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‘I beseech you to read this account’ – Christopher HitchensA magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea.Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentrati …
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This is Bill Cull’s unforgettable story of his experiences in WW1: he fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front where he was captured by the Germans and was a POW until the end of the war.Captain W …
About 1300 Australians died in the desert campaigns of World War I, while another 3500 died in North Africa and the Middle East during World War II. Thousands more carried the wounds of war for the re …
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Australia’s diggers didn’t go ‘over the top’ for King and Country, they did it for their mates and their battalion – extraordinary deeds performed by ordinary men. Henry George Hartnett, known as ‘Har …
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‘We were all skin and bone, as if our stomachs were stuck to the inside wall of our back.’ Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushing the other back along a muddy, precipitous track ove …
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Powerful, dramatic, heartwarming, this is the true story of Sarbi, the scruffy black Labrador-cross trained by the Australian Army as an explosives detection dog for the most dangerous combat mission …
As recently as one hundred years ago British children existed in ways now unthinkable; boys as young as eight worked gruelling hours in unlit factories; girls were sold into sexual slavery with dolls …
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In his most important and commercial book since Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden draws on unprecedented access to the figures involved to produce the definitive account of the assassination of Osama bin L …
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It is 1596 and in Mexico the Inquisition is at its most efficient. A young man trembles in his cell as he prays for salvation, torn between the Christianity he was schooled in and his ancestral faith. …
Every day of the year carries the memory of great and terrible events…From the founding of Rome to the twenty-first century’s war on terror, History’s Daybook presents a vivid, day-by-day perspectiv …
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The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill’s ‘famous few’ – the Hurricane and Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command – held Goering’s …
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A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the British to Jamaica …
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And Man Created God is a sweeping exploration of the changing religions of the empires and peoples of the world at the time of Jesus: a work of extraordinary richness and ambition, this is popular his …
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It’s been more than ten years since Al-Qaeda demolished the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001. One of the most pivotal events in the last fifty years, it was a dramatic moment in whi …
On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide, an infant colony half a world away and not yet two year …
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In this definitive collection of Stephenson’s writings, journalism and meditations, the great American polymath puts the 20th Century – mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history …
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