Penguin Books Australia

' Whatever it takes to get those bastards. The true nature of our Faustian bargain would not become clear until later, and maybe it needed a journalist as steely and tenacious as Jane Mayer to give us the full picture. 'The Dark Side' is about how the war on terror became 'a war on American ideals,' and Mayer gives this story all the weight and sorrow it deserves. Many books get tagged with the word...

In this intensely personal account, Barry Heard draws on his own experiences as a young conscript, along with those of his comrades to look back at life before, during, and after the Vietnam War. The result is a sympathetic vision of a group of young men who were sent off to war completely unprepared for the emotional and psychological impact it would have on them.

Stripping Bare the Body shows at close hand how terrorism works and how war looks and smells and feels.  As a newly installed Haitian president told Mark Danner in riot-torn Port-au-Prince, 'Violence strips bare a society's body, the better to place the stethoscope and track the life beneath the skin.'  This stark truth came to haunt Danner, especially after the president was overthrown in...

Rare and highly sought-after photobook documenting the Vietnam War.

First published in 1971, Vietnam Inc . played a crucial part in changing public attitudes in the US, turning the tide of opinion and ultimately helping to put an end to the Vietnam War. Philip Jones Griffiths' classic account of the war was the outcome of three years of intensive reporting and is one of the most detailed surveys of...

In April 1982 as the Falklands War got underway, the destroyer HMS Antrim , found herself steaming south through the Atlantic to spearhead the operation to recover South Georgia from the Argentinians. Equipped with 4.5 inch guns, anti-aircraft missiles and four Exocet missiles, she also carried one Wessex III helicopter, affectionately known as Humphrey, which was to play an extraordinary part in the...

The years 1975 to 1996 were witness to the largest mass migration in modern history, with more than a million people leaving their war-torn homeland, Vietnam, in search of safety.

They were perhaps the most powerful, ruthless, flawed and fascinating duo in modern times: President Nixon and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger. Both had risen from nothing to conquer the world stage, both were ambitious, manipulative, relentlessly driven and plagued by inner demons. And both mistrusted everyone around them - including each other.