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Author: Anne-Marie WaltersBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, London , 1947Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Light foxing on book block. Clean text. This...

Author: Nancy MitfordBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton London, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, Frederick The Great, chronicles the life and reign of one of history's most enigmatic...

Author: Henry Charles BainbridgeBinding: HardbackPublished: SPRING BOOKS, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative biography, Peter Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith And Jeweller To The Russian Imperial Court. His Life And...

Author: Louis De Rouvroy, Duc De Saint-SimonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Heritage Press, 1959Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Sandglass pamphlet and foldout family tree laid-in. Saint-Simon: The Memoirs Of...

Author: Sir John Wheeler-BennettBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, London, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Name penned on fep of the 1st vol. Otherwise clean...

Author: William GerhardieBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Remainder mark on baseGod's Fifth Column: A Biography Of The Age 1890-1940...

Author: George MillarBinding: HardbackPublished: THE BODLEY HEAD, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerRoad To Resistance: An Autobiography chronicles the extraordinary life of a man thrust into the...

Author: Ian VorresBinding: HardbackPublished: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, The Last Grand Duchess: Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess...

Author: Composers: Dan Godfrey, Percy Hazeldine, H.R. Marriott, Ricardo Linter, and othersBinding: HardbackPublished: Various London imprints including Chappell & Co.,Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and...

Author: Marie-Madeleine FourcadeBinding: HardbackPublished: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: 1st edition in mint condition. Loose publishers review slip on the insideNoah's...

Author: M. R. D. FootBinding: HardbackPublished: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsSoe In France: An Account Of The Work Of The British Special...

Author: Edward GibbonBinding: HardbackPublished: Ball, Arnold, and Co., 1840Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards detached. Faded and...

Author: R. E. VintrasBinding: HardbackPublished: BACHMAN & TURNER LONDON, 1974Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThe historical account The Portuguese Connection: The Secret History Of The Azores...

Author: Michael Mitterauer & Reinhard SiederBinding: PaperbackPublished: Basil Blackwell, 1982Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Bumped corners and spine. Light staining on book block. No loose pages. This scholarly...

Author: Sotheby'sBinding: HardbackPublished: SOTHEBYS, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: 3 Softcover volumes in a hard caseThis compelling biography chronicles the tumultuous lives of Edward VIII and Wallis...

Author: Paul Lund And Harry LudlamBinding: HardbackPublished: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd., 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis gripping historical account chronicles the catastrophic journey of Convoy PQ...

Author: Christopher HibbertBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Union, 1959Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the tumultuous events of the 1780 Gordon...

Author: R. H. SavageBinding: HardbackPublished: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1896Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn boards....

Author: Klaus-Peter KoeppingBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press., 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Spine slightly discoloured from age, minor chips to edges...

Author: Giovanni BOCCACCIO; translated by J.M. Rigg; drawings by Louis ChalonBinding: HardbackPublished: Navarre Society, 1111Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No...

Author: Joseph Banks, J.C. BeagleholeBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1962Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jackets have light tanning along spinesVolume 1 and 2/ Two...

Employing pictures and words to examine the life of Prince William, this book reveals who he is and how being born into the Royal family, the tragic loss of his...

Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the officer ranks and promotion owed more to money than...

This work explores how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge...

With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper--an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than...

The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain's twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more...

When Sgt. Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment flew into Iraq in April, 2004, they were supposed to be winning hearts...

This account of the cataclysmic events in Russia in 1917 begins with the murder of Rasputin by an Oxford-educated transvestite, and the collapse of Old Russia. It ends with the...

On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness settled over the country. The majority of those men...

This book is a major history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys...

The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they...

This Very Short Introduction might prove disappointing to those expecting an introduction to a very short man. Dispelling the myth of Napoleon Bonaparte's short stature, as well as the other...

The Merchant Navy suffered proportionately the highest casualties of any of the Services in the Second World War, approximately 30,0000 of the 185,000 seamen who served being killed. Yet their...

The Second World War was the first in which amphibious landings played a truly significant part in the outcome of a global conflict and in this work, drawing on the...

Harry the Valet began his criminal career out of grief, but became Europe s most notorious jewel thief out of love. The story of a real-life Raffles a man who...

Most wars have had some element of espionage and subterfuge, but few have included as much as the Second World War, where the all-embracing nature of the conflict, new technology,...

On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting 'G') was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only...

ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK , A NEW BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister's diaries are an...

Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our...

"Superb" NICK COHEN, author of What's Left? "Tremendously entertaining" DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times "Like his previous histories of the Seventies and Eighties, A Classless Society is an extraordinarily comprehensive work....

'A masterly mix of shrewd analysis, historical detail and telling quotes... Indispensable' Mail on Sunday 'Among a host of recent books on the 1980s, Turner's stands out as comfortably the...

'A masterful work of social history and cultural commentary, told with much wit. It almost makes you feel as if you were there' ROGER LEWIS, Mail on Sunday The 1970s....

This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach--and the moment it began to topple. September 29, 1923. Once the...

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, "an expansive and generous history" of East Germany ( New Republic...

'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt Forde A fascinating and hilarious gallop through twentieth-century British history, by comedian...

A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or...