When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940 by Robin Prior
$52.95 AUD
Category: British
From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler's Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britain's defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi threat. In this cogently argued book, Robin Prior delves ...Show more
The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe [Platinum Edition] by Angela Kelly
$55.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: platinum edition
‘Fascinating book’ HELLO! ‘The book is a trove of warm and insightful anecdotes’ Daily Mail ‘Angela Kelly shares fascinating and charming anecdotes’ Good Housekeeping First print run features a specially designed cut-down dust jacket When Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through ...Show more
Viceroys: The Creation of the British by Christopher Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established. British history from the Hundred Years War onwards gives an impression of how the British were seen. It is a misconce ...Show more
The Kings and Queens of England by Ian Crofton
$45.00 AUD
Category: British
From the reign of Alfred the Great - the first king of Wessex to call himself king of England' - in the ninth century, to the shock of Norman invasion in the 11th, and from the brutal vicissitudes of late medieval kingship to the comfortable ceremonial of modern-day constitutional monarchy, the story o ...Show more
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan The Battle for Afghanistan
$29.99 AUD
Category: British
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history. Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land'- a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, origin ...Show more
A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000BC-AD1603 by Simon Schama
$39.95 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: very good
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. 'Disruption as much as persistence is its proper subject. So although the great theme of British history seen from the twentieth century is endurance ...Show more
A History of Britain - Volume 1 (At the Edge of the World, 3000 BC-AD 1603) by Simon Schama
$49.95 AUD
Category: British
At the Edge of the World: 3000BC-AD1603 In the first of SchamaÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs epic trilogy, he takes us back to the beginnings of British history and the creation of a national identity. The great and wicked are all he ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
$22.99 AUD
Category: British
White Mughals Love And Betrayal In 18th Century India
$24.99 AUD
Category: British