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Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of
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The thrilling family saga of five unforgettable women who remade Europe. From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story of four spirited...
Aviation
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This is a shrunk-down version of the compelling 100 Years of Aviation. It includes photographs hand-picked from the archives of the Press Association. From the first powered, heavier-than-air flight by...
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...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth
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Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950
A captivating portrait of those who lived, loved, fought, played and flourished in Paris between 1940 and 1950 and whose intellectual and artistic output still influences us today After the...
Private World of Ottoman Women
Recovering the oft-neglected role of women in Ottoman high society and power politics, this book brings to life the women who made their mark in a male domain. Though historical...
Arab Rediscovery of Europe: A Study in Cultural Encounters
Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 suddenly exposed the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire to a Europe vastly different from the one known to the Arabs of the Middle...
Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids
Recreates the golden age of ancient Egypt. Here, for example, the pyramids and the sphinx are construction sites teeming with workers. Administrators bustle to fulfil their assignments from the Pharaoh's...
The World Through a Monocle: The "New Yorker" at Midcentury
"The New Yorker" is one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era it occupied an almost unique niche of...
Understanding Vietnam
The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and
This is an innovative analysis of the relationship between women's economic opportunity and marriage in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It is based on an intensive study of York and...
Lest We Forget: War and Peace in 100 British Monuments
A moving account of how war is remembered - and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David...
The Australian Wars: The truth about the bloody battles fought to
It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all...
A Voyage Around the Queen
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the SPECTATOR , MAIL ON SUNDAY , NEW STATESMAN...
The Wars of the Roses: And the Lives of Five Men and Women in the
During the amazing 15th-century bloodbath of the Wars of the Roses, three kings, a Prince of Wales, and eight royal (or semi-royal) dukes died in battle, murder or sudden death,...
Mysterious Britain
From the heart of the West Country to the remote highlands of Scotland, the landscape of Britain is dotted with extraordinary sights, scapes and structures - treasure-filled Neolithic burial chambers,...
EXPORT TWENTIETH CENT RUSSIA
Expanded study of the events of 1917. Includes short biographies of key people. Case studies in each chapter focus on key issues.
Nefarious: A life in crime - my life with Joey Pyle, the Krays and
A Daily Mail Book of the Week Prolific armed robber. Close ally of Joey Pyle. Friend and fellow inmate of the Kray twins. Last man to stand trial with a...
The Woman They Could Not Silence: one woman, her incredible fight for
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From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. Elizabeth Packard was an ordinary...
Waking the Giant: Inside the Rebirth of Aston Villa
The true story of one football club's astonishing return to the top Featuring exclusive interviews with Jack Grealish, John McGinn, Ollie Watkins, Tyrone Mings and Ezri Konsa, along with many...
The Early Years Of Brian O'Nolan/Flann O'Brien/Myles Na Gcopaleen
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Ciaran O Nuallain's memoir of his brother Brian O'Nolan (1991-66), the only major source on the early life of the man who later achieved literary fame as Flann O'Brien and...
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...
Mrs Woolf and the Servants
Loathing, anger, shame - and deep affection: Virginia Woolf's relationship with her servants was central to her life. Like thousands of her fellow Britons she relied on live-in domestics for...
A Social History of Twentieth Century Russia
Vladimir Andrle's study of Russian history shifts the focus of historical understanding from political leaders and their ideologies to the interactions of the State with the various social strata and...
Modern Spain, 1875-1980
The word 'liberal', as part of our political vocabulary comes from Spain. It was first used to describe a group of radical patriots cooped up in Cadiz, refugees from the...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
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One of the New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages...
Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word
A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language. Few words in the English language are as misunderstood as "like." Indeed, excessive use...
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of
"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in...
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics
A compelling exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker The Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday...
INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA
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This illustrated pocket encyclopedia, which includes photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries, traces the history of the Indians from the voyage across the Bering Strait from Asia to...
The History of the "Times": v. 5: Struggles in War and Peace, 1939-66
The book titled The History of the "Times": v. 5: Struggles in War and Peace, 1939-66 by the author Iverach McDonald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories
How do places make us, and how do we make them? At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his...
Jasmin's Witch
The book titled Jasmin's Witch by the author Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All
"Toni Morrison once said, 'The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction.' In The Moment , Bakari Sellers brilliantly and precisely cuts through the noise of the calculated,...
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety's Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible's Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best...
Luck: A Personal Account of Fortune, Chance and Risk in Thirteen
'A joy' Philippe Sands'Glorious' David Spiegelhalter A fascinating, enchanting and personal look at the meaning of luck, and the way in which it has shaped our shared history and continues...
Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Made Europe
Three of Europe's greatest rivers begin in the same geological cradle: one fertile patch of high Alpine ice in the jagged heights of central Switzerland. The consequences of this small...
Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun
A joyous exploration of the cultural phenomenon that created Mario, Zelda and PokA (c)mon, and an ode to our love of gaming, by one of the most trusted voices in...
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 Two Eleanors of Henry III: The Lives of Eleanor of Provence and
Eleanor of Provence was born in the province of her name in 1223. She has come to England at the age of twelve to marry the king, Henry III. He's...
Hope Has Wings: Mission Aviation Fellowship Story
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This volume is an account of the missionary organization, the Mission Aviation Fellowship. Born out of the flying skills obtained during World War II, the MAF continues to take medicines,...
Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry, 1939-45
In IMAGINATION AT WAR Adam Piette looks at the two faces of British wartime culture from 1939-1945. Behind the theatrical facade of public nostalgia and glorification he finds the private...
England under the Norman and Angevin Kings: 1075-1225
This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence,...
Lincoln's Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist
A thrilling, cinematic saga of a Southern belle whose espionage for Abraham Lincoln and the Union helped win the Civil War. Wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all....
Injury Time: Football in a State of Emergency
A Telegraph Best Book of 2025. A News Statesman Book of the Year 2025. 'David Goldblatt is possibly the best football historian there has ever been'. Dominic Sandbrook 'David Goldblatt...
prettycityparis: Discovering Paris's Beautiful Places
Go beyond the French capital's famous landmarks and discover the hidden gems. From secluded mews and undiscovered cafes to flower markets and tree-lined streets, prettycityparis champions the quiet, gentle moments...