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Arnhem - Operation Market Garden, September 1944 by Lloyd Clark
$75.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Sutton Ser.
Operation Market Garden was the largest airborne operation in history and its aim was to end the war in Europe by Christmas 1944. On 17 September, 20,000 men were dropped behind enemy lines to seize a number of vital Rhine bridges in the Netherlands over which the British Second Army would advance. But ...Show more
Defying Napoleon - How Britain Bombarded Copenhagen and Seized the Danish Fleet In 1807 by Thomas Munch-Petersen
$80.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Sutton Ser.
They involve some of the most fascinating military and political personalities of the period, including the future Duke of Wellington. In the three weeks between 16 August and 5 September 1807, the British landed, assaulted and captured the city of Copenhagen before making off with the Danish fleet. The ...Show more
Henry Winstanley and the Eddystone Lighthouse by Adam Hart-Davis; Emily Troscianko
$15.00 AUD
$26.99 (44% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Sutton Ser.
This illustrated work vividly recreates the story of the Eddystone Lighthouse, the character of the man who built it with grim determination fighting against all odds, and the power of the elements that finally destroyed them both.
Making Cars at Longbridge - 100 Years in the Life of a Factory by Gillian Bardsley; Colin Corke
$35.00 AUD
$37.99 (7% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Sutton Ser.
Containing unique images from the official company archive, this book charts almost one hundred years of car-making at Longbridge near Birmingham. The Austin Motor Company was founded here by Herbert Austin in 1905 and it has since been home to the British Motor Corporation, British Leyland, Rover Group ...Show more
Outback - The Discovery of Australia's Interior by Derek Parker
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Sutton Ser.
In 1800, while the coast of Australia had finally been charted, the vast interior of the continent, and routes across its deserts and mountains from north to south and east to west lay all undiscovered. By 1874, its lands had been all but won. Derek Parkers new and exciting book gathers together the sto ...Show more
Soldier, Poet, Rebel - The Extraordinary Life of Charles Hudson VC by Miles Hudson
$55.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Sutton Ser.
Charles Hudson VC was one of the twentieth century's outstanding fighting soldiers. His military career through two world wars and in Russia in 1919 earned him a host of medals. He was also a man of deep feeling, an accomplished poet and, in many ways, a rebel. In this compelling biography, the author s ...Show more
The Great Stink of London - Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis by Stephen Halliday
$20.00 AUD
$42.99 (53% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Sutton Ser.
In the sweltering summer of 1858 the stink of sewage from the polluted Thames was so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. Sewage generated by a population of over two million Londoners was pouring into the river and was being carried to and fro by the t ...Show more
The Price of Disobedience - The Battle of the River Plate Reconsidered by Eric Grove
$45.00 AUD
$55.00 (18% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Sutton Ser.
This work is a major re-examination of the Battle of the River Plate in 1939, bringing in the German perspective that has hitherto been largely ignored by historians and film. The author draws on German and British records uncovering fresh evidence and providing new insights.
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