The First Casualty - A Memoir from the Front Lines of t...
In a world where the first casualty of war is truth, journal...
The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Rest...
The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restorati...
The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Rest...
The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restorati...
The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the ...
The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heave...
The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War
The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War - University textbook...
The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War
The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War - University textbook...
The Gender Game 4 - The Gender War
The Only Girl in the World
The Only Girl in the World is a gripping romance set during the First World War. Dennis is an English soldier fighting in the trenches of the Western Front. When he is on leave he meets H�l�ne, and its love at first sight. But the shadow of the trenches hangs over him. His leave is over in a mere two weeks. When this battle is won; when this war is over,...
Zero Night - The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 Zero Night 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first Great Escape but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions. This was the notorious Warburg ...
Of Fortunes and War - Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
The list of female war reporters is long and distinguished. But the great-grandmother of them all was Clare Hollingworth Mail on Sunday Unputdownable Alexander McCall Smith One of the most unforgettable journalists I have ever met Chris Patten She was a pioneer Kate Adie OBEA NEW EDITION WITH EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE CLARE HOLLINGWORTH FAMILY ARCHIVELegendary journalist Clare...
The Girl Who Rode the Wind
An epic, emotional story of two girls and their bond with beloved horses, the action sweeping between Italy during the Second World War and present day.When Lolas grandmother Loretta takes her to Siena, Italy, for the summer, Lola learns of her familys history of heartbreak and adventure, stretching back to the Second World War. In 1945, Lorettas nickname was `The Daredevil due to her fear...
The Battle for Spain - The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall Of Berlin 1945 To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil Wars outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the twentieth century. With new material gleaned from the Russian archives and nume...
The Girl Who Rode the Wind
An epic, emotional story of two girls and their bond with beloved horses, the action sweeping between Italy during the Second World War and present day. When Lolas grandmother Loretta takes her to Siena, Italy, for the summer, Lola learns of her familys history of heartbreak and adventure, stretching back to the Second World War. In 1945, Lorettas nickname was `The Daredevil due to her fe...
Lincoln in the Bardo - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH `A masterpiece Zadie Smith`Extraordinary Daily Mail`Breathtaking Observer`A tour de force The Sunday Times The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil W...
Broken Nation - Australians in the Great War
Winner of the 2014 Prime Ministers Literary Award for Australian History.If you read only one book about Australias 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 Invention of Russia - The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Winner 2016 Orwell Prize In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev launched Perestroika, opened Russia up to the world, ended the Cold War and gave his people freedom. The demise of the Soviet Union offered hope that Russia would become a normal, civilized country, embracing Western values of democracy and the free market. Thirty years later, Russia emerged as a corporate state, overcome by imperial nati...
Winning the Brain Game - Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking
Mindful thinking is the new competitive edge Science confirms the distinction between the biological brain and the conscious mind. Each day, a game of mind versus matter plays out on a field defined by the problems we must solve. Most are routine, and dont demand a more mindful approach. Its when were faced with more difficult challenges that our thinking becomes vulnerable to brain patt...
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 Australias role in the Great War.From the earliest days of the Great War, Australians volunteered to fight in the air warfares newest arena, and one that would transform the nature of military operations. In the squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps and with Britains flying services, Australian airmen fought in campaigns that spanned the...
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...
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...
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 Untold History of the United States
This is not history for historys sake, however this is the history of our present and future, long beyond cold war, into war on terror, war on drugs Ed Vulliamy, Guardian /i> i>The Untold History of the United States is filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick s riveting landmark account of the rise and decline of the American empire the most powerful and dominant nation the world ...
TimeRiders - The Eternal War (Book 4)
Liam OConnor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance to work for an agency that no one knows exists.Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history . . . A time wave has struck that alters the entire history of the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln ha...
The Gender Game
For fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent comes a story like no other
A toxic river divides nineteen-year-old Violet Batess world by gender. Women rule the East. Men rule the West. Welcome to the lands of Matrus and Patrus. Ever since the disappearance of her beloved younger brother, Violets life has been consumed by an anger she struggles to control. Already a prisoner to her own nation, n...
The Red Line - The Gripping Story of the RAF's Bloodiest Raid on Hitler's Germany
From best-selling author of Tail-End Charlie and Tornado Down comes this powerful and deeply moving account of Bomber Commands 1944 Nuremberg Raid the RAFs bloodiest night of the Second World War More men from Royal Air Force Bomber Command died on one single night of the Second World War than the total RAF aircrew losses during the whole of the four-month-long Battle of Britain. 30 March ...
Grunt - The Curious Science of Humans at War
A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize `The most entertaining writer in science The Times, Books of the Year War. Mention it and most of us think of history, of conflicts on foreign soil, of heroism and compromise, of strategy and weapons. But theres a whole other side to the gruesome business of the battlefield. In Grunt, the inimitable Mary Roach explores ...
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 Monashs 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...
The First Casualty: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Global W
In a world where the first casualty of war is truth; journalism has become the new battleground.Peter Greste spent two decades reporting from the front line in the worldâs most dangerous countries before making headlines himself following his own incarceration in an Egyptian prison. Charged with threatening national security; and enduring a sham trial; solitary confinement and detention for 4...