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HISTORY HERALD represents the vast history book catalogue at Abbey's Bookshop, 131 York Street, Sydney.
We are Australia's specialist bookstore for history and archaeology. Australian History, World & Ancient History, Military & Maritime History, Art History, Roman, Greek, Egyptology - whatever your reading or research interests are, we have books sourced from publishers large and small, and from university presses across the globe.
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Grantlee Kieza tells the inspiring story of the nursing hero, Sister Viv, who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others.
Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-six when Japanese soldiers marched her and her fellow nurses into the shallow waters of a remote beach to be executed.
Peter Fitzsimons' latest release is about the bravery and courage of the 800 men and their horses who galloped across open country on the 31st of October near the town of Beersheba.
Hugh Tranter delves into the history of communication in Australia and the role the nation has played in significant events such as the moon landing and the Apollo 13 crisis.
Brett Mason's book is a historical account of the Australian, Lt Reg Evans who saved the life of a young JFK after a US torpedo boat he was commanding in the Solomon Islands was rammed by a Japanese destroyer.
Black Duck
A Year at Yumburra
Paperback
$34.99
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The Diggers of Kapyong
The story of the Aussies who changed...
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$34.99
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Too Many Battles For One Man
Captain William Valentine Herbert,...
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$29.99
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Girt by Sea
Re-Imagining Australia's Security...
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$36.99
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Fight for Liberty and Freedom
The origins of Australian Aboriginal...
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$29.95
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Flight of an Eagle
The Dreaming of Ruby Hammond
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$39.95
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Crimes of the Cross
The Anglican Paedophile Network...
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$34.99
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The Nameless Names
Recovering the Missing Anzacs
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$39.99
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The Monster Specimen
A Veritable Wall of Gold 5 Billion...
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$40
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Bad Cop
Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics:...
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$27.99
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Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!
The Lindt Cafe Siege
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$35
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Alan Joyce and Qantas
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$36.99
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The Lucky Country
Amazing Australian Tales of Pure...
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$32.99
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Killing for Country
A Family Story: Winner of the 2024...
Paperback
$39.99
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Beating France to Botany Bay
The Race to Found Australia
Hardback
$44.95
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My Darlinghurst
Paperback
$49.99
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The Menzies Watershed
Liberalism, Anti-communism, Continuities...
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$50
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Right Story, Wrong Story
Adventures in Indigenous Thinking...
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$35
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Innovation
Knowledge and Ingenuity (#7 First...
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$24.99
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The Consultancy Conundrum
The Hollowing Out of the Public...
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$19.95
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The Eagle in the Mirror
In Search of Australian War Hero,...
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$34.99
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Towards Reproductive Justice
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$19.95
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Desert Diggers
Writings From a War Zone 'Somewhere...
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$32.99
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The Long Lede Anthology
Stories That Want To Be Told
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$29.99
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The Echidna Strategy
Australia's Search for Power and...
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$32.99
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The Killer's Game
Murder, Lies and Stolen Lives
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$32.99
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Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia
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$34.99
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The Man Next Door
And Other True Stories of War and...
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$32.95
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Griffith Review 79
Counterfeit Culture
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$27.99
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W. E. H. Stanner
Selected Writings
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$34.99
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Griffith Review 83
Past Perfect
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$27.99
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The Devil's Butterfly
Hunting Australia's first serial...
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$32.99
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Bee Miles
Australia's Famous Bohemian Rebel...
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$34.99
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Her Sunburnt Country
The Extraordinary Literary Life...
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$55
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Rum Hospital to Parliament
The Story of New South Wales Parliament...
Hardback
$50 $25
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Griffith Review 82
Animal Magic
Paperback
$27.99
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The China-Australia Migration Corridor
History and Heritage
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$40
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Iwantja
An exuberant new movement in contemporary...
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$79.99
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The Great Housing Hijack
The hoaxes and myths keeping prices...
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$34.99
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Some People Want to Shoot Me
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$35.99
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Australia's Looming Energy Crisis
Can We Keep the Lights on?
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$40
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Lifeboat
Disability, Humanity and the NDIS:...
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$27.99
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2023 - A Year of Consequence
Essays that Got the World Talking...
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$29.99
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Exploring Hidden Sydney
The Secret Histories Behind Over...
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$34.99
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The Sinking of HMAS Sydney
How Sailors Lived, Fought and Died...
