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Back from the Deep
Naval Institute Press 2012; US$ 17.95This epic World War II saga follows the USS Squalus and Sculpin as they play out their dramatic destinies in the Pacific. The author, a seasoned journalist, re-creates their entire perilous journey. The Squalus sank during a test dive in 1939, but thirty-three trapped crewmen were saved thanks to the revolutionary use of the McCann diving bell. The... more...
Stalin
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarized debate. In this groundbreaking study, leading international experts challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his early life in Georgia to the Cold War years, using recently declassified archive. more...
Seductress
Penguin Group Inc. 2004; US$ 16.00In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history?s greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the world?from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to such lesser-known women as the infamous Violet Gordon Woodhouse, who lived in a ménage with... more...
With the Old Breed
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 7.99?Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed . He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific?the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary?into terms we mortals can grasp.??Tom Hanks NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In The Wall Street Journal , Victor... more...
How to Lose a War
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99From the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly disastrous military campaigns. How to Lose a War chronicles some of the most remarkable strategic catastrophes and doomed military adventures of overreaching invaders and clueless defenders?whether the failure was a result of poor planning, miscalculations,... more...
Savage Continent
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableKeith Lowe's Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII. The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil... more...
Ancient Hawaiian Civilization
Tuttle Publishing 1989; US$ 16.95Ancient Hawaiian Civilization takes us back to Hawaii's " stone age," when there wasn't an alphabet, numbering system, or other civilized distinctions as we know them. Still rules of living, modes, and customs permitted large numbers of people to live healthfully and happily throughout the islands. ANCIENT HAWAIIAN CIVILIZATION is " must"... more...
The Ruling Class of Judaea
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 40.00How Rome's misunderstanding of the status criteria of Jewish society led to the revolt of AD 66. more...
The Things They Cannot Say
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 13.99What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what's right? What can you never forget? In The Things They Cannot Say , award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks these difficult questions of eleven soldiers and marines, who?by sharing the truth about their wars?display a rare courage that transcends battlefield... more...
Bill the Bastard
Allen & Unwin 2012; US$ 18.17An epic yarn based on the true story of a great Australian war horse who rode with bravery and valour at Gallipoli, the desert campaigns of Egypt, and Palestine. more...









