Military History

Amid wars, failed revolutions and the shifting of frontiers, the bit-part players often have the best tales to tell - an astonishing, genre-blurring travelogue from Italian master Claudio Magris In...

The International Bestseller This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and...

*** The New York Times Bestseller *** 'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating and original angle. She introduces us...

On July 19, 1924, Eric Liddell was on top of the world. He was the most famous Briton at the time, having just won the gold in the Olympic 400-meter...

Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has...

The author shows how military and political leaders found it difficult in the first world war to take account of the changes in warfare itself and examines the military aspects...

The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day , Stalingrad , and The Battle of Arnhem reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account On December 16,...

Plumbing recently unearthed archives and mountains of primary sources, Himelstein has uncovered a rich historical record. In prose that's vivid and assured, she takes the reader beyond the formation of...

As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close on three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty...

Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the...

The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama...

Did you know that Winston Churchill spent his twenty-fifth birthday as a prisoner of war? Or that he fought in the trenches during the First World War? Churchill once had...

In 1944 the average life expectancy of a newly commissioned tank troop officer in Normandy was estimated as being less than two weeks. David Render was a nineteen-year-old second lieutenant...

Originally published as Double Agent Snow, Hitler's Spyis the paperback edition, which tells of how on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War the double-agent Arthur Owens,...

Still a controversial figure - as well as a celebrated one - Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine mechante',...

A sequel to The Six Wives of Henry VIII, this vivid and compelling book tells the story of Henry's children and those of his sister Mary - popular history at...

' 'F *** ing brilliant. I would describe it as like a bag of political nuts - moreish and fabulously salty' JOE LYCETT A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Planes,...

From the harsh realities of basic training to post-war chaos in Iraq and knife-edge tension in Northern Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army recruitment brochures....

With an enemy in their midst, can they still protect their fighters in the skies? Pearl has given up on her dreams of being a journalist after being denied a...

The first official story of the Red Arrows, from their 'Top Gun' and Wing Commander, celebrating the history of Britain's world-famous flying squad. The perfect Father's Day gift. \"Occasionally, you...

The second son of a minor Essex landowner, John Hawkwood chose to head south in 1360 after serving as a captain in the Black Prince's wars against France. He and...

December 1943. A German fort sits impregnable atop a mountain. Standing between the Allied forces and their path to Rome is a steep climb up a 200-foot cliff, in the...

Author: Australia Post Philatelic GroupBinding: PaperbackPublished: Australia Post, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Supplement map included. The Anzac: Between The Lines...

Author: E.H. CarrBinding: PaperbackPublished: Harper Torchbooks, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Faded and worn cover. This authoritative historical account, "German-Soviet Relations Between The...

Author: Le Van ChatBinding: PaperbackPublished: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Hanoi, 1962Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Worn, creased and yellowed cover. Clean...

Author: Leon TrotskyBinding: PaperbackPublished: New Park Publications Ltd, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased and faded cover. Leon Trotsky's "Where Is...

Author: Harrison E. SalisburyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Corgi, 1978Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased cover with mild foxing on endpapers. This compelling historical...

Author: Colonel E.G. KeoghBinding: PaperbackPublished: Australian Army Journal, 1954Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, page edges yellowed, spine cover has come off...

Author: Stanton A. CoblentzBinding: PaperbackPublished: Perpetua, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, wear to cover and edges, crease line down spineFrom Arrow...

Author: Dr Paul HayesBinding: PaperbackPublished: Allen & Unwin, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, previous owner mark inside first page...

Author: Alan White & Eric HadleyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Collins Educational, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, minor fold in top right corner front...

Author: S. V. UtechinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Praeger, 1964Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Cover has general wear marks and spine has tanning and light creasing, previous owner name...

Author: Tim PorterBinding: PaperbackPublished: Flow East, 1991Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePrague Art And History by Tim Porter chronicles the rich artistic...

Author: James Graham-Campbell And Dafydd KiddBinding: PaperbackPublished: British Musum, London, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Worn cover. Clean text. The authoritative...

Author: James A. RawleyBinding: PaperbackPublished: University of Nebraska Press, 1989Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Page edges have foxing, faint previous owner mark inside first...

Author: Rosa LuxemburgBinding: PaperbackPublished: Ann Arbor Paperbacks, 1970Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Cover has general wear, light foxing to edges, previous owner marks insideIn...

Author: Francis Wyndham, David KingBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin Books, 1972Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacket, cover has general wear and tearTrotsky: A Documentary chronicles the...

Author: M MckernanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Nelson, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Tanning along top cover of book, pages lightly yellowed on edges, previous seller sticker on back...

Author: Geoffrey ReganBinding: PaperbackPublished: Guiness Publishing, 1998Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small dint on cover and prelims. Clean text. The Past...

Author: National Gallery of VictoriaBinding: PaperbackPublished: National Gallery of Victoria, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Cover has tanning along spine and general wear, previous...

Author: F. W. DeakinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Cover has some general wear and spine has crease down middle, page edges light yellowing,...

Author: Tristram CoffinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Pelican Books, 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, cover has some light staining and general wear, previous owner...

Author: Leon TrotskyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Pathfinder Press, 1972Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased spine. Aged cover. Light foxing on book...

Author: Max SheanBinding: PaperbackPublished: The Author, Claremont, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased cover and spine. This compelling memoir, "Corvette And Submarine,"...

Author: Ettore Roesler Franz, Brian WilliamsBinding: PaperbackPublished: Plurigraf, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, handful of pages have foxing/staining from...