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Jane's World Armoured Fighting Vehicles
$15.00 AUD
Author: Christopher F. FossBinding: HardbackPublished: BCA, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsA comprehensive reference book detailing various armored fighting vehicles, authored by Christopher F. Foss. It includes...
The Biography of General George S. Patton
$20.00 AUD
Author: Ian V. HoggBinding: HardbackPublished: Bison Books Corp, 1984Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biography explores the life and military career of General George S. Patton, one...
Gallipoli One Long Grave. Australians at War
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Author: Kit DentonBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1986Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsGallipoli One Long Grave provides a detailed account of the experiences of Australian soldiers...
Combat: Armed and Unarmed Combat Skills from the Official Training Manuals of the World's Elite Military Corps
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Author: Len Cacutt (ed.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Golden Press, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book compiles essential combat skills from the official training manuals of elite military forces...
Anzacs Australian at War: A Narrative History Illustrated By Photographs From the Nation's Archives
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Author: A K MacdougallBinding: HardbackPublished: The Currawong Press, 1994, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a narrative history of the Anzacs during wartime, enriched by...
All Work No Pay: Australian Civilian Volunteers in War
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Author: Melanie OppenheimerBinding: SoftbackPublished: Ohio Productions, 2002Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the contributions of Australian civilian volunteers during wartime, examining their roles and the...
Resurgam
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Author: Vincent Adams WinterBinding: HardbackPublished: Vincent Adams Winter, n,d. [c.1980]Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsResurgam is a thought-provoking exploration of themes related to resurrection and...
Endless Flight: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth
The acclaimed first English-language biography of the great European novelist and journalist, Joseph Roth, author of The Radetzky March, a writer who captured life in Europe between the wars like...
The Eagle in the Mirror: In Search of War Hero, Master Spy and Alleged
Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the story of Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest-serving spy for the British Secret...
A Brief History of Fighting Ships
This introduction to the years of the Napoleonic wars (1793 to 1815) tells the story of one of the keys to that great conflict, the Ship of the Line -...
Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England, beginning in 1688 with a revolution and ending in 1815 with a famous victory. In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers...
City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Epoque
Paris in the Belle Epoque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914...
Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of
When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy Eichler...
No Surrender in Burma: Operations Behind Japanese Lines, Captivity and
This is the extraordinary true story of a British Commando in Burma who, cut off behind enemy lines, walked 2,000 miles towards India and freedom in 1942, but was betrayed...
Arras Campaign
This is an account of the British Expeditionary Force's actions during the spring of 1917. It begins with the Allied plans for the New Year and shows how they were...
The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson,
'A gripping story of a cold-blooded murder... This is true crime at its best' Wendy Moore'Drama so addictive it should be illegal' Sam ChristerA true Victorian murder mystery...Great Yarmouth, September...
The Air Raid Book Club: The most uplifting, heartwarming story of war,
'Touching and heartwarming . . . get those tissues ready' - Jill Mansell'A warm and tender tale about the power of books' - Ruth HoganAs the bombs began to fall,...
Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War
Britain's first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true aviation hero of the Battle of Britain.Often eclipsed by...
Endless Flight: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth
The acclaimed first English-language biography of the great European novelist and journalist, Joseph Roth, author of The Radetzky March, a writer who captured life in Europe between the wars like...
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the...
The Lancaster Story: True Tales of Britain's Legendary Bomber
The epic story of the RAF's legendary heavy bomber: the Avro LancasterThe Lancaster Story takes readers on a remarkable journey through the history of an aviation icon. Between its introduction...
The Long Road to Lavender Cottage
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Tales of Lancasters and Other Aircraft: Dangerous Skies in the Second World War
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Peter's Wars: A Memoir
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Marcel Caux: A Life Unravelled
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Letters from Lavender Cottage: Hastings in WWII and Austerity - A Biography
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Raiders: World War Two True Stories
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The Oarsmen: The Remarkable Story of the Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace
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Somme Mud
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The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy.
'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind....
The Little Princesses: The extraordinary story of the Queen's
In little more than fifty years the regard with which the Royal Family are held has changed out of all recognition. Their private lives are now the stuff of soap...
Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War
Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't for the birds, what a...
The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present
'A triumph' INDEPENDENT'A thought-provoking and indispensable book' DAILY MAIL'An instant classic ... I have been reading it with unalloyed admiration and delight' EVENING STANDARDRoy Strong has written an exemplary introduction...
On the Edge: Ireland's off-shore islands: a modern history
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONSIDE NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018The islands off the coast of Ireland have long been a source of fascination. Seen as repositories of an ancient Irish...
One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper
This highly revelatory book, based on original research and completely new analysis, presents a compelling new suspect as the most notorious serial killer of all time. Using a different analytical...
The Lancaster Story: True Tales of Britain's Legendary Bomber
The epic story of the RAF's legendary heavy bomber: the Avro LancasterThe Lancaster Story takes readers on a remarkable journey through the history of an aviation icon. Between its introduction...
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
In the long run, we're all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been...
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker: The story of Britain
At the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles.The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to the...
Queen Elizabeth II
Rod Green explores the personal and political intrigues that have dogged the House of Windsor, including the Queen's fascinating relationships with prime ministers from Winston Churchill and Antony Eden to...
The Last Secrets of Anne Frank: The Heartbreaking Story of Her Silent
'DEVASTATING' Daily Mail'FASCINATING' Daily Telegraph'POIGNANT' TLSThe extraordinary story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank's closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret Annex. Bep Voskuijl was just twenty-three...
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist...
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.A group of...
Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived
FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the...
Architecture at the End of the Earth: Photographing the Russian North
Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely...
Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish
The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts of Passion, Brian D. Bunk argues that propaganda related to...
Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History
Harriet Tubman is one of America's most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History tells the fascinating story of...
Three Napoleonic Battles
This narrative account of three Napoleonic battles adheres rather closely to the Aristotelian configuration of evolving tragedy. The historian succeeds in presenting herein events and character not only in historical...