Humanities
Humanities
By: Peter FitzSimons
The extraordinary story of the heroic doctor whose courage and leadership were a lifeline for thousands of Australian prisoners-of-war on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway of World War II - brilliantly told by Australia's favourite storyteller, Peter FitzSimons
In September 1939, young Australian sur..
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By: Mark Johnston
This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II.
No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, part of the famous 9th Australian Division, which - during ca..
$34.99
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By: Ian Wilson
The 2000-year-old mystery solved
Two decades after radiocarbon dating declared the Turin Shroud a mediaeval fake, brand-new historical discoveries strongly suggest that this famous cloth, with its extraordinary photographic imprint, is genuinely Christ's shroud after all.
In 1978 in his intern..
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By: LARRY LOFTIS
International bestseller!
James Bond has nothing on Dusko Popov. A double agent for the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI during World War II, Popov seduced numerous women, spoke five languages, and was a crack shot, all while maintaining his cover as a Yugoslavian diplomat...
On a cool August ..
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By: Ron Williams
This is the eighth of the 1950s and the fourteenth book overall to be released in a series of 30 about life in Australia – one for each year from 1939 to 1968. They describe happenings that affected people, real people.
The whole series, to coin a modern phrase, is designed to push your buttons, ..
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By: Jonathan Healey
A nation on the cusp of war. A king ousted from his capital by the people. A society on the brink of collapse. From Jonathan Healey comes a thrilling history about the months that sent England into civil war
'An old-fashioned Westminster thriller . . . You could hardly find a more engrossing or e..
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By: Terry Deary
Multi-million copy bestselling author Terry Deary shows you the history of the world through the eyes of Mr and Mrs Peasant (and their good friend Monsieur Guillotine...). A globetrotting, laugh-out-loud popular history for fans of David Mitchell.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the r..
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By: Paul Coulter
A comic tour of history's greatest mistakes and how they have shaped our world, packed with reckless rulers, hare-brained plans, monumental mistakes and disastrous accidents.
We all make mistakes, but rarely do they change the course of human history. From break-ups that ended empires to naps tha..
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By: Tim Ross
The modernist RSL club, the Art Deco cinema, the stilted Queenslander or the elaborate Edwardian. The iconography of Australia's regional towns is familiar to many of us, whether we live, work and play in these places, or just journey through. A distinctive Australian architecture has developed, les..
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By: Al Murray
Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always run parallel with his comedy and was brought to the fore with several acclaimed and award-winning television shows and the recent huge success of his podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk which he hosts with..
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By: SHANE CARLEY
Prove you are the smartest person in the room with 500 true trivia facts about world history. These facts are so absurd some might even say that they sound like bull$#*t! Explore the wild and the wacky or history in this fun addition to the True Facts series that shares all things from all over the ..
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By: Zondervan
The most popular modern-English Bible translation in a convenient, inexpensive edition for personal or ministry use.
The NIV Holy Bible, Compact is the perfect traveling companion for today’s busy Christian. Its affordable price and compact size make it ideal for sharing God’s Word with others. E..
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