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Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire
Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of this extraordinary man who, from modest beginnings on the small island of Corsica, became Emperor...
Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire
Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of this extraordinary man who, from modest beginnings on the small island of Corsica, became Emperor...
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor
'Written in a lively, accessible style, The Waiting Game is full of insight' Suzannah Lipscomb, Literary ReviewEvery Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the...
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past
A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today. Long ago a...
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past
A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today. Long ago a...
Versailles: The Passions and Politics of an Era
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Author: Joseph BarryBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1972Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the complex interplay of passions and politics during the era of Versailles,...
Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
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Author: Timothy BrookBinding: HardbackPublished: Bloomsbury Press, 2008Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsTimothy Brook's book explores the global connections and transformations of the seventeenth century through the lens...
Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, 1420-1620
$30.00 AUD
Author: Boies PenroseBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1967, Fifth PrintingCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the themes of travel and discovery during the Renaissance period...
Florentine Public Finances in the Early Renaissance, 1400-1433
$25.00 AUD
Author: Anthony MolhoBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1971Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the financial mechanisms and public finance systems of Florence during the early...
Ferrara: The Style of a Renaissance Despotism
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Author: Werner L. GundersheimerBinding: HardbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1973, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book examines the unique style and political culture of Ferrara during...
Bentivoglio of Bologna: Study in Despotism
$50.00 AUD
Author: Cecila M. Ady Binding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1969, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book examines the political and social dynamics of the Bentivoglio family...
Daughter of France: The Life of Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Monpensier, 1627-1693, La Grande Mademoiselle
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Author: V. Sackville-WestBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1969, Fourth Impression Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis biography explores the life of Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, a prominent...
The Wandering Scholars
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Author: Helen WaddellBinding: HardbackPublished: Constable, 1968, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThe Wandering Scholars is a historical account that explores the lives and journeys of...
The Dawn of Liberation
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Author: Winston ChurchillBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell and Company Ltd, London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney, 1945Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book by Winston Churchill chronicles the events leading...
Semites & Anti-Semites
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Author: Bernard LewisBinding: HardbackPublished: W. W. Norton & Company, 1986, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerIn 'Semites & Anti-Semites', Bernard Lewis explores the historical...
Opera Library Life of Rossini
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Author: StendhalBinding: HardbackPublished: Calder & Boyars, 1970, Revised EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book is a biography of the famous composer Gioachino Rossini, written by the renowned French...
The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci
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Author: Dmitri MerejkowskiBinding: HardbackPublished: Hart Publishing Company, 1976Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical novel explores the life and genius of Leonardo da Vinci, intertwining the artist's creative process...
An Outline of the German Occupation of Denmark 1940-1945
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Author: Per NytrupBinding: SoftbackPublished: Museum of the Danish Resistance Movement, 1968Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the German military occupation of...
The Night of Broken Glass Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Author: Uta Gerhardt, Thomas KarlaufBinding: HardbackPublished: Polity, 2012Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: SignedThis book provides a powerful collection of eyewitness accounts from the events of Kristallnacht, illustrating...
Marie Antoinette The Player Queen
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Author: John Garber PalacheBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, Green and Co, December 1929, Reprint EditionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the life of Marie Antoinette, focusing on...
The Soviet Union: The Fifty Years
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Author: Harrison E. SalisburyBinding: HardbackPublished: The New York Times Company, 1967, FIRST EDITION!Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the Soviet Union's...
The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book
$70.00 AUD
Author: George GoodchildBinding: HardbackPublished: Jarrold & Sons, -Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThe Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book is a poignant collection that aims to raise...
Their Trade is Treachery
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Author: Chapman PincherBinding: HardbackPublished: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1981, Reprint EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsTheir Trade is Treachery is a compelling exploration of espionage and betrayal, focusing...
The Life and Death of a Druid Prince: The Story of an Archaeological Sensation
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Author: Anne Ross and Don RobinsBinding: SoftbackPublished: Rider, 1991Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the fascinating archaeological discovery of a well-preserved Iron Age burial...
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
$70.00 AUD
Author: Alistair HorneBinding: HardbackPublished: Viking Press, 1977Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive account of the Algerian War of Independence against French colonial rule. Alistair...
The First Elizabeth
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Author: Carolly EricksonBinding: SoftbackPublished: St. Martin's Griffin, September 1997Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe First Elizabeth is a captivating biography that explores the life of Queen Elizabeth...
Thomas Becket
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Author: Richard WinstonBinding: HardbackPublished: Constable, 1967Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the life of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who became a martyr and saint after...
Leonardo
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Author: Bruno SantiBinding: SoftbackPublished: Constable, 1975Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book offers a detailed exploration of the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci, covering...
Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape
'Poetic and profound, Time and Tide is wise, considered and full of surprises' Observer'Poignant and touching' Mail on Sunday'Miraculous' ScotsmanA village waits at the bottom of a reservoir. A monkey...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Profound, elegiac and fascinating... I zipped through it' PHILIPPE SANDS'Compelling' DAILY MAIL,...
Rome: Eternal City
A portrait of the city at the heart of Western civilization, brought to life in twenty-two scenes from its 2,500-year history. The sweeping story of the city of Rome, told...
Hitler's British Isles
True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has vividly summoned a troubling episode from our national past.'...
Storms and Dreams
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URQUHART CASTLE AND THE GREAT GLEN
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Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939
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Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in
'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks'...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
WINNER OF THE 2024 SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDIts name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures....
Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health
At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front. Rationing would decimate the nation's health, they warned; drugs,...
Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century
"A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"The...
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century
What if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can - if you know where to look.A brilliant new cultural history of the long eighteenth century, Writing on the...
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware
'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say...
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook
"A remarkable and important story" BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour"Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforgettable lines" A.N. Wilson"In a remarkable new...
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in
How rhetoric-the art of persuasion-can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimonyThe discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand...
I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors
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UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation
'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy Snyder #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday...
Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer
The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack.Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid...
Stalin's War: Through the Eyes of His Own Commanders
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A History of Europe
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