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History
Heroes of Hamel
Stephen Dando-Collins The Death of Democracy
Benjamin Carter Hett Carpathia
Jay Ludowyke
PB $34.99
The battle of Hamel was remarkable
for its speed, the tactics employed,
numerous acts of extreme bravery,
and for being the first time American
troops fought under Australian
command. Heroes of Hamel explores
the preparations and ramifications for
this blitzkreig and the parts played by
General John Monash, Private Henry
Dalziel, Lance Corporal Jack Axford,
Sergeant Ned Searle, Colonel Joseph
B. Sanborn and Corporal Thomas
Pope. PB $35.00
Drawing on individual stories to
illustrate its broader arguments, The
Death of Democracy examines the
reasons for the fall of one of the most
progressive governments in
twentieth-century Europe, and the
rise of the most terrifying. The Death
of Democracy is an authoritative and
panoramic new survey of one of the
most pivotal periods in modern
history, and a book with a clear and
important message for the world
today. PB $32.99
15 April 1912. The Carpathia receives a
distress call from the Titanic. Captain
Arthur Rostron turns Carpathia and
sails full speed through the night.
Almost a century later, Carpathia’s
wreck has been located. She’s over
500 feet down, and among the few
divers who can reach this depth is Ric
Waring’s team, who are determined to
be the first to reach the wreck. In this
intensively researched book, we
follow the captivating narratives of
Rostron and Waring.
Pandemic 1918
Catharine Arnold France
John Julius Norwich On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis
PB $24.99
There was no escape from the
common enemy of ‘Spanish Flu’: in
Britain, 250,000 people died. In the
United States it was 750,000, while
European deaths reached over two
million. Yet at the time, news of the
danger was suppressed. Behind the
numbers are human lives, stories of
those who fought it in the hospitals
and laboratories. Catharine Arnold
traces the course of the disease, its
origins and progress, via these
remarkable people. HB $45.00
From frowning Roman generals and
belligerent Gallic chieftains, to
Charlemagne through Marie
Antoinette and the storming of the
Bastille to Vichy, the Resistance and
beyond, France is packed with heroes
and villains, adventures and battles,
romance and revolution. Full of
memorable stories and racy
anecdotes, this is the perfect
introduction to the country that has
inspired the rest of the world to live,
dress, eat – and love better. HB $55.00
For years, a select group of students at
Yale University has been admitted
into the year-long ‘Grand Strategy’
seminar taught by John Lewis Gaddis
and Paul Kennedy. The seminar
provides these students with a
grounding in decision-making in the
face of crisis. On Grand Strategy is the
distillation of that course, and in it
Gaddis takes the reader from the
commanding heights of
statesmanship across the landscape
of world history.