Crossing Hitler: The man who put the Nazis on the stand by Carter Hett Benjamin
$12.00 AUD
Category: Military
D-Day 6.6.44 by Dan Parry
$9.95 AUD
Category: Military
The story of D-Day, the turning point in World War 2, has been well documented. But this lavishly illustrated book and accompanying epic TV drama will turn all preconceptions of 'Operation Overlord' on their head. June 2004 marks the 60th anniversary of D-Day, the last time official reunions of veterans ...Show more
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of ArtilleryAn A-Z Guide to Artillery Techniques and Equipment Throughout the World by Ian Vernon Hogg
$12.00 AUD
Category: Military
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro
$12.00 AUD
Category: General History
Ten years ago James Shapiro won the Samuel Johnson Prize for his best-seller 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. Now, to mark the forthcoming 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, comes a compelling look at a no less extraordinary year in his life: 1606. 1606 is an intimate portrait of ...Show more
Up and Down Stairs by Jeremy Musson
$6.50 AUD
Category: General History
Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes this segregation was broken, as with the famous ma ...Show more
Great Australian Flood Stories by Ian Mannix
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
From ABC Books' Australiana range comes GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLOOD STORIES, stories of humour, survival and courage in the face of one of our country's most powerful natural forces, flood.
Gallipoli: The Final Battles and Evacuation of Anzac by David W. Cameron
$12.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Big Sky Publishing Ser.
This book is the first book since Charles Bean's Official History to provide a detailed narrative of the bloody and tragic battle for Hill 60, along with the other engagements that went on until the very last days at Anzac - viewed from both sides of the trenches. It also examines in detail the planning ...Show more
The Vandemonian War by Nick Brodie
$12.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Britain formally colonised Van Diemen's Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists moved in to the aboriginal hunting grounds. There was conflict, there was violence. But, governments and gentlemen succeeded in burying the real story of the Va ...Show more
The Flying Kangaroo (HB) by Qantas
$17.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
No symbol better conveys the intrepid spirit of Australia than the flying kangaroo. Whether it's glimpsed on a red-eye flight to an interstate business meeting, before leaving for adventure or holidays, or when longing to return home, that sweep of red defines air travel in Australia. Qantas has always ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Future by John Guy
$6.50 AUD
Category: General History
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
Great Australian Motorcycle Stories by John Bryant
$9.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
A bumper collection of yarns from motorcyclist enthusiasts around Australia. Get out on the highway and into this new collection of all-Australian motorcycle stories - the latest addition to ABC Books' bestselling Great Australian series. Edited by John Bryant and full of laconic Aussie humour, the coll ...Show more
Maps of United States and the World: National Geographic Society
$9.95 AUD
Category: General History