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A History of Scotland
$12.00 AUD
David Ross is a historian who examines the state of a country/nation as it is today, and then explains how that country has developed through time using people and places...
Victorians Arriving
$20.00 AUD
Author: Richard BroomeBinding: HardbackPublished: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: some marks and sun bleaching to dust cover, plastic jacket torn on...
Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese offensive in the Far East seemed unstoppable. Allied forces engaged in a futile attempt to halt their rapid advance, culminating in the...
Venice And Its Lagoon
$80.00 AUD
Author: Giulio LorenzettiBinding: HardbackPublished: Edizioni Trieste, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: wear and rubbing of dust cover; signed on inside cover with previous owner name;...
Merchants in the Temple
$15.00 AUD
A veritable war is being waged in the Catholic Church: on one side, there is Pope Francis's strong message of one church for rich and poor alike; on the other,...
The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts...
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
$20.00 AUD
We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did; in his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example of his own life, he set the...
A History of Britain in Thirty-Six Postage Stamps
$12.00 AUD
Stamps tell a story--and Chris West's book is the unique, fascinating tale of Great Britain told through its stamps. Hailed by The Times of London as "a splendid reminder of...
Night Flyer: Pioneering Airborne Electronic Warfare With The 100 Group
The art of successful night fighting was not something that could be easily learnt. Pilot and navigator had to work together as a team, to think and move as one...
The Dark Defile: Britain's Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan,
$20.00 AUD
Convinced in 1838 that Britain's invaluable empire in India was threatened by Russia, Persia, and Afghan tribes, the British government ordered its Army of the Indus into Afghanistan to oust...
The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930's
The book titled The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930's by the author William Wiser. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Austerity Britain, 1945-1951
Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices - vivid, unselfconscious, and unaware of what the future holds. A Chingford housewife endures the tribulations of rationing; a retired...
Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685
The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of a which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of...
Admirals
From the man described by Amanda Foreman as 'one of the most eminent naval historians of our age' comes the story of how Britain's maritime power helped it gain unparalleled...
Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941
Did the arms race of the 1930s cause the Second World War? In Cry Havoc, historian Joseph Maiolo shows, in rich and fascinating detail, how the deadly game of the...
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
$25.00 AUD
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag , acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and...
Great Tales of English History Volume 3: The Battle Of The Boyne To
Your Country Needs You! Edward the Abdicator and Peace for our Time - the latest volume of GREAT TALES FROM ENGLISH HISTORY enters the twentieth century with a flourish. Starting...
From Splendour to Revolution
The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and significant era for Russia. During that time the country underwent a massive transformation, taking it from days of grandeur...
Castles Made of Sand: A Century of Anglo-American Espionage and
$20.00 AUD
"Extensively researched--with detailed source notes and an expansive bibliography--and cogently argued, Gerolymatos's study of diplomacy by espionage is timely and instructive." - Publishers Weekly With roots in imperialism and the...
A Cultural History of the French Revolution
The book titled A Cultural History of the French Revolution by the author Emmet Kennedy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism;...
Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory
What were the political machinations that kept Neville Chamberlain in office during the 1930s and deliberately kept Winston Churchill out Burying Caesar takes us into the thick of the battle...
Napoleon and Wellington: The Long Duel
On the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that France could...
Scotland
Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland...
Engage the Enemy More Closely: Royal Navy in 2WW
The accepted interpretation of Britain's wartime role as an island sea power is challenged by Correlli Barnett's brilliant demonstration that the dependence on seashore imports of food and raw materials,...
Berlin: The Biography of a City
Written by the authors of "The Fall of Berlin", this book tells the story of Berlin both through political events and through a vast range of extraordinary personalities: politicians, soldiers...
The Russian Revolution
The book titled The Russian Revolution by the author Richard Pipes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Powers Behind the Prime Minister: The Hidden Influence of Number
How many people know what lies on the other side of the door to 10 Downing Street, or indeed, who built the building? Providing a portrait of the centre of...
Heroes Before Gallipoli: Bita Paka and That One Day in September
Seven months before the troops landed at Gallipoli, a sailor from Melbourne became the nation?s ?rst casualty of World War 1. Able seaman William ?Billy? Williams was shot in the...
Irish History
$12.00 AUD
The book titled Irish History by the author Peter Newman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
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From the author of A People's Tragedy , an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in...
Citizens & Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for
What transformed moral citizens into guillotine cannibals during the French Revolution and the Great Reign of Terror? The answer, argues Eli Sagan, is the same force that has killed millions...
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, 1944
The book titled Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, 1944 by the author Sir Max Hastings. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
The Storm Passed by: Ireland, 1941-42
$20.00 AUD
This book is a well-written and extensively researched account of the effects on neutral Ireland of those crucial early years of the Second World War when the fear existed that...
The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars
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From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern England By the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals,...
Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britain: 1750 -1990
First published in 2002.The aim of this book is to analyse and dispute a widely-held theory of Britain's 'economic decline' since the mid-nineteenth century, and to offer an alternative view...
Great Tales from English History: The Truth about King Arthur, Lady
$15.00 AUD
With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England -- from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers...
Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
$25.00 AUD
An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book...
Blood, Tears and Folly
This study sets the drama of war on a world stage, and examines why, 50 years on, the lessons of World War II - when humanity was consumed by violence...
The Civil Wars
This illustrated military history of the British and Irish Civil Wars offers an integrated account of the conflict that engulfed the kingdoms ruled by Charles I after 1638. On the...
A Foreign Field
A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zig-Zag'. Four young British...
Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero
Nelson's own courage, vanity, ruthlessness and sweetness made him one of the great identifiable heroes of English history. In Trafalgar, Adam Nicolson also traces the stories of many unknown people...
Lenin
The author destroys the myth of benevolent "Grandfather Lenin", showing how political violence and diplomatic double-dealing were part and parcel of the Soviet system from its outset in 1917. The...
A History of Norway: From the Ice Age to the Age of Petroleum
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The book titled A History of Norway: From the Ice Age to the Age of Petroleum by the author Ivar Libaek. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and
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This impeccably researched and "adventure-packed" ( The Washington Post ) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus's son to create the greatest library in the world is "the stuff...
The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against
Late in the summer of 1880, a wave of odors emanated from the sewers of Paris. As the stench lingered, outraged residents feared that the foul air would breed an...
AA Walks Through Britain's History
Double appeal - for both history buffs and walkers alike, an ideal family gift; Themed - each walk, ranging from between 1.5 and 10 miles, focuses on a particular feature,...
The Human Comedy: Scenes of Parisian Life (Ten Volume Set)
$125.00 AUD
Author: Honoré De BalzacBinding: HardbackPublished: George Barrie & Son, 1896Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Volumes II-XI only. Dried and worn leather....