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Island on the Edge of the World : the Story of St Kilda
Author: Charles Maclean
ISBN: 9781841957555

For more than 2000 years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Its society was viable, even Utopian; but in the nineteenth century the island was discovered by missionaries,... [view more]

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Farewell Britannia
Author: Simon Young
ISBN: 9780297852261

A Month at the Front The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
Author: Unknown
ISBN: 9780522854138

Discovered at the bottom of a box of books recently donated to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this war journal vividly tells the story of a young World War I soldier and his experiences at the Front... [view more]

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War in Focus
Author: Paul Brewer
ISBN: 9781741828146

Stunning collections of photographs from the front-lines, beautifully presented in large format paperback. PAUL BREWER began working as a picture researcher specializing in military photographs in... [view more]

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Ground Truth - 3 Para Return to Afghanistan
Author: Patrick Bishop
ISBN: 9780007317417

In April 2006 the elite 3 Para Battle Group was despatched to Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on a tour that has become a legend. All that summer the Paras were subjected to relentless Taliban attacks... [view more]

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Longitude
Author: Dava Sobel
ISBN: 9781857025491

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest, and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect time-keeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery,... [view more]

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Endless Path Celtic Myth
Author: Kevin Eyres
ISBN: 9781844517435

Enter the mysterious and romantic world of Celtic mythology in this beautiful giftbook. Through accessible, bitesize text and evocative illustration, whet your appetite for the many gods, heroes... [view more]

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White Coolies
Author: Betty Jeffrey
ISBN: 9780207196287

An account of the true story which inspired the film Paradise Road.In 1942, a group of Australian Army nursing sisters was evacuated from Malaya a few days before the fall of Singapore. Two days... [view more]

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The Diamond Conspiracy
Author: Nicolas Kublicki
ISBN: 760789207099

the last thing patrick carlton wants is a minor case over an obscure diamond mine in the rural south. orderred to settle it and move on, he instead uncovers a vast conspiricy that began in 1920,... [view more]

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P.O.W. Prisoners of War
Author: Hank Nelson
ISBN: 9780642527369

From 1942 to 1945 some 22000 Australian service personnel including seventy -one women of the Australian Army Nursing Service became prisoners -of -war of the Japanese. ... [view more]

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World War Two : Behind Closed Doors
Author: Laurence Rees
ISBN: 9780563493358

Award-winning documentary-maker and historian Laurence Rees brings us a gripping new history of World War II. From the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible, to some of the most... [view more]

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The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Speeches
Author: Brian MacArthur (Editor)
ISBN: 9780140285000

Whether is was Churchill rousing the British to war, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution, Bill Clinton defending himself against Monica Lewinsky or Tony Blair leading New Labour out of the... [view more]

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Old days, old ways
Author: Mary Gilmore (Dame)
ISBN: 0001000001202

A book of recollections. Mary Gilmore wrote OLD DAYS: OLD WAYS so that "the history of the pioneers in New South Wales and Australia generally will not be forgotten and destroyed". Set mostly in... [view more]

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Men of Air
Author: Kevin Wilson
ISBN: 9781407221304

In paperback, 435 pp. There were many ways for a combat crew to die during Bomber Command's war of 1944. Over German territory, bursts of heavy flak could tear the wings from their planes in a split... [view more]

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Territory
Author: Ernestine Hill
ISBN: 9780207188213

Timeless because it is history, timelessly popular because it is so full of life, colour and adventure, The Territory is the story of the first hundred years of white exploration, pioneering, and... [view more]

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The Twelve Caesars
Author: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus; Michael Grant (Introduction by, Revised by); Robert Graves (Revised by, Translator)
ISBN: 9780140440720

Covering the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Dmitian, remains one of the most fascinating of all Latin histories.... [view more]

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Great Moments in Australian History
Author: Jonathan King; Geoffrey Blainey (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781742371276

'Great Moments in Australian History' presents an exciting collection of stories about the most colorful highlights and heroes of Australia's history. Pioneering a fresh approach, award-winning... [view more]

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Unholy Babylon
Author: Adel Darwish
ISBN: 9780312065317

This thoroughly researched and dramatic account is an Arab's viewpoint of how the West was maneuvered into fueling Saddam's and Iraq's rise to power in the Middle East.... [view more]

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Of Nautilus and Eagles
Author: Peter C. Firkins
ISBN: 0726928623

This book traces the early conflicts of opinion between the Australian colonies as to whether there was a need to establish colonial navies when the might of the British fleet guaranteed protection... [view more]

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The Australian People and the Great War
Author: Michael McKernan
ISBN: 0170057658

The battlefied bravery of the Australian soldier in the First World War is legendary. The Australian People and the Great War tells of the experiences of Australian men, women and children away from... [view more]

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