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Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America
A veteran of New York and national politics, Luis Miranda embodies the relentless spirit of progress of American immigrants. There is nobody on the Latino, New York, and national political...
Hero Living: Seven Strides to Awaken Your Infinite Power
In Hero Living Rudy Reyes, the latest recruit in Channel 4's smash-hit SAS Who Dares Wins introduces his philosophy to life - part Homer, part Bruce Lee and part Spider-Man....
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
'The reigning Queen of Classics' Spectator'Mary Beard is the best in the business' Dan Snow'Excellent' Guardian'Enthralling' Sunday TimesBritain's most famous classicist asks: what are civilisations?Central to this huge question are...
The Stories Our Parents Found Too Painful to Tell: The Annihilation of Bialystoker Jewry
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The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong
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Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The German Collapse, 1944
How the Nazis lost the war1944 was a year of trial for the German Army. While the Allies were preparing to invade the Third Reich from the west, Stalin was...
Bloody Provost (SIGNED)
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Author: R.A.J. TylerBinding: HardbackPublished: Phillimore & Co., 1980Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBloody Provost is a historical account that delves into the life and times of...
Middle East And Far East
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Author: Allan S. WalkerBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian War Memorial, 1962, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides an in-depth analysis of the military strategies and operations in...
North East Lowlands of Scotland
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Author: John R. AllanBinding: HardbackPublished: Hale, 1974, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the geography, culture, and history of the North East Lowlands of Scotland....
The Changing of the Guard. Graphic Incidents of Two Wars Reproduced from Official and Other Photographs.
$120.00 AUD
Author: Australian War MemorialBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian War Memorial, 1941, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a visual account of two wars through...
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's
'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940.It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.A group of...
SAS Great Escapes
SAS Great Escapes tells the story of seven of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed during WWII by what is arguably the world's most famous military fighting force -...
Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape
'Poetic and profound, Time and Tide is wise, considered and full of surprises' Observer'Poignant and touching' Mail on Sunday'Miraculous' ScotsmanA village waits at the bottom of a reservoir. A monkey...
Explosive: Bringing the World's Deadliest Bombers to Justice
THE STORY OF BRITAIN'S LEADING FORENSIC EXPLOSIVES SCIENTIST, WHO FOR NEARLY THREE-DECADES INVESTIGATED SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL BOMB ATTACKS IN HISTORY.Cliff Todd devoted his life...
DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain's Ambassador at the Time of 9/11 and the Iraq War
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Mermaid Singing (Oe)
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D-Day: Dawn of Heroes
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Journeys into Night
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The Miracle Typist: The powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home
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Fleet Air Arm Boys: Volume Four: A Lifetime of Reminiscences from the
Steve Bond is back with the final volume in this popular series. Unlike his previous three tomes, with their focus on air/rotorcraft, this book is uniquely dedicated to the personnel...
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story,...
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That
Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Traitor of Colditz Robert Verkaik reveals the incredible never-before-told story of the role played by the Cambridge Spies in the British defeat at Arnhem"A...
The Radical General: Sir Ronald Adam and Britain's New Model Army
Britaina s great battlefield generals of the Second World War like Montgomery and Slim would have failed had not General Sir Ronald Adam been appointed Adjutant-General in 1941. As the...
Trotsky's Favourite Spy: The Life Of George Alexander Hill
UnaKroll was eleven when she first met her father. They stopped for lunch on theway from Brighton to London and he took her outside to play with theinnkeeper's Angora rabbit....
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret
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As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and...
An Ancient Air
Examines the life of John Stringfellow of Chard, the first man to demonstrate that engine-powered winged flight was practicable. It reveals his lifelong obsession with aviation and seeks to shed...
The Crimean War and Irish society
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The purpose of this book is to produce what is essentially a 'home front' study of Ireland during the Crimean War, or more specifically Irish society's responses to that conflict....
Back from Tobruk
In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during World War II. As the war continued to escalate, he...
Defiance!: Withstanding the Kaiserschalcht
This fascinating volume charts the progress of the Allied breakout of Normandy through German eyes. Beginning with Operation COBRA and ending with the offensive which led to the liberation of...
Augustus at War: The Struggle for the Pax Augusta
The words Pax Augusta - or Pax Romana - evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy. Almost every year...
Churchill's Spearhead
This book covers the inception, growth and employment of Britain's airborne forces (parachute and glider-borne formations) between June 1940 and March 1945. It takes a comparative approach and follows tailored...
Brutus of Troy
Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to their origins they saw the looming mythological figure of...
Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters from Home
The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labour by their Japanese masters on the 'Burma Railway' have been well documented yet never cease to shock. It is impossible not...
Marching to the Sound of Gunfire: North-West Europe 1944-1945
In this delightful book, scores of British soldiers tell their amazing stories of life - and death - in the front line of the Allies' advance from Normandy to Hitler's...
A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever
Between April 22 and May 30, 1915, Western civilization was shocked. World War I was already appalling in its brutality, but it had until then been fought on the battlefield...
The Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal 1940: France and Flanders
Known in some accounts as the Battle of Wijtschaete, the confrontation along the Ypres-Comines Canal in 1940 is still hardly remembered in this country and, apart from the battle honours...
Illustrated Book of Fighter Aircraft
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For the Love of a Soldier: Australian War-Brides and Their Gi'S
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The Bomber Mafia: A Tale of Innovation and Obsession
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A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust
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Ancestors: A prehistory of Britain in seven burials
An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us...
Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost
What is heroism? What are its moral components-altruism, love, self-sacrifice? Why was it once celebrated, and now often dismissed as anachronistic? In this dramatic and readable account of last stands...
SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS
The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS's wartime history in...
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany; Stalin's Russia
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The Red Line: The Gripping Story of the RAF's Bloodiest Raid on Hitler's Germany
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Mr and Mrs Gould: The extraordinary true story about the life of
The grand story of the famous 'Birdman' John Gould and his talented wife Elizabeth, who revealed the astonishing world of Australian birds and wildlife in one of the most important...