Military History - Secondhand

Author: Sidney AsterBinding: HardbackPublished: ANDRE DEUTSCH, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis historical account, 1939: The Making Of The Second World War, chronicles the pivotal events...

Author: Bill Jamesbinding: SoftbackPublished: Kokoda Press, 2008Condition: book: Very good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Good, markings: SignedThis guide provides a detailed historical account of the Kokoda Track and the...

Dwight Eisenhower represented a fundamentally new type of modern military commander. Eisenhower was a manager commander, whose grasp of the politics and large-scale tactics of battle were uniquely suited to...

Sometimes when you are looking for the dead, you find the living. When Irene joins the International Tracing Service, she becomes consumed by a singular obsession: returning the belongings confiscated...

In an age of backroom generals who command from far behind troop lines, it is often forgotten that wars have been won or lost by the personality and leadership of...

'Roland Perry shows the true picture . . . enjoyable, clearly argued, comprehensive, and highly readable.' - Michael McKernan, Australian Book Review 11 March 1942: The Japanese have stormed the...

Bigger than The Great Escape. The story of the first successful mass tunnel escape from a POW camp in First World War Germany. Bigger than The Great Escape. The story...

The extraordinary true story of courage under fire and survival during one of the deadliest wartime attacks on Australia - the sinking of the hospital ship, the Centaur - and...

Literature in the Modern World offers a unique combination of English, European, feminist and `new writing', or `Commonwealth', perspectives on literary studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is...

Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: FEP missing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsMilitary Origins by Major Lawrence L Gordon presents a rigorous examination of the foundational principles that shaped...

Edition: 3rd ed., 5th impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded boards. Chipped and split DJ with previous owner's name. Fold-out map at rear...

In a groundbreaking book that recasts the history of the Cold War, bestselling author Priscilla J. McMillan exposes, for the first time, the truth behind J. Robert Oppenheimer's 1954 trial...

The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia...

Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the...

Empires of the Sand offers a bold and comprehensive reinterpretation of the struggle for mastery in the Middle East during the long nineteenth century (1789-1923). This book denies primacy to...

The character of Surrealism had been crystallizing over the previous five years when, in 1924, Andre Breton's Manifeste du Surrealisme defined the word. As conceived in those early days it...

Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle, deep within Japanese-held territory. Among the...

What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: DamagedPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerTold through the eyes of those who live in its shadow, a devastating storm becomes more than a force of...

The book titled Patton's Third Army at War by the author George Forty. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Among the 70,000 refugees from Nazi Germany who had entered Britain by 1939 were many intellectuals of the Weimar era. This book tells the story of five emigre writers, three...

The book titled Korea That Was & Three Short Stories by the author Jerry M Jackis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Napoleon Bonaparte's ascent to power was meteoric. Ever the outsider and regarded by many as an upstart, his extraordinary determination, courage, and tactical skill saw him rise from ordinary beginnings...

Gentle, modest and handsome, a fine poet, proficient in nine languages, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made an unlikely soldier. The elder of two sons of a formidable family of writers...

Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by...

Author of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and other popular novels about Mexico, B. Traven surrounded his identity with mysteries designed to confound biographers. Now Heidi Zogbaum has produced...

Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the...

Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of the most notorious. On...

The Robert Harris novel/film ENIGMA has popularised the subject of code-breaking and military intelligence as never before. Yet the ULTRA secret -- the Allied 'breaking' of the German 'Enigma' code...

A moving account of how war is remembered - and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David...

The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean....

Author: Gordon Thomas And Max Morgan-WittsBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1977Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Inscribed by Gordon Thomas.This gripping historical account,...

Author: Frank CluneBinding: HardbackPublished: ANGUS AND ROBERTSON, 1952Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling historical account, The Ashes Of Hiroshima, chronicles...

Author: A. J. BarkerBinding: HardbackPublished: UNIVERSE BOOKS, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA compelling work of military history, Prisoners Of War by A.J. Barker...

Author: Peter FirkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell Australia, 1975Condition:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: No markingsOf Nautilus And Eagles chronicles the comprehensive history of the Royal Australian Navy, detailing its...

Author: Hank NelsonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Syd. ABC Enterprises, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHank Nelson's Pow Prisoners Of War: Australians Under Nippon chronicles...

Author: Alfred PriceBinding: HardbackPublished: Ian Allan Ltd, 1977Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some tanning to block and top of pages...

Author: Hugh CampbellBinding: PaperbackPublished: Naval Historical Society of Australia Inc., 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Slight wear to cover...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe...

Author: E. E. DunlopBinding: HardbackPublished: Nelson, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis historical non-fiction work presents the harrowing personal accounts of Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop, a distinguished Australian...

The book titled WW II: Time-Life Books History of the Second World War by the author Time-Life Books. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Chipped and worn DJ with som loss. The Wonder Book Of The...

This title includes special features on all of the key battles and engagements on land and at sea, detailing military strategies, successes and failures. It chronicles the course of each...

Lord Briggs has long been regarded as one of Britain's most important historians. However, until the publication of this remarkable book, he had never written about his time at Bletchley...