Biography

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the desperate summer of 1940, with Nazi forces sweeping across France, one man's extraordinary will...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pen of one of history's most formidable statesmen comes a masterwork of biographical portraiture — Great...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWickedness, wit, and whispered scandal define the late eighteenth century, and no one chronicles its glittering excesses with more relish than T. H. White in The...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the shadow of World War II's most volatile theatre of war, a small, elite unit of British commandos waged a campaign of audacious...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most audacious military campaigns of the Second World War is...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew military commanders have captured the world's imagination quite like Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel, and Desmond Young's...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most audacious secret agents of the Second World War, Wing Commander F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas — codenamed The White Rabbit — waged...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA harrowing and deeply personal testament to survival, One Man's War chronicles the wartime experiences of Stan Arneil, an Australian...

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Edition: 7th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: dj with some moisture damage. Few stories of the Second World War...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: front hinges cracked; sticker on the copyright page. Long before the age of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few works in the English biographical tradition carry the quiet authority and intimate grace of Izaak Walton's collected Lives....

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Second World War, when the fate of nations hung on the...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the bitter winter of 1982, Britain dispatched a naval task force 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic to reclaim the Falkland Islands from...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: fold-out map at rear intact. Few accounts of polar exploration carry the visceral immediacy of South...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the cutthroat world of high-stakes corporate warfare, few battles in Australian business history have rivalled the ferocity of the attempted takeover...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: slight lean to book; board remains clean and bright; minor glue reside on the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew figures in Australian history command as much reverence and fascination as Sir John Monash — engineer, lawyer, and the brilliant military...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the blood-soaked fields of the Western Front, one young British officer captured the raw, unfiltered truth of the First World War...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the height of the Cold War, when the world held its breath and the fate of nations hung on...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of law, politics, and social reform in early twentieth-century Australia stands Henry Bournes Higgins — a...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: pages can have notes/underlining.In the turbulent centuries before the common era, one man forged a...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of war, recovery, and Cold War anxiety, Australian politics between the 1940s and 1960s was a battleground...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodOne of history's most enduring mysteries — the fate of Russia's last imperial family — is cracked open with forensic precision...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the gracious facade of Melbourne's most distinguished women's institution lies a story of intellectual ambition, social change,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingIn the turbulent theatre of Australian politics, few rises to power have been as dramatic,...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedFew commanders of the Second World War inspired the fierce loyalty and admiration that Bernard Freyberg drew from those who served under him, and...

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Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingAt the height of the Second World War, Winston Churchill's words were...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew catastrophes in modern history reshaped a nation's destiny as profoundly as the...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: slight lean to book; stained prelimsJohn Curtin, Australia's wartime Prime Minister and one of the nation's most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the spring of 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte made his audacious return from exile on Elba, igniting one of the most...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew Scottish clans carry a legacy as rich, turbulent, and enduring...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the autumn of 1960, America stood at a crossroads, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in British political history burn as brightly — or as paradoxically — as Benjamin Disraeli: a Jewish-born novelist who clawed his way...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of nineteenth-century German intellectual life stands a group of radical thinkers whose ideas would...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodOne of the most scandalous and romantic episodes in modern royal history comes alive in The Windsor Story, the definitive account of...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: pages can have notes/underlining.In the closing months of 1943, with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance,...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the vast, shimmering wilderness of the Arabian Peninsula during...

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