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The Last Battle
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Author: Cornelius RyanBinding: HardbackPublished: William Clowes and Sons., 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight tears in dust jacket and minor stain on fore-edge.This compelling work of...
Modern France
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Author: F.C. RoeBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Stained endpapers. This academic text, "Modern France" by F.C. Roe, offers a comprehensive historical...
A History Of Venice
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Author: John Julius NorwichBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin Books, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsJohn Julius Norwich's "A History of Venice" is a comprehensive work of non-fiction, presenting a detailed...
Journal Of My Life During The French Revolution
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Author: Grace Dalrymple ElliottBinding: HardbackPublished: The Rodale Press, 1950Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis historical memoir, "Journal Of My Life During...
France In The Age Of Louis xiii And Richelieu
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Author: Victor-L. TapiéBinding: PaperbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Page edges slightly yellowed and sun damaged...
The Novels Of The German Romantics
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Author: Eric A. BlackallBinding: PaperbackPublished: Cornell University Press., 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor stains in end-pages.This academic text offers a comprehensive analysis of the German Romantic...
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of...
From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome 133 BC to AD 68
Scullard's clear and comprehensive narrative covers the period from 133 BC to 69 AD, exploring the decline and fall of the Republic, and the establishment of the Pax Romana under...
The Fixer
A new work of 'comics journalism' by the acclaimed author of Palestine. In The Fixer Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In...
The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the...
After The Victorians: The World Our Parents Knew
Follow-up to the bestselling The Victorians in which A. N. Wilson tells the story of the 'Decline and Fall' of Britain. When this book begins, in the reign of Edward...
Battle of Brothers: William and Harry - The Inside Story of a Family
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A New York Times bestseller. From bestselling author and historical consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown , an unparalleled insider account of tumult, secrecy and schism in the...
The August Coup: Three Days That Shook the World
This is an analysis of the causes and consequences of the coup detat that began in the USSR on 18 August 1991. It examines such issues as why and how...
The Little Book of Paris
Why was the Place de la Nation formerly called la Place du Trone? Has the Pantheon always been the resting place of great men? Who exactly decided where the Hotel...
Coastal Dawn: Blenheims in action from the Phoney War through to the
In 1940, the defence of Great Britain rested with a handful of volunteer aircrew, Churchill's 'few'. Overshadowed in later folklore by the more famous Spitfire and Hurricane pilots, there were...
Bounce the Rhine: The Spellmount Siegfried Line Series Volume Nine
In September, 1944, Montgomery predicted that his armies would easily 'bounce the Rhine' to strike a final blow at the heart of Hitler's Reich. However, his confidence was misplaced; nearly...
West Wall: The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line: The Spellmount
An account of the battle for the Siegfried Line in the final year of World War II, which raged for six, long, bloody months along a front of 350 miles...
The Massacre of Glencoe
An historical account of the massacre, in February 1692, of the small Clan MacDonald of Glencoe by Campbell of Glenlyon's troops under orders from the English Government. It marked the...
In the Words of Napoleon: the Emperor Day by Day
In the Words of the Emperor is a startling insight into the life and deeds of Napoleon. Derived from Napoleon's extensive correspondence and his other writings and recorded speech, this...
Histories
Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith. Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his 'Histories' are the first piece of Western historical writing....
The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain
Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings...
Sophia Electress of Hanover: The Remarkable Life of the Mother of
The detailed memoirs and letters of a gifted and prolific chronicler provide an insider's view of life for the top echelons of society in the 16th century Sophia, Electress of...
Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France
A compelling new biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV of France with dramatic insights into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful and feared women...
1815: The Return of Napoleon: Bonaparte's March Back to Power
This unique and atmospheric volume presents the dramatic story of Napoleon's escape from Elba and his march on Paris in the words of eyewitnesses and participants. Drawing on hundreds of...
Decline and Fall of Napoleon's Empire
In this wide-ranging study of the Napoleonic regime, Digby Smith tracks Napoleon's rise to power, his stewardship of France from 1804 15, and his exile. He highlights his military mistakes,...
Welsh History - A Chronological Outline
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A chronological and brief outline of Welsh history from prehistoric times (11,000 BC) to the present day. The book is intended for non-specialists who want an easily accessible and understandable...
Battle for Sicily: Stepping Stone to Victory
On the night of 9-10 July 1943, an Allied armada launched the invasion of Sicily, a larger operation than the Normandy landings the following year. Over the next thirty-eight days,...
Donitz's Last Gamble: the Inshore U-boat Campaign 1944-45
After the June 1944 D-Day landings Donitz withdrew his U-boat wolf-packs from the Atlantic convoy war and sent them into coastal waters, where they could harass the massive shipping movements...
Flying in Defiance of the Reich: A Lancaster Pilot's Rites of Passage
This is the vivid memoir of a man who was twenty-one at the outbreak of World War II. Having joined the RAFVR before the war, he was mobilised in August...
Fortune's Daughters
The story of Jennie, Clara and Leonie Jerome is one of glamour, money and love in equal measure. Their father Leonard was a profligate New York stockbroker whose beautiful wife...
Footmarks: A Journey into Our Restless Past
On paths, roads, seas, in the air, and in space there has never been so much human movement. In contrast we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time'....
Gallipoli: New Perspectives on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force,
Generally conceded to be doomed from the outset by the most recent historiography, the Gallipoli campaign still arouses heated controversy. In a new compendium of original research by an impressive...
British Aviation: The First Half Century
The first half of the 20th century saw the birth of the airplane and its development as an instrument of war and commerce. Within five decades, contraptions barely able to...
British Aircraft of World War One
World War One took place just after the birth of powered flight, when aerial technology was still in its infancy. At the outbreak of war, the military potential of this...
British Submarines in the Great War
Originally published in 1970 and out of print for nearly thirty years, this book has already earned its place as a classic of submarine history by an author with an...
Russia and the Russians: A History
From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge, flat expanse dominates the Eurasian continent. Here, over more than a thousand years, the...
One Day in a Very Long War: Wednesday 25th October 1944
This text gives an overview of a single day in World War II - 25th October 1944, as it was seen on all fronts. Through a succession of vignettes, showing...
UPROAR!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London
London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstreets of the capital, on his way to begin his studies at the Royal Academy...
First Blitz: The German Air Campaign Against Britain 1917-1918
In 1917 the Germans launched a major air campaign against the British mainland which shocked the whole nation and terrorised the south-east of England. These attacks by German bombers caused...
A History of Britain in 100 Dogs
An illustrated history of Great Britain told through dogs Throughout history they have sniffed, rolled, shaken and pawed their way to our hearts, and behind almost every great Briton is...
We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End
'Wars are not won by evacuations' 'We can take it!' 'Westward look, the land is bright' This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators includes Churchill's famous...
The Queen: 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II
In this warm and witty biography of Elizabeth II in her jubilee year, Sunday Times bestseller Ian Lloyd reveals the people, events and themes that have shaped her life and...
German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in the Skipton Camp
In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had written and...
Walking Gallipoli
Gallipoli was a First World War tragedy, a side show that had ambitious hopes to end the war early. Despite the immense gallantry displayed by those fighting, from the beginning,...
AD69: Emperors, Armies and Anarchy
With the death of Nero by his own shaky hand, the ill-sorted, ill-starred Iulio-Claudian dynasty came to an ignominious end, and Rome was up for the taking. This was 9...