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A feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight iconoclastic women of the Regency period who succeeded on their own terms and have largely been lost to history.

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After spending 25 years shepherding and managing sheep stations in the South Island, Robert Peden completed a PhD thesis, which was recorded as "Exceptional" at the University of Otago in 2007 and is the basis of Making Sheep Country. Dr Peden won a 2009 Claude McCarthy scholarship to complete this book.

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Australias favourite newsreader presents an anthology of stories, people and products that are uniquely Australian.

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Malta in the summer of 1942, a Malta wide open to air attack from the Germans and Italians and defended by a handful of Spitfires and a few anti-aircraft guns.

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This book reveals the significant role Aboriginal men, and some women, played in Australia's early maritime history. Theirs was a canoe culture and they called foreign ships 'mari nawi', meaning 'large canoes'. They sailed the Australian coast, to sealing and whaling grounds in Bass Strait, the icy sub-Antarctic and to international destinations.

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The volume is dedicated to the Olmec and the Maya, the two main Mesoamerican civilizations that developed in the tropical regions, the "green heart" of the southeast.

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Lifeboats occupy a particular place in peoples hearts as unpaid volunteers regularly take to their boats often in extremely adverse conditions to rescue others from the sea.

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An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing memoirs of German and Russian soldiers.

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A major new talent unveils a glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, from saints' relics to lovesick troubadours.

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Explores why mercenaries were employed to defend or expand territory before massed national armies existed.

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The never-before-told story of the epic battle of wills between Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill, as they debated the repayment of the enormous sums loaned by America to Great Britain during World War I.

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For fans of Philippe Sands and Edmund de Waal, this genre-bending family memoir charts the forgotten moment when 10,000 Russian Jews fled to Galveston, Texas - led by Rachel Cockerell's great-grandfather.

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Through the lives of three outstanding naval officers each considered the most brilliant commander of his generation David Crane offers a unique portrait of the Royal Navy at a time when it held unchallenged dominion over the world's oceans.

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Full of misadventure and mystery, Men Without Country is a sweeping history of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas told by a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, the man who led the infamous mutiny on the Bounty

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A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

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A comprehensive photo history of all the tracked vehicles used by the German Army in World War II, from the Panzer I to the late-war Jagdtiger. Full of excellent period photos, color photos from museums, and detailed color plates, this is an essential resource not only for armor modelers but for anyone interested in World War II and its weapons.

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A frightening study of intelligence failings - 'blunders' - in warfare from the Second World War to the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and their impact on events. Here is the insider's view from a former professional intelligence officer .

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* Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000

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Meet emperors and empresses, soldiers and salesmen, princes and potters: a visual feat that captures the flavour of the remarkable Ming dynasty.

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The first authoritative account of the remarkable women who worked in the back rooms of British intelligence - the female army of clerks, typists, telephonists, and secretaries who were the cornerstone of the British secret state, and the real women who inspired Miss Moneypenny.