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The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA towering achievement of historical literature, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire chronicles the trajectory of one of...
Saladin And The Fall Of The Kingdom Of Jerusalem

Saladin And The Fall Of The Kingdom Of Jerusalem

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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA landmark work of historical biography and medieval scholarship, Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem chronicles the life and...
The Jewish War

The Jewish War

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA cornerstone of ancient historical literature, The Jewish War chronicles the catastrophic conflict between...
Saladin In His Time

Saladin In His Time

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed work of historical biography, Saladin in His Time chronicles the life and reign...
The Great Invasion

The Great Invasion

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Previous owner-
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...
A Smaller History Of Rome From The Earliest Times To The Death Of Trajan

A Smaller History Of Rome From The Earliest Times To The Death Of Trajan

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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: FEP missing Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Previous owner. Foxing and tanning. A foundational work in classical education, this...
The Rise Of Modern Warfare: 1618-1815

The Rise Of Modern Warfare: 1618-1815

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA sweeping work of military history, The Rise of Modern Warfare: 1618-1815 chronicles the dramatic transformation of armed conflict across...
Hannibal's Invasion Of Italy: Being Livy, Books Xxi, Xxii

Hannibal's Invasion Of Italy: Being Livy, Books Xxi, Xxii

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards - stained; faded spine. Binding - fragile....
The Glories Of Ancient History

The Glories Of Ancient History

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markings"The Glories of Ancient History" is a historical survey that chronicles the great...
Rubicon

Rubicon

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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerImmerse yourself in a gripping, atmospheric portrait of historical Australia with Rubicon, a powerful novel by acclaimed...
Hannibal: The Struggle For Power In The Mediterranean

Hannibal: The Struggle For Power In The Mediterranean

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded boards. A masterwork of military biography and ancient history, Hannibal: The Struggle...
Dictionary Of Battles: The World's Key Battles From 405 Bc To Today

Dictionary Of Battles: The World's Key Battles From 405 Bc To Today

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA comprehensive military reference work, Dictionary of Battles: The World's Key Battles from 405 BC to Today by David Chandler presents...
The October Horse (SIGNED)

The October Horse (SIGNED)

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Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA sweeping work of historical fiction, The October Horse chronicles the final years of Julius Caesar and...
I, Caesar: Ruling The Roman Empire

I, Caesar: Ruling The Roman Empire

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Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly illustrated work of popular history, I, Caesar: Ruling the Roman Empire presents the stories of Rome's most powerful...
The History Of England (Two-Volume Set)

The History Of England (Two-Volume Set)

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Rebound copy. Bound in full calf leather with gilt-lettered spines. Age-related wear including rubbing and scuffing to...
Eagles Of The Empire: When The Eagle Hunts

Eagles Of The Empire: When The Eagle Hunts

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen The Eagle Hunts, a gripping installment in the Eagles Of The Empire series,...
The Sea Peoples: Warriors Of The Ancient Mediterranean 1250-1150 Bc

The Sea Peoples: Warriors Of The Ancient Mediterranean 1250-1150 Bc

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Name penned on front pastedown and small inscription on copyright page. This historical account chronicles the enigmatic Sea...
Lest: Australian War Myths

Lest: Australian War Myths

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From Simpson's donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn't happen the way most people think they did. In...
The Cambrai Campaign 1917

The Cambrai Campaign 1917

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Cambrai Campaign 1917 is an account of the British Expeditionary Force s battles in November and December of 1917. It starts with the plan to carry out a tank raid...
Green Armour

Green Armour

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Author: Osmar WhiteBinding: HardbackPublished: ANGUS AND ROBERTSON LTD, 1945Condition:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: Previous ownerThis vivid war memoir chronicles Australian...
The Long March: Xenophon And The Ten Thousand

The Long March: Xenophon And The Ten Thousand

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Author: Edited By Robin Lane FoxBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: "Cancelled" on prelimsThe Long March: Xenophon And The Ten...
The Shadow King: The brand new 2023 historical epic about Alexander

The Shadow King: The brand new 2023 historical epic about Alexander

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334 BC. Alexander the Great is just twenty-one years old when he sets out with a small army to challenge Persia, the largest and most powerful empire in the world....
Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942

Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942

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With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at...
The Lion from the North: Volume 1, The Swedish Army of Gustavus

The Lion from the North: Volume 1, The Swedish Army of Gustavus

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The book describes and analyses the early modern Swedish army, with a particular emphasis on the reforms introduced by King Gustavus Adolphus before and during the Thirty Years War. Furthermore,...
The Dictionary Of Battles: The World's Key Battles From 405 Bc To Today

The Dictionary Of Battles: The World's Key Battles From 405 Bc To Today

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Author: David ChandlerBinding: HardbackPublished: Henry Holt and Company, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis monumental reference work, The Dictionary Of Battles: The World's Key Battles From 405 Bc...
Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and

Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and

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The next-true life NCIS story from New York Times bestselling authors Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr. Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega...
Religion & Classical Warfare: The Roman Republic

Religion & Classical Warfare: The Roman Republic

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AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first...
Pharsalia: The Civil War

Pharsalia: The Civil War

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Author: Lucan; translated by Douglas LittleBinding: SoftbackPublished: University of Otago Press, 1989Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis epic poem recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and...
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium

The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium

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A "splendid" ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of one of history's most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC,...
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...
Augustus at War: The Struggle for the Pax Augusta

Augustus at War: The Struggle for the Pax Augusta

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The words Pax Augusta - or Pax Romana - evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy. Almost every year...
Maximinus Thrax

Maximinus Thrax

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Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and pull fully laden wagons unaided. Such feats impressed the emperor...
On Ancient Warfare

On Ancient Warfare

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Richard Gabriel has been studying and writing about ancient warfare for nearly half a century. He has written fifty-five books on the subject (before this one) and over three hundred...
Roman Conquests: Macedonia and Greece

Roman Conquests: Macedonia and Greece

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In the late 3rd century BC, while Rome struggled for her very survival against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War, Philip V of Macedon allied with Hannibal in pursuit...
Siege Warfare during the Hundred Years War: Once More unto the Breach

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

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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...
Spartan Supremacy 412-371 BC

Spartan Supremacy 412-371 BC

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Sparta was a small city which consistently punched above its weight in the affairs of classical Greece, happily meddling in the affairs of the other cities. For two centuries her...
Two Deaths at Amphipolis

Two Deaths at Amphipolis

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Cleonvs Brasidas in the Peloponnesian War This original book looks in detail at arguably the two most significant characters on either side in the middle years of the great Peloponnesian...
Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate

Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate

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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,...
Ancient Egyptian Warfare: Tactics, Weapons and Ideology of the Pharaohs

Ancient Egyptian Warfare: Tactics, Weapons and Ideology of the

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A concise introduction to Ancient Egyptian warfare from the Neolithic period through to the Iron Age, covering everything from battle tactics to weaponry and battle injuries. The excellent preservation of...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely [...]

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When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

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Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
Soldiers' Tales #2: A Collection of True Stories from Aussie Soldiers

Soldiers' Tales #2: A Collection of True Stories from Aussie Soldiers

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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...
Bully Beef & Balderdash: Some Myths of the Aif Examined and Debunked

Bully Beef & Balderdash: Some Myths of the Aif Examined and Debunked

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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings

Rome: A History in Seven Sackings

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Author: Matthew Kneale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Nominated for the 2017 Pen Hessell-Tiltman Daily Telegraph's Best History Books of 2017 Sunday Times' Best History Books of 2017 A sweeping...