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August 1914
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Minor staining to fore-edge.In the sweltering summer of 1914, the great powers of Europe stumbled — with catastrophic certainty — into the...
The Guns of August: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of
Tuchman's spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war - reissued for the 2014 Centenary War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted...
The Proud Tower: A Portrait Of The World Before The War 1890-1914
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the guns of August shattered the old world forever, there existed a civilisation of breathtaking complexity, contradictions,...
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A classic history of fourteenth-century Europe, from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Guns of August The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and...
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
The author looks into the history of Western Europe between 1300 and 1450, drawing parallels with the 20th century and looks into Chaucer, Boccaccio, The Hundred Years' War, pilgrimages, plagues...
The Illuminator
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A glowing first novel that brings us "historical fiction in the grand epic manner, beautifully felt and written" It is England, in the fourteenth century -- a time of plague,...
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
A "smart, juicy, deeply reported" (Katie Couric) biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time-Barbara Walters-a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules...
Barbara Bush: A Memoir
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Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer,
The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of a world that sounds as thoroughly maniacal as it...
Audition: A Memoir
$10.00 AUD
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Frank Buchman: A Life
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Small tear on title page, otherwise fine. This authoritative biography chronicles the remarkable and often...
Barbara Cartland: An Authorised Biography
$30.00 AUD
Author: Gwen RobynsBinding: HardbackPublished: Sidgwick & Jackson., 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Sun-fading to DJ, minor foxing to page edges.Gwen Robyns's Barbara Cartland: An...
Fabian Feminist: Bernard Shaw And Woman
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of socialist politics and feminist thought stands George Bernard Shaw — playwright, provocateur, and unlikely champion of women's autonomy...
Woman Of The Inner Sea (SIGNED)
$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn the vast, sunburned heart of Australia, a woman flees the wreckage of her privileged Sydney life and disappears into the...
Secondhand Paranormal Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4097
$110.00 AUD
Secondhand Paranormal Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4097 Two beloved paranormal series in one box. Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels — gritty, darkly funny, unflinchingly adult — sit...
Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4079
$110.00 AUD
Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4079 A wonderfully broad box of non-fiction — popular science, sharp cultural writing, business, nature, humour and self-help all represented. Hawking on cosmology, Bryson on...
To Asmara (SIGNED)
$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed., 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedSet against the brutal and largely forgotten war for Eritrean independence, To Asmara transports readers into one of...
Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I
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Author: William Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America's bloodiest battle ever--World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive--and the shocking American...
Secondhand History & Military Bargain Book Box SP4076
$110.00 AUD
Secondhand History & Military Bargain Book Box SP4076 Twenty books spanning ancient history, WWII, military history, classical civilisation and modern political biography. From the Greeks and Romans to the Dambusters,...
Secondhand True Crime Bargain Book Box SP3016
$110.00 AUD
Secondhand True Crime Bargain Book Box SP3016 Sixteen true crime titles spanning Australian crime, American murder, false imprisonment, serial killers and the hidden world of Bali's drug trade. Strong Australian...
Secondhand Art Book Bargain Book Box SP4071
$90.00 AUD
Secondhand Art Book Bargain Book Box SP4071 Nine large-format books from the much-loved Time-Life "World of" series — each a thorough survey of a single master, richly illustrated throughout. A...
Secondhand Alistair MacLean Bargain Book Box SP4094
$110.00 AUD
Secondhand Alistair MacLean Bargain Book Box SP4094 Twenty-four novels from the undisputed king of the action thriller. Alistair MacLean wrote some of the most tightly plotted, propulsive novels of the...