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Samuel Adams: A Life

Samuel Adams: A Life

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The gripping story of the man who was the American Revolution's moral compass--Ira Stoll tells readers who Samuel Adams was, why he has been forgotten, and why he must be...
Dialogue on the Two Greatest World Systems

Dialogue on the Two Greatest World Systems

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'The truth which we arrive at by means of mathematical proofs is the same truth that is known to divine wisdom.'Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Greatest World Systems, the most...
The Vikings and their Enemies: Warfare in Northern Europe, 750-1100

The Vikings and their Enemies: Warfare in Northern Europe, 750-1100

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The Vikings had an extraordinary historical impact. From the eighth to the eleventh centuries, they ranged across Europe - raiding, exploring, colonizing - and their presence was felt as far...
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over...
Eagles over the Alps: Suvorov in Italy and Switzerland, 1799

Eagles over the Alps: Suvorov in Italy and Switzerland, 1799

$95.00 AUD$80.00 AUD
A superbly researched and detailed narrative of the Russian campaign in the Alps against the armies of Revolutionary France. 1799 - Russia's greatest soldier was at war in Italy and...
The Cold War: 1945-1991

The Cold War: 1945-1991

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Providing coverage of the Cold War, this volume pays particular attention to the Soviet-American dimension. The work analyzes the origins of the conflict; examines how the existence of nuclear weapons...
Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

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This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom's Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights...
Carl Gustav Armfelt and the Struggle for Finland during the Great

Carl Gustav Armfelt and the Struggle for Finland during the Great

$75.00 AUD$63.75 AUD
A comprehensive account of the military career of one of the great and tragic figures from the final death throes of the Swedish empire. Charles XII's planned conquest of Norway...
12 Strong Film Tie-in

12 Strong Film Tie-in

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Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon! "A thrilling action ride of a book" ( The New York Times Book Review )--the New...
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World

Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World

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"Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front." -- Eleanor Roosevelt,...
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ?

A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ?

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From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in 2012 and on to Brexit, an insightful exploration of...
The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s

The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s

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The 1930s were perhaps the seminal decade in twentieth-century history, a dark time of global depression that displaced millions, paralyzed the liberal democracies, gave rise to totalitarian regimes, and, ultimately,...
In the Cause of Humanity: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in

In the Cause of Humanity: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in

$67.95 AUD$47.57 AUD
In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century when the question of whether,...
The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction

$46.95 AUD$32.87 AUD
Reading lists, course syllabi, and prizes include the phrase '21st-century American literature,' but no critical consensus exists regarding when the period began, which works typify it, how to conceptualize its...
The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe

$174.95 AUD$122.47 AUD
This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British...
The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730-1880

The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730-1880

$226.95 AUD$158.87 AUD
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth...
Dublin's Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the

Dublin's Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the

$57.95 AUD$40.57 AUD
For the first time, Richard S. Grayson tells the story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the...
Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Vital

Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Vital

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What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where...
The Normans are Landing!: Hastings - 1066

The Normans are Landing!: Hastings - 1066

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There, at about forty meters high and on a tray of some hundred meters wide, extends a fortress even more formidable than those of Pevensey and Hastings. It is the...
South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer

South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer

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A brilliant, eye-opening espionage thriller by a former special forces officer 'now at the forefront of spy writing' 'The thinking person's John le Carre' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to...
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia

1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia

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Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize, The Age Book of the Year 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential...
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East

Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East

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The untold story of one of WW2's most extraordinary and significant battles which marked the turning of the tide of the war in the jungles of Burma 'A thrilling blow-by-blow...
Australia's First Spies: The remarkable story of Australian intelligence operations, 1901-45

Australia's First Spies: The remarkable story of Australian intelligence operations, 1901-45

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Australia was born with its eyes wide open. Although politicians spoke publicly of loyalty to Britain and the empire, in secret they immediately set about protecting Australia's interests from the...
Biafra Genocide: Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967-1970

Biafra Genocide: Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967-1970

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One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people-mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children-died in one of Africa's first post-independence...
Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou: A Marriage of Unequals

Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou: A Marriage of Unequals

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He became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage...
The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch

The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch

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The ship was almost instantly in flames . . . Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall one after another, and it...
Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers

Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her

$43.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
In 1919, in the wake of the upheaval of World War I, a remarkable group of English women came up with their own solution to the world's grief: a new...
Blood and History in China: The Donglin Faction and Its Repression, 1620-1627

Blood and History in China: The Donglin Faction and Its Repression,

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From 1625 to 1627 scholar-officials belonging to a militant Confucianist group known as the ""Donglin Faction"" suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. Many were purged...
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII

Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour - secrets were impossible...
Plantagenet Princes: Sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

Plantagenet Princes: Sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

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When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an empire stretching 1,000 miles from the Pyrenees to the...
Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace

Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace

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Autumn 1536. Both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are dead. Henry VIII has married Jane Seymour, and still awaits his longed-for male heir. Disaffected conservatives in England may have...
The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States: Volume 1 the Trucial States and United Arab Emirates 1951-1980

The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States: Volume 1 the

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This book provides an overview of the military forces, and their antecedents, of the Arabian Gulf States. Most were British Protected States, resulting in their armed forces being heavily influenced...
China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century

China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the

$124.95 AUD$99.96 AUD
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts...
Siege Warfare during the Hundred Years War: Once More unto the Breach

Siege Warfare during the Hundred Years War: Once More unto the Breach

$65.99 AUD$52.79 AUD
Histories of the Hundred Years War have been written, and accounts of the famous battles, but until now no book has concentrated on the sieges that played a decisive role...
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922

Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922

$220.00 AUD$176.00 AUD
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922 examines the depiction of Islam, Muslims, and the Islamic world in U.S. popular culture, particularly comics and related artifacts, between 1880 and...
Mr B.: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century

Mr B.: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century

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Balanchine's radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly evocative ballets made him a lasting legend. Today, nearly thirty years after his death, the man is...
Hitler's British Isles

Hitler's British Isles

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True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has vividly summoned a troubling episode from our national past.'...
God's Smuggler

God's Smuggler

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With over ten million copies sold, God's Smuggler has thrilled and inspired readers for more than forty years. It tells the true story of how a young Dutchman risked his...
Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero

Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero

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This compelling account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the a old monstera and his reign. The a monstera displayed here is, at the very...
Kingmakers: How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier

Kingmakers: How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier

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Decentralisation and outsourcing are not new to British history. In medieval England the practical limitations of the reach of the Crown forced the king and the government to entrust some...
The 19th Century Criminal Underworld

The 19th Century Criminal Underworld

$52.99 AUD$42.39 AUD
Take a walk on the dark side of the street in this unique exploration of the fears and desires at the heart of the British Empire, from the Regency dandy's...
Battle of Killiecrankie 1689: The Last Act of the Killing Times

Battle of Killiecrankie 1689: The Last Act of the Killing Times

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The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national...
The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes by Christine de Pizan: Volume 457

The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes by Christine de Pizan: Volume 457

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Christine de Pizan attracted an international audience of admirers her during her lifetime, including many readers in England. The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (1521) is the earliest English...
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England

The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England

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For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
Ancient Dynasties: The Families that Ruled the Classical World, circa 1000 BC to AD 750

Ancient Dynasties: The Families that Ruled the Classical World, circa 1000 BC to AD 750

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Ancient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis...
First Family: Abigail and John

First Family: Abigail and John

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...