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Military History The Anzac Book AWM HB $49.95 Few books have ever been produced under such harsh conditions as The Anzac Book. Created by soldiers under enemy fire and in extreme hardship, the illustrations, stories, cartoons and poems were intended as a Christmas and New Year diversion for soldiers facing a harsh winter in the trenches. The Pacific Hugh Ambrose PB $34.95 Between America’s retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur’s airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. In The Pacific, Hugh Ambrose focuses on the real-life stories of these five men. Anzac Fury Peter Thompson HB $49.95 A riveting story of how the legendary Anzac Corps was reformed in the heat of battle during World War II to fight a powerful and merciless foe. Dramatically combining personal memories with combat action, Anzac Fury gives voice to the experiences of young Australians and New Zealanders who were sent on Churchill’s orders from the victorious battlefields of Libya on a disastrous mission to Greece and Crete. Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World Peter Padfield PB $32.99 In this final volume of his masterful trilogy, Peter Padfield carries the theme through the terrible wars of the last century to the present, “offering up sea battles as vivid as any you will find in Patrick O’Brien.” – Wall Street Journal Beneath Hill 60 Will Davies PB $34.95 Beneath the killing fields of the Western Front, another war was taking place, a deadly game 30 metres down, played between thousands of troops. These were not infantrymen but miners and their mutual goal was to tunnel beneath ‘no man’s land’, under the opposing lines and destroy the German enemy from below. Diggers and Greeks Maria Hill HB $59.95 This compelling book combines details of the campaigns with an account of the response of Greeks and Cretans to the Allied forces on their soil. It reveals the personal relations that developed between Australian soldiers and Greek civilians and soldiers; these were sometimes hostile but in other cases developed into friendships that lasted decades after the war had finished.
Biography Cheever: A Life Blake Bailey PB $28.95 John Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of post war America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources – including Cheever’s massive journal. Bailey’s Cheever is a stunning example of the biographer’s art and a brilliant tribute to an essential author. Lesley Blanch Anne Boston HB $65.00 Lesley Blanch was an artist to her fingertips, a writer, a traveller, a bohemian: a talented illustrator who became Vogue’s maverick arts correspondent and a fine film writer. Vivid, yet elusive, she hid as much as she revealed and left a legend behind her. The Life of Iréne Nemirovsky Oliver Philipponnat PB $35.00 This is a remarkable, panoramic biography of the author of Suite Française, a moving portrait of a woman and of her extraordinary times, and a sweeping saga of a turbulent period of European history, holding up a mirror to the world of publishing, intellectual thought, society and the darker shadow of prejudice between the wars. Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds Lyndall Gordon PB $35.00 Though in her lifetime only ten of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published, her death revealed 1,800 poems, many of them in handsewn booklets, secreted in a locked chest. She is now regarded as one of the greatest poets. The Last Empress Hannah Pakula HB $69.99 Beautiful, powerful and sexy, Madame Chiang Kai-shek was at the centre of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century: the founding of modern China. An epic historical tapestry, this beautifully wrought narrative revolves around a fascinating, manipulative woman and her family. The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves Siri Hustvedt HB $35.00 While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. It was as if she had suddenly become two people: a calm orator and a shuddering wreck. Then the seizures happened again and again.
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