A Broken World - Letters, Diaries and Memories of the G...
A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the ...
Lest We Forget - Music and Poetry From The Great War
This collector’s edition features poignant pieces f...
Lest We Forget - Music and Poetry From The Great War
This collector’s edition features poignant pieces from...
Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : MÃÂ...
Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : Mé...
Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : MÃÂ...
Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : Mé...
Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : MÃÂ...
Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : Mé...
Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : MÃÂ...
Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : Mé...
Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : MÃÂ...
Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : Mé...
Making History: The Great War Steam CD Key
Making History: The Great War Steam KeyPlatform:SteamRelease...
Making History: The Great War Steam CD Key
Making History: The Great War Steam KeyPlatform:SteamRelease...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Cente...
The first book in a new series that will explore AustraliaÂ’...
A Broken World - Letters, Diaries And Memories Of The Great War
Of Fortunes and War - Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
Â’The list of female war reporters is long and distinguished. But the great-grandmother of them all was Clare HollingworthÂ’ Mail on Sunday Â’UnputdownableÂ’ Alexander McCall Smith Â’One of the most unforgettable journalists I have ever metÂ’ Chris Patten Â’She was a pioneerÂ’ Kate Adie OBEA NEW EDITION WITH EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE CLARE HOLLINGWORTH FAMILY ARCHIVELegendary journalist Clare...
Catherine the Great and Potemkin - The Imperial Love Affair
‘One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra … Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair’ Economist It was history’s most successful political partnership – as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin – wil...
Broken Nation - Australians in the Great War
Winner of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History.‘If you read only one book about Australia’s experience of World War I . make it Broken Nation, an account that joins the history of the war to the home front, and that details the barbarism of the battlefields as well as the desolation, despair, and bitter divisions that devastated the communities left behind.’ – Maril...
The Great Fire of London
‘With one’s face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops’ A selection from Pepys’ startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin’s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many c...
The Lazarus War - Origins
“A gripping read that moves at warp speed.” – Jack Campbell on The Lazarus War: ArtefactFor someone who has died and come back as many times as Conrad Harris, the nickname Lazarus is well-deserved. His elite military teams are specialists in death – running suicide missions in simulant bodies to combat the alien race known as the Krell. But now the Krell Empire has wreaked such devastation tha...
Tumtum and Nutmeg - The Great Escape
It’s The Borrowers meets The Wind in the Willows. Enter the world of Tumtum and Nutmeg for a wonderfully enchanting story full of warmth and humour. Tumtum and Nutmeg are enjoying a quiet life in Nutmouse Hall, when General Marchmouse comes to stay. The General has a new pogo stick and is looking for adventure. Recklessly, he bounces out of Nutmouse Hall and into Rose Cottage – the home of the M...
The Great World
Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people’s battles – from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But THE GREAT WORLD is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy yea...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
The first book in a new series that will explore Australia’s role in the Great War.From the earliest days of the Great War, Australians volunteered to fight in the air – warfare’s newest arena, and one that would transform the nature of military operations. In the squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps and with Britain’s flying services, Australian airmen fought in campaigns that spanned the...
The Edge - The War against Cheating and Corruption in the Cutthroat World of Elite Sports
Roger Pielke reveals how sports stars break the rules in their search for a competitive edge. Both entertaining and thought-provoking, THE EDGE not only visits the battlefields in the war against cheating and corruption, but also explores ways to ensure that “the spirit of sport” can survive in today’s high-tech, highly professional world. Drawing on controversies straight out of the headline...
Double Diamonds - Australian commandos in the Pacific War, 1941-45
During the Second World War, in the mountains and jungles of Timor, Bougainville and New Guinea, Australian commando units fought arduous campaigns against the Japanese. The story of these elite independent companies and commando squadrons, whose soldiers wore the distinctive double-diamond insignia, is told here for the first time. Through 130 powerful images from the Australian War Memorial...
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Paul KennedyÂ’s international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might. KennedyÂ’s masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great centres of power including Minh China, the Ottomans, the rising Mughal state, the nations of Europe. But it was the latter which, through competition,...
Fighting the Kaiserreich - Australia's epic within the Great War
This book portrays a modern epic – of an army that sailed across the world to fight a war. Its struggle with the Kaiserreich (German empire) became the most formidable campaign Australian troops have ever fought. By the time Monash’s soldiers broke through the Hindenburg Line, their achievement and its cost were staggering. This epic was created by normal Australians, and is understandable to no...
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (colour edition)
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator in glorious full colour for the very first time Inside the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket and his family are cruising a thousand feet above the chocolate factory.They can see the whole world below them, but they’re not alone. The American Space Hotel has just launched. Lurking inside are the Vernicious Knids – the most brutal,...
Leman Russ - The Great Wolf
The second title in The Horus Heresy: Primarchs series, a brand new sequence of novels from Black Library. Many are the sagas of Leman Russ, Lord of Winter and War, most fearsome of the EmperorÂ’s primarch sons. At the height of the Great Crusade, his Space Wolves fight to bring the rebel world of Dulan to compliance. Enraged by the defiance of the tyrant Durath, Russ has pledged to strike him dow...
The Tank War - The British Band of Brothers - One Tank Regiment's World War II
From the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw them serve in Africa as part of the Desert Rats, before returning to Europe for the Normandy landings. Wherever they went, the notoriety of the ‘Filthy Fifth’ grew – they revelled in their reputation for fightin...
Powerhouse : America; China; and the Great Battery War
A Soul of the New Machine for our time—a gripping account of invention; commerce; and duplicity in the age of technologyA worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth; the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car; relieve global warming; and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win?Steve LeVine wa...
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World’s NUMBER ONE Storyteller Inside the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket and his family are cruising a thousand feet above the chocolate factory.They can see the whole world below them, but they’re not alone. The American Space Hotel has just launched. Lurking inside are the Vernicious Knids – the most brutal, vindictive murde...
The Cricket War - The Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket
One of The TimesÂ’ 50 Greatest Sports Books In May 1977, the cricket world awoke to discover that a thirty-nine-year-old Sydney Businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised `World SeriesÂ’. The Cricket War is the definitive account of the split that changed the game on the field and on the screen. In helmets, under lights, with white ba...
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
Bill BrysonÂ’s hilarious memoir of growing up in Middle America in the Â’50s, complete, unabridged and read by the author. Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generation, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhe...
The Great Plains
Nicole Alexander, the ‘heart of Australian storytelling’, takes us on a captivating journey from the American Wild West to the wilds of outback Queensland, from the Civil War to the Great Depression, in an epic novel tracing one powerful but divided family. It is Dallas 1886, and the Wade Family is going from strength to strength- from a thriving newspaper and retail business in Texas to a spra...
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays - Tamburlaine, Parts I and II; Doctor Faustus, A- and B-Texts; The Jew of Malta; Edward I...
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of ShakespeareÂ’s contempories. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber;...