Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792-1914 by Geoffrey Wawro
71.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Warfare and History Ser.
Combining original research with the latest scholarship Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792 - 1914 examines war and its aftermath from Napoleonic times to the outbreak of the First World War. Throughout, this fine book treats warfare as a social and political phenomenon no less than a military and techn ...Show more
This Thing Of Darkness by Harry Thompson
24.99 AUD
Category: History
This is an epic novel of sea-faring adventure set in the 19th century charting the life of Robert Fitzroy, the captain of `The Beagle` and his passenger Charles Darwin. It combines adventrure, emotion, ideas, humour and tragedy as well as illuminating the history of the 19th century. Fitzroy, the Christ ...Show more
The Austro-Prussian War - Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866 by Geoffrey Wawro
65.00 AUD
Category: History
This is a new history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification. Geoffrey Wawro describes Prussia's successful invasion of Habsburg Bohemia, and the wretched collapse of the Austrian army in July 1866. Blending military and social history, he desc ...Show more
DH9: From Ruin To Restoration by Guy Black
59.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
In 2000, quite by chance, aircraft restorer Guy Black of Aero Vintage located the hulks of at least two Airco DH9 bombers in a remote part of India - hidden away in what had been a Maharaja's elephant stable at his palace in Bikaner, Rajasthan. They were truly remarkable finds, and extremely rare exampl ...Show more
The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew by David Price
49.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
The Crewrecounts the intimate, personal testimonies to the author of Wing Commander Ken Cook who served as Bomb Aimer with the Comans crew. The Crewspecifically follows Flying Officer Jim Comans and his crewmen from their enlistment as volunteers, through training and into operational service. The Coman ...Show more
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
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Category: History
'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Fascinating and satisfying' Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the World. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remote ...Show more
Australian Code Breakers: Our Top-Secret War with the Kaiser's Reich by James Phelps
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Category: Warfare
The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb
34.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
‘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
In Her Footsteps: Where Trailblazing Women Changed the World by .
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Category: History | Series: Lonely Planet
Discover the lives and locations of trailblazing women who changed the course of history as you journey to the heart of women's activism, history and creativity through the ages. From the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Egypt and Empress Dowager Cixi's summer palace in Beijing, to the homes and meeting si ...Show more
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness (HB) by Sinclair McKay
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Category: Warfare
In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war al ...Show more
Goliath: Why the West Isn't Winning. And What We Must Do about It. by Sean McFate
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Category: Warfare
Everything you think you know about war is wrong.War is timeless. Some things change - weapons, tactics, leadership - but our desire to go into battle does not. We are in the midst of an age of conflict- global terrorism, Russia's resurgence and China's rise, international criminal empires, climate chan ...Show more
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Philipp Blom
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Category: History
'Europe where the sun dares scarce appearFor freezing meteors and congealed cold.' Christopher MarloweIn this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that would transform the entire social and political fabric of Eu ...Show more