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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Come along to the SMSA to hear Hugh Mackay talk about his new book THE WAY WE ARE, interviewed by Catherine du Peloux Menagé, Artistic Director at BAD Sydney Writers Festival. FREE event.
Amidst our epidemics of loneliness, anxiety and depression in this unique post-Covid era, and as the impacts of entrenched poverty and ubiquitous technology continue to take hold, Mackay examines the major trends that are shaking the foundations of the Australian way of life.
Abbey's will be there to for you to meet Hugh, buy your copy and get it personally signed.
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.
The Way We Are
Lessons from a lifetime of listening...
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$34.99
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A Very Secret Trade
The dark story of gentlemen collectors...
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$34.99
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Human?
A Lie That’s Been Killing Us Since...
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$32.99
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The Queen Is Dead
The passionate and powerful bestselling...
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$24.99
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Australia's Lost Heroes
Anzacs in the Russian Civil War...
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$32.99
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Kindred Spirits
Plants and People
Hardback
$49.95
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Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia
A Groundbreaking Collection of Torres...
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$32.99
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If Everyone Cared Enough
Her Voice Reclaimed
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$32.99
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Griffith Review 84
Attachment Styles
Paperback
$27.99
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A Little History of the Australian Labor Party
Paperback
$27.99
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Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!
The Lindt Cafe Siege
Paperback
$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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Black Duck
A Year at Yumburra
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$34.99
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My Darlinghurst
Paperback
$49.99
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Girt by Sea
Re-Imagining Australia's Security...
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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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The Menzies Watershed
Liberalism, Anti-communism, Continuities...
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$50
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Killing for Country
A Family Story: Winner of the 2024...
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$39.99
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Exploring Hidden Sydney
The Secret Histories Behind Over...
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$34.99
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Innovation
Knowledge and Ingenuity (#7 First...
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$24.99
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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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The Nameless Names
Recovering the Missing Anzacs
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$39.99
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The Consultancy Conundrum
The Hollowing Out of the Public...
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$19.95
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Crimes of the Cross
The Anglican Paedophile Network...
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$34.99
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Towards Reproductive Justice
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$19.95
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Right Story, Wrong Story
Adventures in Indigenous Thinking...
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$35
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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 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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Fight for Liberty and Freedom
The origins of Australian Aboriginal...
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$29.95
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Bad Cop
Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics:...
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$27.99
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Desert Diggers
Writings From a War Zone 'Somewhere...
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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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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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Griffith Review 82
Animal Magic
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$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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Sand Talk
How Indigenous Thinking Can Save...
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$24.99
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Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia
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$34.99
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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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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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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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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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Rogue Corporations
Inside Australia’s Biggest Business...
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$34.99
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Bennelong and Phillip
A History Unravelled
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$55
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Mixed Fortunes
A History of Tax Reform in Australia...
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$44.99
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Alan Joyce and Qantas
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$36.99
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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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Rum Hospital to Parliament
The Story of New South Wales Parliament...
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$50 $25
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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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Retro Sydney
1950-2000
Hardback
$55
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Sydney Brutalism
Paperback
$49.99
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Aboriginal Victorians
A history since 1800
Paperback
$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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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.
The Waiting Game
The Untold Story of the Women Who...
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$34.99
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The Cleopatras
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$34.99
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Blindness
Jewish Quarterly 256
Paperback
$22.99
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The Stalin Affair
The Impossible Alliance that Won...
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$34.99
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The Shadows of Socrates
The Heresy, War, and Treachery Behind...
Hardback
$49.99
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The Light of Asia
A History of Western Fascination...
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$65
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Thorns, Lust and Glory
The betrayal of Anne Boleyn
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$36.99
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Iron and Blood
A Military History of the German-speaking...
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$39.99
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Battleground
10 Conflicts that Explain the New...
Hardback
$39.95
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A History of the World in 47 Borders
The Stories Behind the Lines on...
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$34.99
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
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$34.99
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Pox Romana
The Plague That Shook the Roman...
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$59.99
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City of Light, City of Shadows
Paris in the Belle Époque
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$34.99
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Charles III
New King. New Court. The Inside...
