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The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
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Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 "Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world." --Stephen Greenblatt "A captivating adventure...For lovers...
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France
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Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic'...
If This Is A Man/The Truce
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
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Author: Robert Dallek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR "We come to see in FDR the magisterial,...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 In this definitive biography of father and son, an eminent historian "brings to life the full drama of ancient history" (Wall...
Guderian: Panzer General
Author: Kenneth Macksey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 Born in Kulm, Germany, on 17 June 1888, Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was the son of an army officer. He eventually joined...
Destination Casablanca Exile
Author: Meredith Hindley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a key...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond
Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire
Author: Alan Gallay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Sir Walter Ralegh was the favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who showered him estates, jewels, monopolies, and political appointments earning him the...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
The Real X-Men: The Heroic Story of the Underwater War 1942-1945
Author: Robert Lyman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The thrilling and true story of the development and operational deployment of human torpedoes - 'Chariots' - and 'X-craft' midget submarines...
Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life
Author: Philippe Girard
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 352
The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world history
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
Author: Susan Ronald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the...
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises...
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
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Author: Andrew Lownie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Winner of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award. A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography...
Hitler's South African Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa
Author: Evert Kleynhans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Nazis' aim was to spread sedition, undermine the Allied war effort, and - given the strategic importance of...
The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within
Author: Richard Breitman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Raymond Geist was sent to Berlin as a consul in 1929. He was not from the right social class to become...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
'Buster' Crabb: Ian Fleming's Favourite Spy, The Inspiration for James Bond
Author: Don Hale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Commander Lionel 'Buster' Crabb was a drinker and gambler, who loved women, fast cars and gadgets. A bomb disposal expert, he...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world...
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
Author: Carmela Ciuraru Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of...
Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon'
Author: Eugenia Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 206 At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire...
Henry VIII and the men who made him: The secret history behind the Tudor throne
Author: Tracy Borman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'An outstanding work of historical artistry, a brilliantly woven and pacy story of the men who surrounded, influenced and sometimes plagued...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer...
Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader
Author: Michael J. Gerhardt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership "Abraham Lincoln had less...
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and...
The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance
Author: Simon Doubleday Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, Many faults...
Hellfire: Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War
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Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply...
Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1939-1942
Author: John Grehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Despatches in this volume include that on operations in the Middle East August 1939 to November 1940 by General Sir Archibald...
Charles Dickens
Author: Jane Smiley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories
Author: Renee Hollis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 296 'We are only a small and young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers and we march...
The Bone Man of Kokoda
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Charles Happell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Kokichi Nishimura was a member...
Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
Author: William M. Arkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 UNMANNED is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centres on drones, now...
Mayday The Decline of American Naval Supremacy
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Author: Seth Cropsey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Timely and urgent, Mayday is a clarion call to action--before it's too late. As with other powerful nations throughout history, maritime...
When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia
Author: Robert Carmichael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart' Jon Swain, writer...
Niccolo Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography
Author: Corrado Vivanti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli's life and thought This is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the...
American Scoundrel
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The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020
Author: Iain Dale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 **Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian** A Times Political Book of the Year...
Run to the Sound of the Guns The True Story of an American Ranger at War in Afghanistan and Iraq
Author: Nicholas Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 As part of an elite special operations unit at the fighting edge of the Global War on Terrorism, Nicholas Moore spent...
Weary: Life of Sir Edward Dunlop
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West Wall: The Battle for Hitler's Sieggfried Line
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Author: Charles Whiting Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Over 60 years after Adolf Hitler ordered its construction, the West Wall fortification system (or "Siegfried Line" as it was known in...
Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Life of W.H. Hudson Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate
Author: Jason Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London...
The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide
Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...
Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia's lost generation
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