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On August 9, ad 378, outside Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace, the Roman Empire began to fall. Two years earlier, an unexpected flood of refugees from the tribe...

"Astonishing...Brings to life a thriving - and rather civilized - empire" - The Telegraph "sparkles with energy, insight and passion... difficult to put down." Nicholas Morton, BBC History Magazine Control...

Non-fiction thriller about the infamous Ancient War Did the Trojan War really happen? Spectacular new archaeological evidence suggests that it did. Recent excavations and newly translated Hittite texts reveal that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew novels dare to span the entirety of human civilisation, but The Source achieves exactly that — a sweeping, monumental...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the heart of one of England's most turbulent political eras stands Samuel Pepys — naval administrator, diarist, and unlikely survivor — and Arthur Bryant's Samuel...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the dawn of Christianity, a small band of ordinary men and women...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the flickering candlelight of medieval Europe, the boundary between the living and the dead was not a...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of medieval Europe lay a crisis of faith — a groundswell of radical religious...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Christian scripture lies the Gospel of Saint Mark — the shortest, most urgent, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the dawn of primitive tool-making to the twilight of the Roman Empire, What Happened in History presents...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodIn an age when history was written about kings and conquests, Eileen Power turned her gaze upon the forgotten majority — the peasant toiling...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: front hinges cracked; sticker on the copyright page. Long before the age of...

Edition: bomcCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the tradition of his landmark work The Kon-Tiki Expedition, Thor Heyerdahl turns his fearless gaze upon one of the world's...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: pages can have notes/underlining.In the turbulent centuries before the common era, one man forged a...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFew figures in the history of human thought have provoked as much fascination, controversy, and enduring reverence as Socrates — the barefoot...

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Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the twilight of the medieval world, English literature stood on the precipice of transformation —...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsA cornerstone of classical scholarship, Roman Literary Theory and Criticism: A Study in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedTwo thousand years ago, the most powerful military force the ancient world had ever seen set its sights on a remote, fog-shrouded...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodThree of the ancient world's most enduring and authoritative texts on the art of writing and rhetoric are united in this landmark...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Pompeii was frozen in ash and memory, its walls were alive with the voices of ordinary Romans...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the turbulent year of AD 60, a warrior queen named Boudica led one of the most ferocious and dramatic uprisings the Roman Empire...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerLong before Europeans set foot on the vast red continent, Australia was home to one of humanity's most remarkable civilisations...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the modern scientific age, one man's radical reimagining of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor centuries, Latin has been the cornerstone of Western education, and this comprehensive self-instruction manual brings that venerable tradition directly into the hands of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the mist-shrouded wilds of Roman...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn September 1991, two hikers stumbled upon a frozen corpse high in the Ötztal Alps — and what...

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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew epochs in human history have burned as brilliantly as the Renaissance, and The Story of the Renaissance — a magnificent five-volume...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched sands of Roman North Africa to the smoke-filled skies above the Persian Gulf, Desert Warfare: From Its Roman Origins to the Gulf...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the catacombs of Rome to the towering cathedrals of medieval Europe and the sprawling mission churches of the New World, Atlas of the Christian...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew civilizations have shaped the modern world as profoundly as Rome, and Atlas of the Roman World stands as one of the...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedSet against the sweeping backdrop of the Roman Empire at the time of Christ, Ben-Hur chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum stand as the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in Western art stand as monumentally as Giotto di Bondone, the Florentine master who shattered the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingLong before the age of universities and academic institutions, one man's insatiable curiosity reshaped the known world — and Alexander the Great:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep back two thousand years into the beating heart of Roman civilisation, where ambition, engineering genius, and civic...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: light foxing on boardsFew works in the Western literary canon have so boldly and brilliantly codified the art of seduction as Ovid's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the prehistoric mystery of Stonehenge to the soaring ambitions of twentieth-century modernism, Great Architecture of the World presents one of the most comprehensive...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodCondition remarks: damaged slipcase, repaired with tape. Few documents illuminate the moral and political character of a civilisation more vividly than the records of its...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFrom the mists of medieval England to the consolidation of the Tudor crown, The Kings of England: Ever Since It Was So Called presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew cities in the world have left...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew civilisations have left so indelible a mark upon the world...