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Nostalgic Journeys
Relax by the ocean or head to the mountains? This vacation planning debate-starter is actually a fairly recent invention. To people of an earlier era, both options seemed unappealing and...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War. Lawrence's...
Classic Playground Games: From Hopscotch to Simon Says
A delightful book which records favourite childhood games and recalls forgotten rhymes. With more children suffering from obesity than in previous generations, Susan Brewer looks at the social games we...
The Cold War Experience
This book, published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the start of the Cold War, is a graphic account of this long-running global drama, which encompassed moments of high tension,...
London Labour and the London Poor
'London Labour and the London Poor' is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in...
The Explorer and the Journalist: Frederick Cook, Philip Gibbs and the
On 1 September 1909, American explorer Frederick Cook caused one of the biggest sensations in exploration history when, after a year with no word from him, a message arrived announcing...
The Evolution of the Passenger Ship
Have you wondered what the difference is between an ocean liner and a cruise ship? Are you amazed at the size of the biggest cruise ships? Perhaps you are keen...
Tasting the Past: Recipes from the Middle Ages to the Civil War
The many influences of the past on our diet today make the concept of 'British food' very hard to define. The Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans all brought ingredients...
Men of Ideas
Lewis A. Coser takes readers from the coffeehouses of 18th-century London to the mass-culture industries of today in search of a definition for the intellectual. Describing the settings where intellectuals...
A Dark History of Sugar
A Dark History of Sugar delves into our evolutionary history to explain why sugar is so loved, yet is the root cause of so many bad things. Europe's colonial past...
Dinner with the Devil
In 1896 a small group of Melbourne's first women doctors opened a makeshift hospital in a borrowed church hall. They wanted to give 'poor women the opportunity of being treated...
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
The African Presence in Ancient America "A landmark . . . brilliantly demonstrates has that there is far more to black history than the slave trade."-John A. Williams They Came...
Victoria's Children of the Dark
Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and pleasant land' harvesting the coal to fuel...
The Titanic Expeditions: Diving to the Queen of the Deep: 1985-2021
The most complete (to date) overview of all the important expeditions to the wreck of Titanic from 1985 to 2021. The remains of the world's most famous passenger liner, RMS...
Titanic: A Journey Through Time
A gripping minute-by-minute chronology of the full story of Titanic, the world's most famous ship. A unique chronology, this fascinating volume tells Titanic's full story, moment by moment, from the...
George Washington: A Life
A president-to-be chronicles the life and times of the historic first Chief Executive in this insightful biography. Noted educator and historian Woodrow Wilson profiles George Washington's rise to leadership, providing...
History of the British Cavalry Vol.3 1872-1898
The British Empire was at its height during this period, which saw the cavalry in many colonial engagements, such as the Moonlight Charge at Kassassin and the Charge of the...
A Backpack, A Bear, And Eight Crates Of Vodka, A
Lev Golinkin's memoir is the vivid, darkly comic, and poignant story of a young boy in the confusing and often chilling final decade of the Soviet Union. It's also the...
Ships of Splendour: Passenger Liners in Colour
The great passenger liners of the twentieth century make for iconic images of maritime history and design. This beautiful, full-colour book presents the development of passenger ships across the twentieth...
British Passenger Liners in Colour: The 1950s, '60s and Beyond
Stunning colour imagery presenting British passenger liners over the 50s and 60s golden era of passenger liners, and beyond. At a time when everything is constantly changing, it is timely...
The Hitler Years - Disaster 1940 - 1945
The second volume of a new narrative history of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, by an expert on the Third Reich. 'This book is like a time...
A Short History of England
From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves together a strong narrative with all the most...
The Evil That Men Do
Born of a preoccupation with saints and sinners, The Evil That Men Do is Brian Masters' investigation into the nature of good and evil, and the different ways in which...
Cowboy - American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture
Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally happened about 1860....
World War One: A Short History
In World War One- A Short History, Norman Stone provides a terse, opinionated and wry short history of the First World War. In 1914 a new kind of war, and...
Secondhand History & Biography Bargain Book Box DSH838
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Secondhand History & Biography Bargain Book Box Delve into the past with this curated collection of secondhand history and biography titles. Explore the lives of influential figures, journey through pivotal...
The History of the Russian Church in Australia: Siberia to Sydney
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What Needled Cleopatra?: And Other Little Secrets Airbrushed from History
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Anti-Semitism
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Unsinkable: The Full Story
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Army of the Manchu Empire: The Conquest Army and the Imperial Army of Qing China, 1600-1727
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Voyaging the World's Civil Engineering Wonders
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Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament's Working Women
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The Apple is Everything
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The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific
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Budapest: A History of Grandeur and Catastrophe
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Noble Fragments: the maverick who broke up the world's greatest book
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The Australian Book of Great Trials
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The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All
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Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens: Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich
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Henry VIII in 100 Objects: The Tyrant King Who Had Six Wives
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The Serpent Queen: Now a major TV series
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Stuart Spouses: A Compendium of Consorts from James I of Scotland to Queen Anne of Great Britain
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The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream
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Sacred Luxuries: Fragrance, Aromatherapy and Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt
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In the Wake: the True Story of the Melbourne-Evans Collision, Conspiracy and Cover-up
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