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The Marines
$180.00 AUD
Author: Anthony Edgeworth (Photographer); John De St. Jorre (Writer)Binding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Number 477 of 500. Signed by General Robert H. Barrow USMC (Retired)...
Shackleton Boys: Volume 2: True Stories from Shackleton Operators
After World War II the Royal Air Force went through a considerable downsizing, but retained an essential maritime reconnaissance role for the protection of British interests overseas. These areas were...
The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America
A rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep research Readers around...
The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided
Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2010 and the 2010 National Jewish Book Award for Biography At the end of September 1894 a charlady stole an undated and unsigned letter...
Battlefields of the Second World War
This study of war skillfully clarifies the complexities of four major World War II military campaigns: El Alamein, Monte Cassino (Italy), Operation Market Garden (of which Arnhem formed a crucial...
Sword: D-Day - Trial by Battle
'The messy, dirty, bloody reality of Operation Overlord comes alive in Sword , Hastings's portrait of the individual soldiers who risked their lives on the beaches of Normandy. He brings...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize* 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new...
Chronicles of the Great War: Western Front 1914-1918 - 80th
$12.00 AUD
An absorbing narrative, brought together with a series of special editorial features and some 400 photographs to produce a unique and thought-provoking view of the horror that was the Western...
NELSON LIFE & LETTERS OF HERO
Roger Morriss interweaves the story of Nelso n''s heroism at sea with the colourful and controversial even ts of his personal life, in particular his relations with Em ma Hamilton...
The Search for Cleopatra
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Cleopatra is wreathed by so many outsized myths that it is sometimes difficult to tell the woman from the legend. For centuries, historians have scarcely deviated from the occidental, Horatian...
Fields of Battle
Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read...
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963
SUNDAY TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR and FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL AND THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Richard...
One of Us: The Story of a Massacre and its Aftermath
On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity that shocked the world. ONE OF US is the definitive account of the...
Security Mom: An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our Homeland and
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It's time to put the "home" back into our homeland. Part prescription and part memoir, this exceptional view of America's security concerns by a leading government Homeland Security advisor, Pulitzer...
Step By Step: Political Writings: 1936-1939
In the years following the great depression, with Germany rearming and the rise of fascism across Europe being met with a policy of appeasement from the Democratic countries, Winston Churchill...
The Fruits Of War: How Military Conflict Accelerates Technology
Since man first wielded a stick in anger, war and conflict have been prime movers in the progress of science and technology. In our earliest days the impetus may have...
Bombs Away! Dramatic First-hand Accounts of British and Commonwealth
This is a unique selection of wide ranging experiences of British and Commonwealth Bomber Command aircrew during World War II. Their endearing bravery and fortitude and sometimes their despondency and...
The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark 'Billy' Billingham. They are the backbone of the British military and I...
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One
In 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, bestselling author Kate Adie shows how women emerged from...
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match
WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the...
The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest
Beatrice was the last child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was four and while Victoria came to depend on her absolutely, she also demanded...
The Invasion Before Normandy: Secret Battle of Slapton Sands
The first full account of a major disaster deliberately concealed during the Allied preparation for D-Day. Operation Tiger on Slapton Sands was one of the giant military exercises off the...
Good and Faithful Servant: Unauthorized Biography of Bernard Ingham
Bernard Ingham was Margaret Thatcher's Press Secretary from 1979 to 1990. Blunt, tough and widely feared, he was once called the most powerful man in Britain. Robert Harris, "Sunday Times"...
Captain Cook: Master of the Seas
The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was navigator and cartographer...
Australian Women at War
The book titled Australian Women at War by the author Patsy Adam-Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Japanese Swords and Armor: Masterpieces from Thirty of Japan's Most
The first book to present the amazing swords and armour belonging to the most famous Samurai in Japanese history! In Japanese Swords and Armor , Samurai sword expert Paul Martin...
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth
In the tenth century, Japan stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Sei Shonagon a young courtesan of the Heian period kept a diary, which provides...
The Ninja, The Secret History of Ninjutsu: Ancient Shadow Warriors of
Ninjutsu is the most renowned and misunderstood of all martial arts. The long history of ninjutstu is often murky; surrounded by mystery and legend. Here, for the first time, is...
Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
Winner of the 2024 Investigative Reporters and Editors Book Award Winner of the 2024 Commodore John Barry Award for Excellence in Maritime Literature #1 New York Times bestselling author Craig...
The Heart That Fed: A Father, a Son, and the Long Shadow of War
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF 2024 A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST NEW COMIC OF 2024 FOR ADULTS A brilliant, "powerful" ( Booklist ) graphic memoir, and...
Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe
Europeans are in denial. Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, they are increasingly distancing themselves from their cultural debt to the Muslim world. But while the legacy of Islam and the...
The Truth About Empire: Real Histories of British Colonialism
The Truth About Empire comes from expert historians who believe that the truth, as far as we can pinpoint it, matters; that our decades of painstaking research make us worth...
Selling Hitler: Propaganda and the Nazi Brand
Hitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything, deployed to anchor an entire regime in the confections of imagery, rhetoric and dramaturgy. The Nazis pursued...
A History of Finland
Henrik Meinander paints a brisk and bold picture of the history of Finland from integrated part of the Swedish kingdom to autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian empire, gradually transformed...
The Book of Lost Hours
'Gelfuso seamlessly blends elements of romance and fantasy into the twisty quest narrative, and packs excitement into every page. It's a delight.' Publishers Weekly Nuremberg, 1938: Lisavet Levy's watchmaker father...
Japan's Infamous Unit 731: First-hand Accounts of Japan's Wartime
This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in and around Japan during WWII. Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not...
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age. In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its...
The Lady And The Peacock
"Until she was released in November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi had been under house arrest in Burma for fourteen of the previous twenty years. She was already confined to...