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The Battle of Hurtgen Forest: Untold Story of a Disastrous Campaign
Thirty thousand American GI's were killed or wounded in the longest battle ever fought by the US Army - a battle that has been ignored for more than 40 years....
The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British
The book titled The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British by the author Anthony Cave Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
People at War 1914-18
$12.00 AUD
The book titled People at War 1914-18 by the author Michael Moynihan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Dunkirk: The Storms of War
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The book titled Dunkirk: The Storms of War by the author John Harris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Sharp End: The Fighting Man in World War II
Examines the actual physical and mental experiences of the American and British front-line soldier in World War II. This book is the result of research among memoirs published and unpublished...
Normandy in the Time of Darkness: Everyday Life and Death in the
This narrative history tells the story of the German occupation of Normandy (1940-44), and the Allied liberation. Following the fall of France in 1940, Normandy formed part of the Reich's...
Armada!: The Planning, the Battle and After
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The book titled Armada!: The Planning, the Battle and After by the author Robert Milne-Tyte. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Civic Politics in the Rome of Urban VIII
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In this depiction of daily political life in Baroque Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer argues that lay persons managed to sustain a civic government under the increased papal absolutism of Urban VIII...
Dunkirk
This is the story of Dunkirk and of the men who planned it (insofar as it was planned) and of the men who carried it out, and of their ships....
Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger,
$20.00 AUD
"[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians' thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see...
Europa, Europa
The Inspiration Behind The Golden Globe --Winning Film "An engrossing and memorable tale."Jewish Book World "The sheer emotion of telling the tale is palpable. The whole is moving, and strange...
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story
A gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its care - the author's own mother. 'Page-turning and profoundly...
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a...
The Berlin Blockade
From the beginning of 1948 the Russians gradually mounted a siege against the Western sectors of Berlin occupied by American, British and French troops since the end of the war...
Hitler's Banker
A biography of Hjalmar Schacht, Chief Architect of the Nazi economy, whose rampant inflation financed the creation of the Europe's war machine in the devastated Weimar Republic. His meteoric success...
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History
A fascinating exploration of why Hitler's death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put...
The Impossible Bomb: The Hidden History of British Scientists and the
The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific achievement-but...
Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945
The extraordinary story of Kathleen Harriman, daughter of the US ambassador to the USSR, told through her wartime letters Kathleen Harriman was the daughter of American businessman W. Averell Harriman....
A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End
The true story of Daniel Defoe and the dirty tricks which helped bring Scotland into union with England In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men...
Themistocles: The Rise and Fall of Athens's Naval Mastermind
A portrait of the Athenian politician and general Themistocles, tracing his political development, his victory at the Battle of Salamis, and his exile in Persia Themistocles (524-459 BC) came of...
The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts
Medieval Christians knew the past primarily through what they saw and heard. History was reenacted every year in ritual observances particular to each place and region and rooted in the...
Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate
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The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyiv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him...
We'll Meet Again
During World War II, two figures symbolized the spirit of Britain. Winston Churchill was one and Vera Lynn was the second. The optimism, hope, realism and cheerful good humour of...
Images of Gallipoli
The 150 photographs in this extraordinary book have been drawn from a newly discovered collection, to tell the story of the Gallipoli campaign. They show how the British and Australians...
The Voice of War: The Second World War Told by Those Who Fought It
The Second World War was the first truly global conflict and sixty years on its consequences continue to shape the modern world. Season by season The Voice of War charts...
Nothing Less Than Victory: Oral History of D-Day
The book titled Nothing Less Than Victory: Oral History of D-Day by the author Russell Miller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916
Martin Middlebrook's "The First Day on the Somme" is a compelling and intensely moving account of the blackest day in the history of the British army. On 1 July, 1916,...
Haig's Command: A Reassessment
This book sets out to expose and analyse a major historical fraud. The author's theme is the Western Front in Haig's time - from the Somme to the armistice. Using...
Spitfire into Battle
The book titled Spitfire into Battle by the author W.G.G.Duncan Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Tumult in the Clouds
The book titled Tumult in the Clouds by the author James A. Goodson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
U-boats
The book titled U-boats by the author Edwin P. Hoyt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Minister and the Massacres
The book titled The Minister and the Massacres by the author Nikolai Tolstoy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-famine
The book titled The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-famine by the author Robert Conquest. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the
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The book titled Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the by the author Michael Korda. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
The Disinherited: Exile and the Making of Spanish Culture, 1492-1975
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Few would doubt that Spain has for several centuries made a huge contribution to Europe's culture. We all carry in our heads a seductive picture of what Spain stands for:...
Bomber Command, 1939-45: Reaping the Whirlwind
From 1940 to 1945 RAF Bomber Command attacked the industrial heartland of Germany. Daylight attacks were impossible in the face of German interceptors, so RAF aircrew had to learn to...
Mistress Of Charlecote: Mistress of Charlecote
It was a life of great happiness, for she grew to love her husband deeply. Her country home, her children, the London season and a tour abroad all brought joy...
Ill Met By Moonlight
This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943, W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both...
Wellington's Headquarters
Wellington s Headquarters is an essential introduction to the administration of the British army in the early nineteenth century. It offers a fascinating insight into the structure and operation of...
Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate
How did the Romans build and maintain one of the most powerful and stable empires in the history of the world? This book draws on the literature, especially the historiography,...
Roman Society
The book titled Roman Society by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Peace and War: Britain in 1914
1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent...
Ill Met By Moonlight
This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943, W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both...
The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister
Marking the third centenary of the office of Prime Minister, this book tells its extraordinary story, explaining how and why it has endured longer than any other democratic political office...
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of...
Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the
Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British...