The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more
The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War by Tom Whipple
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Tom Whipple is the science editor at The Times, and a bad loser. His has spent countless hours phoning experts and distilling their knowledge - normally about rather more serious subjects than games. He has also been a feature writer for Times2 - and still writes freelance features for the Economist Int ...Show more
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance by Catherine Fletcher
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The Italian Renaissance shaped western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise. We revere Leonardo for his art but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry. We know the Mona Lisa for her smile but not that she was married to a slave-trader. We visit Florence to ...Show more
The Beauty and the Terror - An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance by Catherine Fletcher
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and freshness' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE The Italian Renaissance shaped western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise. We revere Leonardo da Vinci for his art but few now appreci ...Show more
The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris by Tom Sancton
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
At the time of her death at age ninety-four, in September 2017, Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the L'OrUal fortune, was the world's richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade, when she became embroiled in a scandal that do ...Show more
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia by Bill Gammage
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
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 estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far ...Show more
The Black Angels - The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure's discovery. During those dark pre-antibiot ...Show more
The Black History Book by DK; David Olusoga (Foreword by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
An accessible guide to the key milestones in Black history, culture, and society across the globe - from the ancient world to the present Discover the rich and complex history of the peoples of Africa, and the struggles and triumphs of Black communities worldwide. With profiles of key people, movements, ...Show more
The Black Intellectual Tradition - African American Thought in the Twentieth Century by Derrick P. Alridge (Editor); Cornelius L. Bynum (Editor); James B. Stewart (Editor)
$53.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: New Black Studies Ser.
Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This volu ...Show more
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by Cyril Lionel Robert James
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black republic outside Africa. Only three years later ...Show more
The Black Jacobins - Toussaint l'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James
$33.00 AUD
Category: History
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Af ...Show more