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by Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
A rigged game of dice brings the 100 Kaurava princes, led by the scheming Duryodhana, to the battlefield against their cousins, the five Pandavas ? the noble but gullible Yudhishthira, the mighty Bhima, master archer Arjuna and the twins, Nakula and Sahadeva. The epic war of Kurukshetra, which lasted...
by Penelope Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The second book in a much loved Italian travel memoir trilogy which also includes the delightful When in Rome and Girl by Sea.
After three years living and working in Italy, Australian journalist Penelope Green needs a reason to stick around - true love or gainful employment.
When a...
1453
The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmet II, sultan...
by Inga Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Shortlisted for The Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal 2015
Longlisted for The Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015
Longlisted for The Australian Literary Studies Gold Medal 2015
Longlisted for The Stella Prize 2015
A gripping and thought-provoking novel about...
Ho Chi Minh
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
To grasp the complicated causes and consequences of the Vietnam War, one must understand the extraordinary life of Ho Chi Minh, the man generally recognized as the father of modern Vietnam. Duiker provides startling insights into Ho's true motivation, as well as into the Soviet and Chinese roles in the Vietnam War.
The Green Marine
An Irishman's War in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Dubliner Graham Dale, an IT specialist living in Texas, was working as a volunteer with a fire department when he heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Centre in New York. As the tragic events unfolded before his eyes, he suddenly realised that he could no longer remain a spectator in the...
The Seven-Day Scholar: The Civil War
Exploring History One Week at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
"A bite of history a day, all year long."
Flawless storytelling, expert research, and a whole new way of providing history in intriguing, one-page essays makes The Seven-Day Scholar: The Civil War a book that anyone interested in the topic will want on their bookshelf.
This...
Traitors
How Australia and its Allies betrayed our ANZACs and let Nazi and Japanese war criminals go free
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied powers would 'pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusers in order that justice may be done'. Nowhere did they...
A Moonless, Starless Sky
Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD
"A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by A****lexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of...
The Rag Tag Fleet
The unknown story of the Australian men and boats that helped win the war in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The unknown story of how a fleet of Australian fishing boats, trawlers and schooners supplied US and Australian forces in the Pacific - and helped turn the course of World War II.
Mid-1942: from China to New Guinea, the Pacific belonged to the Japanese. In this desperate situation, a fleet...
The Cell
Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In The Cell, John Miller, an award-winning journalist and coanchor of ABC's 20/20, along with veteran reporter Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell, takes readers back more than 10 years to the birth of the terrorist cell that later metastasized into al Qaeda's New York operation. This remarkable book...
The Seven-Day Scholar: The Presidents
Exploring History One Week at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
"A bite of history a day, all year long . . ."
Flawless storytelling, expert research, and intriguing, one-page essays make The Seven-Day Scholar: The Presidents perfect for history buffs.
The Presidents addresses formative moments in the lives of the presidents, crucial political...
by Li Feng
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
'Deeply moving story of self-sacrifice and pride' - Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women's Weekly
One family's epic tale of survival in tumultuous twentieth-century China.
Li Feng grew up in Mao's communist China with her mother's motto burning in her ears - Success demands two things: unconditional...
City of Evil
The shocking real story of Adelaide's strange and violent underbelly - As seen on TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES
They call Adelaide the city of churches. What they forget is that every church has a graveyard - and every graveyard is full of skeletons.
Adelaide, an elegantly designed, civilised city, where the inhabitants are known for their love of the arts, good food...