Once in Broome by Sally Bin Demin
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
In this montage of memoir, art, silk paintings, and photographs, Sally Bin Demin remembers her childhood growing up in Broome during the 1940s and 1950s.
Once upon a Time in Iraq by James Bluemel; Renad Mansour
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In war, there is no easy victory. When troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, the gamble we took was a grave mistake, and its ramifications continue to reverberate through the lives of millions, in Iraq and the West. As we gain more ...Show more
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon by Fishman, Charles
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon. President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more ...Show more
One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 by Rosemary Ashton
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "the Great Stink" across one hot summer While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little re ...Show more
One Minute To Midnight - Kennedy, Khrushchev, And Castro On The Brink Of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. The Cuban missile crisis is at its height, and the world is drawing ever closer to nuclear apocalypse. As the opposing Cold War leaders, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, mobilize their forces to fight a nuclear war on land, ...Show more
One Minute to Midnight : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
$34.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Vintage
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In this hour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to ...Show more
Operation Babylift: The Incredible Story of the Inspiring Australian Women who Rescued Hundreds of Orphans at the End of the Vietnam War by Ian W. Shaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Orphan Babies of Vietnam War
In late March 1975, as the Vietnam War raged, an Australian voluntary aid worker named Rosemary Taylor approached the Australian Embassy seeking assistance to fly 600 orphans out of Saigon to safety. Rosemary and Margaret Moses, two former nuns from Adelaide, had spent eight years in Vietnam during the ...Show more
Operation Crossroads - Lest We Forget! - An Eyewitness Account , Bikini Atomic Bomb Tests 1946 by William L. McGee; Sandra V. McGee; F. Lincoln Grahlfs (Foreword by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
"A sobering, but entertaining read." -Mark Barnes, War History Online A Publishers Weekly BookLife selection for the November 2020 Spotlight 2021 Marks the 75th Anniversary of the Bikini Atomic Bomb Tests in 1946 "On 1 July 1946 by the Bikini calendar (30 June in New York), millions of people around the ...Show more
Operation Postern by Ian Howie-Willis
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Japanese troops seized and brutally occupied New Guinea's capital, Lae, for 18 months - until 16 September 1943. That day Australian soldiers retook the town against fierce resistance. Defeated, and after suffering huge losses, 8000 Japanese soldiers fled across the formidable 4000-metre mountains behin ...Show more
Origin Africa - Safaris in Deep Time by Jonathan Kingdon
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there. It is also the story of how it was the crucible for the evolution most extraordinary species on Earth - Homo sapiens. Africa has properties that ensure that most o ...Show more
Original Australians (The) by Josephine Flood
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Original Australians tells the story of Australian Aboriginal history and society from its distant beginnings to the present day. From the wisdom and paintings of the Dreamtime, to the first contacts between Europeans and indigenous Australians, right through to modern times, it offers an insight in ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
‘A wake-up call … These women’s stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.’ Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict. Christina Lamb has worke ...Show more