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Monte Cassino: The Story of the Hardest-fought Battle of World War Two by Matthew Parker
$29.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: good
The six-month battle for Monte Cassino was Britain's bitterest and bloodiest encounter with the German army on any front in World War Two. At the beginning of 1944 Italy was the western Allies' only active front against Nazi-controlled Europe, and their only route to the capital was through the Liri val ...Show more
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink by Matthew Parker
$36.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
'Marvellous...escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of EmpirelandThe story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than have ever been recorded before29th Sept ...Show more
The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker
$19.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
For 200 years after 1650, the West Indies witnessed one of the greatest power struggles of the age, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it was known as white gold. This book tells how the islands became by far most valuable and importa ...Show more
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