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Kamala's Way

Kamala's Way

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A revelatory biography of the first Black woman elected Vice President of the United States-and in a history-making turn of events the Democrats' 2024 Presidential nominee-charting how the daughter of...
Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost

Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost

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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...
War Stories

War Stories

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Mr and Mrs Gould: The extraordinary true story about the life of Australia's greatest naturalists and explorers, from the award winning bestselling author and LONGLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2025

Mr and Mrs Gould: The extraordinary true story about the life of

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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...
Banjo: The remarkable life of Australia's greatest storyteller, most beloved poet and author of The Man From Snowy River, from the bestselling author of MRS KELLY, BANKS and SISTER VIV

Banjo: The remarkable life of Australia's greatest storyteller, most

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The remarkable life of Australia's greatest storyteller 'A detailed and sympathetic account ... fascinating' - The AustralianA.B. 'Banjo' Paterson is rightly recognised as Australia's greatest storyteller and most celebrated poet,...
Young Hawke: The making of a larrikin - a biography of one of the most influential and recognisable Australians from the award-winning historian and author of CURTIN and CHIFLEY

Young Hawke: The making of a larrikin - a biography of one of the most

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From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, the iconic PM. The new biography from award-winning historian David Day sheds fresh light on the formative...
Max Dupain: A portrait of the new landmark biography of Australia's most iconic photographer from leading curator and award-winning author of OLIVE COTTON

Max Dupain: A portrait of the new landmark biography of Australia's

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  From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photographer of the 20th century and creator of many iconic...
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation

The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last

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"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential...
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

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'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering...
Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess

Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess

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A Spectator Best Book of the YearTrawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great...
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest

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There's no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted...
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph'On nearly every page a random...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

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'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face...
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONA New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal...
At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

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An Instant New York Times Bestseller!A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster's turbulent and consequential thirteen months in the Trump White House.At War with Ourselves is the story...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at

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'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors,...
Unleashed

Unleashed

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THE UNMISSABLE, UNVARNISHED MEMOIRS OF BORIS JOHNSONA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE' ED BALLS'SENSATIONAL' DAILY MAIL Boris Johnson has...
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor

Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack

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In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and...
Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War

Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War. The legendary 'Red Devils' were among the finest...
Normandy in the Time of Darkness: Everyday Life and Death in the French Channel Ports 1940-45

Normandy in the Time of Darkness: Everyday Life and Death in the

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This narrative history tells the story of the German occupation of Normandy (1940-44), and the Allied liberation. Following the fall of France in 1940, Normandy formed part of the Reich's...
Maximinus Thrax

Maximinus Thrax

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Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and pull fully laden wagons unaided. Such feats impressed the emperor...
Hitler's Air Defences

Hitler's Air Defences

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The first Allied bombing raid on Berlin during the course of the Second World War, took place on 7 June 1940, when a French naval aircraft dropped 8 bombs on...
The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic Battles That Saved Democracy

The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic

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The year 2022 marks 2,500 years since Athens, the birthplace of democracy, fought off the mighty Persian Empire. This is the story of the three epic battles--Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis--that...
Orwell's Roses

Orwell's Roses

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'Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening' wrote George Orwell in 1940. Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses that Orwell planted in his cottage...
The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade Captain

The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade

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Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a highly engaging, rare,...
In the Name of Italy: Nation, Family, and Patriotism in a Fascist Court

In the Name of Italy: Nation, Family, and Patriotism in a Fascist

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What was the nature of justice in Italian Fascist society? Through the lens of the case of Luigia Paulovich, a legal appeal filed against the Prefect of Trieste in 1931,...
Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement

Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement

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Why those who protested the Vietnam War must be honored, remembered, and appreciated "Hell no" was the battle cry of the largest peace movement in American history-the effort to end...
The Sister Queens: Isabella and Catherine de Valois

The Sister Queens: Isabella and Catherine de Valois

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Two sisters: born nine years apart to a mad French king during the turbulent years of the Hundred Years War, the bitter series of conflicts that set the House of...
Conflict in the Crimea

Conflict in the Crimea

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The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men - and women - who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war....
Edgehill: the Battle Reinterpreted

Edgehill: the Battle Reinterpreted

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This paperback edition of this seminal new study of a key battle of the Civil Wars re-examines one of England's most mysterious battlefields at Edgehill, and it combines the work...
Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace

Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace

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Autumn 1536. Both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are dead. Henry VIII has married Jane Seymour, and still awaits his longed-for male heir. Disaffected conservatives in England may have...
The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe

The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe

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A monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of early modern Europe The Ottomans have long been viewed as despots who conquered through...
Bomber Command: Reflections of War Volume 2 - Intensified Attack 1941-1942

Bomber Command: Reflections of War Volume 2 - Intensified Attack

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This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Command's pilots and aircrew throughout WWII. From the early wartime years when the RAF's first attempts to avenge...
Frege: A Philosophical Biography

Frege: A Philosophical Biography

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Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics set the agenda for future...
Aisne 1914: The Dawn of Trench Warfare

Aisne 1914: The Dawn of Trench Warfare

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The Battle of the Aisne fought in September 1914 introduced a new and savage mode of warfare to the soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, their French allies and to...
Orwell: A Man Of Our Time

Orwell: A Man Of Our Time

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Orwell: A Man of Our Time offers a vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, and places him and his work at the centre of the current political landscape....
Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance

Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and

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Exploring the gray zone of infiltration and subversion in which the Nazi and Communist parties sought to influence and undermine each other, this book offers a fresh perspective on the...
The Day Rommel Was Stopped: The Battle of Ruweisat Ridge, 2 July 1942

The Day Rommel Was Stopped: The Battle of Ruweisat Ridge, 2 July 1942

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Account of the battle at Ruweisat Ridge in North Africa, where Rommel was stopped. George VI's biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote "The actual turning of the tide in the...
Napoleon's Plunder and the Theft of Veronese's Feast

Napoleon's Plunder and the Theft of Veronese's Feast

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'Taking without taste, without choice, is ignorance and near vandalism.' - The French Directory to Napoleon Bonaparte, 1796 Napoleon's Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in...
Edward II the Man: A Doomed Inheritance

Edward II the Man: A Doomed Inheritance

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Edward II is one of the most controversial kings of English history. On numerous occasions he brought England to the brink of civil war. Author Stephen Spinks argues that Edward...
Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 3.1: Sources on Physics (Texts 137-223)

Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 3.1: Sources on Physics

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This volume forms part of the large international Theophrastus project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh and others. Together with volumes comprising the text and translations,...
Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945

Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945

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Despite the enduring popular image of the blitzkrieg of World War II, the German Army always depended on horses. It could not have waged war without them. While the Army's...
The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III

The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III

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'Louis Napoleon's story is certainly remarkable. Alan Strauss-Schom tells it with brio in The Shadow Emperor... This is a boldly revisionist biography... For all the corruption and repression that marked...
Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party

Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created

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"This is history told the old-fashioned way. The book is only as long as it needs to be, the adroit narrative full of heroes (Smith, Roosevelt, big-city Democratic bosses) and...
The Borgias

The Borgias

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The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family-a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners-set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.The Borgia family have...
Britain's Last Invasion: The Battle of Fishguard, 1797

Britain's Last Invasion: The Battle of Fishguard, 1797

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The history of Britain has been shaped by those who have invaded this small isle: the Romans, Vikings and Norman Conquest all moulded our society and culture. Surprisingly, the last...
Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon'

Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan

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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded...