Military History

The Reith Papers is the best of those diary entries from the heart of a government that changed Australia. Peter Reith was a senior cabinet minister under John Howard from...

This important new contribution to the successful textbook series New Approaches to European History explores the comprehensive impact of the First World War on Imperial Germany. It examines military aspects...

From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything , this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E. Lawrence - also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' - of his service in the Arab Revolt during the First World...

The author has known Mandela since the 1950s, and has been given complete access to all his personal papers, to Mandela himself, and to his friends and political associates, to...

A biography of Napoleon, which attempts to explain the history of this great man in personal terms.

Secondhand WWII Military History Bargain Book Box SP2952 Fifteen books spanning the sweep of the Second World War — from the British Army and the Western Desert to the Australian...

For over 50 years, one family dominated England's high offices of state. William and Robert Cecil, father and son, held unparalleled power as statesmen, diplomats, counsellors and spymasters throughout Elizabeth's...

The book titled D-Day: From the Normandy Beaches to the Liberation of France by the author Stephen Badsey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The spectacle of Alan Cobham's Flying Circus and the Fleet at anchor in Weymouth inspired the author's lifelong passion for airplanes, flying and the Royal Navy . World War Two...

Out of the last 3,500 years of our 'civilised' world, only for 230 have we been at peace. In "The Heat of Battle" features those who by rising to the...

From her childhood in Romania, in a village 'as small as a thimble on the edge of the world', through to life in exile in Germany, Herta Muller's story unspools...

Thomas Cromwell's life has made gripping reading for millions through Hilary Mantel's bestselling novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies . But who was the real Cromwell? In this...

The book titled War in the Shadows by the author Peter Medcalf. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Monty, a Life in Photographs: Family, Life and Times of Field Marshal by the author Brian Montgomery. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The book titled Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin by the author Dusko Doder. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The story of D-Day, the turning point in World War 2, has been well documented. But this lavishly illustrated book and accompanying epic TV drama will turn all preconceptions of...

The first history of modern Russia from 1991 to the present day by one of the leading historians of the 20th century USSR and Russia. In 1991, in a huge...

The book titled Life in World War II by the author Philip B. Kunhardt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the summer of 1940, all Britain was convinced that the Germans would invade. The Germans had, in five weeks, crushed France and taken Belgium. Now they stood on the...

Nelson Mandela is one of the world's most revered public figures, a man synonymous with the long, bitter struggle to rid South Africa of an apartheid regime and replace it...

A blend of personal memoir, oral history and biography, a story of lives caught up in the sweep of history, the resulting book encompasses the Holocaust in an illuminating way....

With the call to action stations of August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson. Geoffrey Bennett's classic history of the Great War at...

One of our most acclaimed and successful historians brings a colossal figure of British history vividly to life This is the man, not the legend . . . Thomas Becket...

"A first-class popular history of the war, lively, entertaining, and continuously informative."--"Publishers Weekly" "His ability to recreate the emotions of war makes this monumental work a living history."--"Booklist"

The book titled Monty: The Lonely Leader 1944-1945 by the author Alistair Horne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Chipping and scuffing to DJ.In a world where violence is a profession and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFirst published in 1867, Ivan Turgenev's Smoke is a masterwork of Russian realism that cuts to the heart...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the front lines of a world at war comes The Wounded Don't Cry, a gripping first-hand account by Quentin Reynolds, one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFor aviation historians, aircraft enthusiasts, and military researchers alike, British Military Aircraft Serials: 1911-1979 stands as one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the skies above wartime Britain, a young RAF pilot composed what would become one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the close of the First World War, the boundaries of a shattered Europe hung in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the first naval shots fired in the Pacific during the Great War to the ferocious sea battles of World War II, Of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA landmark in Australian military and social history, Fathers Anonymous chronicles the remarkable legacy of the Legacy movement...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the harrowing final chapter of one of World War II's most brutal sagas, thousands of Allied prisoners of war who survived...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the freezing skies above the Korean Peninsula, a war-weary Navy pilot must confront the brutal, unforgiving calculus of modern...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the thick of the world's most devastating conflict, one man armed with nothing but a notepad and an unflinching...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the frontlines of the Second World War to the turbulent corridors of post-war diplomacy, Wars Without End chronicles the remarkable life of Eric Downton,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pioneering days of aviation to the jet age, The History of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators 1929–1964 chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the brutal trenches of the Western Front to the hard-won armistice of 1918, Through Mud...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the formative decades between the two World Wars, a small band of visionary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the thundering roar of propeller-driven warbirds to the supersonic scream of modern jets, Flight...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn September 1944, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden — the largest airborne assault in history — with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew military operations have shaped the modern world as profoundly as the Allied landings on the...

Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: New in original plastic wrap. "Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815-1871" is a work of political and economic history that chronicles...