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  • Das Reich

    The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944

    by Max Hastings ...
    series Zenith Military Classics
    A world-renowned British historian recounts the actions of one of Hitler’s most elite armor units in one of World War II’s most horrific months.June 1944, the month of the D-Day landings carried out by Allied forces in Normandy, France. Germany’s 2nd SS Panzer Division, one of Adolf Hitler’s most elite armor units, had recently been pulled from the Eastern Front and relocated to France in order to ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Hours in Paris: A powerful, moving and redemptive story of wartime love and sacrifice for fans of historical fiction

    by Ruth Druart ...
    War brings them together.Will liberation tear them apart?'Wonderful. A heartbreaking story of the power of love and forgiveness' JILL MANSELL'A tender, thrilling story of love and family secrets in time of war' RACHEL HORE'I was so engrossed. A wonderful, moving, ultimately uplifting book' LESLEY PEARSEFrom the bestselling author of WHILE PARIS... ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Prince Lost to Time (Nicholas Segalla series, Book 2)

    Mysteries and intrigue from the dramatic era of the French Revolution

    by Paul Doherty ...
    A missing prince may provide the answers - can he be found?The Prince Lost to Time is Paul Doherty's second novel to feature Nicholas Segalla - a shadowy scholar travelling through time solving the past's greatest mysteries. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and C. J. Sansom.As the flames of revolution spread through France, they engulf the Royal Family, whose fairy-tale life in the magnificent ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Napoleon the Great

    by Andrew Roberts ...
    'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon.Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • A Place of Greater Safety

    by Hilary Mantel ...
    From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination – this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution.Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • France on Trial

    The Case of Marshal Pétain

    by Julian Jackson ...
    One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French historyFew images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe Pétain - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940. In a radio speech after this meeting, Pétain told the French ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • Grouchy's Waterloo

    The Battles of Ligny and Wavre

    by Andrew W. Field ...
    “An interesting approach to this part of the Waterloo campaign . . . a picture of a capable officer who was perhaps slightly out of his depth.”—HistoryOfWarIn this concluding volume of his highly praised study exploring the French perspective of the Waterloo campaign, Andrew Field concentrates on an often-neglected aspect of Napoleon’s final offensive—the French victory over the Prussians at Ligny ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

    by Bernard Cornwell ...
    The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller‘A fabulous story, superbly told … cannot be bettered’ Max Hastings‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Body in the Castle Well

    Bruno investigates as France's dark past reaches out to claim a new victim

    by Martin Walker ...
    Book 12 - The Dordogne Mysteries
    'WILL MAKE READERS LONG FOR LAZY DAYS IN RURAL FRANCE' Irish IndependentMillions of readers worldwide are discovering the special world of Bruno, Chief of Police, and the Dordogne Mysteries. There's murder in paradise in the twelfth case for France's favourite cop in this addition to a beloved seriesA missing art student. An international investigation. A secret that will shatter Bruno's charming ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Cast Iron

    The red-hot penultimate case of the Enzo series (The Enzo Files Book 6)

    by Peter May ...
    Book 6 - The Enzo Files
    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Enzo MacLeod is one of the most unusual crime solvers I have ever met.' BookBrowse'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.' New York Journal of BooksA decade-old body expo... ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • D-Day

    The Battle for Normandy

    by Antony Beevor ...
    THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - REISSUED WITH A NEW FOREWORD FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fearThe Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaki... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • A Ship of War

    Charles Hayden Book 3

    by Sean Thomas Russell ...
    Book 3 - Charles Hayden
    A Ship of War is a stunning new maritime adventure from Top Ten bestselling author Sean Thomas Russell, following the great success of A Battle Won and Under Enemy Colours. For fans of Bernard Cornwell and Patrick O'Brian, A Ship of War is the third instalment in the electrifying historical series of Charles Hayden and the Themis.'Hayden kept his eye fixed upon the chasing ship...The screech of an ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Guns of August

