Biography

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4068 Fifteen ex-library books with Gallipoli at the centre — multiple perspectives on the campaign from Australian, New Zealand, British and Ottoman angles —...

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4072 Eighteen ex-library books spanning the Western Front, Singapore, the Thai-Burma Railway, civilian internment, shell shock, and the home front — with a strong...

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4075 Seventeen ex-library books ranging from the Big Three alliance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander military service, from the search for missing WWII...

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4073 Eighteen ex-library books covering Tobruk, Kokoda, air power, the Pacific, the Somme, bomb disposal and military intelligence — a wide-ranging collection across both...

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4074 Eighteen ex-library books covering the Dambusters, the Royal Navy, the RAF's bombing campaign, D-Day, Beersheba, Darwin, the Burma-Thailand railway and more — with...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds comes a gripping personal account of an unlikely friendship forged...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Australian political history have ignited as much controversy as Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General whose 1975 dismissal of Prime Minister Gough...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the decades following World War II, Australia was irrevocably transformed by one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, one of the most intrepid and perceptive travel writers of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most shattering works of American history ever written, Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat can the ancient world tell us about the man who reshaped it? Jesus in the Tide of Time: An Historical Study presents a...

Edition: Second 1955 reprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew missions in the annals of aerial warfare have captured the imagination quite like Operation Chastise —...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFrom the sun-scorched, cyclone-battered coastline of Australia's rugged north-west comes a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of one of history's most brutal wartime engineering projects, Bamboo Doctor stands as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the polished facade of Nazi Germany's most glamorous power couple stood a woman whose ambition, devotion, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most iconic figures in American colonial history, Pocahontas — the Powhatan princess who bridged two civilisations — receives a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn one of the twentieth century's most electrifying scholarly controversies, Morton Smith recounts his 1958 discovery at the ancient Mar...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodHe was a scholar, a soldier, a strategist, and an enigma — T.E. Lawrence, better known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, remains one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind every great man stands an extraordinary woman — and Clementine Churchill was nothing short of remarkable. Clementine...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor centuries, the lives of the saints have captivated scholars, pilgrims, and the devout alike — and The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in modern history have captured the world's imagination quite like T.E. Lawrence — soldier,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in Western history have provoked as much fascination, revulsion, and intellectual debate as Donatien Alphonse François,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWritten in the late fourth century, Saint Augustine's Confessions stands as one of the most extraordinary autobiographical works...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew rulers have inspired biography with the immediacy and authority found in Two Lives of Charlemagne,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFreedom at Midnight is a gripping, meticulously researched chronicle of one of the most dramatic political...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most harrowing and unflinching memoirs to emerge from the Second World War, The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in modern history embodied national resilience quite like Charles de Gaulle — soldier, statesman, and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in modern history loom as large — or as contradictorily — as Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sun-drenched yet shadow-filled landscape of Nazi-occupied southern France, one man dared to stand against the full might of the Third Reich —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every age of empire lurks a figure too wild, too reckless, and too combustible to be contained by its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the aftermath of World War II, the chess world stood at a crossroads — and in 1948, the greatest players on the planet gathered in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the glittering heart of eighteenth-century Britain stood four extraordinary sisters — Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFor a century, the Naval and Military Club of Melbourne has stood as one of Australia's most distinguished institutions, a bastion of tradition, camaraderie,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBefore Henry Lawson became Australia's most celebrated poet and writer, there was Louisa — a woman of fierce independence, radical conviction, and indomitable spirit...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor decades, Alistair Cooke stood as the most eloquent British interpreter of American life, and The Americans presents fifty of his finest dispatches —...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the mud-soaked trenches of the Western Front to the shattered landscapes of Gallipoli, Death's Men: Soldiers of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1942, one man was handed a mission so secret and so improbable that its success would alter the entire trajectory...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the humblest origins of charitable care to the cutting edge of modern medical education, From Charity to Teaching Hospital chronicles the remarkable transformation...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the sweltering heat of early colonial Sydney, a dramatic coup shook the foundations of British authority in the fledgling settlement of New South...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the thunderous arrival of European settlers on uncharted shores to the complex political machinery of the modern superpower, Hugh...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the murky corridors of post-war British public life, two men — architect John Poulson and Newcastle city boss T. Dan Smith...

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