X Troop - The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis by Leah Garrett
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'This is Inglorious Basterds - but much better. Because it is the real story of clandestine Jewish fighters wreaking havoc against the Nazi war machine' Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich has fallen across the entire European continent. In desperation, Winston Churc ...Show more
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis by Leah Garrett
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
During WW2, a group of Jewish refugees (intellectuals, writers, artists and athletes - most from Germany and Austria) escaped to Britain and were interned as 'enemy aliens'. In 1942, they were selected and trained to form a special unit of commandoes who would be sent back into Europe to play a signific ...Show more
YOUNG MONGOLS by Menard, Aubrey
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In 1990, Mongolia's youth-led revolution threw off the Soviet yoke, ushering in multi-party democracy. Thirty years later, the country's youth are still leading Mongolia's democratic development. This powerful, inclusive book introduces readers to modern Mongolia through the stories of young leaders fig ...Show more
Yasuke by Kelley Armstrong; Geoffrey Girard; Thomas Lockley
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
WARRIOR. SAMURAI. LEGEND. The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society. The man who came to be known as Yasuke arrived in Japan in the 16th century, an indentured mercenary arriving upon one of the Por ...Show more
Yasuke: The True Story of a Legendary African Samurai by Thomas Lockley; Geoffrey Girard
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
You Call it Desert - We Used to Live There. by Pat Lowe; Jimmy Pike
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
This rare glimpse of life in the Great Sandy Desert exploresthe resourcefulness and ingenuity of the Walmajarri people, Australia s desert dwellers. A vibrant blend of personal recollection, history, Aboriginal art, and Australian indigenous studies, this survey will shed light on the lives of a scarcel ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--throu ...Show more
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The never-before-told story of three women who courageously reported from the frontlines of the Vietnam War. One spent twenty-three days in captivity. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Ka ...Show more
You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know by Philip Gourevitch
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Twenty years after the genocide, the author of the definitive, award-winning book on Rwanda returns Philip Gourevitch's modern classic We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families opened our eyes to the 1994 genocide of Rwanda's Tutsi minority- close to a million people murde ...Show more
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Sixteenth-century Europe - Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the C ...Show more
Z Generation - Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth by Ian Garner
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: New Perspectives on Eastern Europe and Eurasia Ser.
How did Vladimir Putin galvanize the Russian people to back his genocidal war in Ukraine and why are so many of them willing to embrace fascism? This vivid, on-the-ground narrative reveals how Russia's fascist generation came into being-and the dark future that awaits the country if that hold cannot be ...Show more
Fighting Proud - The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars by Stephen Bourne
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In this astonishing history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort. Fighting Proud weaves together the remarkable lives ...Show more