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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide
$55.00 AUD
Author: Robert Jay LiftonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Basic Books., 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor stain on fore-edge and minimal foxing to pages edge..In his most...
Backs To The Wall: The Heroic Story Of The People Of London During World War II
$20.00 AUD
Author: Leonard MosleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Random House, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Discolouration to pages edges from foxing.Leonard Mosley's "Backs To...
But Not In Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor
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Author: John TolandBinding: HardbackPublished: Random House - BCE, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsIn this compelling work of historical non-fiction, John Toland...
U-Boats Offshore: When Hitler Struck America
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Author: Edwin P. HoytBinding: HardbackPublished: Stein and Day., 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed dust jacket and fore-edges.Edwin P. Hoyt's "U-Boats Offshore: When Hitler Struck America"...
The Naval War Against Hitler
$15.00 AUD
Author: Donald MacintyreBinding: HardbackPublished: Scribner., 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Donald Macintyre's "The Naval War Against Hitler"...
A World At Arms: A Global History Of World War II
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Author: Gerhard L. WeinbergBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press., 1944Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some minor foxing on pages edge.This comprehensive work of historical non-fiction...
Miracle At Midway
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Author: Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. DillonBinding: HardbackPublished: Prange Enterprises., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor tears in title pages, slight...
MI9 Escape and Evasion 1939-1945
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Author: M.R.D. Foot & J.M. LangleyBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner's name on inside of dust jacket,...
Montgomery In Europe 1943-45: Success Or Failure?
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Author: Richard LambBinding: HardbackPublished: Buchan & Enright, Publishers, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis historical analysis, "Montgomery In Europe 1943-45: Success Or Failure?" by Richard Lamb, meticulously examines...
The Crippled Tanker
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Author: D.A. RaynerBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1960Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsD.A. Rayner's "The Crippled Tanker" is a gripping work of naval fiction that plunges...
Private Army
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Author: Vladimir PeniakoffBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1950Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Name penned on front pastedown, copyright page and...
Muhammad Ali: Fighter's Heaven 1974
Over forty years ago, Peter Angelo Simon photographed Muhammad Ali in the rural Pennsylvania sanctuary he called "Fighter's Heaven" as he prepared for the most crucial contest of his career....
Coastal Dawn: Blenheims in action from the Phoney War through to the
In 1940, the defence of Great Britain rested with a handful of volunteer aircrew, Churchill's 'few'. Overshadowed in later folklore by the more famous Spitfire and Hurricane pilots, there were...
Bounce the Rhine: The Spellmount Siegfried Line Series Volume Nine
In September, 1944, Montgomery predicted that his armies would easily 'bounce the Rhine' to strike a final blow at the heart of Hitler's Reich. However, his confidence was misplaced; nearly...
West Wall: The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line: The Spellmount
An account of the battle for the Siegfried Line in the final year of World War II, which raged for six, long, bloody months along a front of 350 miles...
Loose Ends and Extras
'Loose Ends and Extras' is the last in a trilogy of books Lord Briggs has completed since his 90th birthday in May 2011. Following on from 'Special Relationships: People and...
Battle for Sicily: Stepping Stone to Victory
On the night of 9-10 July 1943, an Allied armada launched the invasion of Sicily, a larger operation than the Normandy landings the following year. Over the next thirty-eight days,...
Donitz's Last Gamble: the Inshore U-boat Campaign 1944-45
After the June 1944 D-Day landings Donitz withdrew his U-boat wolf-packs from the Atlantic convoy war and sent them into coastal waters, where they could harass the massive shipping movements...
Spitfire Aces
The Supermarine Spitfire has achieved iconic status due to its exceptional design and the enduring bravery of its pilots during the conflicts of World War Two. Revered by pilots, this...
British Aviation: The First Half Century
The first half of the 20th century saw the birth of the airplane and its development as an instrument of war and commerce. Within five decades, contraptions barely able to...
One Day in a Very Long War: Wednesday 25th October 1944
This text gives an overview of a single day in World War II - 25th October 1944, as it was seen on all fronts. Through a succession of vignettes, showing...
D-Day to VE Day: The Final Year of the War in Europe
On the evening of Monday, 5th June 1944, the people of Britain went to bed with a sense of great events impending. They knew that any day now would come...
Windows on the War
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During World War II in Europe, the author's Field Artillery Forward Observer's telescope provided a unique view of American battles from Normandy to final victory in Germany.
Secret Spitfires: Britain's Hidden Civilian Army
They built thousands of Spitfires, hidden in garages, bus depots, sheds and barns... but nobody ever knew. With the Battle of Britain going badly, the Luftwaffe attempted to halt production...
Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War
On 26 April 1937, in the rubble of the bombed city of Guernica, the world's press scrambled to submit their stories. But one journalist held back, and spent an extra...
These Days: 'A gem of a novel, I adored it.' MARIAN KEYES
Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from...
Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime
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A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many...
No Place to Lay One's Head: with a preface from Patrick Modiano
An extraordinary story of one woman's attempt to survive the horrors of Vichy France. A bitter, beautiful and important book Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT The French sensation, now in English...
Windrush Child
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In this heart-stopping adventure, Benjamin Zephaniah shows us what it was like to be a child of the Windrush generation."The superb Voices series takes unsung heroes of the past and...
The Times Churchill
A must-read for anyone with an interest in history, politics, or the fascinating story and enduring legacy of an extraordinary figure: Winston Churchill. Widely regarded as one of the most...
Forgotten Tragedy: The Sinking of HMT "Rohna"
$80.00 AUD
This book recounts for the first time the tragic loss of more than 1,000 American soldiers in 1943 when their troopship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.
Debs at War: 1939-1945
Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them,...
These Days: 'A gem of a novel, I adored it.' MARIAN KEYES
Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from...
Backroom Boys: Personal Stories of Britain's Air War 1939-45
What was it like, making history? What sense did these individuals have of what they were doing, either at the time or later? Did they feel they were caught up...
D-Day Normandy: The Story and Photographs
Features more than four hundred American, Allied, and German photographs that present the dramatic events of the invasion from both sides.
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...
On the Road
On The Road: The NRMA'S First 75 Years tells the story of how an idea became a great Australian institution. A little over three quarters of a century ago, a...
Gazing at the Stars: Memories of a Child Survivor
Narrated with the heartbreaking innocence of a thirteen-year-old girl and the wisdom of a woman of eighty-two, Gazing at the Stars is a record of survival in the face of...
Dear Joan
Dear Joan comprises a unique series of letters between a young airman, Tony Ross, and Joan Charles, a girl he met briefly in England before he was posted to the...
Churchill 1940-1945: Under Friendly Fire
In April 1945 Churchill said to Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 'There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without...
Footsloggers: An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45
Shortlisted for the 2023 Military History Matters Book of the Year AwardThe only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to...
The Taste Of Fear: A Polish Childhood In Germany 1939-46
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Author: Zofia KrukBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson London, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Inscription to previous owner on front end-page and minor...
Bull Halsey
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Author: E. B. PotterBinding: HardbackPublished: NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsE. B. Potter's "Bull Halsey" is a definitive biography that chronicles...
The Koolama Incident
$25.00 AUD
Author: Bill LoaneBinding: PaperbackPublished: CDC Graphics, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn this compelling work of historical non-fiction, Bill Loane meticulously...
Captives Of Shanghai: The Story Of The President Harrison
$35.00 AUD
Author: David H. Grover And Gretchen G. GroverBinding: HardbackPublished: Western Maritime Press, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account chronicles the dramatic true story of the American passenger ship...