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The Privatisation Classes: A Pictorial Survey of Diesel and Electric
Post Privatisation Diesels and Electrics is an album of photographs taken by David Cable, a well-regarded author of several books covering trains throughout much of the world. This book looks...
I Had to Survive: How a plane crash in the Andes helped me to save
On 12 October 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the 'Old Christians' rugby team (and many of their friends and family members) crashed into the Andes mountains....
Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
' Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor ' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times ' Dynamic, original and supremely...
Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies
'Addictive and deeply moving' Independent 'Utterly gripping' Anthony Beevor, Daily Telegraph 'Enthralling ... A reminder that heroism can be found in the most unlikely places' Evening Standard 'I have seldom...
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR...
A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-garde
The American art community had its first glimpse of Surrealism in 1932. Its revolutionary art galvanised an emerging avant-garde. New galleries opened to exhibit the works of Surrealist artists, and...
1975: The Year the World Forgot
There is a myth that the long, dark days before punk were full of legions of British prog rock groups; that the likes of Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Emerson Lake...
Pop Forever - Tom Wesselmann
At the end of 2024, Fondation Louis Vuitton will be holding for the first time a major exhibition dedicated to the work of the American Pop artist Tom Wesselmann. It...
Designer British Silver: From Studios Established 1930-1985
'Designer British Silver' explores the designer-silversmiths who have shaped British silver from the 1950s through to the present day. Covering a complete generation of craftsmen and women, and featuring one-to-one...
Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil
Diary of a Crisis explores the past tumultuous and traumatic year in Israel-Palestine. The eminent historian Saul Friedlander began a diary of Israeli politics in January 2023 as the country...
Robert Barton: A Remarkable Revolutionary
The first biography of the enigmatic Robert Barton, a central figure in the Irish Revolution. The enigmatic Robert Barton was a central figure in Irish Revolution. From an Anglo-Irish ascendancy...
We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning
'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I've been waiting my whole life to read.' Tommy Orange, author of There ThereAs...
Sheila: The Australian ingenue who bewitched British society
Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she...
Hidden Treasure: A timeless children's adventure story from the
From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist . Jessie Burton's Hidden Treasure is the phenomenal page-turning story of two children whose lives collide when they find an ancient treasure with...
Mediterra: Recipes from the islands and shores of the Mediterranean
Across the Mediterranean, from Spain to Morocco, via Italy, Sicily, Greece and Lebanon, one delicious food influence gives way to the next. The whole region is a rich seam of...
The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place
FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times , Financial Times , Spectator ,...
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag...
Francis Bacon in Your Blood
It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes......
The Short Story of Contemporary Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements,
The Short Story of Contemporary Art is a must-read introduction to this exciting and important period, from bestselling author and art historian Susie Hodge. This fascinating pocket guide explains the...
The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine - Updated Edition
A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A breathtaking history of Ukraine's war against Russia, by The Financial Times' Ukraine correspondent Christopher Miller 'Vivid... Shocking... [Miller] brings a...
Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean - shortlisted for
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 "A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian "Poetic...Compelling" -- New Statesman One of National Geographic 's...
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This...
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II
How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...
Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created
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"This is history told the old-fashioned way. The book is only as long as it needs to be, the adroit narrative full of heroes (Smith, Roosevelt, big-city Democratic bosses) and...
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...
How the East Was Won: Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the
How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew...
Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain
How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined,...
Power and the Palace: The explosive new royal book that reveals what
'Lively . . . peppered with entertaining lines. One of [Low's] skills as a journalist is an ability to sift through mountains of archive material and pick out the gems'...
The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry
The CEOs of Britain's largest companies wield immense power, but we know very little about them. How did they get to the top? Why do they have so much power?...
Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. What's more horrifying, is that millions have died of this disease that's nearly 100% preventable. It's no secret that healthcare is full...
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...
Interpreting Contemporary Art
The interpretation of contemporary art has always presented the critic with the hardest challenge; yet today, as new and often bewildering trends and movements come to the fore with dizzying...
Front Page History
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The book titled Front Page History by the author Harold Evans. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Third Hand: Collaboration in Art from Conceptualism to
Since the 1960s, a number of artists have challenged the image of the lonely artist by embarking on long term collaborations that dramatically altered the terms of artistic identity. In...
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.
The Few: Summer 1940 - Battle of Britain
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Fifty years ago, in the blue skies of a late English summer, history''s first major air battle was fought. In a journey to the airfields and other key locations, this...
A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel-Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't start in 1967 either, when...
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon...
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's
When the R101 first took to the skies, she was the largest aircraft ever to fly. What followed was a tragic finale to a tale of human folly on a...
Beasts of a Little Land: The International Bestseller
In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an...
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,...
After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
During the last two decades of the 20th century, the perception of Italian cinema's prominence within the film industry waned. This decline, in part due to the loss of its...
My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend
Bobby Charlton is Manchester United through and through. One of the original 'Busby Babes'; he has devoted his career to the club, playing in 754 games over 17 years and...
Angry White Pyjamas
Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese high school girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he'd never been fit. In a bid to...
Mind Over Matter: Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent
In November 1992 Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr Michael Stroud set out to achieve what no one had ever done: to walk and ski - unsupported - the 2700km across...
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...