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The Tower of London: The Official Illustrated Guide
The Tower of London is one of the most famous historic monuments in the world, conjuring up images of towering battlements, arms and armour, ravens, the Crown Jewels, Yeoman Warders...
The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the War with
With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby...
The Rebel Romanov
'What a wonderful book! The storytelling, the research, the deep love of her subject -- this must be the climax of Rappaport's long and illustrious career' Lucy Worsley To Queen...
The Lords Of The Isles: The Clan Donald And The Early Kingdom Of The Scots
$40.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light Foxing on top of blockThe historical narrative The Lords Of The...
The Pigeon Girl
$20.00 AUD
Edition: First English EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some foxing on blockThis poignant novel, The Pigeon Girl, chronicles the life of Natàlia, a...
Memories 1898-1939
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Light fading on spine. Large chip at bottom right corner of jacket and some...
To Befriend An Emperor: Betsy Balcombe's Memoirs of Napoleon on St
Young Elizabeth Balcombe, or Betsy to friends and family, found life on the remote island of St Helena intolerably dull. Most fourteen-year-olds would. Her father had been posted to that...
The History Makers
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA sweeping work of political biography and twentieth-century history, The History Makers: Leaders and Statesmen of the 20th Century presents...
Year Of Wonders: A Novel Of The Plague (SIGNED)
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 1st impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Yellowed Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Signed ephemera laid in. Set against the harrowing backdrop of...
The Second World War
The book titled The Second World War by the author Winston S. Churchill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
In the Russian Style
$15.00 AUD
The book titled In the Russian Style by the author Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Outline Of History: Being A Plain History Of Life And Mankind (Two-Volume Set)
$200.00 AUD
Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards with minor marks and corner bumping....
Thomas Keneally's Australians (Three-Volume Set)
$200.00 AUD
Edition: First Editions, First ImpressionsCondition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsThomas Keneally's "Australians" trilogy stands as one of the most ambitious works of narrative history ever...
City of London: The History
The Square Mile , London s financial powerhouse,rose to prominence with the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. David Kynaston s vibrant history brings this world to life, taking us from...
Mary Queen Of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she...
Alamein
$100.00 AUD
In North Africa in 1942, Australian forces provided the hinge on which the success of the Western Alliance sung. This book relates how the 9th Australian Division came to take...
Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee: An Epically Short History of Our Kings
A Waterstones Best History Book 2025 A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2025 'Learned, entertaining and highly approachable' BOB MORTIMER 'A treat' ALICE LOXTON 'Five stars from me...'...
Fascinating Paris
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly illustrated travel and cultural guide, Fascinating Paris presents the French capital through a lens of curiosity and wonder, uncovering...
Rome-Amsterdam: Two Growing Cities in Seventeenth Century Europe
In the seventeenth century, Catholic-aristocratic Rome and Protestant-bourgeois Amsterdam were expanding rapidly, both in a political and in a cultural way. In a multifaceted comparison of these two contrasting cultural...
Rituals, Images, and Words: Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late
$60.00 AUD
This collection of essays by Australian scholars offers a wealth of contemporary perspectives on cultural communication amongst men and women in late medieval and early modern Europe. Essays dealing with...
The SS
The book titled The SS by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Life and Times of William IV
William IV reigned during one of the most important periods in English history. Peel, Grey and Melbourne were political giants of the day and the Reform of Parliament was the...
The Life and Times of Henry VIII
Robert Lacey traces the story of this controversial figure - whose reign was marked by arbitary seizures of power, ruthlessness and cruelty - from the brilliance of his youth to...
Yesterdays: v. 1: Yesterdays Way We Were, 1919-39
Yesterdays recreates the often overlooked period between the 2 World Wars. From home to work, education to leisure, the blurring of the class-based society and the inventions that came along,...
Regicide: The Trials of Henry Marten
An illuminating biography of a republican convicted of regicide, drawing on the letters he wrote from within the Tower of London. Henry Marten-soldier, member of parliament, organizer of the trial...
Longford Castle: The Treasures and the Collectors
Longford Castle is a fine Elizabethan country house, home to a world-class collection of art built up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Bouverie family and still owned...
Duchess of Windsor and Other Friends: An Illustrated Biography
An intimate friend of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Diana Mosley was a frequent guest at their parties in Paris or at "the Moulin" in Orsay, where they were...
English and Welsh Infantry Regiments: An Illustrated Record of Service
This unique work of reference provides a comprehensive record-from Tangier in 1662 to Bosnia in 1994-of every country in which each regiment has served. It includes details of all campaigns,...
Green Gold
Until the middle of the 19th Century, control of the land was the key to power and wealth. This sometimes provocative book outlines the tax-gathering skills of the Anglo-Saxon Earldomen,...
The Great Fire of London
$40.00 AUD
The Great Fire of London was the greatest ca tastrophe of its kind in Europe, with 13,200 houses and 87 c hurches destroyed. Stephen Porter examines the events leadin g...
A Photohistory of World War One
This omnibus edition contains the author's five "Soldiers Fotofax" titles on the individual years of World War I. The book also contains new biographical notes on the leaders from each...
Nazi Millionaires
In the confusion that reigned in post-war Europe many Nazis were able, through bribery and other means, to escape with the wealth that they'd stolen during World War Two. Kenneth...
1938: Hitler's Gamble
In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem...
The Murder of the Romanovs
$15.00 AUD
Based on exclusive access to MI5 documents and newly discovered Russian papers, the true fate of the Romonovs. The overthrow and execution of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial...
Sorry! The English and Their Manners
$15.00 AUD
Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners - holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table. We certainly know bad manners when...
Battle of Britain: A day-by-day chronicle, 10 July-31 October
$60.00 AUD
After the fall of France in 1940, Hitler turned his attention to Germany's sole remaining enemy: Great Britain. His plans to invade Britain depended on crippling Britain's Royal Air Force....
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a
1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words- 'This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' Pasternak...
Austerlitz: Napoleon and the Eagles of Europe
$80.00 AUD
In this authoritative and beautifully illustrated new account of Napoleon's greatest victory and the campaign that preceded it, Ian Castle sheds new light on the actions of the commanders and...
Hitler's Mistakes
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA sharp and authoritative work of military history, Hitler's Mistakes presents a systematic analysis of the strategic, political,...
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
For nearly 75 years, the Soviet Union controlled Eastern Europe with an iron fist. Conceived in 1917, the empire grew to the size of a large continent with satellites in...
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
This biography of one of the key figures of the Soviet Union is a study in contrasts. What emerges is a picture of a man constantly torn between benevolence and...
Stalin's Last Crime: The Doctor's Plot
This is the full story behind Stalin's last, most complex and most puzzling conspiracy unravelled for the first time through access to previously unseen secret Soviet documents. On 13th January...
Hitler
Adolf Hitler is the most notorious political figure of the twentieth century. The story of his life, how he became a dictator, and how he managed to convince so many...
Stalin
Stalin's monstrous regime was built on the most intricate secrecy and until now, little has been known about the inside workings of his leadership or his personal life. Edvard Radzinsky...
The Miracle Of Dunkirk
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterwork of narrative history, The Miracle of Dunkirk chronicles one of the most dramatic and...
Richard Wagner: Composer Of Operas
$20.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - stained. Binding - shaky. Clean...
Killing Hitler
Most people have heard of the Stauffenberg Plot - the attempt to kill Hitler launched by the German Resistance Movement on 20 July 1944. But it is not widely known...