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$32.99
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Jimmy Sharman's Boxers
Australia's Legendary Travelling...
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$32.99
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Retro Sydney
1950-2000
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$55
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Operation Postern
The Battle to Recapture Lae from...
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$32.99
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The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse
Hardback
$49.99 $39.99
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Southern Signals
Stories of innovation, challenge...
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$49.99
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Tiwi Story
Turning History Downside Up
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$39.99
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Sydney Brutalism
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$49.99
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Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain
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$44.99
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Apres la Guerre
Anzac Stories 1919 - 1939
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$34.99
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The Scrap Iron Flotilla
Five Valiant Destroyers and the...
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$24.99
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Frank Moorhouse
A life
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$34.99
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A Sense of Balance
thoughts for the political centre...
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$35.99
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Mr Todd's Marvel
How One Man Telegraphed Australia...
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$34.99
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Aboriginal Victorians
A history since 1800
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$39.99
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For Social Betterment
Social Work Education in Australia...
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$39.99
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The Dreaming Path
Indigenous Thinking to Change Your...
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$24.99
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The Road to Hell
Australian Doctors at War Vol 5...
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$70
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Rogue Corporations
Inside Australia’s Biggest Business...
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$34.99
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The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely
Australia's Prime Ministers from...
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$34.99
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Operation Hurricane
The story of Britain's first atomic...
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$34.99
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Bennelong and Phillip
A History Unravelled
Hardback
$55
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The Home Front
The never-ending war within our...
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$34.99
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Sand Talk
How Indigenous Thinking Can Save...
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$24.99
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Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs
Juju-ngaliyarlu karnalu-jana pina-pina-mani...
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$50
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Mixed Fortunes
A History of Tax Reform in Australia...
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$44.99
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At a Turning Point
Work, care and family policies in...
Paperback
$50
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Flinders
The Life, Loves and Voyages of the...
Hardback
$45
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Pocket sized but powerful, In the National Interest is a new series in the Monash University Publishing list that is focused on the challenges Australia confronts. The series informs, influences and inspires public discourse. Showcasing experts both from within Monash and beyond, these short, thought-provoking and accessible books will address the major issues of our times, from public policy to governance and government. Perfect for the thoughtful commuter or an intellectual lunch break.
Populus
Living and Dying in the Wealth,...
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$36.99
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Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments
Hardback
$59.99
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The Book of Roads and Kingdoms
From the Wonders of Imperial Baghdad...
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$36.99
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Paris
A Short History
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$34.99
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The Shadows of Socrates
The Heresy, War, and Treachery Behind...
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$49.99
Forthcoming
You can preorder this
A Walk Through Ancient Rome
A Tour of the Historical Sites That...
Paperback
$24.99
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Battleground
10 Conflicts that Explain the New...
Hardback
$39.95
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The Russian FSB
A Concise History of the Federal...
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$49.99
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Dethroned
The Downfall of India's Princely...
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$34.99
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Putin and the Return of History
How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold...
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$32.99
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Let the Bastards Come
The Battle for Kapyong Korea, 23...
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$32.99
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The Holocaust
An Unfinished History
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$26.99
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Secret Heroes of World War II
Spies Scientists and Other Heroes...
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$44.99
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Guts Glory and Blunder
Noreuil, 1917 – The Forgotten Fight...
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$32.99
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Magus
The Art of Magic from Faustus to...
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$65
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An Assassin in Utopia
The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century...
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$32.99
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Big Caesars and Little Caesars
How They Rise and How They Fall...
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$49.99
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Emperor of Rome
Ruling the Ancient Roman World
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$65 $50
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The Russian Revolution
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$59.99
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Astor
The Rise and Fall of an American...
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$34.99
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Invisible Lines
Boundaries and Belts that Define...
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$45
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Love
A Curious History in 50 Objects...
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$55
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Unruly
A History of England's Kings and...
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$36.99
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Meeting Churchill
A Life in 90 Encounters
Hardback
$39.99
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Earthly Delights
A History of the Renaissance
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$60
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The Race to the Future
The Adventure that Accelerated the...
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$34.99
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Heresy
Jesus Christ and the Other Sons...
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$36.99
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One Fine Day
Britain's Empire on the Brink
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$36.99
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The Shortest History of Italy
A Captivating Journey from the Roman...
