History

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; damaged cover, internally sound. One of the darkest chapters in colonial history unfolds in Clive Turnbull's Black...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased cornersFrom the founding proclamation of 1949 to the dramatic transformations of the late 1980s, A Chronology...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt once a portrait of holy rebellion and a chronicle of one of history's most captivating spiritual journeys, Anthony Mockler's Francis of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent crossroads of Cold War geopolitics and postcolonial Southeast Asia, Prince Norodom Sihanouk presents...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gold rush lawlessness of the 1850s to the high-tech policing of the modern era,...

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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionAt the very tip of the Australian continent, where the ancient rainforests meet the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFrom the sun-scorched outback to the bustling colonial settlements, Australia and the Australians presents a sweeping narrative of a nation forged from exploration, hardship,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: clipped dj. In the shadowy underworld of international drug trafficking, one investigation would change the face of law enforcement forever — The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the twilight of Europe's most glittering era of royal absolutism, a storm was gathering that would tear...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the thunder-hurling gods of ancient Greece to the serpent deities of Mesoamerica, Larousse World Mythology presents one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA century and a half of faith, community, and identity unfolds in A Standard for the People, a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the highland communities of the Luzon Cordillera, feasting is not merely celebration — it is a complex...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Year Book of Chess 1988-89 is the definitive annual compendium for chess enthusiasts, chronicling the most significant...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt a time when crossing the Channel was an act of daring and the cobblestoned roads of Europe were as treacherous as they were...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. maps included. Long before the Indo-European migrations reshaped the European continent, another civilisation laid its deep...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of history's most celebrated intellects turns his formidable pen upon himself in Memoirs of My Life, the unfinished autobiography of Edward Gibbon, the...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew biographies capture the blazing genius and tragic brevity of a musical life with the intimacy and insight of Edward Holmes's The Life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased/faded spine. Before the highways of modern Australia were paved, the roads of Van Diemen's...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of two of antiquity's most profound spiritual traditions, Jewish and Gnostic Man presents a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA century after the guns fell silent on the Western Front, The WW1 Centenary Exhibition stands as a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodDeep in the remote jungles of Cape York Peninsula, one of the most audacious construction projects of the Second World War took shape — a fully...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the sweltering summer of 1972, a remote Icelandic city became the unlikely epicentre of a Cold War clash that transcended the 64 squares of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: light stain on the dj. At the dawn of Australia's European settlement, a young naval lieutenant named Philip Gidley King sailed into...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew primary sources illuminate the harrowing birth of a nation with such raw, unfiltered humanity as the personal writings of a young British naval...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Bruised board. In the blood-soaked fields and castle-studded landscapes of medieval England, war was not merely a political instrument —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of antiquity and the medieval world, the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian blazed with an artistic and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodLong before satellites and GPS, humanity's greatest minds strained against the limits of the known world, armed with little more than curiosity, mathematics, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodWhen the ancient wonders of Egypt first captured the imagination of European travellers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a remarkable cohort of artist-explorers set...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the height of Britain's imperial zenith, the decade spanning Queen Victoria's Golden and Diamond Jubilees — 1887 to 1897 — stands as one...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThree legendary aircraft — the Bristol Beaufort, Bristol Beaufighter, and de Havilland Mosquito — defined Australia's aerial...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFrom the illuminated cloisters of medieval scholarship emerges one of the most enchanting documents of the Middle Ages — a magnificent English rendering of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodFrom the courts of Julius Caesar to the madness of Domitian, The Twelve Caesars stands as one of antiquity's most vivid and scandalous chronicles of...

To be born of a Black mother and a White father in apartheid South Africa was not merely scandalous — it was a criminal act, and Trevor Noah's very existence...

What if the relentless expansion of human rights, justice, and freedom is not a matter of luck or divine providence, but the inevitable product of science and reason applied to...

No warship name in British naval history has more battle honours than Warspite. While this book looks at the lives of all eight vessels to bear the name (between 1596...

In her apron and rubber gloves, a smile lipsticked permanently across her face, the woman of the Fifties has become a cultural symbol of all that we are most grateful...

Bookshops are a comforting sight on our high streets, warm and welcoming spaces in which to browse, meet friends and occasionally buy books. They may feel timeless, yet their history...

A detailed and fully illustrated account of United States aircraft carriers during World War II. This extensively illustrated volume tells the dramatic yet successful story of US aircraft carriers in...