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The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

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Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

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Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
People of the First Crusade: The Truth about the Christian-Muslim War Revealed

People of the First Crusade: The Truth about the Christian-Muslim War Revealed

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Author: Michael Foss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In this work Michael Foss casts new light on the reality of and motives behind the Crusades in general,...
Bombs and Barbed Wire: One Man's Great Escape

Bombs and Barbed Wire: One Man's Great Escape

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Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot...
Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I

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...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II

Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II

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Author: Peter Eisner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War...
Return to Victory: MacArthur's Epic Liberation of the Philippines

Return to Victory: MacArthur's Epic Liberation of the Philippines

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Author: James P. Duffy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 It had been two and a half difficult years since General Douglas MacArthur had reluctantly obeyed a presidential order to...
Law in War: Freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War

Law in War: Freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War

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Author: Dr Catherine Bond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 During the Great War law was used in everyday life as a tool to discriminate, oppress, censor and deprive many...
Edith Blake's War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War

Edith Blake's War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War

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Author: Krista Vane-Tempest Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 In the early hours of 26 February 1918, the British hospital ship Glenart Castle steamed into the Bristol Channel, heading for...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

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Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

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Author: Chris Wallace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Riveting." --The New York Times * "Propulsive." --Time * "Reads like a tense thriller." --The Washington Post...
Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy

Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy

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Author: John Prevas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 According to ancient sources, Hannibal was only nine years old when his father dipped the small boy's hand in blood and...
The Changi Camera: George Aspinall's Photographs and Memories

The Changi Camera: George Aspinall's Photographs and Memories

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Author: Tim Bowden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In THE CHANGI CAMERA, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of...
Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany

Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany

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Author: Helene Munson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker's, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This...
Mercenaries to Conquerors

Mercenaries to Conquerors

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Author: Paul Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in...
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day

Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day

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Author: Giles Milton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown...
Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History

Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History

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Author: Saul David Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 453 The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military...
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts

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Author: Scott Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 "Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands...
Voices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars

Voices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars

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Author: John Walter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and...
Hitler's Hangmen: The Secret German Plot to Kill Churchill

Hitler's Hangmen: The Secret German Plot to Kill Churchill

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Author: Brian Lett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Before and after the outbreak of the Second World War there were sizeable Fascist groups active in Britain, working to overthrow...
Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.

Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.

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Author: Craig Stockings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The South African War - or Boer War - running from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 -was the largest...
If This Is A Man/The Truce

If This Is A Man/The Truce

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945

Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945

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Author: Lee Eric Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 In the final days of World War II in Europe, Georgians serving in the Wehrmacht on Texel island off the Dutch...
The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

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Author: Norman Ohler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "A detailed and meticulously researched tale... that reads like a thriller."--New York Times Book Review From the New York Times best-selling...
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - A New York Times Bestseller

The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - A New York Times Bestseller

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Author: Judy Batalion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power' Philippe Sands 'A fascinating history about a little-known group who...
War in the Pacific: Storm Approaching 1931 - 1941

War in the Pacific: Storm Approaching 1931 - 1941

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Author: Peter Harmsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories...
The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right

The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right

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Author: Enzo Traverso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to...
Malice Aforethought: A History of Booby Traps from the First World War to Vietnam

Malice Aforethought: A History of Booby Traps from the First World War to Vietnam

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Author: Ian Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 War has always provided a stimulus to technological development, and throughout the twentieth century this new technology was harnessed to produce...
Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History

Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History

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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique...
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin

God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin

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Author: Jeffrey Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead...
Teddy Sheean VC: A Selfless Act of Valour

Teddy Sheean VC: A Selfless Act of Valour

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Author: Doctor Tom Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 366 No-one will ever know what made him do it. In 1942, 18-year-old Edward "Teddy" Sheean was one of the youngest...
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

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Author: Blaine Harden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

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Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe - 1942-1943

War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe - 1942-1943

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Author: Peter Harmsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories...
Pathfinder, 'Kriegie' and Gumboot Governor: The Adventurous Life of Sir James Rowland AC, KBE, DFC, AFC

Pathfinder, 'Kriegie' and Gumboot Governor: The Adventurous Life of Sir James Rowland AC, KBE, DFC, AFC

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Author: Sir James Rowland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 520 A descendant of early pioneers of New South Wales, James Rowland combined a thirst for adventure with a strong sense...
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

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Author: Anthony R. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one...
Fear and the Freedom

Fear and the Freedom

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Author: Keith Lowe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and...
Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe

Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe

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Author: John Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send...
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

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Author: Norman Ohler (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out...
The Truth About Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation

The Truth About Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation

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Author: Christopher Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. The Truth About Tesla sets the record straight. Nikola Tesla was...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A...
Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945

Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945

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Author: Saul David Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of...
Spies, Saboteurs and Secret Missions of World War II

Spies, Saboteurs and Secret Missions of World War II

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Author: Tony Matthews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 406 What kind of courage does it take for an ordinary married couple to confront the Nazi regime of Hitler's vicious Third...
Desperate Valour: Triumph at Anzio

Desperate Valour: Triumph at Anzio

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Author: Flint Whitlock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The Allied landings at Anzio, on the Italian coast, six months before the Normandy invasion were intended as an "end run"...
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

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Author: Stephen Kinzer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the...
Of Living Valour: The Story of the Soldiers of Waterloo

Of Living Valour: The Story of the Soldiers of Waterloo

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Author: Barney White-Spunner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 For the first time a modern British historian tells the story of the against-the-odds triumph through the accounts of the regimental...
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life

Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life

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Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell's...