    The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War

    by Barbara Tuchman ...
    Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . .Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed, Pulitzer prize-winning account of how the first thirty days of battle determined the course of the First World War is to ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • A Train in Winter

    A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    series The Resistance Quartet
    A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance – a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz – the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Pardon My French

    How a Grumpy American Fell in Love with France

    by Allen Johnson ...
    To make a friend is a joy. To make a friend in another country is a wonderment-a small miracle. Pardon My French follows the lives of an American couple who have embraced a daunting mission: Not to be spectators in France, but to be absorbed by France.Amidst the minefields of linguistic faux pas, the perplexities of French gestures, the exquisite and often exotic cuisine, and the splendor of ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • 1215 and All That

    Magna Carta and King John

    by Ed West ...
    series Very, Very Short History of England
    1215 is one of the most famous dates in English history, and with good reason, since it marks the signing of the Magna Carta by King John and the English barons, which altered the entire course of English and world history.John Lackland was born to King Henry II and Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitane in December, 1166; he was the youngest of five sons. However, he unexpectedly became the favored heir to ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Great Swindle

    Prize-winning historical fiction by a master of suspense

    by Pierre Lemaitre ...
    Translated by Frank Wynne ...
    Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irène and Camille**.October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once more.**And so is set in motion a series of ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • The Riviera Set

    by Mary S. Lovell ...
    'I loved every word' Sarra Manning, Red**'[A] blissful book - it's like basking in the warm Med' Rachel Johnson, Mail on SundayThe Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Château de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Paris Bookseller

    A sweeping story of love, friendship and betrayal in bohemian 1920s Paris

    by Kerri Maher ...
    INSPIRED BY AN EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY...'A novel I long to live in' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice NetworkPARIS, 1920. On the bohemian Left Bank, Sylvia runs a little bookshop called Shakespeare and Company. Here she welcomes the greatest writers of the day - and from the moment James Joyce finally walks through her door, the two become friends.When Joyce's controversial novel Ulysses is banned ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • France: A History

    by Marshall B. Davidson ...
    "Every man has two countries," Henri de Bornier once said, "his own and France." Indeed, France has captivated us for centuries. Here, in this compelling history from acclaimed historian Marshall B. Davison, is its story: from prehistory to its conquest by Julius Caesar; from its invasion by the Franks, who gave us the name we use today, to the reign of Charlemagne; from the rule of the Bourbon ... Read more

    $14.66 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • (Not Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living

    by Mark Greenside ...
    WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLEREvery year upon arriving in Plobien, the small Breton town where he spends his summers, American writer Mark Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas–filled Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled, but not daunted (OK, slightly daunted), he faces imminent concerns: What does he cook for a French person? Who has the right-of-way when entering or ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD

  • The Schoolteacher of Saint-Michel: inspired by true acts of courage, heartwrenching WW2 historical fiction

    by Sarah Steele ...
    The war taught her to fight. The children taught her to hope...Inspired by real acts of bravery and resistance, The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel is a heartrending and deeply moving story of one woman's courage and sacrifice during World War II, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Missing Piece of Nancy Moon.This exquisitely beautiful novel is perfect for... ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • D-Day Invasion (True Combat)

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Just sixteen minutes into D-Day and their glider had already crash-landed onto the field. Scrambling out to storm the bridge, the young British soldiers began the fight of their lives. Five miles inside enemy territory, they ran headlong into the day that shaped the twentieth century, paving the way for the invasion of Normandy. There was no going back…Read about the daring capture of Pegasus ... Read more

    $1.74 AUD

  • The Australian Victories In France In 1918 [Illustrated Edition]

    by Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash ...
    Contains 9 maps and 30 photo illustrationsThe Australian Corps gained a towering reputation as a fighting force during the First World War; firm in defence and nigh-on unstoppable in attack. Their men were all volunteers who had travelled from the furthest reaches of the Empire to serve in Europe; following on from the badly managed campaign at Gallipoli the Australians formed a heterogeneous ... Read more

    $4.39 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus