History: General
Subjects
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Unwritten Histories
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£15.99| /In this witty and satirical revisiting of Australia's heroic past, Craig Cormick rediscovers the contributions of indigenous Australians that have ...
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Up from the Underworld
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert a...
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Urban Development & Regional Identity in the Eastern Roman Provinces, 50 BC-AD 250
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£64.99| /Providing a comparative treatment of four cities of the eastern Roman empire in the period 50 BC-AD 250 -- Aphrodisias and Ephesos in Turkey, Athen...
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Urban Maori
Oratia Books£30.99| /The post-1945 migration to the cities by Māori transformed Aotearoa New Zealand forever. Before the Second World War 90% of Māori lived in rural tr...
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Urban Spaces and the complexity of Cities
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£42.99| /For some time the Commission Internationale pour lHistoire des Villes has been working actively on the comprehensive topic of urban space which is...
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US Army Special Forces Team History and Insignia 1975 to the Present
Schiffer Military£63.99| /This book chronicles the history, training, and operations of United States Army Special Forces, including never before published photos and insign...
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US Landing Craft of World War II, Vol. 1
Schiffer Military£18.99| /No less than Dwight Eisenhower described Andrew Jackson Higgins as "the man who won the war for us," referring to the landing craft he perfected. T...
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USAAF Aircraft Markings and Camouflage 1941-1947
Schiffer Military£72.99| /Compiled from official source documents this book covers the entire period of the USAAF, pre-war and post-war, and throughout World War II, up to t...
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USAF F-4 and F-105 MiG Killers of the Vietnam War
Schiffer Military£54.99| /Presented here is the most complete photo collection of U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantoms and F-105 Thunderchiefs credited with aerial victories during t...
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USS Enterprise (CV-6)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /Though it barely missed being caught and destroyed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy's USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier took p...
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USS Hornet (CV-8)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /USS Hornet (CV-8), made famous through its launching of the 16 US Army B-25 Mitchell bombers flown by Jimmy Doolittle's raiders in the first US str...
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USS Iowa (BB-61)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /The USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship in the United States Navy's last, and most battle-worthy, battleship class, which also included the New Jers...
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USS Missouri (BB-63)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /The story of the USS Missouri, one of America's most famous warships of the twentieth century, and the world's last battleship, is told from her in...
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USS New Jersey (BB-62)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /Preserved today as a museum in its namesake state, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) saw combat during WWII and the Korean War and was the only...
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USS New York (BB-34)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /The battleship USS New York served the Navy from 1914 until just after WWII. New York was famously sent to reinforce the British Grand Fleet during...
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USS North Carolina (BB-55)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /As lead ship of America’s first “fast battleship” class, and the US Navy’s newest battleship when America entered WWII, the construction of the USS...
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USS Saratoga (CV-3)
Schiffer Military£36.99| /Originally laid down as one of six giant battle cruisers, the Saratoga survived the 1922 Washington Disarmament Treaty's cutting torch through her ...
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USS Tennessee (BB-43)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /Although bombed at Pearl Harbor, USS Tennessee was back to sea before the year was over. The crew of the resilient warship fought from Alaska's Ale...
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USS Wisconsin (BB-64)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /Carrying the highest hull number ever assigned to a commissioned US battleship, the Wisconsin was the last of the four Iowa-class battleships—along...
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USS Yorktown (CV-5)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /USS Yorktown (CV-5) was the US Navy's first battle-worthy, purpose-built aircraft carrier. Her crew, already accustomed to wartime conditions by ma...
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Utopian Legacies
Clear Light Publishers (US)£25.99| /Paradoxically, contemporary horrors like ethnic cleansing are deeply rooted in humanity's highest aspirations, which have given rise to countless s...
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V1
Schiffer Military£9.99| /One of the true land-marks of flight, this book covers its limited yet devastating use during WWII.
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V2 - Dawn of the Rocket Age
Schiffer Military£13.99| /The first ballistic missle in its use during WWII.
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Vagabond Papers
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Australian life has never had a chronicler quite like the Vagabond. Renowned as journalist and eminently unconventional character', he suffered ex...
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