Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History & Military

A comprehensive and richly visual guide to more than 200,000 years of African history and cultures. Immerse yourself in the intricate story of Africa and discover Africa's true place in world history. Spanning more than 200,000 years, from the emergence of the first humans to the rise of megaciti...

Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from an African perspective. .Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Africa's history has been dominated by wester...

A sweeping new history of the city of Rome, told through its emperors and the monuments they built to make their mark on one of the great capitals of the classical world. Rome wasn't built in a day, but over several centuries and under many different emperors. This story of constant creation and ...

Some of the world's oldest stories are told beneath Australian skies. Master storyteller Graham Seal takes us on a journey through time, from ancient narratives recounted across generations to the symbols and myths that resonate with Australians today. He uncovers tales of ancient floods and volc...

This extraordinary book is both an engaging military history and an enthralling mystery. Australia's Lost Heroes tells the astonishing little-known story of the Australian soldiers who fought the Red Army in Russia in 1919 and the personal odyssey, 100 years later, to locate and identify the lost...

12 March 1942: The Japanese have swarmed the Philippines, forcing US general Douglas MacArthur to flee with his family, escaping by the skin of their teeth to the nearest safe country - Australia. Meanwhile, Australia's foremost general, Tom Blamey, is ordered home from the Middle East by Prime M...

What does Australia's military history reveal about us? In Beyond the Broken Years, fifty years after Bill Gammage's acclaimed The Broken Years was published, provocative military historian Peter Stanley argues why it's vital for Australians to understand how our military past has been created, b...

The story of Australia's Black convicts has been erased from our history. Recovering their lives, Santilla Chingaipe offers a fresh understanding of this fatal shore, and shows how empire, slavery, race and memory have shaped our nation. On the First Fleet of 1788, at least 15 convicts were of Af...

"A data-rich analysis of how schooling influences the composition of past and current elite in Britain--who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, and the politics they perpetuate. In particular, the authors examine the influence of British public, private, and elite state sch...

Harry Freame was the first Australian to win the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Gallipoli. Raised as a samurai, he risked his life again and again to scout the beaches and hills of the battlefield, reporting invaluable intelligence back to his officers and relieving stranded soldiers who otherwis...