Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History & Military

Subtitled: Fairey Gannet ASW.1 in service with the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm.

Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuściński set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but h...

This is a compelling guide to antiquity's greatest constructions - how they came to be built and what then befell them. Wonders of the Ancient World describes the most extraordinary feats of human engineering and design from across the globe, created between the dawn of human civilisation and the...

The year 1989 was the start of a monumental shift in world history. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the introduction of the World Wide Web, the unparalleled events of 20 years ago triggered forces that are still shaping our world today. Filled with iconic images and photographs that capture t...

WARFARE & DEFENCE. Written by one of the one of the greatest warriors in history, 'The Book of Five Rings' is about the Way of Strategy, using certain techniques to take down the enemy. 'The Book of Five Rings' is separated into five parts, representing Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and lastly Void. T...

Stalin's Red Army entered the Second World War as a relatively untried fighting force. In 1941, with the launch of Operation Barbarossa, it joined battle with Hitler's army, the most powerful in history. After a desperate war of attrition over four years the Red Army beat the Nazis into defeat on...

The wondrous extravagance of banquets where flamingos are roasted whole and wine flows like rivers. The roar of frenzied spectators inside the Colosseum during a battle between gladiators. A crowd of onlookers gathered at a slave auction. The silent baths and the boisterous taverns. Many books ha...

With over a million casualties, the Somme was the most brutal battle of the First World War. It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later, remains seared into the national consciousness.