GCHQ : The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency by Richard Aldrich
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
A gripping exploration of the last great unknown realm of the British secret service: Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ). GCHQ is the successor to the famous Bletchley Park wartime code-breaking organisation and is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the country. Durin ...Show more
Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant
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Category: World History/Politics
When Joe Bageant returned to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, he rediscovered his redneck roots: 'the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks'. But he soon realised that these were the very people who had carried George W. Bush to victory. ...Show more
D-Day by Antony Beevor
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
From critically acclaimed world historian Beevor comes the first major account in more than 20 years to cover the whole Normandy invasion, from June 6, 1944, right up to the liberation of Paris on August 25 of the same year. b&w photo insert; 17 maps.
White Mughals - Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
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Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: good
White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair-un-Nissa
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Category: World History/Politics
Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali's profound meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western polici ...Show more
Jerusalem : The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine ...Show more
Palestine Inside Out by Saree Makdisi
$49.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
How the "peace process" has made life impossible for ordinary Palestinians. This book is not about suicide bombers. Tending one's fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such everyday activities require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, "sterile ...Show more
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw, Bar
$59.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally v ...Show more
The Breaking Point by Stephen Koch
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos were friends; writers-in-arms, though they were polar opposites in terms of personality - Dos Passos' calm contrasting with Hemingway's machismo. They arrived in Spain during the civil war as comrades, but when Dos Passos undertook to unravel the mystery of the disap ...Show more
Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
$79.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, "Thinking the Twentieth Century" unites the conflicted intellectual history of an epoch into a soaring narrative. The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ideas - a time when, for good and for ill, the thoughts of ...Show more
Double Entry by Jane Gleeson-White
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: good
How the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world - and how their invention could make or break the planet. A fascinating exploration of how a simple system used to measure and record wealth spawned a cultural revolution. Prepare to have your idea of accounting changed forever. 'The rise and metamorph ...Show more