Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History & Military

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 ...

A little known story of two Australian battalions abandoned in Java during World War II and the heroes who kept them alive in the worst of Japan's prisoner of war camps. They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhelming enemy. Later, hundreds died as prisoners of war on the Thai-Burm...

On May 8 1945, forty-six-year-old Drum Major Jackson staggered towards his American liberators. Emaciated, dressed in rags, his decayed boots held together with string, he'd been force-marched for twenty days over the Austrian Alps after five heinous years as a POW in Nazi labour camps. He collap...

Australia is a remote nation, tucked away in the southern hemisphere with a tiny population compared to their densely populated neighbours to the North. Despite this, over the past two hundred years the Austrian military has punched well above its weight, earning a reputation for bravery and effi...

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds ...

David Sornig examines how the 8 km-square zone to the west of central Melbourne became the city's blind spot. Once a fertile wetland with a large blue saltwater lagoon, it passed through various incarnations -- from boneyards and rubbish tips; through the Depression-era Dudley Flats shanty town; ...

This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary maps. It includes unique treasures such as the fourteenth-century Gough Map of Great Britain, exquisite portolan charts made in the fifteenth century, the Selden Map of China - the earliest example of Chinese merchant cartography - ...

For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In his sweeping account, Ben Kiernan broadens this vision by narrating the rich history of the peoples who have inhabited the ...