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The Path of Light: Walking to Auschwitz
'A formidable achievement' - Rory Stewart 'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' - Observer 'Profound [and] compelling' - Spectator 'A noble endeavour' - New Statesman In 2020, Anthony Seldon, inspired by a fallen...
Surrealism
The character of Surrealism had been crystallizing over the previous five years when, in 1924, Andre Breton's Manifeste du Surrealisme defined the word. As conceived in those early days it...
Among the Headhunters: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival
Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle, deep within Japanese-held territory. Among the...
Journey of No Return: Five German Speaking Literary Exiles in Britain,
$20.00 AUD
Among the 70,000 refugees from Nazi Germany who had entered Britain by 1939 were many intellectuals of the Weimar era. This book tells the story of five emigre writers, three...
Patton's Third Army at War
$50.00 AUD
The book titled Patton's Third Army at War by the author George Forty. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth
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A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson
Gentle, modest and handsome, a fine poet, proficient in nine languages, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made an unlikely soldier. The elder of two sons of a formidable family of writers...
B. Traven: A Vision of Mexico (Latin American Silhouettes)
Author of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and other popular novels about Mexico, B. Traven surrounded his identity with mysteries designed to confound biographers. Now Heidi Zogbaum has produced...
Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane
Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of the most notorious. On...
The Searchers: Radio Intercept in Two World Wars
The Robert Harris novel/film ENIGMA has popularised the subject of code-breaking and military intelligence as never before. Yet the ULTRA secret -- the Allied 'breaking' of the German 'Enigma' code...
Lest We Forget: War and Peace in 100 British Monuments
A moving account of how war is remembered - and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David...
Unbroken
The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean....
Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes: The Secrets of Bletchley Park
$60.00 AUD
A compelling first-hand account of Britain's battle to crack the German codes Clearly demonstrates the methods used for cracking codes The first memoir detailing life at Bletchley Park's German Air...
Secret Days: Codebreaking in Bletchley Park
Lord Briggs has long been regarded as one of Britain's most important historians. However, until the publication of this remarkable book, he had never written about his time at Bletchley...
Other People's Children
A story of complicated families and a wartime secret that ripples down through the generations from a writer of exceptional talent. Tommaso is just about making it work: travelling abroad...
The Bureau of Unknown Fates: A heartbreaking novel about WWII's
Sometimes when you are looking for the dead, you find the living. When Irene joins the International Tracing Service, she becomes consumed by a singular obsession: returning the belongings confiscated...
Dunkirk: From Disaster to Deliverance - Testimonies of the Last
When Churchill made one of the most inspiring speeches of the 20th century - 'we will fight them on the beaches' - he was giving thanks for the miracle of...
Major Hashida's Notebook: A Japanese spy's mission to Australia in
'An ingenious piece of historical reconstruction. It reads like a spy thriller.' Tom Gilling, author of Start Digging, You Bastards! In January 1941, the dapper, slightly built Major Hashida arrived...
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink
$12.00 AUD
From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything , this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the...
D-Day: From the Normandy Beaches to the Liberation of France
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The book titled D-Day: From the Normandy Beaches to the Liberation of France by the author Stephen Badsey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Frontline and Experimental Flying With the Fleet Air Arm
The spectacle of Alan Cobham's Flying Circus and the Fleet at anchor in Weymouth inspired the author's lifelong passion for airplanes, flying and the Royal Navy . World War Two...
War in the Shadows
$12.00 AUD
The book titled War in the Shadows by the author Peter Medcalf. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Monty, a Life in Photographs: Family, Life and Times of Field Marshal
$15.00 AUD
The book titled Monty, a Life in Photographs: Family, Life and Times of Field Marshal by the author Brian Montgomery. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
D-Day
The story of D-Day, the turning point in World War 2, has been well documented. But this lavishly illustrated book and accompanying epic TV drama will turn all preconceptions of...
Life in World War II
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The book titled Life in World War II by the author Philip B. Kunhardt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Operation Sea Lion: The German Plan to Invade Britain, 1940
In the summer of 1940, all Britain was convinced that the Germans would invade. The Germans had, in five weeks, crushed France and taken Belgium. Now they stood on the...
Konin: A Quest
A blend of personal memoir, oral history and biography, a story of lives caught up in the sweep of history, the resulting book encompasses the Holocaust in an illuminating way....
Delivered from Evil: Saga of World War Two
$15.00 AUD
"A first-class popular history of the war, lively, entertaining, and continuously informative."--"Publishers Weekly" "His ability to recreate the emotions of war makes this monumental work a living history."--"Booklist"
Monty: The Lonely Leader 1944-1945
$20.00 AUD
The book titled Monty: The Lonely Leader 1944-1945 by the author Alistair Horne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Wounded Don't Cry
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the front lines of a world at war comes The Wounded Don't Cry, a gripping first-hand account by Quentin Reynolds, one...
John Magee: The Pilot Poet
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the skies above wartime Britain, a young RAF pilot composed what would become one of the most...
Of Nautilus And Eagles: History Of The Royal Australian Navy
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the first naval shots fired in the Pacific during the Great War to the ferocious sea battles of World War II, Of...
Lights Of Freedom
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the height of the Second World War, when the fate of Western civilization hung in the balance,...
Return From The River Kwai
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the harrowing final chapter of one of World War II's most brutal sagas, thousands of Allied prisoners of war who survived...
War Correspondent: The Story Of Quentin Reynolds
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the thick of the world's most devastating conflict, one man armed with nothing but a notepad and an unflinching...
Wars Without End
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the frontlines of the Second World War to the turbulent corridors of post-war diplomacy, Wars Without End chronicles the remarkable life of Eric Downton,...
The Left Handshake: The Boy Scout Movement During The War 1939-1945
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the shadow of the Second World War, few organisations demonstrated greater resilience and moral courage than the...
Flight Into The Ages: Incredible True Stories Of Aircraft On The Earth Plane And Beyond (SIGNED)
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the thundering roar of propeller-driven warbirds to the supersonic scream of modern jets, Flight...
A Bridge Too Far
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn September 1944, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden — the largest airborne assault in history — with...
Overlord Coastline: A History Of D-Day With Special Emphasis On What Can Be Seen Today
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew military operations have shaped the modern world as profoundly as the Allied landings on the...
The Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939-1945
$25.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedThe Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939–1945 stands as one of the most powerful and enduring collections of Second...
Air Force Poetry
$65.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dj - chipped and worn with some loss price clipped. Binding slightly shaky -...
Day Of Infamy
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOn the morning of December 7, 1941, the world changed forever — and Walter Lord's Day of Infamy...
Unit 731: The Japanese Army's Secret Of Secrets
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: DJ warped. Remains in clean condition. Behind the carefully guarded perimeters of a remote Manchurian compound,...