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  • All Hands Down

    The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion

    by Kenneth Sewell, Jerome Preisler ...
    A Cold War disaster that took ninety-nine lives, and was denied for forty years—what really happened to the USS Scorpion?May 1968: An American submarine is sent to investigate suspicious Soviet ships gathered in the mid-Atlantic. No one aboard the USS Scorpion was aware of the trap they rode into—that the Soviets planned revenge for the mysterious sinking of a Russian sub two months before…or that ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD

  • The Darkest Year

    The American Home Front 1941-1942

    by William K. Klingaman ...
    The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman’s narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war.For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite government attempts to ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    by Richard Rhodes ...
    The definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler

    The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis

    by Antony Cyril Sutton ...
    ‘The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities... Not only was an influential sector of American business aware of the nature of Naziism, but for its own purposes aided Naziism wherever possible (and profitable) - with full knowledge that the probable outcome would be war ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • Our American Israel

    The Story of an Entangled Alliance

    by Amy Kaplan ...
    An essential account of America’s most controversial alliance that reveals how the United States came to see Israel as an extension of itself, and how that strong and divisive partnership plays out in our own time.Our American Israel tells the story of how a Jewish state in the Middle East came to resonate profoundly with a broad range of Americans in the twentieth century. Beginning with debates ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • ShadowMan

    An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling

    by Ron Franscell ...
    "Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare."—Michael Cannell, author of Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal ProfilingThe pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killerOn June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD

  • Double Cross

    The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America

    by Sam Giancana, Chuck Giancana, Bettina Giancana ...
    One of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer. He partied with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and did business with agents ranging from the CIA to the Vatican to the shah of Iran ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD

  • The Zoot-Suit Riots

    The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation

    by Mauricio Mazón ...
    series CMAS Mexican American Monograph
    “The most incisive analytic study yet produced by a Chicano scholar . . . Mazón looks at the bloody incidents that erupted in Los Angeles during June, 1943.” —California HistoryLos Angeles, the summer of 1943. For ten days in June, Anglo servicemen and civilians clashed in the streets of the city with young Mexican Americans whose fingertip coats and pegged, draped trousers announced their ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Road to Jonestown

    Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

    by Jeff Guinn ...
    2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime“A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)—the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the New York Times bestselling author of Manson.In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    by J. D. Vance ...
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Coming November 2020 as a major motion picture from Netflix starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close‘The political book of the year’ Sunday Times‘A frank, unsentimental, harrowing memoir … A superb book’ New York Post‘I bought this to try to better understand Trump’s appeal … but the memoir is so much more than that. A gripping, unputdownable page-turner’ India Knight, ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD

  • Three Days at the Brink

    FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II

    by Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney ...
    series Three Days Series
    The Instant New York Times Bestseller"I could not put this extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece: elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and impeccably researched. This book not only sparkles but is destined to be a classic!” —Jay Winik, bestselling authorFrom the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of Special Report with Bret Baier, comes the gripping ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

    by Margot Lee Shetterly ...
    The #1 New York Times Bestseller SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURESet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human Computers’, calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD $6.99 AUD

  • One Summer

    America 1927

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Book 2 - Bryson
    In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth.It was the summer that saw the birth of talking pictures, the invention of television, the peak of Al Capone’s reign ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

    by John Berendt ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book ReviewShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • Ghost Platoon

    by Frank Walker ...
    Book 1 - Hachette Military Collection
    "thoroughly researched and compelling . . . a chilling account' The Sun-HeraldAn eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold . . . until now.In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 men were thrown together at Nui Dat, Vietnam. It was so slapdash a group it didn’t even have an officer or sergeant in charge. A rugged ex-Royal Marine stepped forward to take the lead. Jim Riddle was only an acting ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • The Vietnam War: History in an Hour

    by Neil Smith ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.‘War, what is it good for?’ THE VIETNAM WAR: HISTORY IN AN HOUR gives a gripping account of the most important Cold War-era conflict, fought between the United States and the Viet Cong, the Vietnam People’s Army and their Communist allies. It was one of the most traumatic military conflicts America has ever been involved in – and provoked a ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dead Center

    A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War

    by Ed Kugler ...
    WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS,EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST.Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there--the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966.As a ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • The Cold War: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.From the end of World War Two to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia and America eyed each other with suspicion and hostility as the world lived in the shadow of the Cold War. As post-war Europe was rebuilt, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin struggled to maintain peace among the former Eastern and Western Allies. Two ideologies, two ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kennedy Curse

    The shocking true story of America’s most famous family

    by James Patterson ...
    Now with an all-new bonus chapter - in the bestselling The Kennedy Curse, 'James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan's rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style' (People).________________________________Kennedys were always taught to win at all costs. And they did - but the price they paid was unimaginable . . .< ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Spymistress

    The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II

    by William Stevenson ...
    The New York Times Bestseller by the Author of A Man Called IntrepidIdeal for fans of Nancy Wake, Virginia Hall, The Last Goodnight by Howard Blum, The Woman Who Smashed Codes, The Wolves at the Door by Judith Pearson, and similar worksShares the story of Vera Atkins, legendary spy and holder of the Legion of HonorWritten by William Stevenson, the only person whom she trusted to write her biogra.. ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • World War Two: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Lasting six years and a day, the Second World War saw the lives of millions – soldiers and civilians, young and old – changed forever. During the conflict, a thousand people died for each and every hour it lasted. With eighty-one of the world’s nations involved and affected in some way, this was war on a truly global scale.Offering a wide ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Train to Freedom

    A Jewish Boy's Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism

    by Ivan A. Backer ...
    The breathtaking memoir by a member of Nicky’s family,” a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest, Ivan Backer.As Backer recounts in his memoir, in May of 1939 as a ten-year-old Jewish boy, he fled Nazi ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD

  • JFK: The Smoking Gun

    by Colin McLaren ...
    It's the gunshot that echoed around the world - but who pulled the trigger? McLaren unravels the cold case of the 20th century.' Andrew Rule, bestselling author of UnderbellyAssassination? Conspiracy? Evidence of the shocking truth is finally revealed.On 22nd November 1963, the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and his wife Jackie were taking part in a presidential ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Siege of Leningrad: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest sieges in history and it inflicted some of the worst civilian casualties of World War Two. When Hitler declared his intention to obliterate the key city of Leningrad on 22 September 1941, he could not have foreseen the grim determination of its citizens. Over the course of 900 days, the city ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD