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A Passage to Sword Beach: Minesweeping in the Royal Navy
The author recounts his experiences as an enlisted man on British minesweepers in World War II.
Liberty Ship: The Voyages of the "John W.Brown", 1942-46
The only book devoted exclusively to a single merchantman's seagoing career in World War II.
A Blue Water Navy: The Official Operational History of the Royal
$40.00 AUD
Although the Royal Canadian Navy had spent the early years of the Second World War in a desperate struggle against German U-boats on the North Atlantic convoy routes, the service's...
No Higher Purpose: The Official Operational History of the Royal
$30.00 AUD
Throughout the Second World War, Canada played a vital role in contributing manpower and escorting supply convoys to the European theater of war. The Royal Canadian Navy was called upon...
Sink All the Shipping There: Canada's Lost Wartime Merchant Ships and
$80.00 AUD
The author's previous book, The Canadian Naval Chronicle, contains a chapter which gives brief details of Canadian merchant ship sinkings. While Fraser McKee and co-author Robert Darlington were researching those...
Women with Silver Wings: The Untold Story of the Women Airforce
$20.00 AUD
"With the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, women pilots went aloft to serve their nation. . . . A soaring tale in which, at long last,...
London: Immigrant City
TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has...
American Slavery, 1619-1897
$12.00 AUD
A concise, engaging overview of American slavery from the beginning of the colonial era to emancipation and its aftermath. Kolchin takes a broad geographical perspective, putting American slavery in the...
Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII
$12.00 AUD
"Was the bombing offensive [against civilians in Germany and Japan] a crime against humanity," writes A. C. Grayling, "or was it justified by the necessities of war? These questions mark...
Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never
Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we...
Changing Altitudes: Stories of Australian Air Force Women
In the early years of the Second World War, Australian women began lobbying to contribute to the nation's wartime effort. From 1940, women were signing up to serve in the...
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures
The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one...
The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off the Coast of
During the night of 27th April 1944, Exercise Tiger, a rehearsal for the D-day landings, took place off the coast of Devon. This supposedly routine exercise experienced a series of...
All the Presidents' Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of
From Abigail "Nabby" Adams to Barbara and Jenna Bush, George Washington Adams to John F. Kennedy, Jr., the children of America's presidents have both suffered and triumphed under the watchful...
Tecumseh
' A heroic work of research and scholarship. . . The most complete and reliable account of the events that made the great Shawnee Indian a giant figure on the...
Americas First Dynasty: Adamses
Richard Brookhiser has won a wide and loyal following for his stylish, pointed, and elegant biographies of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. In "America's First Dynasty," Brookhiser tells the story...
Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear
$12.00 AUD
According to the renowned social critic and historian Paul Fussell, we are what we wear, and it doesn't look good. Uniforms parses the hidden meanings of our apparel -- from...
Sweet Land of Liberty?: The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights
A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the...
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of...
A New Time for Mexico
Fuentes' bold and timely study discusses the origins and nature of the tumultuous events that have recently transformed Mexican politics and society. The rebellion in Chiapas, a rash of assassinations,...
The White Ships: New Zealand's First World War Hospital Ships
$100.00 AUD
This first book in the Centenary History of New Zealand and the First World War tells the story of the hospital ships. Based on extensive research, it brings to life...
Shadow Voyage: The Extraordinary Wartime Escape of the Legendary SS
A fast-paced, little-known story of danger at sea on the eve of World War II On the sweltering evening of August 30, 1939, the German luxury liner S.S. Bremen slipped...
Closing Pandora's Box: Arms Race, Arms Control and the History of the
This history of arms control in the 20th century challenges the liberal-pacifist view of international relations, and explains the Cold War from a post-Cold War perspective, untangling the complex realities...
De Gaulle: The Ruler 1945-1970
$15.00 AUD
The second volume of Jean Lacouture's acclaimed biography of Charles de Gaulle opens with the creation of the Fourth Republic in the aftermath of World War II and with the...
Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society 1898-1991
Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this authoritative account has been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.Two substantial additional chapters have been incorporated...
The Oxford Companion to Military History
An A-Z guide to warfare from the classical period to the present day, including the social, political, technological, and economic background of major conflicts. Entries cover people (military leaders, theorists,...
White King: The Tragedy of Charles I
The first accessible biography in 50 years of one of the most dramatic and bloody reigns in history The subject of a BBC TV series on Charles I The prize-winning...
SWORDS OF LIGHTNING
Special operational forces have been used since war began, and great reliance is laid upon them in the modern era. This is an illustrated account of the evolution and modern...
Alexander Hamilton: A Life
From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean island of Nevis, to his unhappy fate in 1804 in Weehawken, New Jersey, at the hands of his old...
St. Petersburg: A Cultural History
$20.00 AUD
Long considered to be the mad dream of an imperious autocrat - the Venice of the North, conceived in a setting of malarial swamps - St. Petersburg was built in...
This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain
'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time' BART VAN ES 'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today's toxic debates' DAILY TELEGRAPH...
Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America's Secret Thalidomide
Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears....
Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture
Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha. Seventy years ago, at midnight on 14 August 1947, the...
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets
A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in...
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
A landmark work of contemporary history and a wake-up call that aims to restore our understanding of the basis of our way of life, from the author of international bestseller...
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
'THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER- Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. 'Powerful...
1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year
The story of the year that rock music exploded, featuring almost every star who defined the decade *THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER* As seen on Apple TV - 1971-...
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War
A fascinating, frightening and sometimes funny window into an all-too recent world - everyday life in Britain in the shadow of the mushroom cloud The first book to tell the...
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most
The explosive expose of the billion-dollar company that has often made our world more unequal, more corrupt and more dangerous. **A TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR...
A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
The untold story of why our country looks like it does, from the bestselling champion of national heritage, Simon Jenkins The story of Britain is revealed through its buildings, and...
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Harald J hner (Aftermath- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich) presents a staggering new assessment of the short life of the Weimar Republic between the...
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster by New York Times-bestselling author Adam Higginbotham, based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting - a...
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world In Leadership, Kissinger analyses the lives of six extraordinary leaders through the distinctive...