Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedIn the thick of the Second World War, Soldiering On: The Australian Army at Home and Overseas...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn 1788, eleven ships carrying convicts, marines, and civilians departed Portsmouth, England, on one of the most audacious maritime journeys in modern...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedIn the final, triumphant chapter of the Second World War, Victory Roll: The Royal Australian Air Force...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedCondition remarks: moderate silverfish damage to dj, split front flap, some loss to front cover - otherwise internally sound. A landmark chronicle of Australian aerial courage,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedIn the darkest years of the Second World War, These Eagles: Story of the R.A.A.F. at War...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFrom the gossipy salons of seventeenth-century England emerges one of history's most captivating collections of biography — John Aubrey's Brief Lives chronicles the lives...

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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous owner,SignedCondition remarks: binding fair, somewhat shaky; dj - large tear on the front panel and general wear; previous owner's name penned on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew figures in Australian political history loom as large as Alfred Deakin — lawyer, journalist, spiritualist, and three-time Prime Minister — and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedAt the crossroads of American destiny stands Abraham Lincoln — and no portrait of the sixteenth president has ever...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; small sticker on fep. A soldier's voice, preserved across a century — Letters from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the dust and chaos of the Western Front and the Middle Eastern campaigns, Letters from...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the vast, unforgiving skies of the Pacific War, one man's fate became a haunting mystery that...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the bridge of a destroyer to the corridors of naval command, Reports of Proceedings: A Naval Career...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most harrowing chapters of the Second World War comes alive in The Burma-Thailand...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the roar of Spitfires over the English Channel to the thunderous sorties of Lancaster bombers deep into enemy territory, Royal Air Force at...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: name penned on fep; small sticker on the fep as well. Singapore and Beyond is a harrowing...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: faded boardsStep back into the raw, sunburned world of colonial Australia through the intimate and unflinching eyes of Jessie Augusta Francis,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the battlefields of North Africa to the jungles of the Pacific, The War Despatches of Kenneth Slessor presents the electrifying frontline...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; slightly creased spine and corners. From the trenches of the Western Front to the shores of Gallipoli,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: minor nick/tear on rear pastedown. In one of the most remarkable acts of defiance and documentation to emerge from the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most captivating collections in English literary history, Brief Lives presents the irresistibly candid and intimate portraits of seventeenth-century England's most...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of the most monumental works of musical biography ever written, Alexander Thayer's Life of Beethoven stands as the definitive chronicle of Ludwig van...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of courage and conviction, Pioneers & Suffragists chronicles the extraordinary lives of the women who...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the skies over Vietnam between 1967 and 1971, Australian airmen flew some of the most dangerous combat...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodEtched in grief, forged in gratitude, and built by a community that refused to forget, Remembering Our Fallen Heroes: The Story of the Vietnam War Memorial...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in history have cast as long a shadow as Napoleon Bonaparte — soldier, statesman, emperor, and legend — and The Life and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew nations have shaped the modern world as profoundly as Britain, and The Illustrated History of Britain presents a sweeping, visually rich...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionIn one of history's most divisive conflicts, the Vietnam War left scars not only on the jungles of Southeast...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the daring pioneer aviators who first conquered the vast Australian skies to the courageous airmen who served in two World Wars,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodIn the autumn of 1933, J.B. Priestley set out on a sweeping tour of England, travelling from Southampton to Newcastle, through the Midlands and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBehind the beloved watercolour pages of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady lies a remarkable woman whose life was...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFrom Chains to Freedom is a remarkable genealogical chronicle that traces the journey of one Australian family...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the gold-rush prosperity of colonial Melbourne to the cultural ambitions of a modern nation, The National Gallery of Victoria 1861 to 1968: A...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFor a century and a quarter, *The Age* has stood as one of Australia's most enduring and influential newspapers, and 125 Years...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew historical works have reshaped a nation's understanding of itself as profoundly as Manning Clark's monumental six-volume A History of...

Secondhand Music Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4063 Fourteen books for the serious music lover — New Grove reference volumes, conductor memoirs, orchestral history, and the story of music from Schubert...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in American military history inspire as much awe, controversy, and fascination as General Douglas MacArthur —...

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 —...

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: 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: 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: 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...