception, but all too often their achievements were not as well known as those of their male counterparts. Some Liked It Hot...
Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women's Health - 'Powerful and
A powerful call to confront the reasons why politics is jeopardising women's health across the world, by a prize-winning academic'Harman delivers her devastating diagnosis with a powerful prescription for change'...
The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America's Most
The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, a Mexican American Green Beret from a working-class family with deep roots in Texas, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped...
Think Like a Spy: Master the Art of Influence and Build Life-Changing
'It's rare to find a book that is not only intensely personal but deeply practical. Julian Fisher has somehow pulled it off, in this fascinating and engaging guide to the...
A Fury For God: The Islamist Attack On America
The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington were carried out by men steeped in a certain Islamic ideology, which has come to be called Islamism. In A Fury for...
Century of Change 1900 - 2000
These outstanding books bring to life the people, places and events of the past in these islands, from the earliest settlers to the present day. They explore the everyday lives...