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Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death

Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death

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Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, one of the very best anti-war novels ever written, a book both beloved and banned -...
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Author: Norman Ohler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

$35.00 AUD$29.75 AUD
Author: John Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...
The Complete MAUS

The Complete MAUS

$36.99 AUD$31.44 AUD
Author: Art Spiegelman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 2016 is the 30th anniversary of Maus - the million-selling, Pulitzer-winning, father-son memoir about the Holocaust 'A quiet triumph,...
Secret and Special

Secret and Special

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
Author: Will Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The untold story of Z Special Unit and Operations, the precursor to the elite SAS, and the extraordinary feats...
Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

$59.99 AUD$50.99 AUD
Author: Adolf Hitler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during...
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Author: Viktor E Frankl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Now reissued by Rider, one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the Second World War,...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Author: Paul Kennedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 How, when it came down to it, did the Allies win the Second World War? How did they win...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Author: Tim Bouverie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting...
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness

Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The bestselling historian's gripping account of the Allied bombing of Dresden for the 75th anniversary In February 1945 the...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland

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Author: Christopher R. Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

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Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A fascinating exploration of the character of Adolf Hitler- the most powerful and destructive man in history. Accompanies the...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
Night

Night

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Author: Elie Wiesel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is among the most...
Conversations With Stalin

Conversations With Stalin

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Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

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Author: Hans Fallada Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants...
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Author: Jonathan Dimbleby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World War - 'truly gripping' (Andrew Roberts)...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil

Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil

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Author: Susan Neiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from...
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare

'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare

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Author: Geoff Dyer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 An extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of the Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood film Where Eagles Dare - published as the film...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

$45.00 AUD$38.25 AUD
Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right...