Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History & Military

In March 1918, with the fear of a one-million-man American army landing in France, the Germans attacked. In response, Australian soldiers were involved in a number of engagements, culminating in the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux and the saving of Amiens, and Paris, from German occupation. T...

Bomber Boys is the extraordinary and little known story of more than 100 Dutch airmen, stranded in Australia with no country to return to, who were joined by a contingent of Australians to make up the RAAF's No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron. Formed in Canberra in April 1942, the squadron...

Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted - but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the Pacific was dis...

From the fury of the Punic Wars to the icy waters of Dunkirk, relive 5,000 years of world-changing combat with this guide to the most famous battles in history, including a foreword from TV presenter and historian Tony Robinson. This military history book takes you on a journey through the battle...

A unique history of Australia retold through the extraordinary lives of Peter Bradley's three ancestors: a father, son and grandson. James Bradley was a First Fleet convict found guilty of stealing a white linen handkerchief worth two shillings, and sentenced to seven years transportation to Aust...

Asia is at a dangerous moment. China is rising fast. North Korea may be assembling more nuclear missiles. Japan's nationalist government is remilitarising and Donald Trump is the first US president since the 1970s to breaking diplomatic protocol and speak with Taiwan. Focusing on Australia's role...

Australia's highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, is a dangerous place. Evan Hayes was an ordinary Australian battler. Hardworking, likable. Laurie Seaman was a world-wise American. Adventurous, affluent. When this athletic pair of cross-country skiers disappeared into the wilds of Kosciuszko they ...

In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade on the evolutionary food chain, we're real winners. But, frankly, it's not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes just occasionally we've managed to really, truly,...

Drawn from hundreds of hours of one-on-one interviews with the astronauts, their loved ones, NASA personnel and many experts, and filled with vivid and unforgettable detail, Rocket Men is the definitive account of one of America's Apollo 8 project. Reading like a real-life thriller, Kurson reveal...

Russia and Britain were never natural bedfellows, but the 1894 marriage of Queen Victoria's favourite granddaughter, Alicky, to the Tsarevich Nicholas, marked the beginning of an uneasy Anglo-Russian entente that would last until the 1917 Russian Revolution. The three extraordinary meetings that ...