History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the desperate spring of 1940, with the German war machine closing in on the beaches of northern France, nearly...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of morality, medicine, and politics in nineteenth-century Britain stands one of the era's most contentious battles: the campaign to repeal the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the height of the Cold War, when ideological battle lines were drawn across every discipline of human endeavour, John Langdon-Davies delivered a fearless...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadow of imperial Russia, where absolute power and aristocratic rebellion collided with explosive consequences, Nathan Eidelman's Conspiracy Against the Tsar chronicles one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the earliest days of colonial settlement to the turbulent mid-twentieth century, The Quest for Security in New Zealand: 1840...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a pivotal moment in the twentieth century, Australia's Defence and Foreign Policy presents a rigorous and authoritative...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the turbulent crucible of the nineteenth century, Australia transformed itself from a collection of fledgling penal colonies...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of ideology and scholarship, I. Zenushkina's Soviet Nationalities Policy and Bourgeois Historians presents a rigorous Soviet critique of American academic interpretations...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn one of the most powerful memoirs to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain, Vladimir Bukovsky chronicles his remarkable life as a Soviet dissident...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe discovery of gold in 1851 transformed Australia overnight — igniting mass migration, reshaping colonial power structures, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the barbed wire of Stalin's brutal labour camp system, one man refused to surrender his mind — and what he wrote there changed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the towering ideology that reshaped the modern world stood a man of startling contradictions — a visionary plagued by...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of labour movement history and the rise of a democratic press, Printers and Politics: A History of the Australian...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerTucked within the sprawling eastern suburbs of Melbourne lies the story of Nunawading — a community whose journey...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of ideology and global conflict, Imperialism and Revolution by David Horowitz presents a sweeping radical critique of American foreign...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every towering historical figure lies a human being obscured by legend — Marx Without Myth strips away decades of ideological distortion to present...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA century after Karl Marx first set the world ablaze with his revolutionary theories, Bertram D. Wolfe's Marxism: One Hundred Years in the Life...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the age of twenty-two, Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Chess Champion in history, defeating the legendary Anatoly Karpov in a match that...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedA masterpiece of chess literature, 100 Master Games of Modern Chess presents one hundred of the most brilliantly contested and instructive chess...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: fep and title pages missing. A masterclass in strategic genius awaits within the pages of Petrosian's Best Games...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedA titan of the chessboard speaks directly to the reader in My Best Games of Chess: 1931–1954, a definitive collection...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the world of competitive chess, few careers are as strategically brilliant and psychologically fascinating as that of Tigran Petrosian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous owner100 Soviet Chess Miniatures is a masterclass in the art of swift, decisive chess, presenting one hundred brilliantly compact games — each...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: Minor nicks/tears on endpapers. Internally sound. Few moves in chess carry the dramatic weight of the sacrifice —...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: SignedA century of genius, rivalry, and relentless innovation unfolds in Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik: A Century...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFor chess players seeking to command the board with dynamic, aggressive play, The Sicilian Accelerated Dragons is an indispensable guide to one...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minimal markings in grey lead. Few chess openings carry the mystique and daring of Alekhine's Defence, the provocative...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew chess openings demand as much precision and cunning as the Scotch Game, and The Scotch stands as the definitive guide to mastering this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFor chess players seeking to sharpen their tactical edge, King Pawn Openings presents a rigorous and authoritative examination of one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Book launch ephemera laid-in. At the heart of Britain's Age of Reason lurks a profound and startling paradox: the...