Fair Go, Sport
This is compilation of anecdotes about Australian sports men and women. At times the language is foul. A couple of blaphemies. Not a very appealing book.
History, Contemporary
Statesmen, Leaders and Losers
Text and pictorial presentation of the first twenty three Prime Ministers of Australia.
Hard cover.
Hitler and Stalin. The tyrants and the second world war
Rees goes into the difficult personalities of the two characters and, above all, of the history in which they played a leading role. Both were "fatherly" to their peoples, both sold fantasies and utopias to...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
This is an excellent biography about the fascinating French army officer and statesman, General Charles de Gaulle. Reading the biography certainly leaves one with the sense of something providential about...
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Gopal’s dramatic narrative, full of vivid personal detail, follows real Afghans (Taliban commanders, women, US backed warlords, etc.) through years of U.S. intervention.
The Rise of Real-Life Superheroes: And the Fall of Everything Else
The author researches into the phenomenon of real persons who take on superhero personae (some of them down to a bespoke costume) in order to perform charitable works, services to society, and some, even...
A Shorter History of Australia
A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians. Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events that have created...
The Spymaster of Baghdad
The Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that infiltrated the Islamic State. More so than that of any foreign power, the information they gathered...
Syndrome K: How Italy resisted the Final Solution
Syndrome K is a brief and journalistic history of how Italians helped Jews escape extermination in the closing days of World War II. The perennial question is whether Pius IX helped the Jews. The author of...
The President, the Pope, And the Prime Minister
The eighties of the twentieth century were not easy with the intensity of the Cold War, the political and sexual revolution on university campuses, the biased interpretations of Vatican II and a third world...