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The Last Big Gun: At War & At Sea with HMS Belfast
As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler's newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career that...
Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New
Uncover the gripping narrative of Irish immigrants who transformed America in the aftermath of the Great Hunger. Tyler Anbinder's landmark work exposes the grit and resilience of the Famine Irish,...
Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower
Sparta - its legendary warriors and steadfast resilience are famous throughout the world as a model for toughness, justice and masculinity. The Spartans' reputation as fighters is matched only by...
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020
THE NUMBER 1 IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 An Irish Times Book of the Year 2024 Ireland is a strikingly...
A Victorian Lady's Guide to Life
Part journal, part commonplace book, among many gems you will find enlightenment and advice on everything from dreams to garlic; patriotism to wrinkles. Written throughout her life but only discovered...
SAS Daggers Drawn: In For the Kill: The Third in the Blair 'Paddy'
THE REAL STORY OF BLAIR 'PADDY' MAYNE, ENDORSED BY THE MAYNE FAMILY Summer 1944: the SAS were charged with the most crucial D-Day missions, taking on the might of the...
The Life of Henrietta Anne: Daughter of Charles I
Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of the English Civil...
Wellington's Brigade Commanders
Recent research into the Duke of Wellington's armies during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign has enhanced our understanding of the men he led, and this new biographical guide...
Fighter Command's Air War 1941
Following the Battle of Britain, the RAF started taking the air war to the Germans. A small number of bombers, escorted by large numbers of fighters tried to force the...
British Expeditionary Force - The 1915 Campaign
'The British Expeditionary Force - The 1915 Campaign' is a thorough account of the BEF's actions during the battles of 1915 and early 1916, starting with the success at Neuve...
Operation EPSOM - Over the Battlefield
Before EPSOM in late June 1944 there remained the chance that a German counter-stroke might seriously threaten the bridgehead. After EPSOM, the Allies retained the strategic initiative through to the...
From St Vith to Victory
Compiled from a variety of sources and first-hand accounts, this book is an authoritative record of the part played by No.218 (Gold Coast) Squadron during the bomber offensives of World...
Visitor's Guide - The First Day of the Somme
Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the defining episodes in the history of the fighting on...
Victoria Crosses on the Western Front - April 1915 to June 1916
During visits to the First World War battlefields the author often wondered where various Victoria Cross actions took place; he resolved to find out. Research commenced in 1988 and numerous...
The Battle of Waterloo
From the team that brought you the bestselling Bradshaw's Handbook comes another fantastic facsimile reproduction - The Battle of Waterloo. First published in the months after the battle, this unique...
Napoleon Volume 2: The Spirit of the Age
'Masterly.' - Daily Mail 'Stunning.' - History Today 'Magnificent.' - Literary Review Napoleon's life reached its most extraordinary stage between 1805 and 1810. At war with Britain, Russia, and Austria,...
The Writers' Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg
A gripping new approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness it Nuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war...
City of Lions
Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city...
Prospero's Cell
'In its gem-like miniature quality, among the best books ever written.' - New York Times In his youth, before he became a celebrated writer and poet, Lawrence Durrell spent four...
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History...
Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945
The story of how the British really won two world wars - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and bluffing their way out of trouble. Pretend German radio stations broadcast...
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: In Six Volumes, Volume Two
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Karl Marx: Man And Fighter
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Apostles Of Revolution
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The Conformist
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark of twentieth-century Italian literature, The...
Stalinism In Prague: The Loebl Story
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1905
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European Culture And Overseas Expansion
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Journeys To England And Ireland
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Roman Tales
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Doctor Zhivago
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Dog Years
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The Sovereigns
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The Cossacks
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Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record
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Russia: Hopes And Fears
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The Break-Up Of The Soviet Empire In Eastern Europe
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The End Of The Russian Empire
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Monsieur: Or The Prince Of Darkness
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Botticelli: The Life And Work Of The Artist Illustrated With 80 Colour Plates
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Goncharov
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A Time For Payment
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Secret Memoirs Of A Renaissance Pope: The Commentaries Of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini Pius Ii
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Karl Kautsky, 1854–1938: Marxism In The Classical Years
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Selected Letters Of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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French Thought In The Eighteenth Century
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Malva And Other Tales
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Arthur Rimbaud
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