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Fly Boy: Ace Pilot - A Life Cut Short
"Fly Boy" chronicles the life of Parker 'Joe' Hodge, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) pilot who tragically lost his life in the Netherlands East Indies during World War II....
Pai Naa: The True Story of Englishwoman Nona Baker's Survival in the
Nona Baker stayed behind in the Malayan jungle during WWII and was adopted by Chinese guerrillas. Against all odds, this remarkable, brave young woman, known as Pai Naa (White Nona),...
Paddy Bogside
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A carpenter and builder by trade, Paddy Doherty was strongly active in the Civil Rights agitation of the late 1960s and early 1970s and was on occasion a victim of...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War. Lawrence's...
Everything Under the Sun: The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are one of the most iconic and influential rock bands in the world: their sonic ambition, lyrical dexterity and structural ability are unparalleled in rock music. Since their...
The Story of the Big Four Railway Companies
Looking back at the impact of Britain's Big Four railway companies, 100 years later. GWR, LMS, LNER and SR: these initials arouse memories of the Cornish Riviera Express, the streamlined...
Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matth us Hetzenauer
Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II's most accomplished snipers. Mathaus Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born...
The Fatherland and the Jews: Two Pamphlets by Alfred Wiener, 1919 and
The inaugural title in a collaboration between the Wiener Library and Granta Books. These two pamphlets, 'Prelude to Pogroms? Facts for the Thoughtful' and 'German Judaism in Political, Economic and...
More Peanuts
This collection contains 240 Peanuts strips taken from the three year span of 1952-1954 featuring many of your favourite characters. The strip's bitter-sweet humour and child-like innocence helped to cement...
Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission
Silver Medal winner in Military History Matters 'Book of the Year' Award "Written with great accuracy, detail, enthusiasm, and insight " Military History Matters judges' comment Striking where the enemy...
Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission
Silver Medal winner in Military History Matters 'Book of the Year' Award "Written with great accuracy, detail, enthusiasm, and insight " Military History Matters judges' comment Striking where the enemy...
Sherman Tanks, US Army, North-Western Europe, 1944-1945
Following his first book in the TankCraft series on the British army's Shermans during the battle for Normandy, Dennis Oliver has compiled a companion volume on those used by the...
Moth: The powerful story of a family attempting to hold themselves
ONE OF THE OBSERVER 'S 'TEN DEBUT NOVELISTS' OF 2021 'Powerful and heartbreaking' OBSERVER 'Gripping... Razak painstakingly paints a portrait of a family; their rituals, their private languages, their shared...
Marion Lane and the Deadly Rose
The second installment in the Marion Lane mysteries series. The envelope was tied with three delicate silk ribbons: "One of the new recruits is not to be trusted..." It's 1959...
Lemmy: The Definitive Biography
'Unflinching, forthright and full of wry humour as the man himself, and there's little praise greater than that' CLASSIC ROCK ' Wall's vision of Lemmy as a Rock'n'Roll stalwart who...
The Writer and the Traitor: A thrilling history of the 20th century's
The friendship between Graham Greene and Kim Philby is one of the most enigmatic of the twentieth century. Greene, the internationally lauded novelist who wrestled with the themes of faith...
Wings and the Navy: 1947-1953
ALS Colin Jones, a historian brings us a history of the Royal Australian Navy in the years following World War II (1947-1953). This was a period that saw a number...
The Guinness Book of Classic British TV
This guide to the history of TV programming since the 1950s takes a nostalgic yet analytical approach in examining comedies, soap operas, science fiction, crime series, children's programmes and drama....
Strike Command
The two key components of air warfare conducted by the Royal Air Force virtually for the whole of the last century were the fighters and the bombers. By the 1960s...
Me and Mr Welles: Travelling Europe with a Hollywood Legend
A unique memoir featuring one of the most legendary Hollywood figures of all time. In late autumn 1968, callow youth Dorian Bond was charged with travelling to Yugoslavia to deliver...
Lenin: A Biography
Lenin's politics continue to reverberate around the world even after the end of the USSR. His name elicits revulsion and reverence, yet Lenin the man remains largely a mystery. This...
For Emma and Elvis
In the northern summer of 1977 Australians Michael Byrne and Emma Riley are holidaying in Spain. On arriving back in London they are shocked to learn that Presley is dead;...
Australia's China: Changing Perceptions from the 1930s to the 1990s
Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the Cold War to the Australian recognition of the...
Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt
In 1903, a renowned naturalist joined the President of the United States for a two-week camping trip to Yosemite. John Burroughs offers delightful reminiscences of Theodore Roosevelt and their shared...
The Jewish Threat: Anti-Semitic Politics Of The U.S. Army
Very little has been written about America's own history of anti-Semitism. In this shocking book, the first documented examination of anti-Semitism in an American governmental institution, Joseph Bendersky shows that...
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The first comprehensive account of the epoch-making Six-Day War, from the author of Ally - now featuring a fiftieth-anniversary retrospective Though it lasted for only...
Crime Fiction, 1800-2000: Detection, Death, Diversity
Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the 19th century to the most contemporary developments. Knight explains how and why the various...
Funeral in Berlin
A Russian scientist defects to the West in this vintage spy thriller, part of The IPCRESS File series 1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS...
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the Cia, and the Rise of
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An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful--and secretive--colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New...
Vita and the Birds
A haunting mystery for fans of Eve Chase, Kate Morton and Kate Mosse. 'A poignant page-turning story, beautifully written' Leonora Nattrass, author of Blue Water 'Hugely evocative and beautifully written'...
Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a...
Titanic: The Homecoming: Tales From The Lapland
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On April 28th, 1912, two weeks after the calamity of the Titanic, the majority of the surviving crew returned to England aboard the SS Lapland. For two days in New...
The Dunera Affair: A Documentary Resource Book
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The book titled The Dunera Affair: A Documentary Resource Book by the author Paul R. Bartrop. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Airlife's Register of Aircraft Accidents: Facts, Statistics and
The book titled Airlife's Register of Aircraft Accidents: Facts, Statistics and by the author Antonio Bordoni. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Moscow, December 25, 1991
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. Vladimir Putin History always comes down to the details. And...
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That
NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL - the first book to analyse government documents released in January 2025. 'Sensational' Daily Express 'A bombshell book' Daily Mail 'A breath-taking review of WWII's greatest...
The Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent
A compelling yet tragic portrait of one of the most important, yet least understood, spies of the early Cold War. This is the dramatic, untold true story of Goleniewski's dealings...
Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 Incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what actually happened in the most sensational...
The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post
During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns... Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in...
Sukhoi Su-27
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The book titled Sukhoi Su-27 by the author Hans Halberstadt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Pop Music in British Cinema: A Chronicle
Pop music 'stars' in many of the most successful of British films, such as 'Trainspotting' and 'Human Traffic'. Even pop artists themselves have been known to appear in British movies,...
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First
This story, by top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter, about the virus that destroyed Iran's nuclear centrifuges shows that the door has been opened on a new age of warfare--one in...
Children of the Storm: World War II in the Words of the Children Who
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The book titled Children of the Storm: World War II in the Words of the Children Who by the author Charles Perkins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...
Agent Dmitri
A sailor, artist, lawyer and writer, fluent in many languages, Dmitri Bystrolyotov was one of a team of outstanding Soviet spies operating in Western countries between the World Wars. He...
The Germans: Who are They Now?
The book titled The Germans: Who are They Now? by the author Alan Watson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham
Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the...