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In this perfect companion to London: The Biography , Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the river's endless allure in a journey overflowing with...

In the summer of 1940, all Britain was convinced that the Germans would invade. The Germans had, in five weeks, crushed France and taken Belgium. Now they stood on the...

The book titled Mary Stuart's Scotland by the author David Steel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A blend of personal memoir, oral history and biography, a story of lives caught up in the sweep of history, the resulting book encompasses the Holocaust in an illuminating way....

Expanded study of the events of 1917. Includes short biographies of key people. Case studies in each chapter focus on key issues.

With the call to action stations of August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson. Geoffrey Bennett's classic history of the Great War at...

"A first-class popular history of the war, lively, entertaining, and continuously informative."--"Publishers Weekly" "His ability to recreate the emotions of war makes this monumental work a living history."--"Booklist"

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFirst published in 1867, Ivan Turgenev's Smoke is a masterwork of Russian realism that cuts to the heart...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the close of the First World War, the boundaries of a shattered Europe hung in...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn September 1944, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden — the largest airborne assault in history — with...

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Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: New in original plastic wrap. "Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815-1871" is a work of political and economic history that chronicles...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodShe seized a throne that was never meant to be hers, yet went on to become the most...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of the most wickedly brilliant satires ever written, Candide chronicles the misadventures of its relentlessly optimistic young...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the heart of Honoré de Balzac's Père Goriot lies one of literature's most devastating portraits of parental...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of antiquity's most enduring and celebrated works, Plutarch Selected Lives presents a curated collection drawn from the...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the heart of one of literature's most celebrated achievements lies a single, luminous memory: the taste of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, Britain stood on the cusp of a transformation so profound it would reshape...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodOne of the most explosive political scandals in modern European history — the wrongful conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind every great waltz lies a story of survival — and The Barbed Wire Waltz: The...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew books have shaped the study of music history with the authority and sweep of Paul Henry Lang's monumental Music in Western...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOn the eve of the greatest military invasion in history, a young French girl witnessed the chaos, terror, and liberation of D-Day from her...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of symbolism and mysticism, Stefan George stands as one of the most commanding and controversial figures in German literary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the dawn of the eighteenth century, a colossal figure strode across the vast plains of Russia and remade an empire in his own...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn October 1917, the world changed forever — and American journalist John Reed was there to witness every...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most profoundly moving documents to emerge from the horrors of the Second World War, The...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFirst published in 1860, Jacob Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy stands as one of the most monumental and enduring works of...

Edition: First UK ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Jacket protected in mylar layer, tape residue on interior of binding.In the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew works of historical prose burn with the same ferocious intensity as Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution, a monumental narrative that resurrects the chaos,...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the shadowed corridors of Soviet power, a systematic campaign against Jewish identity unfolded across nearly two decades — and The Soviet Government and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the rubble of a defeated Reich, one of America's most celebrated war correspondents bore...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWritten at a pivotal moment in Russian revolutionary history, To the Rural Poor is Lenin's passionate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artistic movements have wielded as much ideological and cultural power as Wagnerism — the sprawling, fervent intellectual...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the heart of Siberia, an ancient island village called Matyora faces an inescapable fate — submersion beneath the rising...