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The author brings to life the Zuytdorp story, the Dutch East India ship which disappeared in 1712 enroute from Cape Town to Batavia. It covers the disappearance, the discovery of...

Essential reading for historians and enthusiasts of WW2. First complete history of a hitherto overlooked subject. Previously successful, and reprinted, in hardback. The 'Liberty' ships were the most numerous type...

**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There are rumours that the loser will be sent to...

The Vietnam conflict was an event that bitterly divided Australian society. While many people supported the government's military response to the perceived threat posed by expasionist communism, many others violently...

Carol Baxter has written a work that captures the reader This is largely because of her skill as a narrative historian, her capacity to tell a good story.' - Gregory...

The French countryside is as beloved by the many millions of tourists who visit it each year as it is of French people themselves. But it has not always looked...

First as a doe-eyed ingenue with 'As Tears Go By', then as a gravel-voiced phoenix rising from the ashes of the 1960s with a landmark punk album, Broken English ,...

In Chain Letters, each chapter is a mini-detective story, either a search for the identity behind a particular account, or an attempt to piece a convict life together from scattered...

Secondhand British Heritage & Illustrated Travel Bargain Book Box SP4065 Twelve illustrated volumes of British landscape, history, and heritage — historic houses, National Trust properties, aerial surveys, literary landmarks, and...

Secondhand World History & Archaeology Bargain Book Box SP4064 Nine substantial illustrated volumes spanning ancient civilisations, medieval history, and world cultures. The atlases — Greek world, Viking world, Mesopotamia, medieval...

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...

This mility battalion was Sydney based and trained near Wollongong. It was called on to play a part in the New Guinea War, and in the Ramu Valley , helped...

In May 1968, Mike Towers was conscripted into the Australian Army and found himself sent to Vietnam without volunteering and against regulations. The next 24 months irrevocably changed his life....

Delta Four exposes the inner workings of a rifle company - how its soldiers trained for war, and how they operated and fought in the war zone. It examines the...

The story begins in September 1965 when a small cadre of professional soldiers assembled at Puckapunyal in Victoria. Their task: to create, from a mixed bunch of conscripts and regulars,...

The book titled Action Stations Overseas: Britain's Military Airfields Abroad by the author Tony Fairbairn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1941, the British people had their backs to the wall in their lone fight against the might of Hitler's Germany. America was neutral, at least until the bombing of...

The concise, easy-to-use guide to tracing your family tree, from the hit BBC series that sparked the nation's interest in our family histories. Do you know where you came from?...

Highly Commended in the 2022 NSW Premier's History Awards Some generations are born unlucky. Australians who survived the horrors of the Great War and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed...

A National Book Award winner The New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. "An engrossing and relentless intellectual history...

The Commandos were Britain's first-ever special forces, formed in 1940 using volunteers from all three services. After the war, Commando units of the Royal Marines engaged in virtually every military...

The book titled The Australian War Classics Collection. by the author Lawson Glassop. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Barbarians: a Private's Story by the author Peter Pinney. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled We Were There: Australian Soldiers of World War II by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

IN 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving...

'Brilliant, hilarious... My book of the year' INDIA KNIGHT 'A wonderful book' CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday 'Funny, bloodcurdling and moving' Daily Mail The cruel teachers. The pashes on other...

Richard Hough is a distinguished naval historian and a highly acclaimed storyteller.

Events taken from conflicts over a 185 year period Stunning adventure non-fiction for the general reader; accurate military history for the student Provides a fascinating insight into the battlefields of...

Selections from the letters, memoirs, autobiography and fiction of the World War I. Edmund Blunden, Vera Britain, Oskar Kokoschka, Hasek, Paul Klee and Hemingway are among the contributors to this...

Delve into a wealth of famous events, significant sites and momentous births and deaths. Choose a day of the year and discover the fascinating array of people, places and happenings...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds comes a gripping personal account of an unlikely friendship forged...

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: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew stones in the world carry as much mythic weight as the Blarney Stone, and Blarney Castle: The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodLanguage is alive with history, and Everyday Phrases: Their Origins and Meanings pulls back the curtain on the fascinating stories hidden within the words...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the storm-lashed waters of the North Atlantic during the Second World War,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Australian political history have ignited as much controversy as Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General whose 1975 dismissal of Prime Minister Gough...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the spring of 1839, a young man of remarkable ambition set sail from Plymouth, England, bound for the remote colonial settlement of Melbourne — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the decades following World War II, Australia was irrevocably transformed by one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most shattering works of American history ever written, Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at...

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 —...