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A 'Duty Clear Before Us': North Beach And The Sari Bair Range, Gallipoli Peninsula, 25 April-20 December 1915
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew campaigns in modern warfare have burned themselves into a nation's consciousness as completely as the...
A History of the Middle East: 4th Edition
An updated edition of this landmark history, with brand new and up-to-date material. Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic...
An Illustrated History of the First World War
$25.00 AUD
John Keegan's The First World War was everywhere praised, and became the definitive account of the war that created the modern world. The New York Times Book Review acclaimed Keegan...
Revolt In The Desert
$45.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the vast, shimmering wilderness of the Arabian Peninsula during...
Gallipoli: The Classic Account Of The Dardanelles Campaign With A New Introduction By The Author
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most catastrophic and haunting military operations of the First World War, Allied forces were...
Sinai 1916-17: The Fight for the Suez Canal
A fascinating dive into the overlooked fight between the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force and the Ottoman Empire for control of the Suez Canal. The Battle of Romani was fought...
Sword and Scimitar
1565; In its hour of greatest need, Malta must rely upon the ancient Knights of the Order of St John for survival. Bound by the strongest ties: of valour, of...
Victory of the West: The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of
When the heavily manned fleet of the Ottoman Empire met the ships of a fragile coalition of Christian European states in 1571, the waters off the coast of Greece, they...
The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos,
Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last Christian Emperor of Constantinople and Byzantium. In 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, he was last seen fighting at the city walls,...
ANZAC Soldier vs Ottoman Soldier: Gallipoli and Palestine 1915-18
In 1915-18, ANZAC and Ottoman soldiers clashed on numerous battlefields, from Gallipoli to Jerusalem. This illustrated study investigates the two sides' fighting men. The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 pitched the...
Nations in Arms: Five Armies That Made Europe
"An engrossing study." Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year 2025 A critical study of five historical armies that offers solutions for how contemporary forces need to change to deal...
Nations in Arms: Five Armies That Made Europe
"An engrossing study." Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year 2025 A critical study of five historical armies that offers solutions for how contemporary forces need to change to deal...
The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights
The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire's Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar . In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was...
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed,...
Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs
Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, many taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written material from British, Anzac, French and Turkish, including eyewitness accounts of...
Harem: The World Behind the Veil
"I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha," writes Alev Lytle Croutier. "People around me often whispered things about harems; my own...
Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of Cyprus - shortlisted for the London
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2025 "A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian One of National Geographic 's Summer Reads 2024...
The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe
Despite the fact that its capital city and over one third of its territory was within the continent of Europe, the Ottoman Empire has consistently been regarded as a place...
Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean - shortlisted for
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 "A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian "Poetic...Compelling" -- New Statesman One of National Geographic 's...
The Turkish Embassy Letters: 1716-1718
Mary Montagu was one of the most extraordinary characters in the world. She was a self-educated intellectual, a free spirit, a radical, a feminist but also an entitled aristocrat and...
Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in
Victor Hugo meets Papillon in this effervescent memoir of war, slavery, and self-discovery, told with aplomb and humor in its first English translation. A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature,...
The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King
An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century, from the author of The Lion House Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the...
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control...
The Sultan's Yemen: 19th Century Challenges to Ottoman Rule
Author: Caesar E. FarahFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 384 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2002In the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire restored direct rule over Yemen, the resulting...