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Scandalous: The Outrageous Behaviour of Sports Stars by Barry Stone
Category: Sports and Hobbies
There is no shortage of sporting stars making headlines off the field for all the wrong reasons. From dodgy dalliances bubbling to the surface, to marriages shattered, lucrative endorsement deals flushed down the toilet and clubs that can no longer hold onto players who have stuffed up in very big ways. ...Show more
Secret Army: An Elite Force, a Secret Mission, a Fleet of Model-T Fords, a Far Flung Corner of WWI by Barry Stone
Category: History
It was arguably the greatest fighting force in the entirety of the Great War. They were the very best: hardened, fearless, decorated, cocky fighting men, all veterans of Gallipoli and the Western Front. Yet this elite force secretly assembled in London in late 1917 remains an enigma even today. Barry St ...Show more
The 50 Greatest Prehistoric Sites of the World by Barry Stone
Category: Travel | Series: The 50
Humanity's written history stretches back only 5,000 years, a mere blip on the timeline of our existence. If you want to know what it really means to be fully human, to see the whole story, you need to go back. Way, way back. Prehistoric humans couldn't write, but they were adept at telling their own st ...Show more
The 50 Greatest Walks of the World by Barry Stone
Category: Travel | Series: The 50
Barry Stone, author of 1,001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die, delves into some of the lesser-known aspects of the world's most famous -- and not-quite-famous-yet -- trails. The perfect accompaniment to practical guidebooks, Stone relates how slings and carabiners kept him from falling headlong ...Show more
The 50 Greatest Westerns by Barry Stone
Category: Music
Author Barry Stone has served his apprenticeship as a western movie geek and aficionado. The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, Red River - for 50 years the western has been the only genre in a life that 'just ain't big enough for two'. He has written on the history of cinema for the illustrated referen ...Show more
The Desert Anzacs: The Forgotten Wars in the Deserts of Egypt, Palestine and North Africa by Barry Stone
Category: Military
The charge of the Light Horse Brigade is the stuff of legend, but there are other desert campaigns in Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean and North Africa that are often overlooked. The Desert ANZACs brings to the fore the tales of the ANZACs who fought in the heat and desert sands - from their first-ever ov ...Show more
The Digger's Menagerie by Barry Stone
Category: Military
Based on impeccable and wide-ranging research (including letters, journals and other first-hand accounts) and featuring dozens of fascinating, surprising and often poignant images, every aspect of animal involvement in the midst of the world's greatest and bloodiest of conflicts will be examined. In tel ...Show more
The Greatest Headlines in History: Events That Shook the World by Barry Stone; James Inglis
Category: Australian History
A fascinating journey through 40 of the most significant events in recorded history, with "headlines" from "Athen and Sparta: 'It's War'" to "After 27 Years Mandela Walks Free" From the suicide of Cleopatra ending 4,000 years of Egyptian pharaoh rule to Marco Polo’s wondrous journey along the silk roa ...Show more
The Squatters: The Story of Australia's Pastoral Pioneers by Barry Stone
Category: Australian History
For the early settlers who came from crowded cities and long established villages, it must have been extraordinary to find you could pack your belongings onto a bullock dray and head off to rural grasslands out of the reach of meddlesome authorities. They could just mark out a parcel of land, bring in s ...Show more