Rupert Smith Why do we try to use military force to solve our political problems? And why, when our forces win the military battles does this still fail to solve...

Mara Moustafine WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD 2003 COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION AWARD SHORTLISTED NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2004 SHORTLISTED KIRIYAMA PRIZE 2004 SHORTLISTED TASMANIA PACIFIC BICENTENARY HISTORY PRIZE 2004...

Author: Kate Quinn In the snowbound city of Kiev, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of...

The Women From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of...

Conn Iggulden January 1, 2009 by Harper

Sven Hassel Sven Hassel's books have sold 52 million copies worldwide. Hassel, a Danish volunteer who served in the German army throughout WWII, based this story on his own horrific...

Vaddey Ratner Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyan is testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human...

Ian KershawIan Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second...