Maud's Journal

New stock of Military History books including:
General:
Great Zulu Battles 1838-1906 by Ian Knight

A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Chechnya: A Small Victorious War by Carlotta Gall & Thomas de Waal
The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Dexter Filkins
World War I:

The First World War by John Keegan
First World War by [...]

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Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland, by Basharat Peer
The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century by Tom Bower
Disaster at the Pole: The Crash of the Airship Italia - A Harrowing True Tale of Arctic Endurance and Survival by Wilbur Cross
Luck & The Irish: [...]

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Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends by Jonathan Neale
Rifles: Six Years With Wellington’s Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
The Making of the British Army from the English Civil War to the War on Terror by Allan Mallinson
The Soldier: A History of Courage, Sacrifice and Brotherhood by Darren Moore
The Clinton [...]

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Earth Fire Water Air: Anne Danger’s Letters to Grace Crowley 1930-1951 edited by Helen Topliss
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
The Secret Lives of Words by Paul West
Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World by Carol Brightman
Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones
Hope and Memory by Tzvetan Todorov
Opotiki-Mai-Tawhiti: Capital of Whakatohea by [...]

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Aphrodite’s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti by Anne Salmond
Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd
No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice by Judith Martin
God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting From a Militant Middle East by Judith Miller
Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient by Barbara Hodgson
NZSAS: The First Fifty [...]

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The Golden Age of New Zealand Flying Boats
by Paul Harrison
Auckland: Random House, 1997
320pp, B/W plates

Danger Ahead: New Zealand Railway Accidents in the Modern Era
by Geoffrey B. Churchman
Sydney: IPL Books, 1991
159pp, B/W plates

The Railways of New Zealand: A Journey Through History
by Geoffrey B. Churchman and Tony Hurst
Auckland: William Collins, 1990
225pp, colour [...]

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The Prize of All Oceans: The Triumph and Tragedy of Anson’s Voyage Round the World by Glyn Williams
The Island at the Centre of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan & the Forgotten Colony that Sahped America by Russell Shorto
D-Day: The Battle For Normandy by Antony Beevor
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the [...]

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The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000BC-2000AD by Julia Lovell
Kublai Khan the Mongol King Who Remade China by John Man
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory by Lisa Jardine
Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees by Caroline Moorehead
Lilla’s Feast: A True Story of Love, War and a Passion For Food by Frances Osborne
Among the Believers: [...]

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Eighty Years of Citroen in the United Kingdom
Including the History of the Citroen Works
at Slough from 1926 to 1966
by John Reynolds
Ferring, UK: Dalton Watson, 2003
270pp, colour & B/W plates
$65.00

Citroen DS
by Malcolm Bobbitt
Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 1999
Sutton’s Photographic History of Transport, 160pp, B/W plates
$40.00

Almanach Du Citroeniste
by Fabien Sabates
Paris: Francois Reder, 1985
256pp, B/W plates, [...]

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History of the Twentieth Century by Martin Gilbert
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created by William J. Bernstein
The Great Game: The Struggle For Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
Russia: Experiment with a People From 1991 to the Present by Robert Service
Resurrection: The Struggle For a New Russia by [...]

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New stock of Military History books including:
General:
Great Zulu Battles 1838-1906 by Ian Knight

A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Chechnya: A Small Victorious [...]

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Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland, by Basharat Peer
The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the [...]

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Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends by Jonathan Neale
Rifles: Six Years With Wellington’s Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
The [...]

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