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From the heart of the West Country to the remote highlands of Scotland, the landscape of Britain is dotted with extraordinary sights, scapes and structures - treasure-filled Neolithic burial chambers,...

With the call to action stations of August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson. Geoffrey Bennett's classic history of the Great War at...

"A first-class popular history of the war, lively, entertaining, and continuously informative."--"Publishers Weekly" "His ability to recreate the emotions of war makes this monumental work a living history."--"Booklist"

The book titled Monty: The Lonely Leader 1944-1945 by the author Alistair Horne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew lives in the twentieth century have been as extraordinary or as consequential as that of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingStanding as one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in the world, Lincoln Cathedral...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the front lines of a world at war comes The Wounded Don't Cry, a gripping first-hand account by Quentin Reynolds, one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFor aviation historians, aircraft enthusiasts, and military researchers alike, British Military Aircraft Serials: 1911-1979 stands as one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew journalists of the twentieth century bore witness to history with the moral clarity and narrative force of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn 1970, Australian aviation stood at a remarkable crossroads — fifty years removed from the legendary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the jet age, when Australia's skies were being reshaped by bold ambition...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the close of the First World War, the boundaries of a shattered Europe hung in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the first stirrings of life on a primordial Earth to the geopolitical complexities of the modern age,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor a century, the pulse of Australia's public discourse has been captured, catalogued, and preserved by a single...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingHigh above the jungle canopy, where maps end and faith begins, Into the Glory chronicles one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the fog-shrouded newsrooms of Fleet Street to the sun-scorched front lines of global conflicts, Deadline & Dateline...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionFor over a century, ordinary Australians have performed extraordinary acts of courage — and 7000 Brave Australians chronicles the remarkable story...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the first naval shots fired in the Pacific during the Great War to the ferocious sea battles of World War II, Of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA landmark in Australian military and social history, Fathers Anonymous chronicles the remarkable legacy of the Legacy movement...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingLong before Afghanistan became a byword for conflict and geopolitical strife, the poet and classicist Peter Levi traversed its ancient landscapes and returned...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the height of the Second World War, when the fate of Western civilization hung in the balance,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the harrowing final chapter of one of World War II's most brutal sagas, thousands of Allied prisoners of war who survived...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhen Australia switched on its national broadcaster, few could have predicted the storms of controversy, political interference, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the thick of the world's most devastating conflict, one man armed with nothing but a notepad and an unflinching...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the frontlines of the Second World War to the turbulent corridors of post-war diplomacy, Wars Without End chronicles the remarkable life of Eric Downton,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the wind-swept hills of nineteenth-century pioneers to the sleek, silent giants of modern competition soaring, The Story of Gliding chronicles one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the shadow of the Second World War, few organisations demonstrated greater resilience and moral courage than the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pioneering days of aviation to the jet age, The History of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators 1929–1964 chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA career spent chasing stories, meeting deadlines, and bearing witness to history — By Deadline to Headline is the memoir of Jack Coulter, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the brutal trenches of the Western Front to the hard-won armistice of 1918, Through Mud...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the formative decades between the two World Wars, a small band of visionary...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before streaming algorithms dictated what audiences would watch, Australia's television drama industry fought its own...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the annals of aviation catastrophe, few stories are as gripping and consequential as the tale told in Destination Disaster — the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn September 1944, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden — the largest airborne assault in history — with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt a pivotal moment in American political life, The American Dissent: A Decade of Modern Conservatism presents a rigorous and impassioned intellectual...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedFrom the dusty red plains of outback Australia to the remote settlements stretching beyond the horizon, Far...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA searing indictment of one of history's most overlooked injustices, From Massacres to Mining: The Colonization of Aboriginal...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew military operations have shaped the modern world as profoundly as the Allied landings on the...

Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: New in original plastic wrap. "Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815-1871" is a work of political and economic history that chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, Internally sound. At the intersection of two of history's most secretive and powerful institutions lies a conflict...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedThe Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939–1945 stands as one of the most powerful and enduring collections of Second...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: dj price clippedFor the aspiring aviator who dreams of conquering the skies, Let's Learn to Fly...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of conscience and power, Muckraking: Past Present and Future presents a sweeping...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of military strategy and national identity, Roots of British Air Policy presents a rigorous and authoritative examination...