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1	The White Nile more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist The story of the Nile, from the Mountains of the Moon to the Mediterranean. The tale starts with Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke setting out to find the sources of the Nile. It continues with Baker of the Nile and his wife struggling with malaria, and of the famous greeting between Stanley and Livingstone. The book examines the results of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.86! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Blue Nile more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist An account of the course of the Blue Nile from the Ethiopian Highlands, through the Sudan and Egupt to the sea. The book contains an historical narrative which starts in the eighteenth century and ends in 1869. The period was dominated by four men: James Bruce, the Scot who journeyed to the supposed source of the Blue Nile, and stayed in warring ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Russian Revolution more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist Long a favorite among general readers and students, this is perhaps the most distinguished short history yet written about the Russian Revolution. 45 black-and-white photographs. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
4	Gallipoli more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist In 1915 the Gallipoli campaign was designed to break the deadlock in the muddy trenches of the Western Front by forcing the Dardenelles, capturing Constantinople, knocking Turkey out of the war and bringing supplies and arms to the Russians for their immense German Front. It was a costly failure. Using private papers as well as official records, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.97! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Cooper's Creek more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist The first fully documented story of the strange drama - familiar to every Australian child - that took place in the remote interior of Australia 150 years ago. More than any other incident in Australia's history the story of Burke, the dashing but inexperienced expedition leader and Wills, his heroic second-in-command, evokes the memory of the ... see all copies from $2.17! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Darwin and the Beagle more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist An account of Darwin's five-year expedition, as a naturalist on board HMS Beagle, illustrated from contemporary sources. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The fatal impact : an account of the invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled before them, and where satan had sown. the protestant missionaries reaped. In this work, Alan ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Rum Jungle more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from $7.43! first editions
9	Eclipse more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist Alan Moorehead was a newspaper correspondent in World War II, celebrated as a master of reportage. This is his narrative of the last years of the war, throughout which he was constantly at the heart of the conflict: from the Italian front, to exhorting D-Day troops with Montgomery, on the beach for De Gaulle's return to France, preceding the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The desert war : the North African campaign 1940-1943 more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist North Africa was one of the greatest theaters of the Second World War. Alan Moorehead's bestselling account of the Allied/Axis desert conflict is an epic story of electrifying details and keen historical insights. The Desert War interweaves vivid snapshots of war with eyewitness portraits of the famous adversaries?Generals Rommel, Montgomery, ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $3.89! \| first editions
11	A Late Education: Episodes in a Life more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist At 26, Alan Moorehead escaped from the Melbourne suburbs to Europe and the shimmering pre-war days of London and Paris. He was in England when Edward VIII abdicated, in Paris during the last gay days of the thirties, and was sent to Spain on a tanker smuggling petrol. This is not only the story of Moorehead's own adventures, but of his friendship ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Fatal Impact: The Invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840 more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.99! \| first editions
13	Honoring Sergeant Carter: A Family's Journey to Uncover the Truth about an American Hero more books like this by Allene G Carter, Alan L Moorehead add to wishlist Allene Carter's father-in-law was a decorated veteran. Yet it was not until the Carter family received a call from the White House that she discovered he was a heroic force in the Rhineland campaign. President Clinton awarded the Medal of Honor to several black soldiers who served in World War II. Sergeant Edward A. Carter Jr. was among the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Desert War: The Classic Trilogy on the North African Campaign 1940-43 by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign in 1940 by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War - later collected as his 'African Trilogy' - were swiftly acclaimed as a classic account of the tussle between Montgomery's Eighth Army and ... see all copies from $14.45! new only from $14.45!
15	The Villa Diana more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from $9.22! new only from $9.22! \| first editions
16	Blue Nile V449 more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.74! \| first editions
17	The traitors more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
18	Montgomery: A Biography more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from $3.50! signed copies \| first editions
19	The White Nile V445 more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
20	Montgomery more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from $2.57! first editions
21 view cover	Eclipse: An Eye-Witness Account of the Allied Invasion of Fortress Europe in World War II more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist This is a brilliant eyewitness account of the Allied campaigns in Italy, Normandy, the Rhineland, and Germany by one of the finest foreign correspondents covering World War II. It was published in England after the war, in 1945, and gives an account unmediated by hindsight, undimmed by the passage of time. Alan Moorehead went on to become a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22	The fatal impact more books like this by Alan Moorhead, Lucy Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from $11.99! first editions
23	Cooper's creek : the opening of Australia more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist In what has surely become the Year of Australia, Moorehead's classic account of the opening of the continent--out-of-print here for many years--is bound to excite new interest. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
24	No room in the Ark more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25	The rage of the vulture by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist see all copies from $16.35! first editions

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