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Templars: The Knights Who Made Britain
A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain The Knights Templar have an...
A Cultural History of the British Empire
A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around the world As the British Empire expanded across the globe, it exported...
Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic
A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade "This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best...
Vergil: The Poet's Life
A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of...
Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great power In the year 493, the...
Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus's...
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650
The East India Company was the most powerful commercial enterprise in British history. Yet its speculative, highly risky origins are now all but forgotten. A revolution in commerce during the...
Tempest: The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions
A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain...
Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer
A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky-composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music "A lively, argumentative and thoughtful reflection on one of the 19th...
The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps
A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin's Gulag-showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited...
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world,...
Hoax: The Popish Plot that Never Was
The extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of Britain In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England...
Our Nazi: An American Suburb's Encounter with Evil
The first book to lay bare the life of a Nazi camp guard who settled in a Chicago suburb and to explore how his community and others responded to discoveries...
Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the
A gripping history that spans law, international affairs, and top-secret technology to unmask the tension between intellectual property rights and national security. At the beginning of the twentieth century, two...
Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an
A journey into the mystery behind why the forbidden fruit became an apple. How did the apple, unmentioned by the Bible, become the dominant symbol of temptation, sin, and the...
The Other Europeans
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable , ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: Ex-libraryThis book deals with the construction of the 'other' in European media at a time when the recently expanded EU...
The Clans and Tartans of Scotland
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive guide to the clans and tartans of Scotland, detailing their histories, customs, and the significance...
The Reluctant Satellites
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: chipped and worn with some damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsThe Reluctant Satellites follows the story of Magdalena and her family living in a Honduran neighborhood of...
Spencer And Waterloo: The Letters Of Spencer Madan 1814-1816
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Reading copy with markingsSpencer And Waterloo: The Letters Of Spencer Madan 1814-1816 presents a compelling collection of personal correspondence from a...
Wellington At Waterloo
$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerJac Weller's Wellington At Waterloo is a definitive historical account that chronicles the pivotal Battle of Waterloo through...
War And Peace
$90.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slipcase: GoodWar And Peace chronicles the lives of aristocratic Russian families during the Napoleonic Wars, presenting a panoramic...
The Prosper Double-Cross
$150.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerThis military history chronicles the controversial collapse of the "Prosper" resistance network in occupied France, uncovering the potential...
The Myth Of The Golden Age In The Renaissance
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerHarry Levin's The Myth Of The Golden Age In The Renaissance presents a compelling academic analysis of a pervasive cultural...
Moscow Diary: A Revealing Memoir About The Communist World When Khrushchev Ruled
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerMoscow Diary chronicles the intricate political landscape and daily life within the Soviet Union during the tumultuous Khrushchev...
The Atelier Du Lys: An Art Student In The Reign Of Terror
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerSet against the tumultuous backdrop of the French Revolution, The Atelier Du Lys:...
Trial And Error: The Autobiography Of Chaim Weizmann
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Protective covering over cloth boards (removable), light bumping to corners, front...
Barbarian In The Garden
$60.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis collection of essays, Barbarian In The Garden, transports readers through the landscapes of classical antiquity and Renaissance Europe, offering...
The Poetry Of Survival: Post-War Poets Of Central And Eastern Europe
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling literary study, The Poetry Of Survival: Post-War Poets Of Central And Eastern Europe, presents a profound examination of...
Trial And Error: The Autobiography
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light bumping top right hand corner of front board, age tanning...
Journey Through A Haunted Land: The New Germany
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerAmos Elon's Journey Through A Haunted Land: The New Germany chronicles the complex and often painful process of...
August 1914
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsAlexander Solzhenitsyn's August 1914 presents a monumental historical narrative, meticulously reconstructing the opening salvos of World War I on the...
Lenin In Zürich
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis historical novel, Lenin In Zürich, reconstructs a pivotal period in Vladimir Lenin's life, offering a compelling portrait of the...
Russian Journal Of Lady Londonderry 1836-7
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsRussian Journal Of Lady Londonderry 1836-7 presents a fascinating glimpse into 19th-century Russian society through the eyes of...
The Art Of Courtly Love
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerThe Art Of Courtly Love presents a foundational medieval treatise that meticulously details the intricate rules and conventions governing romantic...
Carve Her Name With Pride
$120.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCarve Her Name With Pride chronicles the extraordinary life of Violette Szabo,...
In Health and in Sickness? Pharmacy, Pharmacists and the Pharmaceutical Industry in Late Imperial Early Soviet Russia
$70.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: UnblemishedPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book examines the role of pharmacy and pharmacists in Russia during the transition from the late Imperial period to the...
The Lost World Of The Impressionists
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThe acclaimed The Lost World Of The Impressionists by Alice Bellony-Rewald chronicles the vibrant...
Venice: The Biography Of A City
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsVenice: The Biography Of A City chronicles the captivating history of one of the...
Gossip From The Forest
$20.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsGossip From The Forest chronicles the tense negotiations that led...
The Rebello Transcripts: Governor Phillip's Portuguese Prelude
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThe Rebello Transcripts: Governor Phillip's Portuguese Prelude by Kenneth Gordon Mcintyre uncovers a crucial, often overlooked period in...
Another Weeping Woman
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsAnother Weeping Woman plunges readers into a gripping historical mystery, chronicling the unsettling disappearance of a young woman in a...
Ordeal By Fire: Witnesses To The Great War
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: Good Markings: No markingsOrdeal By Fire by James M. McPherson presents a comprehensive and authoritative account of the American Civil War. This seminal work...
Other People's Houses: A Refugee In England 1938-48
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsOther People's Houses chronicles a young woman's experiences navigating various households during wartime, offering...
Women in the Twentieth Century
The 20th century has seen massive changes technologically, socially and in virtually every sphere of life. One of the most marked changes, however, has been the position of women in...
Among the Italian Partisans: The Allied Contribution to the Resistance
The remarkable story of the foreigners who volunteered to join the guerrilla war against Germans and Fascists in World War II Italy. The fighters included Britons, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders,...
Monastic Women and Religious Orders in Late Medieval Bologna
Sherri Franks Johnson explores the roles of religious women in the changing ecclesiastical and civic structure of late medieval Bologna, demonstrating how convents negotiated a place in their urban context...
Imagining England's Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession
Imagining England's Past takes a long look at the country's invented histories, from the glamorous to the disturbing, from the eighth century to the present day. England has long built...
The Ides: Caesar's Murder and the War for Rome
Unraveling the many mysteries surrounding the murder of Julius Caesar The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history. Two thousand years after it occurred,...