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$27.99
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Engineers of Human Souls
Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century...
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$34.99
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The Food Adventurers
How Around-the-World Travel Changed...
Hardback
$44.99
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Beauty is in the Street
Protest and Counterculture in Post-War...
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$79.99
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Vienna
How the City of Ideas Created the...
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$51.95
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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
The World Through Medieval Eyes...
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$45
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Dark Star
Jewish Quarterly 255
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$22.99
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Young Elizabeth
Princess. Prisoner. Queen.
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$32.99
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How to Win an Information War
The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler:...
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$34.99
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Softly Softly
Capturing Hitler's Spies
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$32.99
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To the Ends of the Earth
How the Greatest Maps Were Made...
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$49.99
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A Brilliant Life
My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving...
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$34.99
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Europe and the Roma
A History of Fascination and Fear...
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$85 $75
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Queens of the Age of Chivalry
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$24.99
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My Mother and I
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$34.99
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An American Dreamer
life in a divided country
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$36.99
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Final Verdict
A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first...
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$34.99
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Out of the Darkness
The Germans, 1942-2022
Hardback
$85
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The Children of Athena
Greek writers and thinkers in the...
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$59.99
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Cleopatra
Her History, Her Myth
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$22.95
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The Picnic
An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse...
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$36.99
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The Two-Headed Whale
Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy...
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$36.99
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Templars
The Knights of Britain
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$51.95
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1974
Scenes from a Year of Crisis
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$34.99
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The Future of Geography
How Power and Politics in Space...
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$24.99
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Homer and His Iliad
Hardback
$65
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The Rest is History
Historys Most Curious Questions...
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$34.99
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The Bone Chests
Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons...
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$34.99
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
Paperback
$24.99
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The Etruscans
Lost Civilizations
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$29.99
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Crassus
The First Tycoon
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$22.95
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Mosquito
The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder...
Paperback
$36.99
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I Love Russia
Reporting from a Lost Country
Paperback
$35
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Ancient Rome's Worst Emperors
Hardback
$59.99
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The Mad Emperor
Heliogabalus and the Decadence of...
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$22.99
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Dinner in Rome
A History of the World in One Meal...
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$24.99
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The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic
Hardback
$39.95
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Lost Cities of the Ancient World
Hardback
$49.99
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Once a King
The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII
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$34.99
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Germany 1923
Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch,...
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$57.95
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The Mongol Storm
Making and Breaking Empires in the...
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$24.99
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Julian
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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$39.95
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Seven Against Thebes
The Quest of the Original Magnificent...
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$32.99
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The Britannias
An Island Quest
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$55
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Unruly
A History of England's Kings and...
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$36.99
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The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse
Hardback
$49.99 $39.99
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The Doctor of Hiroshima
His heart-breaking and inspiring...
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$32.99
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Killing for Country
A Family Story: Winner of the 2024...
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$39.99
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An American Dreamer
life in a divided country
Paperback
$36.99
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The Earth Transformed
An Untold History
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$39.99
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The Rest is History
Historys Most Curious Questions...
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$34.99
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The Stable Boy of Auschwitz
A heartbreaking true story of courage...
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$29.99
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Where the Flaming Hell Are We?
The story of young Australians and...
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$34.99
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth...
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$24.99
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The Wager
A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and...
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$34.99
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Smoke And Ashes
Opium's Hidden Histories
Paperback
$34.99
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SPQR
A History of Ancient Rome
Paperback
$27.99
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Paperback
$34.99
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Masters of the Air
How The Bomber Boys Broke Down the...
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$24.99
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Flawed Hero
Truth, lies and war crimes
Paperback
$34.99
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Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia
Paperback
$34.99
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The Lost Boys
The Untold Stories of the Under-age...
Paperback
$35
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Wanderers
A History of Women Walking
Paperback
$22.99
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The Art of War
Popular Penguins
Paperback
$14.99
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The Spy and the Traitor
The Greatest Espionage Story of...
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$24.99
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Crossing the Line
The Inside Story of Murder, Lies...
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$34.99
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100 Tales from Australia's Most Haunted Places
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$32.99
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The Fighter of Auschwitz
The incredible true story of Leen...
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$29.99
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BY PERIOD
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MILITARY HISTORY
- OSPREY Military History Books
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- OSPREY Military History Books
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