Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt Britain's darkest moment, when the skies above the English Channel became the crucible of civilisation's survival, Their Finest Hour chronicles the extraordinary story...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the precipice of civilisation's most turbulent era, Vincent Sheean's The Eleventh Hour presents a searching and urgent examination of the political and moral crises threatening...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the bleeding edge of history, war correspondent Quentin Reynolds witnessed firsthand the dramatic liberation of Europe during the Second World War — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: In mylar sleeveAgainst all odds and against all reason, Douglas Bader — a man who lost both legs...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingIn the darkest days of World War II, a small band of Royal Marines embarked on one of the most audacious and perilous commando...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom its storied birth in the fiercely competitive press wars of nineteenth-century New York to its tragic demise in 1966, the New York Herald...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the hinge of history, when Britain stood alone against the full might of Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill found himself at the helm of a nation...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingHe was a young man who stared death in the face and wrote about it with the clarity of someone who had nothing left...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind the wire of a German prisoner-of-war camp, an Australian soldier found a way to bear...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the inner circles of early twentieth-century Bohemian Europe, a unique and intimate portrait emerges — GM: Memories of George...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsA Little Learning is the intimate and candid memoir of one of the twentieth century's most...

Edition: 2nd ed., revisedCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the vast, sun-scorched wilderness of Australia's Northern Territory, one man took to...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsOne of the most flamboyant and commanding figures in twentieth-century classical music, Sir Thomas Beecham tells his own story...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the treacherous waters and dense jungles of the South Pacific during World War II, a small,...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the twilight years of Alexander Alekhine's reign as World Chess Champion, a series of games were played that stand as...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the fog-laden parlours of Victorian England to the tense, clock-ticking duels of the twentieth century,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: N/APages: GoodAn indispensable scholarly resource for students of twentieth-century communism, the Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern chronicles the lives and careers of hundreds of key figures...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn a work of extraordinary scope and singular imaginative vision, Journey to the Ends of Time: Volume I...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens when a sharp-witted playwright and mother of four attempts to navigate the gloriously chaotic intersection of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingBehind the closed doors of a Royal Navy tribunal, one man's honour, career, and legacy hang in the balance — Court Martial by Alastair...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the turbulent heart of seventeenth-century Britain, where loyalty was a currency as volatile as gunpowder, James Hamilton, First Duke...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingBehind every great literary movement stands a great publisher, and few in the twentieth century cast a longer shadow...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerA gripping firsthand account of one of the twentieth century's most turbulent political...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it truly mean to live well? In The Importance of Living, Chinese-American scholar and philosopher Lin Yutang presents a luminous, deeply personal...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: Minor tear to edge of DJ.Few writers of the twentieth century have provoked such fierce...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhen Sigmund Freud fled Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938, he carried with him not just his life but the embattled legacy of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the poverty-stricken backstreets of Nizhny Novgorod emerges one of Russian literature's most haunting memoirs — Maxim Gorky's Childhood chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the final volume of Maxim Gorky's celebrated autobiographical trilogy, My Universities chronicles the young Alexei Peshkov's turbulent coming-of-age in...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodGeoffrey Grigson — poet, critic, and one of the twentieth century's most formidably opinionated literary figures — presents in Recollections: Mainly of Artists and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the bold and unforgiving landscape of colonial Australia, one man's ambition and vision gave birth to a city that would endure...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFor anyone seeking to navigate the vast and often daunting landscape of modern letters, Who's Who in Twentieth...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of Britain's most turbulent twentieth century decades stood two remarkable figures whose quiet dignity and steadfast resolve would define a nation's character...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn one of the most searingly honest political critiques of the twentieth century, The Chairman's New Clothes: Mao and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind one of Russia's most celebrated literary names lies a family saga as rich and turbulent as the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in Hollywood history occupy as singular a position as Peter Bogdanovich — a cinephile turned director turned critic — and Picture Shows: Peter...