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Waverley College is the largest and best known Christian Brothers school in Australia. Founded in 1903, with fewer than 20 pupils, on part of the prominent site in Waverley that...

A comprehensive history of the Brotherhood of St Laurence since its foundation in 1930. Provides rich detail of the Brotherhood's almost continuous history of contributions to employment, poverty and housing.

Glines provides a full and compelling portrait of a Norwegian American pilot overshadowed in his lifetime by Admiral Richard Byrd but whose expertise and vision continue to guide trans-Artic a...

On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the...

'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable . . . engrossing' Sunday Times 'A pleasure' Spectator...

A commemoration to all the airmen who served in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) from 1914 until the end of the Vietnam War. Included are letters from airmen to...

The term "friendly fire", referring to the unintentional killing or wounding of friend or ally, is an emotive one which provokes hostility and indignation; it suggests the incompetence, carelessness or...

The book titled The Oscars: The Secret History of Hollywood's Academy Awards by the author Anthony Holden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Ultra was the code word for the method by which the Allies intercepted the German radio transmissions and broke their coded contents during World War II. The author, himself a...

This book debunks the myth that Orthodox Judaism in Australia is a twentieth-century phenomenon. Nevertheless, fluctuations in fortunes -- social, religious and economic, reflecting past and contemporary changes in surrounding...

From the shelter of a protective family, to the lessons of tragedy and independence, this is an indelible portrait of a harsh and beautiful country and the inspiring story of...

The social history of one of Australia's best known public schools, this volume traces the founding of Geelong Grammar School, its early failure and subsequent revival under John Bracebridge Wilson,...

The book titled No Moon Tonight by the author Don Charlwood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An illustrated study into the dramatic search for spices through history, and how the pursuit of rare flavours changed and opened up our world. Spices have been highly valued since...

An instant New York Times bestseller, this "profound book" ( Wall Street Journal ) charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar...

'Britain is full of amazing pubs and this man will guide you to the very best,' Phil Carr After spontaneously hosting a birthday pub crawl through London's finest alehouses, Thomas...

This one-of-a-kind treasure trove of Black cultural ephemera, from the entrepreneurs behind the vintage shop BLK MKT Vintage, expands on their mission to curate vintage objects that tell Black stories...

Derry Moore's exclusive colour photographs and Clive Aslet's authoritative text provide a sumptuous architectural and historical appreciation of the Upper House. INTRODUCTION A perspective from different peers, for example, Lord...

Australia's past is studded with senior military figures who have been active in shaping the nation's political direction and institutions at both federal and state level. Apart from those who...

The book titled The Nobel Century: A Chronicle of Genius by the author Asa Briggs. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The story of the greatest British sit-com and its enduring appeal. When we laugh at Dad's Army we laugh at ourselves, and nearly fifty years after it was first broadcast,...

Ever since its invention, aviation has embodied the dream of perpetual peace between nations, yet the other side of this is the nightmare of an unprecedented deadly power. A power...

Features the real-life saga of the experiences of the Pushman family in the Second World War. Illustrated with family photographs, this book gives the reader a personal glimpse into both...

In the early hours of 2 December 1942, the B-24 Liberator Little Eva - returning from a mission over New Guinea - was thrown off course by a violent storm....

In 1939 there were ten million Jews in Europe. After Hitler there were four million. Today in 1996 there are under two million. On current projections the Jews will become...

The political life-story of one of the great men of European post-war politics, Willy Brandt. From mayor of West Berlin to Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, foreign minister and...

'A salve for our current reactionary times.' ANDREW HARTMAN From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao's stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel's triumphant...

The victory of the Battle of Britain ranks with Marathon and the Marne as a decisive point in history. At the end of June 1940, having overrun much of Western...

Harrowing and redeeming, this is the history of a unique 'adoption' system. For generations, local families, grateful for the sacrifice of their liberators from Nazi occupation, have cared for not...

The definitive work on Stalin's purges, The Great Terror was universally hailed when it first appeared in 1968. In the last few years, with the advent of glastnost, an avalanche...

Secondhand Australian Natural History Bargain Book Box SP2935 Fifteen volumes from the beloved Periwinkle Colour Series — Australia's classic illustrated guides to native wildlife and natural environments, published from the...

Secondhand History & Biography Bargain Book Box SP2941 From the courts of Henry VIII to the Burma Railway, from the Congress of Berlin to the Elizabethan stage — this box...

Secondhand Biography, Memoir & Travel Bargain Book Box SP2939 This box won't keep still — it moves from Arctic ice to rural Provence, from Cambodian brothels to AFL football grounds,...

Breverton's Nautical Curiosities is about ships, people and the sea. However, unlike many other nautical compendiums, the focus of this book is on the unusual, the overlooked or the downright...

Written by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent," Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an in-depth chronological account of Jacobs's life as a slave,...

A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today's varied gay culture. This book...

Secondhand Philosophy Bargain Book Box SP2864 Twenty-two philosophy texts spanning Kant to Wittgenstein, from the Enlightenment to the analytic revolution — Blackwell paperbacks, Fontana Modern Masters, and Mentor Philosophers editions...

Secondhand Psychology & Psychoanalysis Bargain Book Box SP2870 Nineteen books from the disputed borders of the human mind — where Freud meets his sharpest critics, where R.D. Laing challenges the...

The start of World War 2 changed women's lives and their place in Australian society forever. Thousands of women ventured where few had gone before - into the services and...

An important reckoning with Australia's unspoken history of slave trade. From the author of the bestselling books The Ballad of Abdul Wade and The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli As Australia...

The first forensic account of how the Post Office, the British government and a global IT company ruined the lives of thousands of innocent people. Private Eye tells the story...

The book titled The MGM Story by the author John Douglas Eames. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Spanning the past two centuries, this book explores the fascinating role played by this small but highly significant community in the economic. political, social and cultural life of this country....

Inspired by a photograph taken during an emergency landing at an airfield near the author's home, this is an account of the life and death of the Flying Fortress called...

Adolf Hitler was one of six children born to his mother, and one of eight born to his father from two of his three marriages. Alois Hitler, ne Schicklgruber, was...

Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this new entry in the bestselling series. From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder,...

For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George...

In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places...