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The purpose of this text is to try to understand how Germany could attempt to exterminate its Jewish population during the Nazi period. Through individual stories, beginning with Moses Mendelsohn...

The book titled The Airman's War, 1914-18 by the author Peter Liddle. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled From the Cockpit: Spitfire by the author T.F. Neil. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this account of the origins and development of the RAF, the author offers evidence of its organization, strategy and preparedness for the Battle of Britain. Drawing on the facts...

Readers interested in history, and in the development of the modern sensibility, will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary people of...

Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union 'Russia'. Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end,...

Helen Lewis was just a child when she found an old suitcase in a cupboard under the stairs. Inside it were the most horrifying photographs--a record of the atrocities committed...

BOOK DESCRIPTION 1973. Queen Elizabeth II opened the Sydney Opera House, and is now entitled as "Queen of Australia." Young people over 18 can vote for the Federal Elections, and...

Desert Lake is a book combining artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory. It is...

In his history of mid-century publishing, heads of houses like Alfred Knopf, Bennett Cerf of Random House, Cass Canfield of Harper's, the Doubleday fathers and sons, and the Thornhills of...

During these extraordinary times Greg Jenner is able to sign you a personalised bookplate for your hardback. Please email info@gregjenner.com with the name you would like the book dedicated to...

During World War II, two figures symbolized the spirit of Britain. Winston Churchill was one and Vera Lynn was the second. The optimism, hope, realism and cheerful good humour of...

The Second World War was the first truly global conflict and sixty years on its consequences continue to shape the modern world. Season by season The Voice of War charts...

The book titled Nothing Less Than Victory: Oral History of D-Day by the author Russell Miller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Martin Middlebrook's "The First Day on the Somme" is a compelling and intensely moving account of the blackest day in the history of the British army. On 1 July, 1916,...

This book sets out to expose and analyse a major historical fraud. The author's theme is the Western Front in Haig's time - from the Somme to the armistice. Using...

The book titled The Battle of Coral by the author Lex McAulay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Assisi Underground by the author Alexander Ramati. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Curtin'S Cowboys by the author Helen Walker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Lost Battle Crete 1941 by the author Callum MacDonald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The ultimate "hands on" guide to the Supermarine Spitfire, the famous fighter plane from the Battle of Britain. At the Controls takes you on a typical interceptor mission. Spectacular artwork...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2848 Eighteen books on the big questions facing the modern world — climate change, globalisation, the future of the internet, the emptying oceans,...

Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture-both highbrow and low. From its inception in 1913, through the Jazz Age and...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2845 Eighteen books on the American project — its history, its failures, its myths, and its arguments with itself — spanning Civil War...

History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book... until now. The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks pulls...

This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943, W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both...

With a new Afterword and Reading Group Guide exclusive to the paperback edition. In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight...

1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent...

Richard III has been written off in history as one of England's evil kings. His usurpation of the throne from his nephew Edward V and then subsequent generations of pro-Tudor...

The Poisoned Embrace is a provocative investigation into the history of sexual pessimism as it has evolved in Western theology throughout the ages. Since the days of the Early Fathers,...

Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be...

Authoritative and completely up-to-date, this regiment-by-regiment survey traces the origins and history of Scotland's fighting men. From their organization in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries through to their participation in...

Edward Hallet Carr is renowned as the historian of Soviet Russia, biographer of The Romantic Exiles, founder of the 'realist' approach to the study of International Relations and author of...

Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made progress. Those who learnt how to kill 200 by driving a whole herd over a cliff...

Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a...

A Change of Tongue is about belonging - to a family, a tribe, a nation, a continent. It is about having a place, losing it, finding another place. As part...

An inspiring and practical guide to achieving bold ambitions from a world-renowned expert Michael Barber has spent many years advising governments, businesses and major sporting teams around the world on...

With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the...

'The finest book ever written about England and the English' Stuart Maconie 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed/tanning on title page. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: FEP. A landmark work in agricultural...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work of political science and American studies,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair-Good. No dust jacket — cloth/board binding visible. Age-toned pages consistent with a 1941 printing. Some light wear to spine and corners. Title page is clean and...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to poor. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Part of the prestigious British Empire Series published by...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work in Australian biographical literature, Portrait with...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - pamphlet/soft cover, slightly worn edges with minor yellowing to covers. Page Condition: Likely yellowed given age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding:...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. A comprehensive reference work, The Macmillan Dictionary of Biography presents thousands of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Worn/faded, with some wear to edges and spine. Pages: Likely aged/tanning given the era of publication. Markings: No visible markings noted. Flinders Lane: Recollections...