Summer Catalogue 2011-12 - Hill of Content Bookshop

Military History
The Beauty And The
Sorrow: An Intimate
History Of The
First World War
Peter Englund
HB $49.99
There are many books on
the First World War, but
award-winning and
bestselling historian Peter
Englund takes a stunning
new approach.
Describing the experiences of 20 ordinary people
from around the world and all now unknown, he
explores the everyday aspects of war: not only the
tragedy and horror, but also the absurdity,
monotony and even beauty.
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Paul Ham
HB $55.00
The atomic bombs
dropped on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki killed more
than 100,000 instantly,
mostly women, children
and the elderly. Many
hundreds of thousands
more succumbed to their
horrific injuries later, or
slowly perished of
radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were ‘our
least abhorrent choice’, American leaders claimed
at the time - and still today most people believe
they ended the Pacific War .
The Penguin Book
Of Australian
War Writing
Mark Dapin (Ed)
HB $39.95
Australia’s short history is
a story of war. Soldiers
writing from the front
and journalists on the
ground have formed the
way we think about war
and so formed the way
we think about ourselves.
Author and journalist Mark Dapin has gathered
together the finest of these accounts. These
remarkable letters, diaries, memoirs and reports
remind us of our history and what happens in the
wars we send our soldiers to fight.
Desert Boys:
Australians At War
Peter Rees
HB $49.99
About 1,300 Australians
died in the desert
campaigns of World War I,
while another 3,500 died
in North Africa and the
Middle East during World
War II. Thousands more
carried the wounds of
war for the rest of their
lives. A ripple effect of grief passed down the
generations. Using letters, diaries, interviews and
unpublished memoirs this is the story of Australia’s
desert wars as never before told.
ANZACS On The
Western Front
Dr Peter Pedersen
PB $49.95
The Western Front in
France and Belgium was
the decisive theatre of the
First World War. It was
there that Australia and
New Zealand earned the
esteem of the world. The
experience helped to
forge the identities of the
two nations and the close relationship between
them and through the huge sacrifices both nations
made in what is still arguably the most grueling
episode in their history.
The Art Of Betrayal
Gordon Corera
HB $55.00
The British Secret Service
has been cloaked in
secrecy and shrouded in
myth since it was created
a hundred years ago. Our
understanding of what it
is to be a spy has been
largely defined by the
fictional worlds of James
Bond and John le Carre.
The Art of Betrayal provides a unique and
unprecedented insight into this secret world and
the reality that lies behind the fiction.