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Alfred the Great
The discovery earlier this year in Winchester of human remains, almost certainly of Alfred the Great or his eldest son, has sparked renewed interest in England's most celebrated monarch. King...
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
From the mystique of the glamorous Kennedys to the tumult that surrounded Bill and Hillary Clinton during the president's impeachment to the historic tenure of Barack and Michelle Obama, each...
War Machine: The Rationalisation Of Slaughter In The Modern Age
$20.00 AUD
Author: Daniel PickBinding: PaperbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling non-fiction work dissects the historical and psychological underpinnings...
Italian Fascisms: From Pareto To Gentile
$50.00 AUD
Author: Adrian LytteltonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light foxing on book block. Light wear on...
The Making Of An Australian Prime Minister
$25.00 AUD
Author: Laurie Oakes And David SolomonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Cheshire, 1973Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis political biography, The Making Of An...
Zhukov
$15.00 AUD
Author: Otto Preston ChaneyBinding: PaperbackPublished: David & Charles, 1972Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical biography chronicles the extraordinary life...
The War I Went To
$30.00 AUD
Author: R.R. VialBinding: PaperbackPublished: by the author, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis wartime memoir presents R. R. Vial’s firsthand account of...
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating
Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011 Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country...
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
$12.00 AUD
In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most lauded...
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives
"Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People...
The Dictionary Of Terrible Ideas: The very funny new book from one of
A compendium of crapulous concepts from absinthe to zorbing From the tiniest nanoparticle to the vast span of the Large Hadron Collider, humans have invented many remarkable things. But not...
The Colditz Story
Colditz was the last step for prisoners of war in World War II. An impregnable fortress, it was to Colditz that the Germans sent all those prisoners who persisted in...
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Author: Dee Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 First published in 1970, this classic changed the way the history of the American West was perceived. Told from a Native...
The Ode Less Travelled
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 358 Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. In The Ode Less Travelled, he...
Witches: James I & the English Witch Hunts
Author: Tracey Borman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of EnglandÕs great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body...
Dragon Throne: China's Emperors from the Qin to the Manchu
Author: Jonathan Fenby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 The were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221 - 210 BC), who began the...
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Madeleine Pelling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 What if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can - if you know where to look An aristocrat carves...
The Last Disco: The story of the Stardust tragedy
Author: Sean Murray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A riveting and important read, forensically documenting the state's failings while also relating the traumatic human fallout for a whole community...
Homelands: The History of a Friendship
Author: Chitra Ramaswamy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 THE SALTIRE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN'S BEST MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY OF 2022 'Remarkable' - The Times 'Achingly beautiful'...
50 Ideas that Changed the World of Work: The Essential Guide to the Best Business Thinking
Author: Jonathan Besser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The world of work is full of ideas. Some are useful, shaping what we do and the way we do it...
In Patagonia; The Viceroy Of Ouidah; The Songlines
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Author: Bruce ChatwinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Spine has minor sun-fading and minor peels to corners.Bruce Chatwin's collected works, In...
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged
How do writers and citizens in the different countries of the world view their own past? What key events and influences shaped those perspectives? And how accurate are the views...
Prince Rupert: Portrait of a Soldier
This is a romantic and colourful story of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, an extraordinary military commander. General Kitson discusses Rupert's boyhood study of fortifications, the early campaigns, his military...
Swap: A Secret History of the New Cold War
From the Wall Street Journal 's award-winning international investigations team comes a spellbinding account of a spy war between the U.S. and Russia that transformed into a ruthless game of...
TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading
Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, m isunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings made a remarkable...
The Ruling Elite: a Study in Imperialism, Genocide and Emancipation
Lincoln's war, the North's attack on the South, took the life of 622,000 citizens and altered the government's structure. Marx and Engels watched the war from afar and applauded his...
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE 'The most formidable spy in history' Ian Fleming 'A superb biography ... More than a hundred books have been written about him and this...
