Looking for the Light on the Hill: modern Labor's challenges by Troy Bramston
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Today, despite being in government, Labor is in crisis. Reduced to minority government after just one term and tanking in the opinion polls (the lowest primary vote in 25 years of Newspoll), how did it come to this so soon? Labor's true believers see the party at a defining moment in its history: in gov ...Show more
Losing it by Annabel Crabb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
In 1993, Paul Keating won the unwinnable federal election. Since then, however the change in the 'Australian Labor Party's' fortunes have been diabolical. From Beazley to Crean, to Latham and back again; the 'ALP' changes its leaders faster than Howard changes his policies.
The Dig Tree (Text Classics) by Sarah Murgatroyd
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: Text Classics
Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. †̃Without some change,â€TM he wrote, †̃I see little chance for any of us.â€TM In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert Oâ€TMHara Burke led a ...Show more
Dancing with Empty Pockets by Tony Moore
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
In the nineteenth century, the word bohemians initially conjured the primitive, exotic and mysterious power of gypsies, but in a few short years would be used to describe any nomadic or vagabond character - with strong overtones of poverty and even criminality. In Australia, bohemians have been associat ...Show more
3,000 Years of War by Dwight J Zimmerman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Throughout human history, violent conflict has been a fact of life. To know human history is to know the history of war. 3,000 Years of War covers all the significant armed conflicts from 1479 b.c. right up to the present day. Organized chronologically, this fascinating survey details the clashes of ea ...Show more
Bloodlands - Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Reading Level: good
"In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow.In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields today s Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast an ave ...Show more
Three Famines by Tom Keneally
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
This is the story of three great famines. The first is an Gorta Mor, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846 and whose end-date is a matter of debate. The second is the less well-known but more deadly famine that struck Bengal in 1943. The third is the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung up in ...Show more
The Korean War by Sir Max Hastings
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
On 25 June 1950, the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of the Chinese-backed North was thrown against the ferocious firepower of the UN-backed South in a war that can be seen today as the stark prelud ...Show more
Dear America by Bernard Edelman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
More than 25 years after the official end of the Vietnam War, "Dear America" allows us to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served in Vietnam. In this collection of over 200 letters, they share their first impressions of the rigours of life in the bush, their longing fo ...Show more
DK Illustrated Encyclopedia of War by Dorling Kindersley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Take a guided tour of every major conflict through the ages. Trace the epic 5,000-year story of warfare from the earliest battles to the War on Terror with "War", now in compact format. Explore the campaigns and conflicts, the warriors and commanders and the tactics, weapons and technology that have sha ...Show more
Hawke: The Early Years by Blanche D'Alpuget
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Robert James Lee Hawke is one of the great men of Australian public life and his story makes compelling reading. Blanche d'Alpuget's sensitivity and psychological insight into Hawke's early years reveal how the son of devout Christian parents was reared to public duty and to the ambition of political le ...Show more