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The Great Divide
Peter Watson

$49.95$39.95 – Hard back / Orion

he rise and fall of the great civilisations and what this meant for mankind.

In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in Si... Buy or find out more 


Titanic Lives
Richard Davenport-Hines

$35.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

The RMS Titanic was built as one of the world′s largest and most luxurious liners. A marine Ritz, it was a 45,000-tonne hotel of thin steel plates, travelling at a speed of 21 knots across the North Atlantic.

On the ni... Buy or find out more 



The Sportsmen Of Changi
Kevin Blackburn

$34.95 – Paperback book / New South Books

Japanese World War II POW camps conjure up a notorious picture of deprivation and brutality. The idea that sport, of all things, flourished in such hellish conditions is hard to envisage – but the truth is, it did. Capti... Buy or find out more 


Pyg
Russell Potter

$24.95 – Paperback book / Canongate

After escaping the butcher’s knife with the help of his steadfast companion Sam, Toby soon finds himself under the order of the volatile impresario Silas Bisset and his travelling menagerie of performing monkeys, horses,... Buy or find out more 



The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire Of Charles V
Hugh Thomas

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

Charles V, Emperor of Europe and the New World, is the central figure in the second volume of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire. It begins with the return of the remnants of Magellan's expedition around t... Buy or find out more 


The Admiral Benbow
Sam Willis

$34.99 – Paperback book / Quercus

Admiral John Benbow was an English naval hero, a fighting sailor of ruthless methods but indomitable courage. Benbow was a man to be reckoned with. In 1702, however, when Benbow engaged a French squadron off the Spanish ... Buy or find out more 



 

Australians Volume 2: Eureka to the Diggers
Thomas Keneally

$59.95$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin

Bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story, in the second volume of a unique history of Australia.

In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's wide... Buy or find out more 


Into The Silence
Davis Wade

$35.00 – Paperback book / Bodley Head

A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest

  • If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had... Buy or find out more 



Australia And Appeasement: Imperial Foreign Policy And The Origins Of World War II
Christopher Waters

$39.95 – Hardcover book / I B Tauris

On 3 September 1939, Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, broadcast to the Australian people the news that their country was at war with Germany. He outlined how every effort had been made to maintain the peace... Buy or find out more 


The Jewish Dark Continent: Life And Death In The Russian Pale Of Settlement
Nathaniel Deutsch

$44.95 – Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr

At the turn of the twentieth century, over forty percent of the world’s Jews lived within the Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews of the Pale created a distinc... Buy or find out more 



 

Hiroshima Nagasaki
Paul Ham

$55.00$49.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins

′Nobody is more disturbed,′ said President Truman, three days after the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, ′over the use of the atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanes... Buy or find out more 


Double Entry
Jane Gleeson-White

$29.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin

Our world is governed by the numbers generated by the accounts of nations and corporations. We depend on these numbers to direct our governments, our institutions, corporations, economies, societies. But where did they c... Buy or find out more 



 

Death In The City Of Light
David King

$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Little Brown

DEATH IN THE CITY OF LIGHT is the true story of the hunt for Marcel Petiot, a respectable physician by day, who turned out to be a brutal serial killer by night in Nazi-occupied Paris. Petiot was charged with 27 grisly m... Buy or find out more 


Engineers Of The Soul
Frank Westerman

$19.95 – Paperback book / Random House

Engineers Of The Soul draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. Writers of renown, described by Stalin as ‘Engineers Of The Soul’, were enco... Buy or find out more 



Of The People By The People: A New History Of Democracy
Roger Osborne

$45.00 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.' * Churchill had more reason than most to rue the power of democracy, having been thrown out of office a... Buy or find out more 


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