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The Library: A Fragile History
$15.00
Author: Andrew Pettegree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 A history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age "Engaging [and] ambitious"...
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South
$25.00
Author: Brandon Presser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at...
The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on
Author: Kappe, Charles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British...
Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
$30.00
Author: Jared Farmer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees....
Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion
Author: Charles Townshend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 A century on - the definitive account of the events that changed Irish history forever Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been...
A Short History of the Vietnam War
Author: DK Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 A gripping and informative visual guide to one of the bloodiest conflicts in US and world history Journey through the Vietnam War;...
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex
$25.00
Author: Clare Asquith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The 1590s were black years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of...
We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
Author: Sean Mirski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of...
The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon
$20.00
Author: Maurice Samuels Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of...
Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat
$25.00
Author: Sarah Percy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat From Boudicca's rebellion...
The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
$12.00
Author: Fernanda Pirie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 From ancient Mesopotamia to today, an "exceptionally rich narrative" (Wall Street Journal) of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations...
Dog's Best Friend: A Brief History of an Unbreakable Bond
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 One of the first words we learn. Perhaps the best friend we'll have. An animal so much part of our lives...
Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France
Author: Rick Stroud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd 'This compelling and complete account...
Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea
$17.50
Author: Darrin McMahon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we...
Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That
Author: John R Bruning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy...
The Sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the
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Author: Sung-Yoon Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This first book on Kim Jong Un's increasingly powerful sister, tapped to be his successor, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest...
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi
Author: Josef Lewkowicz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The extraordinary true story of the Holocaust survivor who endured six death camps before joining the hunt for the Nazis and...
The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War
Author: Don Doyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 408 "Doyle's important book reveals why the war was more than a domestic quarrel it was also a geopolitical event that shook...
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
Author: Mary Sarotte Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the...
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American
Author: Edward E. Baptist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution,the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from...
The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and
$45.00
Author: Christian Wolmar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with...
Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us
Author: Keggie Carew Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In a Polish forest a young woman befriends a boar. An Englishman sets up home with two beavers in Saskatchewan. A...
Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over
Author: Julia Ebner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, these groups all belonged on the fringes of the political spectrum. Today, accelerated by...
The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller
Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Fascinating.' - Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' - New Scientist 'Gripping.' - Financial Times What if you had a vision that something terrible...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban
Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab. It is 2012 and...
Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War
Author: Jacky Hyams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Britain's first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true...
The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive
Author: Erik Brouwer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 **A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There...
SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 FOR FANS OF THE BBC SERIES SAS ROGUE HEROES, THIS IS THE REAL STORY OF BLAIR 'PADDY' MAYNE A Waterstones Best...
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
Author: Kate Andersen Brower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 #1 New York Times Bestseller "A revealing look at life inside the White House. . . it's Downton Abbey for...
Expertise, Authority and Control: The Australian Army Medical Corps in
Author: Alexia Moncrieff (University of Leeds) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 236 Expertise, Authority and Control charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War in the...
Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother
Author: Anne Sebba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN 'Totally riveting....
Anzac Journeys: Returning to the Battlefields of World War Two
Author: Bruce Scates (Monash University, Victoria) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Australians have been making pilgrimages to the battlefields and cemeteries of World War Two since the 1940s, from...
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
Author: Milan Kundera Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 'The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong...
The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
Author: Andrew Brown-May (University of Melbourne) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 840 Great cities deserve great encyclopedias. A city is known by its past, its characteristic virtues and troubles, and...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine - As heard
Author: Andrew Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with...
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made
Author: Matthew Gabriele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones-the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody,...
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Author: Jozsef Debreczeni Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor J zsef Debreczeni A...
War & Peace & War: Twenty years in Afghanistan
Author: Andrew North Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Andrew North has a deep empathy and understanding for Afghanistan and has seen sides of it - both good and horrifying...
Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of
Author: John Connor (University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Anzac and Empire is the remarkable story of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's lives back...
Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
Author: Mark Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, the menacing Vincigliata Castle - a very special prisoner-of-war camp converted on Mussolini's personal...
A Brilliant Life: An Unforgettable Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz and
$22.50
Author: Rachelle Unreich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A delicate, evocative story of strength and survival that turns on one of the most powerful forces in the known universe:...
Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War
Author: Meighen McCrae (Australian National University, Canberra) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 292 When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political...
A Place to Remember: A History of the Shrine of Remembrance
Author: Bruce Scates (Monash University, Victoria) Format: Leather / fine binding Number of Pages: 328 On the 11th of November 1934 over 300,000 people gathered on the slopes of Melbourne's...
The Cambridge History of Australia 2 Hardback Volume Set
Author: Alison Bashford (University of Sydney) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1536 The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history from its pre-European origins to the...
X Platoon
Author: Steve Heaney, MC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as...
The Other Olympians: A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of
Author: Michael Waters Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The story of the early athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zdenek...
My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the
Author: Friedrich Kellner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 520 This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official...