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Operation Hurricane: The story of Britain's first atomic test in
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WA PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDS - BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARGARET MEDCALF AWARD 2024 'I remember seeing a flash, I turned around and heard...
The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Family
Leonid Eitingon was a KGB killer who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War, and, crucially,...
Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of
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Not long after 2 P.M. on June 21, 1943, nine men met in secret at a doctor's house in Lyons. They were summoned by the head of the French resistance,...
Waiting For Hitler
In late summer 1940, Hitler told his army to prepare to invade England. The nation waited, breathless with tension, for the Nazi threat to become real. Acclaimed author Midge Gillies...
Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II's
The thrilling, untold story of one of the greatest heists in history: the clandestine capture of a Nazi U-boat at the climax of World War II, an incredible feat that...
The Angels of Englemere Wood: The uplifting and inspiring true story
The uplifting true story of a London children's home dispatched to rural England during the Blitz, the Lady in Waiting who opened up her home, and the matron who changed...
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance
Wry, off-beat and subversive - a Jewish family memoir like no other, from the author of the cult classic novel Submarine Joe Dunthorne's great-grandfather was a family legend: the eccentric...
Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4078
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Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4078 A rich, varied mix of cultural writing, memoir and social commentary. Books on race, identity, the body, deafness, ballet, the internet, menopause, photography and...
Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4079
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Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4079 A wonderfully broad box of non-fiction — popular science, sharp cultural writing, business, nature, humour and self-help all represented. Hawking on cosmology, Bryson on...
Secondhand History & Military Bargain Book Box SP4076
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Secondhand History & Military Bargain Book Box SP4076 Twenty books spanning ancient history, WWII, military history, classical civilisation and modern political biography. From the Greeks and Romans to the Dambusters,...
Victorian Visionaries
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn an era defined by industry, empire, and radical transformation, Victorian Visionaries illuminates the extraordinary minds who dared to imagine a different...
The Concentration Camp And Other Stories
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of barbed wire and human suffering, Geoffrey C. Bingham's The Concentration Camp and...
Rural Economy And Country Life In The Medieval West
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of economic history and social anthropology, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West...
Guide To Australian War Memorial
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodNestled in the heart of Canberra, the Australian War Memorial stands as one of the most significant national monuments in the world, and this official guide...
A Brief Survey Of Austrian History
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the ancient Roman frontier settlements along the Danube to the dazzling twilight of the Habsburg Empire, A Brief Survey of Austrian History presents a sweeping...
Jeep
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew vehicles in history have earned a legend as enduring and fiercely loyal as the Jeep — a machine born from the desperate urgency...
Edwardian Radicalism 1900-1914: Some Aspects Of British Radicalism
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Britain stood at a crossroads — caught between the dying embers of Victorian...
The Great Shame: A Story Of The Irish In The Old World And The New
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew sagas in modern history carry the weight of suffering, resilience, and reinvention that defines the Irish diaspora...
Victoria R.I.
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the heart of one of history's most formidable reigns stands a woman of startling contradictions — a young girl who ascended the throne at eighteen...
The Great Rebellion: The King's War 1641-1647
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedIn the turbulent decades of the seventeenth century, England tore itself apart in one of the most dramatic and consequential conflicts in its history — and...
Napoleon
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew figures in Western history cast as long a shadow as Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican-born general whose military genius and relentless ambition reshaped the map of...
Wa's Pearl Harbour: The Japanese Raid On Broome
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the morning of 3 March 1942, Japanese Zero fighters swept over the remote pearling port of Broome,...
Australian War Memorial: Canberra
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStanding as one of the most visited and revered institutions in the nation, the Australian War...
Modern Europe Since 1815
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the ashes of the Napoleonic Wars to...
A World History
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the first stirrings of prehistoric civilization to the complex, interconnected world of the twentieth century, A World History presents an ambitious and panoramic sweep...
The Reason Why
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the annals of military catastrophe, few episodes are as haunting or as grimly spectacular as the Charge of the Light Brigade, and Cecil...
Roman Art And Architecture
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the grandeur of the Pantheon to the sweeping arches of the Colosseum, Roman Art and Architecture presents...
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Advanced Reading Copy.From the rubble of World War II to the fractured politics of the twenty-first century, Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 chronicles seven...
Stalin: Vol. I: Paradoxes Of Power, 1878-1928
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Advanced Reading Copy.Before he became the most feared ruler of the twentieth century, Joseph Stalin was simply Soso — a cobbler's son...
Industry And Empire: The Pelican Economic History Of Britain, Volume 3
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the modern world, Britain stood as the forge of a global empire — and...
Elizabeth The Queen
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in history command the imagination quite like Elizabeth I — a woman who seized the throne...
Children Of England: The Heirs Of King Henry Viii
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew dynasties in history have gripped the popular imagination as fiercely as the Tudors, and at the heart...
Cosima
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the rugged, tradition-bound landscape of nineteenth-century Sardinia, a young girl named Cosima burns with an ambition that...
H.M.S. Captain
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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the annals of Victorian naval disaster, few tragedies are as haunting or as preventable as the...
Guy Gibson Vc
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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most celebrated airmen of the Second World War, Wing Commander Guy Gibson...
White Coolie
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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew survival accounts capture the full horror and resilience of the human spirit quite like...
The South West Pacific 1941-45
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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingIn the steaming jungles and island chains stretching from New Guinea to the Philippines, one of the most gruelling and strategically...
Admiralty Manual Of Seamanship: Volume I
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe sea demands absolute knowledge — and for generations of Royal Navy sailors, the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship,...
The Age Of Ideologies: A History Of Political Thought In The Twentieth Century
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previousowner inscription to FEP and annotation throughout.In an era defined by clashing visions of human society, Karl Dietrich Bracher's The...
A History Of Greek Philosophy: Volume Two: The Presocratic Tradition From Parmenides To Democritus
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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of reason and mythology, the Presocratic philosophers of ancient Greece dared to...
No Exit From Vietnam
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the height of one of the most controversial and devastating conflicts of the...
The Greek Stones Speak: The Story Of Archaeology In Greek Lands
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew civilizations have left behind a legacy as enduring or as breathtaking as that of ancient Greece, and The Greek...
Alistair Maclean: H.M.S. Ulysses; The Guns Of Navarone; South By Java Head; Where Eagles Dare; Force Ten From Navarone
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew names in the canon of twentieth-century adventure writing command as much authority as Alistair MacLean, and this omnibus edition brings together...
Australia & The Great War
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the guns of August 1914 shattered the...
North Queensland Wwii 1942-1945
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the threat of Japanese invasion loomed over Australia's northern shores, North Queensland became one of the most...
Broome's One Day War: The Story Of The Japanese Raid On Broome 3Rd March 1942
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the morning of 3rd March 1942, the remote pearling town of Broome, Western Australia, was shattered by...
White Coolies
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most harrowing and ultimately triumphant accounts of survival to emerge from the Second World War, White Coolies is the...
Madonnas And Magdalens: The Origins And Development Of Victorian Sexual Attitudes
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn an era defined by corsets, calling cards, and carefully cultivated moral rectitude, the Victorian age harboured a turbulent and contradictory inner life —...