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A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939
Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...
100 Things to Know About the Oceans
Author: Jerome Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 An eye-catching information book filled with one hundred quirky and surprising facts about the seas and oceans. Do fish wear pyjamas?...
Out of the Woods
Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD 'This is a book...
Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In
Author: Vera Brittain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four...
The Story of Australia's People Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia
Author: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Compelling, groundbreaking and brilliantly readable, The Story of Australia's People- The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia is the...
The Story of Australia's People Vol. II: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia
Author: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The much-anticipated second instalment of Geoffrey Blainey's history of Australia's people - his most ambitious work to date -...
The Making of Australia
Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable...
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Author: James Boswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of...
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it...
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed...
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019
Author: Jack Fairweather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The first account of one of the greatest heroes of WWII, and a gripping story of defiance, rebellion, sabotage...
1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet
Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children. An extraordinary narrative...
The Holocaust: A New History
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A Sunday Times bestseller -- the first authoritative general account for thirty years This landmark work answers two fundamental...
The Dig Tree: Text Classics
Author: Sarah Murgatroyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 376 Introduced by Geoffrey Blainey Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable...
Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History
Author: Lewis Dartnell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations Read the Sunday...
Father of the Lost Boys
Author: Yuot A Alaak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 This is the true story of Mecak Ajang Alaak, a teacher who led 20,000 of the Lost Boys...
Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897
Author: Fiona Foley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 164 A striking and compelling book reclaiming history by a renowned Indigenous visual artist. In this groundbreaking work of Indigenous...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species...
The Choice: A true story of hope
Author: Edith Eger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The incredible, bestselling memoir of survival, hope and empowerment THE AWARD-WINNING SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Even...
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World
Author: Michelle Scott Tucker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English gentlewoman who would go on to become one of Australia's most...
Gallipoli
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route...
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians. On a warm...
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The untold story of one of WW2's most extraordinary and significant battles which marked the turning of the tide...
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Author: Cornelius Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome...
The Secret History
Author: Procopius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of...
The Makers of Rome
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and...
The Early History of Rome
Author: Livy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 In Livy's epic history of Rome he unashamedly praised his country's virtues and urged against its excesses, in order to...
The Twelve Caesars
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: David Womersley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL...
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine
Author: Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years....
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence. Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War...
The Naked and the Dead
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based...
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
Author: Arthur Koestler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passionate, provocative and lyrically told, The Sleepwalkers is the remarkable story of how man grew to understand the universe....
History of the Russian Revolution
Author: Leon Trotsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 Originally published in three parts, Trotsky's masterpiece is collected here in a single volume. It is still the most...
The Unwomanly Face of War
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel...
Hiroshima
Author: John Hersey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation The explosion over Hiroshima of the first...
Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941
Author: John Broich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Spring 1941 was a high point for the Axis war machine. Western Europe was conquered; southeastern Europe was falling, Great Britain...
The Conquest of Gaul
Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice...
Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies
Author: Owen Gleiberman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From a personal obsession with film, to an unorthodox mentorship with the legendary Pauline Kael, to establishing himself with the upstart...
Dance Your Troubles Away
Author: Pamela Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pam Evans' heartwarming London saga, DANCE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY, is set during the Second World War and is sure...
The Bronze Horseman
Author: Paullina Simons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE...
Speeches that Made History Over 100 of the most influential speeches ever made
Author: Bounty Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Speeches that Made History is a collection of speeches, addresses, declarations and announcements that have shaped history. Some have changed...
The Red Mans Bones George Catlin
Author: Benita Eisler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 George Catlin has been called the "first artist of the West," as none before him lived among and painted the Native...
Chanels Riviera Glamour
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Author: Anne De Courcy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In this captivating narrative, Chanel's Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d'Azur during a period that saw the...
Lords of the Desert The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East
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Author: James Barr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A path-breaking history of how the United States superseded Great Britain as the preeminent power in the Middle East, with urgent...
1918 The Year of Victories
Author: Martin Marix Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 1918 examines both the Germans' tactics and the Allies' preferred solution to fighting this war, the combination of...