The numbers are small. Scattered across the landscape that was Nazi Germany, the Resistance looks puny: too little, too late. And yet, in the context of a police state, it assumes larger proportions. For those who have never known life under such a regime, it is hard to grasp the daily terror that makes an act of political graffiti a capital offense, that labels resistance "treason." Read More...


Africa Explored Christopher Hibbert AUD30.00

Jonathon Swift was quite right; in the eighteenth century 'the Dark continent' was barely known. And it was in order to 'cast light upon its darkness' that the African Association was formed by the rich members of a fashionable dining club in London in 1788. The book opens with the pioneering journey to Ethiopia of the Scottish laird James Bruce...it ends with the travels of the lonely arrogant journalist H.M. Stanley... Read More...


A searing and visceral account of how the American West was really won. Told from the point of view of the American Indian, the catalogue of broken promises, treaties and battles is a tragic but essential story. Translated into 17 languages and a bestseller worldwide, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee awakened a new understanding of America’s past. Read More...


Customs in Common E.P.Thompson AUD35.00

The remarkable sequel to E.P. Thompson's influential, landmark volume of social history. The Making of the English Working Class, Customs in Common describes the complex culture from which working class institutions emerge from England. A panoply of traditions and customs that the new working class fought to preserve well into Victorian times. Read More...


This is the sensational inside story of the IRA as it has never been told before. At the heart of the story lies one man: Gerry Adams, an early IRA leader in Belfast. This revelatory book will change for ever the way we see the IRA and its bloody thirty year conflict with Britain. Read More...


Low City, High City Edward Seidensticker AUD25.00

Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake. How the Shoguns' ancient capital became the greatest city in Japan. Read More...


Sword of Honour Evelyn Waugh AUD105.00

The Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh is his look at the Second World War. The protagonist is Guy Crouchback, heir of a declining aristocratic English Catholic family. Guy has spent his thirties at the family villa in Italy shunning the world after the failure of his marriage and has decided to return to England at the very beginning of the Second World War, in the belief that the creeping evils of modernity, gradually apparent in the Soviet Union and the Nazi Germany, have become all too clearly displayed as a real and embodied enemy. Read More...


Bowering's B.C. George Bowering AUD20.00

A swashbuckling history. The history of the far West was written on the land long before anyone put ink to paper or paint on totem pole. Before Mackenzie and Thompson risked their lives on the great rivers, native people hauled giant salmon from the clear waters. These people - ignored or misjudged in previous histories - are the main characters of Bowering's B.C. Read More...


Spilsbury's Coast Howard White, Jim Spilsbury AUD18.00

Spilsbury is Jim Spilsbury - pioneer, painter, aviator, inventor and matchless raconteur. Spilsbury's Coast is eighty years' worth of memories from a shrewd, funny, outrageous 'coast rat'... Read More...


The plot concerns a World War I veteran employed to uncover a mural in a village church that was thought to exist under coats of whitewash. At the same time another veteran is employed to look for a grave beyond the churchyard walls. There is prevalent religious symbolism throughout the book, mainly dealing with judgement. Read More...


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