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$36.99
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The English Actor
From Medieval to Modern
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$22.99
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The Wager
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$24.99
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New Cold Wars
China's rise, Russia's invasion,...
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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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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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Earthly Delights
A History of the Renaissance
Hardback
$60
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Populus
Living and Dying in the Wealth,...
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$36.99
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The Race to the Future
The Adventure that Accelerated the...
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$34.99
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Emperor of Rome
Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Hardback
$65 $50
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One Fine Day
Britain's Empire on the Brink
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$36.99
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Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments
Hardback
$59.99
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Unruly
A History of England's Kings and...
Paperback
$36.99
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The Food Adventurers
How Around-the-World Travel Changed...
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$44.99
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Dethroned
The Downfall of India's Princely...
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$34.99
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Engineers of Human Souls
Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century...
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$34.99
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Beauty is in the Street
Protest and Counterculture in Post-War...
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$79.99
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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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The Russian Revolution
Hardback
$59.99
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Meeting Churchill
A Life in 90 Encounters
Hardback
$39.99
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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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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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Secret Heroes of World War II
Spies Scientists and Other Heroes...
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$44.99
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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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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
The World Through Medieval Eyes...
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$45
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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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The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic
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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Magus
The Art of Magic from Faustus to...
Hardback
$65
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Dark Star
Jewish Quarterly 255
Paperback
$22.99
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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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Europe and the Roma
A History of Fascination and Fear...
Hardback
$85 $75
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Queens of the Age of Chivalry
Paperback
$24.99
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An American Dreamer
life in a divided country
Paperback
$36.99
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Out of the Darkness
The Germans, 1942-2022
Hardback
$85
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The Future of Geography
How Power and Politics in Space...
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$24.99
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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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Julian
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
Hardback
$39.95
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Let the Bastards Come
The Battle for Kapyong Korea, 23...
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$32.99
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Guts Glory and Blunder
Noreuil, 1917 – The Forgotten Fight...
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$32.99
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Vienna
How the City of Ideas Created the...
Hardback
$51.95
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Young Elizabeth
Princess. Prisoner. Queen.
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$32.99
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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
Hardback
$22.95
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1974
Scenes from a Year of Crisis
Paperback
$34.99
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The Britannias
An Island Quest
Hardback
$55
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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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Heresy
Jesus Christ and the Other Sons...
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$36.99
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My Mother and I
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$34.99
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Final Verdict
A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first...
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$34.99
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Templars
The Knights of Britain
Hardback
$51.95
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Homer and His Iliad
Hardback
$65
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Crassus
The First Tycoon
Paperback
$22.95
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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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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: Winner of the 2024...
Paperback
$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
Paperback
$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...
Paperback
$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
Paperback
$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
- Modern History 1700-1900
- Modern History 1900-2000
- Postwar History 1945-2000
- Modern History from 2000
BY REGION
- Australasian & Pacific History
- African History
- Asian history
- British & Irish History
- European History
- History of the Americas
- Middle Eastern History
- Historical Geography
EDUCATION & CULTURAL
ARCHAEOLOGY
- Archaeological Theory
- Archaeological Methodology & Techniques
- Archaeology by Period & Region
- Biblical Archaeology
- Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology
- Egyptian Archaeology & Egyptology
- Environmental Archaeology
- Industrial Archaeology
- Landscape Archaeology
- Medieval European Archaeology
- Prehistoric Archaeology
- Underwater Archaeology
MILITARY HISTORY
- OSPREY Military History Books
- Naval Forces & Warfare
- Naval Ships
- Crusades
- English Civil War
- American War of Independence
- Napoleonic Wars
- American Civil War
- Crimean War
WARFARE & DEFENCE
- OSPREY Military History Books
- Warfare & Defence
- Theory of warfare & military science
- Land forces & warfare
- Irregular or guerrilla forces & warfare
- Naval forces & warfare
- Air forces & warfare
- Special & elite forces
- Military administration
- Defence strategy, planning & research
- Military intelligence
- Military tactics
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Australia