Bang!
Graham StewartRRP: £20.00
‘Graham Stewart has done a terrific job. His book brings the decade vividly to life and convincingly places it in perspective… Excellent’ — Toby Young, Mail on SundayBritain in the 1980s was a pola …
Genre: History
The Battle
Alessandro BarberoRRP: £12.99
A vivid and original reconstruction of the Battle of Waterloo.On the afternoon of 1 March, 1815, a fleet of ships dropped anchor off the southeast coast of France. After ten months in exile on the isl …
An Edible History of Humanity
Tom StandageRRP: £12.99
Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, milita …
Biggest Estate on Earth
Bill GammageRRP: £18.99
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country esta …
Keep Your Head Down
Nathan MullinsRRP: £10.99
Nathan Mullins deployed to Afghanistan as a Special Forces Commando. Spearheading Australia’s Special Operations troops, he and other Australians like him sought the Taliban in the valleys and hills o …
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Kang Chol-HwanRRP: £10.99
‘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 …
Both Sides of the Wire
William CullRRP: £12.99
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 …
Desert Boys
Peter ReesAbout 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 …
Over the Top
H.G. HartnettRRP: £9.99
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 …
Path of Infinite Sorrow
Craig CollieRRP: £9.99
‘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 …
Saving Private Sarbi
Sandra LeeRRP: £9.99
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 …
Songs of Innocence
Fran AbramsAs 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 …
The Finish
Mark BowdenRRP: £14.99
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 …
Fire and Song
Anna LanyonRRP: £12.99
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. …
History's Daybook
Peter FurtadoEvery 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 …
Wings
Patrick BishopRRP: £12.99
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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