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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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Casting a search for books with RUSSIA or PUTIN in their description captures a fascinating selection (around 500 titles in stock) across non-fiction and novels.
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.
Grantlee Kieza's latest book is about the life of Matthew Flinders who put Australia on the map and was so accurate with his navigations that his charts are still used today.
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.
Bad Cop
Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics:...
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$27.99
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The Great Housing Hijack
The hoaxes and myths keeping prices...
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$34.99
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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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Some People Want to Shoot Me
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$35.99
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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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Mr Todd's Marvel
How One Man Telegraphed Australia...
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$34.99
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Mixed Fortunes
A History of Tax Reform in Australia...
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$44.99
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W. E. H. Stanner
Selected Writings
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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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Griffith Review 83
Past Perfect
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$27.99
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At a Turning Point
Work, care and family policies in...
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$50
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Australia's Looming Energy Crisis
Can We Keep the Lights on?
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$40
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For Social Betterment
Social Work Education in Australia...
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$39.99
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The Devil's Butterfly
Hunting Australia's first serial...
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$32.99
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The Dreaming Path
Indigenous Thinking to Change Your...
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$24.99
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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 Killer's Game
Murder, Lies and Stolen Lives
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$32.99
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The Road to Hell
Australian Doctors at War Vol 5...
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$70
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Killing for Country
A Family Story
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$39.99
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Lifeboat
Disability, Humanity and the NDIS:...
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$27.99
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My Darlinghurst
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$49.99
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Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!
The Lindt Cafe Siege
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$35
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Beating France to Botany Bay
The Race to Found Australia
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$44.95
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The Lucky Country
Amazing Australian Tales of Pure...
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$32.99
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Innovation
Knowledge and Ingenuity (#7 First...
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$24.99
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Alan Joyce and Qantas
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$36.99
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The Menzies Watershed
Liberalism, Anti-communism, Continuities...
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$50
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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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Right Story, Wrong Story
Adventures in Indigenous Thinking...
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$35
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Flinders
The Life, Loves and Voyages of the...
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$45
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Saving Lieutenant Kennedy
The Heroic Story of the Australian...
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$34.99
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Quarterly Essay #92
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing...
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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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Rum Hospital to Parliament
The Story of New South Wales Parliament...
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$50 $25
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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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Rogue Corporations
Inside Australia’s Biggest Business...
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$34.99
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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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The Echidna Strategy
Australia's Search for Power and...
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$32.99
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Griffith Review 82
Animal Magic
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$27.99
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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
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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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The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely
Australia's Prime Ministers from...
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$34.99
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Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia
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$34.99
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The China-Australia Migration Corridor
History and Heritage
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$40
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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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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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The Queen Is Dead
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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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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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Bennelong and Phillip
A History Unravelled
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$55
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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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The Home Front
The never-ending war within our...
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$34.99
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Griffith Review 79
Counterfeit Culture
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$27.99
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Sand Talk
How Indigenous Thinking Can Save...
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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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Iwantja
An exuberant new movement in contemporary...
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$79.99
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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.
Heresy
Jesus Christ and the Other Sons...
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$36.99
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Young Elizabeth
Princess. Prisoner. Queen.
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$32.99
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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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Queens of the Age of Chivalry
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$24.99
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The End of Enlightenment
Empire, Commerce, Crisis
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$65
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The French Mind
400 Years of Romance, Revolution...
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$29.99
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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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Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1975–90
The ultimate generation of Cold...
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$42.95
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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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La Serenissima
The Story of Venice
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$29.99
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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 Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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$34.99
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Judgement at Tokyo
World War II on Trial and the Making...
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$39.99
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Out of the Darkness
The Germans, 1942-2022
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$85
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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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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
The World Through Medieval Eyes...
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$45
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The Mongol Storm
Making and Breaking Empires in the...
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$24.99
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Dark Star
Jewish Quarterly 255
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$22.99
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Julian
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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$39.95
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The Children of Athena
Greek writers and thinkers in the...
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$59.99
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Seven Against Thebes
The Quest of the Original Magnificent...
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$32.99
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Siena
The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval...
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$29.99
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
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$24.99
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The Etruscans
Lost Civilizations
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$29.99
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Cleopatra
Her History, Her Myth
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$22.95
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Cleopatra's Daughter
Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner,...
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$26.99
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Crassus
The First Tycoon
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$22.95
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Ancient Rome's Worst Emperors
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$59.99
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The Britannias
An Island Quest
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$55
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Softly Softly
Capturing Hitler's Spies
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$32.99
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1974
Scenes from a Year of Crisis
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$34.99
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Mosquito
The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder...
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$36.99
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The Picnic
An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse...
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I Love Russia
Reporting from a Lost Country
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$35
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Atlas of Unexpected Places
Haphazard Discoveries, Chance Places...
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$24.99
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Vienna
How the City of Ideas Created the...
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$51.95
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The Weimar Years
Rise and Fall 1918–1933
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$69.99
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Hunting the Falcon
Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the...
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$39.99
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The Mad Emperor
Heliogabalus and the Decadence of...
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$22.99
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In Search Of Berlin
The Story of A Reinvented City
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$36.99
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The Future of Geography
How Power and Politics in Space...
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$24.99
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Black England
A Forgotten Georgian History
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$24.99
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Himalaya
Exploring the Roof of the World...
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$24.99
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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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Emperor of Rome
Ruling the Ancient Roman World
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$65 $50
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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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The Russian Revolution
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$59.99
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Invisible Lines
Boundaries and Belts that Define...
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$45
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Astor
The Rise and Fall of an American...
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$34.99
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Earthly Delights
A History of the Renaissance
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$60
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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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The Two-Headed Whale
Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy...
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$36.99
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The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic
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$32.95
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The Race to the Future
The Adventure that Accelerated the...
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$34.99
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Homer and His Iliad
Hardback
$65
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One Fine Day
Britain's Empire on the Brink
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$36.99
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The Rest is History
Historys Most Curious Questions...
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$34.99
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Alexandria
The City that Changed the World...
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$49.99
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Templars
The Knights of Britain
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$51.95
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Lost Cities of the Ancient World
Hardback
$49.99
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Meeting Churchill
A Life in 90 Encounters
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$39.99
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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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The Food Adventurers
How Around-the-World Travel Changed...
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$44.99
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The Bone Chests
Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons...
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$34.99
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Once a King
The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII
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$34.99
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A Nasty Little War
The Western Fight to Reverse the...
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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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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
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$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
Paperback
$39.99
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An American Dreamer
life in a divided country
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$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
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$34.99
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SPQR
A History of Ancient Rome
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$27.99
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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$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
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$34.99
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Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia
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$34.99
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The Lost Boys
The Untold Stories of the Under-age...
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$35
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Wanderers
A History of Women Walking
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$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
- Early History 500-1450
- Modern History 1450-1700
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BY REGION
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EDUCATION & CULTURAL
ARCHAEOLOGY
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- Environmental Archaeology
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MILITARY HISTORY
- OSPREY Military History Books
- Naval Forces & Warfare
- Naval Ships
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WARFARE & DEFENCE
- OSPREY Military History Books
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- Special & elite forces
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- Military intelligence
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