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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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VOLUME 1 - THE PRESIDENTIAL MEMOIRS
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.
A timely book from Geoff Raby, former Australian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China. Disruption has blown the old world apart and combined with the rise of China, Trump's America First policies, division within Europe and successful defiance by authoritarian states, the emerging new order is being reshaped. How Australia must position itself for this possibly dystopian future has been the focus of this book.
In The Truth of the Palace Letters Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston reveal their meaning and significance for understanding the dismissal. The analysis of these documents and their authors throws a revealing light on the connection between the Queen in Buckingham Palace and the Governor-General in Canberra.
Coupled with newly discovered archival documents and interviews, Kelly and Bramston explain the implications of the letters for our Constitution, our democracy and the republic debate.
In looking at the life of Vida Goldstein, Australian suffragette and social reformer, Jacqueline Kent also examines how much has changed for women in parliament since 1903 and now.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- A lavishly illustrated history of nine Australian rivers and one riverine system, examining the human relationship to these waterways. From the Yarra to the Clarence, the Murray to the Snowy, the Ord to the Franklin, each river has a history of indigenous dispossession and colonial alteration. The ways we have used, imagined and changed them are many and varied, and this well-written, easily-read book details those strands of history. Fascinating! Lindy Jones
The Multifarious Mr. Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew,...
Hardback
$52.95
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Australian Women Pilots: Amazing True Stories of Women...
Paperback
$34.99
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The Long Shadow: Australia's Vietnam Veterans since...
Hardback
$49.99
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Witness: An Investigation into the Brutal Cost of Seeking...
Paperback
$34.99
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The Palace Letters: The Queen, the Governor-General,...
Paperback
$32.99
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China's Grand Strategy and Australia's Future in the...
Paperback
$34.99
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This much-loved series has been re-issued with new material. History combined with personal anecdotes and social commentary, each volume captures the recognisable spirit of the city to the satisfaction of both resident and visitor. Lindy Jones
Buy any of these 8 titles and go in the draw for the complete set - valued at $240
• In-store & Online.
• One entry per customer.
• Drawn 16 December 2020.
• Customers must be in Abbey's Rewards (free & quick to join) with email address recorded.
• Winner will be notified by email.
Courtesy of Hachette Australia, with your purchase of BREAKER MORANT you are entered into the draw to win a wonderful 2-book prize pack valued at $70, Peter FitzSimons' Mutiny on the Bounty and Burke & Wills.
• In-store & Online.
• One entry per customer.
• Drawn 16 December 2020.
• Customers must be in Abbey's Rewards (free & quick to join) with email address recorded.
• Winner will be notified by email.
Courtesy of Hachette Australia, with your purchase of MAIDEN VOYAGES you are entered into the draw to win Evans'
QUEEN BEES: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars (Pb $22.99)
• In-store & Online.
• One entry per customer.
• Drawn 16 December 2020.
• Customers must be in Abbey's Rewards (free & quick to join) with email address recorded.
• Winner will be notified by email.
Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army...
Paperback
$34.99
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Time of the Magicians: The Invention of Modern Thought,...
Hardback
$49.99
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God's Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern...
Paperback
$32.99
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The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates...
Hardback
$49.99
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The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid...
Hardback
$39.99
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Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World...
Paperback
$35.00
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries: The Remarkable (and Occasionally...
Hardback
$29.99
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The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of...
Hardback
$45.95
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The Freedom Circus: One family's death-defying act to...
Paperback
$34.99
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Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe
Paperback
$35.00
To be ordered
The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings...
Hardback
$59.99
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Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that...
Paperback
$22.99
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Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic...
Hardback
$45.95
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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the...
Paperback
$34.99
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