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50 Romantic Havens: In The Mediterranean
Falling in love with warm sparkling water, clear as crystal, seductive as Calypso snow-capped mountains glistening in the rising sun, narrow cobbled lanes, crumbling ruins overlooking ancient landscapes, deserted coves...
England Revisited
The book titled England Revisited by the author John Seymour. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
At the Israel America Council's national conference in 2018, Nancy Pelosi spoke these words: 'If this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment...
British Naval Aviation: Fleet Air Arm, 1917-90
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From conducting the first deck landing to deployment of the first vertical take-off aircraft, the British Fleet Air Arm has been at the forefront of international naval air development. Through...
Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan
This innovative study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) explores the intense struggle to define a common morality for the emerging nation-state. In the Social Darwinist atmosphere of the time,...
Riding the Skies: Classic Posters from the Golden Age of Flying
The book titled Riding the Skies: Classic Posters from the Golden Age of Flying by the author Jan Morris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: v. 1: Private Years
Russell's letters span 70 years, from the late Victorian age to the 1960s, and range from private love letters to impassioned pleas to political leaders to technical philosophical letters. His...
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85
These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman,...
The Good Soldiers
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It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. "Many listening tonight will...
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History
A fascinating exploration of why Hitler's death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put...
Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945
The extraordinary story of Kathleen Harriman, daughter of the US ambassador to the USSR, told through her wartime letters Kathleen Harriman was the daughter of American businessman W. Averell Harriman....
Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India
The gripping story of Indira Gandhi's premiership-and the profound influence she had on India Indira Gandhi's ascent as prime minister of India in 1966 was entirely unforeseen. But she soon...
A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End
The true story of Daniel Defoe and the dirty tricks which helped bring Scotland into union with England In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men...
Nuclear Weapons: An International History
A groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear...
Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement
Why those who protested the Vietnam War must be honored, remembered, and appreciated "Hell no" was the battle cry of the largest peace movement in American history-the effort to end...
Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate
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The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyiv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him...
December 7th, 1941: Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor
The book titled December 7th, 1941: Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor by the author Gordon W. Prange. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Panic Attack: Playing Politics with Science in the Fight Against
"Follow the science" is what they said. "Follow our politics" is what they meant. In Panic Attack , nationally bestselling author and physician Nicole Saphier uncovers the hypocrisy and hysteria...
Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the
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The book titled Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the by the author Michael Korda. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Ida, in Love and in Trouble
For fans of Bridgerton and The Gilded Age comes a sweeping historical novel that tells the story of Ida B. Wells from her teen years and early romances up through...
American Voyage
Beautiful portrait of America in the 1960s, rediscovered after 50 years. In 1966, Mario Carnicelli won first place in an Italian national photography competition sponsored by Popular Photography magazine and...
City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule
For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong...
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of...
The Last Battle: Soldier Settlement in Australia 1916-1939
When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes'. Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms and...
Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the
Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British...
LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson
In innumerable ways, we still live in LBJ's America. More than half a century after his death, Lyndon Baines Johnson continues to exert profound influence on American life. This collection...
The Land Where Nothing Works: How Britain Lost the Plot
What has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe. Once-beautiful towns now feature peeling paint, weeds, and broken railings. Public...
Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto
Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and fraying international alliances. Will the dollar continue to reign supreme? In Money...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
Letters of J B Yeats
John Butler Yeats was the father of the poet W.B. Yeats and the painter Jack Yeats. This selection of his letters covers the period 1898 to his death in 1922....
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 6, 1934-1936
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6 (June 1934-June 1936) traces the completion and publication of Hemingway's experimental nonfiction book Green Hills of Africa and work on stories including 'The...
Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a...
Hard Bop
A study of hard bop, combining a narrative of the movement's evolution, from its beginnings as an amalgam of bebop and R&B to its experimental breakthroughs in the 1960s. The...
The File: A Personal History
In 1991, after the Wall came down and the archives of Eastern Europe opened up, Timothy Garton Ash walked into the building that housed the files of the Stasi, the...
Bittersweet: Based on the True Tale of the Berlin Candy Bombers
Soar into the tender true story of how one airman inspired a movement by airdropping little parachutes of candy to kids trapped in occupied Berlin in this nonfiction picture book...
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj
From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and...
1946: The Making of the Modern World
With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the...
Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS , THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times...
Euroscepticism as a Transnational and Pan-European Phenomenon: The
As the EU enters an increasingly uncertain phase after the 2016 Brexit referendum, Euroscepticism continues to become an increasingly embedded phenomenon within party systems, non-party groups and within the media....
Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work
Born in Turkey in 1904, Vosdanik Adoian escaped the massacres of Armenians in 1915 only to see his mother die of starvation, his sister abandoned to an orphanage (where she...
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS: The Beatles changed the world.
The most engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story you'll read. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent songs and iconic albums. Theirs...
Monet
The book titled Monet by the author Vanessa Potts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The "Times" Picture Collection: Explorers
From Scott's ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic, through successive attempts on Everest from Shipton in the 1930s through to Hillary's successful climb in 1953, and on through the conquest of...
The Experience of World War II
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The book titled The Experience of World War II by the author John Campbell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Illegals: Double Lives of the Cold War's Most Secret Agents
The most secret of agents are those known as "illegals", the committed professionals who adopt a carefully-crafted false identity and live in a host community as an unsuspected mole, often...
To the Sea by Train: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Andrew Martin is a railway wizard' Telegraph 'Leaves you with renewed confidence that trains can still be the most civilised way to travel' Financial Times Throughout the twentieth century, the...
The Dictator's Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy
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In this riveting portrait of authoritarianism in peril, acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us inside the relentless battle between dictators and the people challenging their rule. We are witnessing an...