Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History & Military

Turkestan the great landmass of Central Asia and Western China is an intriguing meeting point of civilizations. Four major invasions Greek, Arab, Mongol and Russian together with Persian, Turkic and Chinese cultural influences, have made their mark on this vast and sometime forbidding region. The...

This is a detailed history in two volumes of the development of daggers, fighting knives, bayonets, swords, sabers and lances, from the Stone Age through to the latest utilitarian designs. It is a visual reference to over 750 weapons of the world, arranged by time period and geographical area, al...

WWI and ANZAC Day. The opening battles on the Western Front marked a watershed in military history. A dramatic, almost Napoleonic war of movement quickly gave way to static, attritional warfare in which modern weaponry had forced the combatants to take to the earth. Some of the last cavalry charg...

This title is all about the men, machines, and landmark technology behind the most iconic aircraft from the Supermarine Spitfire to the Concorde. Featuring over 1000 of the greatest military and commercial aircraft in the world, this is an amazing visual guide tracing their evolution over the pas...

You'll explore all aspects of Egyptian life: how religion was practiced; forms of work and play; types of food and drink; clothes, makeup, and adornments like jewelry; temples and homes; fine artwork; and more.

ARCHAEOLOGY BY PERIOD / REGION. AUSTRALIAN. This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia's deserts, one of the world's major habitats and the largest block of drylands in the southern hemisphere. Over the last few decades, a wealth of new environmental and archaeological da...

This book is a collection of virtual time-travellings back to Australia’s past. Australian History Live! is a compelling look at Australian history using first person accounts as reported in the press and in journals and diaries. Included in the collection are gripping accounts of occasions both ...

The ultimate guide to Australia. This book will teach you all you need to know about living in Down Under. Everything from how to spread Vegemite, to how to host the perfect barbie.

The array of new technologies that came on the scene in the early 20th century resulted in widely varied new forms of military special operations once civilization embarked on its greatest war. This work contains discussions of the employment of various special purpose, special mission organizati...

To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a "cousins' war." The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. As acclaimed hi...