Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History & Military

The History of Russia: Second Edition moves from the 10th-century founding of Kievan Rus to the czars to the Communist Era to the present, with particular emphasis on the fall of the Soviet Union and the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin. In addition to a new chap...

"More than 75,000 Australians and New Zealanders went to war on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. They shared a horror, but their courage and deeds on a battlefield of tragic errors and unimaginable suffering helped build a legend, the legend of the Anzacs. The British lost more men on Gallipoli t...

Which ìll-prepared' monarch was on the English throne at the turn of the last millenium? How many English monarchs have been crowned on St George's Day? When, how and why did England l̀ose' eleven days? Monarchs, Murders & Mistresses answers these questions and many more, presenting a royal even...

Everyone knows that Darwin suffered Japanese air raids during world War II. Few are aware that Western Australia experienced raids on many more towns! This missing piece of history is now told for the first time in this definitive account of those raids, conveying the fears of the time that West...

The 40s in pictures is one of a series of books that together provide a comprehensive pictorial history of the 20th century, decade by decade. [Cover]