SBS
The men of the SBS are the maritime equivalent of their counterparts in the SAS; they are the elite of the British Special Forces and also the most secretive. Although...
Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation
We commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this pioneering history, Nancy F. Cott demonstrates that marriage is...
The Secrets of the Titanic
September 1, 1985. The RMS Titanic, which has been missing since April 15, 1912, is found in the North Atlantic where it lies at a depth of 3,821 metres. Paul-Henri...
Nefarious: A life in crime - my life with Joey Pyle, the Krays and
A Daily Mail Book of the Week Prolific armed robber. Close ally of Joey Pyle. Friend and fellow inmate of the Kray twins. Last man to stand trial with a...
The Great Divide
'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST ' One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE SEFTON 'I didn't want it to end' SARA...
The Queer Bible
'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' A powerful, joyous, stunningly illustrated collection of essays by queer icons about the LGBTQ+ trailblazers throughout history who...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 'Gripping ... remarkably wide-ranging' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of...
The End Is Always Near: Humanity vs the Apocalypse, from the Bronze
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And...
The Bacchus Story: A History Of Captain W. H. Bacchus, Of Bacchus Marsh, And His Son (SIGNED)
$35.00 AUD
Author: Betty OsbornBinding: PaperbackPublished: Bacchus Marsh & District Historical Society, 1973Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Worn and creased spine. This compelling historical...
Across The Alps To Omeo: Being The Tourist Guide, Circa 1903 Accompanied By Advertisements Of That Period
$25.00 AUD
Author: -Binding: PaperbackPublished: Max Bridges N.D., Toongabbie, 1111Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical travel guide, Across The Alps To Omeo: Being...
The Early History Of Bacchus Marsh Schools
$15.00 AUD
Author: Walter StewartBinding: PaperbackPublished: Bacchus Marsh & District Historical Society, 1983Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minimal underlining in grey...
Dædalus: Journal Of The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences: Australia: Terra Incognita?
$30.00 AUD
Author: Various AuthorsBinding: PaperbackPublished: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Yellowed cover,...
Power & Imagination: City-States In Renaissance Italy
$12.00 AUD
Author: Lauro MartinesBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin Books, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical analysis, Power & Imagination: City-States In...
Images Of Coburg: Drawn From Memory
$20.00 AUD
Author: Coburg Oral History GroupBinding: PaperbackPublished: Coburg Oral History Group, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageImages Of Coburg: Drawn From Memory chronicles...
Beechworth: An Australian Country Town And Its Past
$20.00 AUD
Author: Tom GriffithsBinding: PaperbackPublished: Richmond, Greenhouse Publications, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling work of local history, Beechworth: An Australian Country...
The History Of The Grey Sisters 1930-1980
$20.00 AUD
Author: Kathleen Dunlop Kane.Binding: PaperbackPublished: The Grey Sisters, Canterbury, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical account chronicles the significant half-century span...
The Chinese Ingredient: A History Of The Chinese At Omeo 1859-
$60.00 AUD
Author: A. AdamsBinding: PaperbackPublished: Toongabble, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased spine, internally sound.The Chinese Ingredient: A History Of The Chinese...
The Golden Stream: A Photographic History Of The District Around The Woady Yaloak Creek
$20.00 AUD
Author: The Woady Yaloak Historical SocietyBinding: PaperbackPublished: The Woady Yaloak Historical Society Inc., 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Golden Stream: A...
Secrets Of... Ghost Towns Of The Mountain Goldfields
$20.00 AUD
Author: Luke SteenhuisBinding: PaperbackPublished: -, 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical account, Secrets Of... Ghost Towns Of The Mountain Goldfields,...
The Orchestra
$15.00 AUD
Author: Michael HurdBinding: PaperbackPublished: Phaidon Press., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive volume chronicles the rich history and intricate...
Out of the past : the story of Skipton 1839-1939 (SIGNED)
$30.00 AUD
Author: Notman, G. C.Binding: PaperbackPublished: Skipton Progress Association,, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Name penned on cover. This centennial local...