Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History

The enemy must not get the Messines Ridge at any price . So read the orders to German troops defending the vital high ground south of Ypres. On 7 June 1917, the British Second Army launched its attack with an opening like no other. In the largest secret operation of the First World War, British a...

"This book examines the role of gender, international development, and history in the post-9/11 wars. It includes ethnography of counterinsurgency training, interviews with female soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and analysis of colonial and Cold War histories used to create military do...

Dominated by the pillars and pediments of the Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, goddess of wisdom, the ancient Greek city of Athens is for many synonymous with civilization itself. Athens- City of Wisdom tells the tale of a city that occupies a unique place in the cultural memory of the We...

"Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped human experience around the Atlantic from the late Middle Ages until the nineteenth century. Military concerns and initiatives drove the development of technologies like ships, port facilities, fortresses and roads that made crossing the ocean possible a...

In September 2016 it will be 60 years since the first British mushroom cloud rose above the plain at Maralinga in South Australia. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on Indigenous communities and turned the land into a radioactive wasteland. In 1950 Australian prime minister Robert Menz...