The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A Spectator Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'An illuminating and riveting read.' - Jonathan DimblebyJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present.In The Making of ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia. Today's Russia is an oligarchy propped up by illusions and falsities. But it also represents the fulfilment of tendencies already present i ...Show more
A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted and depleted by a long a brutal war, fifteen nations cobbled together an army of nearly 200,000 men and embarked on one of the most extraordinary and ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. The Intervention in Russia's civil war was sp ...Show more
A Short History of Russia by Mark Galeotti
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
An essential short history of Russia by acclaimed writer and expert Mark Galeotti, taking us from Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great, to the Russian Revolution, the fall of the USSR and the rise of Vladimir Putin - and updated to include the road to the Ukrainian war.'Fascinating... One of the mo ...Show more
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The Russians are invading. But the locals have a plan. It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of the war. The heavily-armed Russians are expecting an easy fight - ...Show more
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond by John Lyons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian journalist John Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem ...Show more
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analy ...Show more
Enemies and Neighbours - Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi, The Times A century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewis ...Show more
Killer in the Kremlin: The instant bestseller - a gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny by John Sweeney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine.THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president. Killer in the Kremlin traces ...Show more
Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939 by Peter Shambrook
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
During the First World War, the British High Commissioner in Egypt, Sir Henry McMahon, entered into a secret correspondence with Hussein ibn Ali, the Sharif of Mecca. On behalf of Asquith's government, McMahon promised the Sharif an independent Arab state after the war, if he would ally with Britain and ...Show more
Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The war Russia is waging against America is very different from anything you have heard in the press, as Russian-born U.S. intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler reveals. Koffler details how Vladimir Putin is orchestrating a wide-ranging, multi-faceted campaign to retake his country’s role as a super-power ...Show more