Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History

Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as research...

This book provides a history of the ANZAC battalions in the Vietnam War, covering the operations of the first five ANZAC battalions, with additional details of the nine New Zealand rifle companies and supporting units. It includes lists of active service, casualties, and honours and awards.

Collected here is the living history of the Vietnam War; the stories, yarns, reflections, anecdotes and more of the men and women who experienced the war firsthand. It was the war that divided not just South East Asia, but also the United States, Australia and other allies. Vietnam: Our Stories t...

"Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world...In this groundbreaking work, Lisa Hannett lifts the veil on the untold stories of wives and mothers, girls and slaves, widows and witches who sailed, settled, suffered and survived - and...

Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps, a place where for hundreds of years ordinary people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even here, in the farthest corner of Germany, National Socialism sought to control not only people's lives but also their mi...