Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingStep back in time to the sun-baked streets and shadowed laneways of old Melbourne, where the city's strangest...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the grand amphitheatres of Rome to the blood-soaked corridors of imperial power, The Twelve Caesars stands as one of antiquity's most vivid and unsparing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingAt the hinge of history, when the British Empire released its grip on the Indian subcontinent, one man stood at the very centre of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA century and a half of Australian pharmaceutical history comes to life in Pharmacy Families: Henry Francis in Australia 1849–1999, a richly detailed chronicle tracing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the storm-lashed shores of King Island in August 1845, the immigrant vessel *Cataraqui* was torn...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the desperate skies above the Pacific and the Australian mainland, a generation of airmen faced an enemy...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerLong before the age of social media, the English kept diaries — and in doing so,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhen the roar of aircraft engines became the sound of royal ceremony, the story of British monarchy took to the skies —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of the Baw Baw Ranges, young men from rural Australian communities answered the call of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the blazing skies above Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific, a remarkable breed of warrior was forged — the Australian fighter ace — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1940, as Nazi Germany hurled the full force of the Luftwaffe against a beleaguered Britain, a small band of Australians...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the age when monarchs commanded empires and dynasties shaped the destiny of nations, Milestones of History 7: Twilight of Princes chronicles the turbulent...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the rugged and culturally rich landscape of New Zealand's Bay of Plenty, law and order was never a simple matter of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the smoky back rooms of New Orleans to the glittering concert halls of New York, The World of Jazz is a sweeping, authoritative...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the locked doors of Scotland Yard's infamous Black Museum lies a century of Britain's most chilling and consequential criminal cases — and Gordon Honeycombe's...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom its founding as a utopian social experiment in 1836 to its centenary and beyond, Adelaide has always stood apart from other Australian cities...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the feverish boom years of 1880s Melbourne, fortunes were made overnight and lost just as swiftly, as speculators, swindlers, and dreamers rode a tidal...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the gilded formality of the Victorian court lay a monarch of surprising artistic sensitivity — Queen Victoria's Sketchbook by Marina Warner presents a fascinating...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom its founding as a planned free settlement in 1836, Adelaide has grown into one of Australia's most elegant and culturally rich cities —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBeneath the glittering gaslit boulevards of nineteenth-century Paris, a shadowy world of glamour, scandal, and calculated seduction thrived — the world of the grandes...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia stood at a breathtaking crossroads — a vast empire of glittering courts and grinding poverty,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the silent era to the golden age of Hollywood and beyond, The Warner Bros. Story is the definitive chronicle of one of cinema's...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFrom the golden roar of Leo the Lion to the final curtain of a studio era that defined Hollywood itself, The MGM Story is the...

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Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP2989 Eleven military history titles covering two world wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Burma Railway, and the secret origins of the First World War. All...