Poisoner's Handbook The : Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Professor Deborah Blum
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie" (The New York Observer) A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and murder, The Poisoner's H ...Show more
History's Greatest Discoveries by Joel Levy
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A lighthearted but informative look at fifty of the most important and spectacular discoveries in the history of science and exploration.
Stalin's Agent: The Life and Death of Alexander Orlov by Boris Volodarsky
$61.95 AUD
Category: European
This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. There are almost certainly people who would like it never to be told. It is the story of General Alexander Orlov. Stalin's most loyal and trusted henchman during ...Show more
Smithsonian Civil War in 3D: The Life and Death of the Soldier by Michael Stephenson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
A collection of 35 stereoscopic photographs and sturdy metal viewer provide a remarkable and highly realistic 3D view of the daily life of soldiers during the American Civil War. Images will include building winter quarters, preparing food in the mess hall, bathing in a river in Virginia, waiting at the ...Show more
Holy Wars: 3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land by Gary L. Rashba
$49.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
The key battles fought over 3000 years of turbulent history in the Holyland, from ancient times to today's Arab-Israeli conflict Today's Arab-Israeli conflict, ever-present in the news, is merely the latest episode in an unending history of violence in the Holyland, a region that is unsurpassed as witn ...Show more
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe were at ...Show more
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble by Antony Beevor
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgian/German border. Although Hitler's generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the venge ...Show more
Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History by Nicholas Wade
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
A Troublesome Inheritance draws on crucial scientific breakthroughs that show evidence of recent human evolution. The most provocative claims in the book involve the genetic basis of both race and human social habits. Author Nicholas Wade argues that what we might call middle-class social traits have be ...Show more
Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49 by Jim Baggott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
Spanning ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to 'Joe-1', the first Soviet atomic bomb test in August 1949, Atomic is the first fully realised popular account of the race between Nazi Germany, Britain, America and the Soviet Union to build atomic weapons. Rich in personality ...Show more
Eureka Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Classic Civilisations
The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role of women ...Show more
Mammoth Book of More Bizarre Crimes by Robin Odell
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Mammoth Books | Reading Level: good
Fact is never more strange than fiction than when it comes to crime, and the crimes described here are so bizarre it's inconceivable that they could have been made up. In this all-new collection of truly unusual crimes, a sequel to the bestselling Mammoth Book of Bizarre Crimes, Odell and Donnelley tell ...Show more
War Classics Slipcase: War Letters of General Monash & Australian Victories in France in 1918 by John Monash
$79.99 AUD
Category: Military
John Monash War Classics, In his own words . . . War Letters of General MonashThis collection of extraordinary, intimate letters from General Sir John Monash to his wife and daughter, records his experiences throughout World War I, from landing at Gallipoli to leading decisive victories on the Western F ...Show more