History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of empire and nationhood, a small but enormously influential group of Australian intellectuals dared to imagine a reimagined world order — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the height of the Victorian era, the indefatigable traveller and historian James Anthony Froude set sail for the far-flung colonies of Australia and New...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the annals of American political journalism, few works have matched the seismic impact of All the President's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageRising dramatically from the plains of South Australia, the Flinders Ranges stand as one of the continent's most...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt just twenty-six years old, David Hume produced one of the most ambitious and daring works in the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst published in 1961 as a landmark in biblical scholarship, The New English Bible: New Testament represents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the blood-soaked annals of the Second World War, no campaign rivals the sheer, apocalyptic scale of Operation...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the morning of December 7, 1941, the world changed forever as Japanese aircraft swept across the skies...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadow of the pyramids, where shifting desert sands conceal the secrets of a civilisation lost to time, The Lost Pharaohs: The Romance...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt a moment when the shadow of McCarthyism darkened the American political landscape, Civil Liberties Under Attack stands...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to be French? In The French: Portrait of a People, Sanche de Gramont presents a sweeping, penetrating...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in world literature loom as large or as tormented as Fyodor Dostoevsky, and J. A. T....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the boom-and-bust crucible of colonial Victoria, money was power — and nowhere was that more evident than on the floor of the Melbourne...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew figures in twentieth-century letters could claim the breadth of vision that Salvador...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of East and West lies a civilisational question that has haunted scholars and statesmen for centuries: where does Russia truly belong? Russia,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the precise moment when the fate of Asia hung in the balance, the Soviet Union manoeuvred with calculated precision across the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew subjects are as layered, contradictory, and endlessly fascinating as the inner world of Russian thought and culture — and Ronald Hingley's The Russian Mind...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt a pivotal moment in American political history, Theodore Draper's The Rediscovery of Black Nationalism presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the turbulent revolutions of the nineteenth century to the seismic upheavals of the twentieth, Upheaval and Continuity: A Century of German History presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew cities have inspired as much devotion, reverence, and literary attention as Oxford, and Jan Morris's portrait of this ancient English city stands as one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a grandmaster of chess turns his analytical eye not just on the board, but on...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slightly creased spine. Yellowed cover. Few names in the history of chess carry the electric...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA legend in his own lifetime, Bobby Fischer — the most celebrated chess player of the twentieth century...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity conquered the skies in just over a decade — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it mean to have lived a life worth remembering? The Obituary Book by Alden Whitman — the celebrated Chief Obituary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedHe was a man who filled every room he entered and every column inch he wrote — Eric Baume was one of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the scorching desert of North Africa, the Siege of Tobruk stands as one of the most extraordinary...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedOne of the most audacious military campaigns of the twentieth century is recounted here from the perspective of the man...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFor millennia, the I Ching — the ancient Chinese Book of Changes — has served as one of humanity's most enduring tools...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew naval engagements of the Second World War carry the tragic grandeur of the Scharnhorst's final battle, and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Damaged but present; fairly large chuck missing from the spine - remains in one piece with moderate tears. Few figures in the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingBeneath the frozen Arctic Ocean, history was being made. Surface at the Pole chronicles the extraordinary true story of the...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the blood-soaked theatre of World War II, no story is more audacious or more harrowing than the mass breakout...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedThe Eyes of the Navy stands as a compelling portrait of one of the most formidable intelligence minds of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the turbulent wake of the infamous Bounty mutiny, Captain Richard Bolitho sails into the treacherous waters of the South Pacific, where...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in modern history embody the calculated machinery of genocide quite like Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer whose...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOn the evening of May 6, 1937, the largest aircraft ever built burst into flames above a New Jersey airfield, killing...

Edition: 8th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew military figures of the Second World War have captured the imagination of both friend and foe quite...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Binding remains tight. Clean text. At the height of the Cold War,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the autumn of 1944, Allied commanders launched Operation Market Garden — the largest airborne assault in history — staking the lives of thousands...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn one of the most harrowing chapters of the Second World War, thousands of Allied prisoners of war survived the brutal construction of the...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Binding remains tight. Clean copy. At the close of the First World War, the sunken...