The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam - University tex...
A Short History Of The First World War
The First World War, lasting just four years, from 1914 to 1...
Voices From the Air - The ABC war correspondents who to...
An untold tale of Australians at war: the first ABC war corr...
Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's ...
Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek...
The Seven Years War (1756-1763) Steam CD Key
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The Seven Years War (1756-1763) Steam CD Key
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The Battle for Spain - The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFAL...
Voices From The Air - The ABC war correspondents who to...
With the outbreak of the Second World War, a new breed of re...
1942: The Pacific Air War Steam CD Key
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Total War: The Causes And Courses of the Second World W...
Total War: The Causes And Courses of the Second World War,Vo...
Reporting the First World War: Charles Repington, The T...
Reporting the First World War: Charles Repington, The Times ...
The Sorrow Of War
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 ...
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 Shadow of War
June; 1914: The beginning of another long; prosperous summer for Britain. But beneath the clear skies; all is not as it seemâas the chill wind of social discontent swirls around this sceptered isle. Shots ring out in a distant European landâthe assassination of a foreign aristocrat. From that moment the entire world is propelled into a conflict unlike any seen before. This is the story o...
A Higher Call - The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War
Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bombers tail the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger. This is the true story of the two p...
Star Wars - Darth Vader Vol. 3 - The Shu-torun War
The unstoppable march of the Dark Lord of the Sith continues! The natives of the planet Shu-Torin are revolting. And theres no way the Empire will stand for that. Darth Vader is tasked with leading a military assault against Shu-Torin! Could it be that his rise to glory has begun? But who will follow Vader into war? Would you? Then again, its better to fight alongside Vader than against him. T...
Shanghai Grand - Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War
A vivid account of the love triangle between an American journalist and adventurer, a wealthy expatriate businessman and a Chinese poet in Shanghai in the late 1930s. On the eve of the Second World War, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth centurys most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the illustrious Sir Victor Sassoon. Emily Mick...
The Art of War
Sun Tzus The Art of War has been a vastly influential treatise on military strategy in the east from the time of Chinas Warring States Period (403-221 BC) onward. Though its first translation into a European language was only in 1782, the books significance was quickly recognized and even such towering figures of Western history as Napoleon and General Douglas Macithur have claimed it a sou...
The Second World War: The Hinge Of Fate - Volume IV
THE HINGE OF FATE marks in Sir Winston Churchills words, the turning-point of the Second World War. It details a period during which almost uninterrupted defeat gave way to almost unbroken success for the Allies. While the Afrika Korps advanced almost to the outskirts of Alexandria and the Japanese struck by land and by sea, despair came to all but the most resolute. However, from this nad...
The Looking Glass War
A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction, John le Carres The Looking Glass War is a gripping novel of double-crosses, audacious bluffs and the ever-present threat of nuclear war, published in Penguin Modern Classics. When the Department faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border, it seems like the perfec...
Powerhouse : America; China; and the Great Battery War
A Soul of the New Machine for our timeâa 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...
The Art of War
The Art of War is the oldest and most influential military strategy text in existence, and Sun Tzus teachings on how to successfully respond to and handle situations of conflict is a must-read for for todays business leaders (and politicians, and many others). Whether you approach this reading for its historical significance or choose to apply this knowledge toward achieving success in your ow...
John Curtin's War - The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australia
John Curtin became Australias Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific. Curtins struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a political epic unmatched in Australian experience. As Japan sank much of the Allied navy, a...
The Art of War
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `Opportunities multiply as they are seized.Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzus The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very carefully abou...
The Art of War
For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzus The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics and management strategies. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success, whether in battle, in business, or in relationships. Now, in this crisp, accessible new translation, eminent scholar John Minf...
A Lab of One's Own - Science and Suffrage in the First World War
A Lab of Ones Own describes the experiences of some extraordinary but sadly neglected scientific women who tasted independence, responsibility, and excitement in World War One. Understanding the past is crucial for improving the future, and Patricia Fara examines how inherited prejudices continue to limit womens scientific opportunities. Suffragists aligned themselves with scientific and tech...
The Art Of War
Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world, as eagerly s...
A Brief History of the Hundred Years War - The English in France, 1337-1453
For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for the most part she dominated the war, sacking towns and castles and winning battles including such glorious victories as Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, but then the English run of success began to fail...
The American Civil War
This magisterial history of the first modern war is on the scale of John Keegans classics, A History of Warfare and The First World War. In his sweeping, unputdownable narrative he highlights geography, leadership and strategic logic at the heart of the conflict. John Keegan writes- The geography of the battlefield is to me a living reality. I know the appearance of the battlefields, I know the ...
Triumph and Tragedy - The Second World War
Winston Churchills six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Tri...
The Gods of War
The fourth volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly weaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar. Caesar must fight his toughest battle yet with Rome itself. Julius Caesar, fresh from triumph in Britain and Gaul, is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans. His goal: to unseat Pompey, now dictator of the Empir...
Books That Changed History - From the Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary
Featuring a foreword by James Naughtie. Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 75 of the worlds most celebrated, rare, and seminal books are examined and explained in this stunning treasury. Books That Changed History is a unique encyclopedia spanning the history of the written word, from 3000 BCE to the modern day. Chronological chapter...