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Malice Aforethought
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and...
The Castlefield Collector
Where there's muck, there's mettle Dolly Tomkins has always known what it is to live hand to mouth. In the mean streets of a Salford struggling under the mantle of...
Action Stations Overseas: Britain's Military Airfields Abroad
The book titled Action Stations Overseas: Britain's Military Airfields Abroad by the author Tony Fairbairn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Munich Affair
A gripping thriller inspired by the unsolved murder of Hitler's twenty-one-year-old niece. Perfect for fans of Frederick Forsyth and The Rise of Evil. Munich, 1931. A young woman is found...
Interviewing Hitler: How George Ward Price Became the World's Most
George Ward Price became the leading journalist of the 1930s through a string of exclusive stories about Nazi Germany. He spent an hour alone with Hitler and Goering after the...
Tree. Table. Book.
From two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry comes this warm and resonant story of an unlikely friendship, which unfolds as a revelation on how we hold on to-and pass on-what matters...
Foul Lady Fortune: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of
Assassin. Immortal. Spy. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An ill-matched pair of spies pose as a couple to investigate a series of murders in 1930s Shanghai, from the author of...
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in
Doris Kearns Goodwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and...
The Klemperer Diaries: v. 1: I Shall Bear Witness, 1933-41
The diaries of a Jew in Nazi Germany; the most important documnet to emerge from the period since the publication of The Diary Of Anne Frank.The first of two volumes,...
Dead Ground
A young British nurse experiences the devastating Spanish Civil War and the dark side of the espionage game in this gripping World War Two thriller from Graham Hurley. 1936. Anglo-Breton...
A Guide to Hitler's Munich
Munich is one of Europe's most enchanting cities. Exploring its narrow cobbled streets or wide sunlight boulevards with views of the Bavarian Alps is a delight. Each autumn, millions of...
A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell
When we think about George Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who - between puffs on his cigarette - composes effortless streams of prose, unadorned...
The Good German of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe
In 1937, as the invading Japanese Army closed on Nanking, then the capital of China, all foreigners were ordered to leave the city. One man, a mild 55-year-old German named...
Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice
21st March 1945. 1530 hours. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and bombers sweep over German-occupied Venice. Their mission - destroy Germany's strategic outposts nestled along the...
Dead Ground
A young British nurse experiences the devastating Spanish Civil War and the dark side of the espionage game in this gripping World War Two thriller from Graham Hurley. 1936. Anglo-Breton...
Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice
21st March 1945. 1530 hours. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and bombers sweep over German-occupied Venice. Their mission - destroy Germany's strategic outposts nestled along the...
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and
Otto Dov Kulka's Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, translated by Ralph Mandel, is a memoir of astounding literary and emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by...
Winged Promises: History of No.14 Squadron, RAF 1915-1945
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Now flying Tornados in Germany, No.14 Squadron was one of the first deployed to the Middle East, and at one time operated with Lawrence of Arabia's guerilla forces. It has...
Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl -
Ernst Hanfstaengl was court jester, pianist, and foreign press chief for Hitler, he even claimed to have devised the chant of Sieg Heil, but when the two men fell out...
Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance
On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must...
The RAF in Camera: Archive Photographs from the Public Record Office
First published in 1995 and now available in paperback, the first part of a three-volume pictorial history of the RAF, which contains many rare and previously unpublished photographs from collections...
Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of
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A comprehensive guide to the aces of the British Empire fighting scout units during World War I. It gives biographies of 800 British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African and...
A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960
This is the first book on the general history of US sociological research. It provides systematic archival, documentary, and interview data which question conventional views on research methods, developing our...
Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars
This book begins by considering responses by French artists to the First World War, showing how Purism, Dada, and early Surrealism are related to the ethos of post-war reconstruction. The...
Literature in the Modern World
Literature in the Modern World offers a unique combination of English, European, feminist and `new writing', or `Commonwealth', perspectives on literary studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is...
Surrealism
The character of Surrealism had been crystallizing over the previous five years when, in 1924, Andre Breton's Manifeste du Surrealisme defined the word. As conceived in those early days it...
Journey of No Return: Five German Speaking Literary Exiles in Britain,
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Among the 70,000 refugees from Nazi Germany who had entered Britain by 1939 were many intellectuals of the Weimar era. This book tells the story of five emigre writers, three...
B. Traven: A Vision of Mexico (Latin American Silhouettes)
Author of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and other popular novels about Mexico, B. Traven surrounded his identity with mysteries designed to confound biographers. Now Heidi Zogbaum has produced...
Letters, Summer 1926
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A collection of correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke, Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetayeva. Published for the first time in English, these 49 letters examine their thought and work, the nature...
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink
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From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything , this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the...
The World in Depression, 1929-39
The book titled The World in Depression, 1929-39 by the author Charles Poor Kindleberger. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v.2
The book titled The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v.2 by the author Nora Levin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v. 1
The book titled The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v. 1 by the author Nora Levin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Hemingway: The Paris Years
The book titled Hemingway: The Paris Years by the author Michael S. Reynolds. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Hemingway: The 1930's
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This new biography focuses on the maturing Hemingway when fame is hitting full force the years between A Farewell to Arms and the writing of For Whom the Bell Tolls....
Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925-1936
Between 1925 and 1936 - a dramatic period of transformation within the Soviet Union - Josef Stalin wrote frequently to his trusted friend and political colleague Viachestav Molotov, Politburo member,...
With Dew on My Boots
The book titled With Dew on My Boots by the author Colin Thiele. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
History of the SS
A history of the SS, the Nazi Party's military arm, woven around the life and career of SS chief, Heinrich Himmler. The author reveals the SS rituals; how it functioned...
Bloodroot
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Aaron Roy Evan's startling, imagistic debut takes its cue from a true event: In 1936, in a small town near Charlottesville, Virginia, an aging black caretaker and his sister shot...
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38
The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries 'The greatest British diarist of the 20th century. An astonishing achievement. By turns frivolous and profound.' Ben Macintyre, The Times...
The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination
In the decades following the First World War, when aviation was still a revelation, flight was perceived as a spectacle to delight the eyes and stimulate the imagination. Robert Wohl...
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'Another tiger-golden day lay ahead of us. It was as though England...
Powder Puff Derby of 1929: The True Story of the First Women's
The unforgettable true story of the 1929 air race that legitimized female pilots. In 1929, nineteen women set out from Santa Monica, California, in flimsy, propeller driven planes, with a...
Before All The World
'A mesmeric, enrapturing read' Eimear McBride 'Beautiful and original' Colm Toibin 'In startling language filled with the flavor of Yiddish's combination words, [ Before All the World ] moves forward...
Australia's China: Changing Perceptions from the 1930s to the 1990s
Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the Cold War to the Australian recognition of the...