Military History

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the ornate flintlocks of Renaissance courts to the precision-engineered firearms that shaped modern warfare, The World's Great Guns presents a sweeping and authoritative...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the thundering cavalry charges of the Norman Conquest to the disciplined pike formations of the late Middle Ages, Medieval Warfare presents a sweeping and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor the enthusiast, historian, and collector alike, Guns of the World stands as the definitive visual and technical compendium of firearms from across the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slightly creased cover. The Second World War was the most devastating conflict in human history, and My...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. October 21, 1914 - December 23, 1914. Good for age - tears; spine splitting, a few rusted...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Good for age - volume 51 is missing the front cover. tears; spine splitting, a few rusted...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Good for age - tears; spine splitting, a few rusted staples. March 10, 1915 - May 12,...

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A brilliant recreation of the golden age of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia - its landscapes, peoples, conflicts, power structures and political geography. The eighth century has long been a...

'Riveting, timely and truly revelatory. The Organisation Todt is the Nazi-era secret that still needs to emerge from the shadows' DAMIEN LEWIS, author of SAS Brothers in Arms and The...

An illustrated study of the clashes between B-29s conducting night raids on Japan and the Japanese nightfighters protecting the Home Islands from 1944-45. The USAAF's B-29-led strategic bombing offensive against...

The first part of a detailed study of one of the longest, and most brutal, tactical operations of World War II. In September 1944, the Allied High Command continued to...

This book examines the role of the Grumman F4F Wildcat, the US Navy's standard carrier fighter at the start of the Pacific War, and its clashes against the Imperial Japanese...

WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARD WINNER - Best Non-Fiction or Fiction by a Parliamentarian 'An extraordinary story' - David Williamson, Chief Political Commentator at the Daily Express 'Lovely book ... a lot...

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodRenaissance Italy comes alive with menace and beauty in Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait, a gripping historical novel that reimagines the brief, ill-fated life of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the sixteenth century, England was a second-rate maritime power — yet within decades, Henry...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat begins as a celebration of love quickly curdles into something far more unsettling in Alberto...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, understanding the vast and enigmatic Soviet Union was not merely an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, a chilling question haunted the world's most powerful nations: what happens...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the storm-shadowed final days of Leon Trotsky's life in Mexican exile, The Great Prince Died reconstructs, with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThere are holidays, and then there are the Larkins — and when Pop, Ma, and their wonderfully chaotic...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gaslit streets and shadowed back alleys of nineteenth-century Paris emerges a woman who cannot outrun the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTwelve gripping accounts of courage, chaos, and conflict await in The Beaver Book of War Stories, a compelling...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the golden and turbulent age of Shakespeare and the Virgin Queen, Elizabethan People: State and Society presents...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sun-drenched plains of the Po Valley, a stubborn parish priest and an equally obstinate Communist mayor wage an eternal, affectionate war —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most audacious and brilliantly satirical works ever written, Candide and Other Romances follows the relentlessly...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhen the guns of August 1914 shattered the long peace of Europe, the world was drawn into a conflict of unprecedented scale and brutality —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the darkest chapter of the Pacific War, a group of Australian nurses found themselves...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn one of the most harrowing true accounts of Jewish survival during the Second World War, The Army-Cap Boy chronicles the extraordinary story of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the jungles of Southeast Asia to the frozen mountain passes of Afghanistan, the U.S. Army Special Forces — better...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the pivot point of the twentieth century, one man's decisions would alter the course of history forever — Threshold of War by Waldo Heinrichs...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the heart of Melbourne, one institution has stood as a proud sentinel of military tradition and civic distinction for over a century — The Naval...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the brutal and unforgiving landscape of wartime Australia, The Bush Soldiers by John Hooker is a gripping historical novel that...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the turbulent backdrop of Soviet Russia's forced collectivisation campaign of the early 1930s,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodTo understand a war, one must first understand its language — and no conflict in modern American history generated a...

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