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Memories of Maggie: A Portrait of Margaret Thatcher
$15.00 AUD
Memories of Maggie brings together personal reminiscenes and anecdotes from those who experienced close encounters with the Iron Lady, including Norman Tebbit, Cecil Parkinson, Kenneth Baker, George Bush, Helmut Kohl,...
Scottish Covenanter Stories: Tales from the Killing Time
$12.00 AUD
Fifty tales from the annals of the 'Killing Times' when Bonnie Dundee carried out King Charles II's edict by hunting down and persecuting the Covenanters throughout Southern and Central Scotland....
Tales and Traditions of Scottish Castles
$12.00 AUD
Nigel Tranter's gift for bringing Scottish history to life is demonstrated in this lively book which details 45 of the nation's castles with associated tales and traditions. With a broad...
Sas With the Maquis: in Action With the French Resistance,
-- First-hand account of SAS operations in France 1944 -- Written immediately after the events took place -- First trade paperback edition (hardback first published 1994) In this exciting first-hand...
Little Cyclone
It was known as the Comet Line. It was the greatest escape route in the Resistance Movement and in its three years of life it saved over 800 airmen and...
Unearthing Churchill's Secret Army: The Official List of SOE
The Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War, its activities cloaked in mystery and intrigue. The fate, therefore, of many of its...
Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the
$20.00 AUD
Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe...
Power and Pragmatism
The captivating memoirs of a Political heavyweight, detailing more than 40 years in government. Sir Malcolm Rifkind's political career has been as glittering as it has been long-lived. Indeed, he...
Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives
A comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place, from its prewar heyday as a country estate under the Liberal MP Sir Herbert Leon, through its wartime requisition with the addition...
The The British Spy Manual
Imagine sitting behind a desk, in a classroom, miles from anywhere in the English countryside, alongside dozens of fellow students, dreaming of being parachuted into Occupied France to undertake daring...
City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Epoque
$20.00 AUD
A top historian offers a new history of Paris's Belle Epoque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacre-Coeur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
$20.00 AUD
A "fresh, fast-paced, and bracing" ( Wall Street Journal ) new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own...
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
$20.00 AUD
An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war,...
A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention Into the Russian Civil
$20.00 AUD
The first comprehensive history of the failed Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, a decisive turning point in the relationship between Russia and the West Named a Best Book...
1923: The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler's Putsch
$20.00 AUD
How Germany's fledgling democracy nearly collapsed in 1923--and how pro-democracy forces fought back In 1923, the Weimar Republic faced a series of crises, including foreign occupation of its industrial heartland,...
Necropolis: London and Its Dead
Above, a city thriving with life. Beneath, a city filled with the dead. London. A vast, labyrinthine, ever-moving place that shimmers as the jewel of Britain. But what about beneath...
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
On a mild winter's evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town and drew up...
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. 'The Maybrick Mystery'...
The Bomber Command Memorial: We Will Remember Them
The number of aircrew of Bomber Command who lost their lives during the Second World War was 55,573, yet no campaign medal was awarded and their bravery and sacrifice went...
The Scottish Revolution 1637-44
In 1637 Scotland exploded in rebellion against King Charles I. The rebellion sought not only to undo hated anglicising policies in the Church, but to reverse the wholesale transfer of...
Ss Kommando: Hitler's Special Forces in the Second World War
In his racy and vivid style, the author pays a fitting tribute to a very gallant band of men who, as he clearly shows, went on fighting for the Fuhrer...
Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840-1870
Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived -...
London In The Nineteenth Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God'
London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. As William Blake put it, London was a...
Victorian Sappho
What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original...
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the...
The Good Old Days: Crime, Murder and Mayhem in Victorian London
Were things really better in the good old days? The nineteenth century was a time when there were not only massive gulfs being created between the upper, middling and working...
The Armada
$12.00 AUD
Chronicling one of the most spectacular events of the sixteenth century, The Armada is the definitive story of the English fleet's infamous defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. The...
Greek as a Treat: Introduction to the Classics
Greek history, drama, science, philosophy and art have had a lasting effect on our culture. Once, a grounding in Greek was a sign of being educated, but today a knowledge...
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely...
Pack of Thieves: How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews and
It was the largest organized robbery in history- the systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the Nazis, in cooperation with most of the nations in Europe?Axis, Allied, and neutral. Award--winning...
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odour and the Social Imagination
Attempting to put the sense of smell on the historical map, the author of this book conveys the power that smells - from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental...
Anastasia's Album
Shielded from St Petersburg society, the last tsar's four daughters enjoyed a simple life of almost cloudless happiness. Their evenings were spent with their parents, reading aloud and pasting snapshots...
A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE
During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France -- at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead'...
Britain's Secret War
Britain's Secret War tells the astonishing story of how Britain's spies, boffins and special operations teams helped to win the Second World War. The work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers...
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker's War 1941-45
In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a Cryptographer...
Our Times
When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would take place...
Who's Buried Where in England
The final resting places of illustrious men and women exercise a mysterious attraction to the traveller, and in this book the burial sites of over 350 prominent figures in English...
They Were Never Told: Tragedy of HMS "Dasher"
$35.00 AUD
Containing material never before seen They W ere Never Told includes original statements from those caugh t up in the disaster, a full examination of the Board of Enq uiry''s...
Staff Wallah: At the Fall of Singapore
After three rejections for enlistment in the A.I.F., John Wyett became the first Australian Militia Officer to be trained at the prestigious Indian Army Command and Staff College at Quetta....
Okinawa, 1945: Final Assault on the Empire
$100.00 AUD
Based on official U.S. Navy and Marine Corps sources, as well as British Admiralty and Japanese records, a dramatic narrative unfolds, reflecting the hard-fought carrier actions, air strikes, kamikaze assaults,...