Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History & Military

History is a catalogue of errors, and The Worst Decisions... Ever! shines a light on some of the biggest. Starting with Adam and Eve's original lapse of culinary judgment, author Stephen Weir takes you on a tour from the Trojan War to the Enron scandal, meeting such famous culprits as Cleopatra, ...

BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. In a fast-paced and action-packed narrative, Navy SEAL commander Rorke Denver tackles the questions that have emerged about America s past decade at war from what makes a hero to why we fight and what it does to us. Heroes are not always the guys who j...

Wounded Tiger is the compelling true story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Japanese pilot who led the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II. Fuming with a hatred for Americans and a strong sense of national and racial pride, Fuchida allows an intense passion and determination to lead him through...

Gill Blanchard's guide to writing a family history is designed for anyone who wants to bring their ancestors' stories to life. She looks at ways of overcoming the particular problems family historians face when writing a family history - how to deal with gaps in knowledge, how to describe generat...

The incredible World War II saga of the Jewish refugees who fought in Britain's most secretive special-forces unit - but whose story has gone untold until now.

When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world. This ...

For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory - and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggl...