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Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.
A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan-Athenian alliance "Provocative, intriguing and cogently argued."-David Stuttard, Classics for...
Zeppelin
This new publication from Michael Belafi offers some truly intriguing content. Photographs of the mighty Zeppelin at all stages of development feature in a publication that aims to chart the...
England, France and Aquitaine: From Victory to Defeat in the Hundred Years War
This is a narrative history of England and France during the Hundred Years War, from the triumphs of Henry V to the defeat of the English and loss of Gascony...
Inside the Regiment: The Officers and Men of the 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
In this companion volume to her pioneering study Redcoats Against Napoleon, Carole Divall tells the fascinating inside story of a typical infantry regiment during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Rather...
Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind
Queen Victoria's Skull explores the life and thinking of the Edinburgh phrenologist George Combe. Phrenology is a theory which claims to be able to detect personality traits, character and predisposition...
Outbreak: 1939
11-15 am, 3 September 1939. The nation gathers around their radios to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain make the announcement they have feared for months- Britain is at war with...
Mapping Shakespeare: An exploration of Shakespeare's worlds through maps
William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564-1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political...
The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877-1959), a...
Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland
This fascinating study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised...
The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes by Christine de Pizan: Volume 457
Christine de Pizan attracted an international audience of admirers her during her lifetime, including many readers in England. The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (1521) is the earliest English...
Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs'
John Foxe's Acts and Monuments - popularly known as the 'Book of Martyrs' - is a milestone in the history of the English book. An essential history of the English...
Texts and Culture in Late Antiquity: Inheritance, Authority, and Change
Late Antiquity has increasingly been viewed as a period of transformation and dynamic change, a process as evident in its literature as in the spheres of society and politics. In...
'Insubordinate Irish': Travellers in the Text
This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travellers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland's collective imagination. A...
Phoenix - a Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945: Volume 1 - the Phoenix is Reborn 1918-1934
Phoenix: A Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945As a professional historical geographer with an all pervading interest in all things aeronautical, Richard Meredith brings a unique insight into the past...
American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the Us Consular Service
This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America's foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism. Its originality lies in that...
Order and Conflict: Anthony Ascham and English Political Thought (1648-50)
This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham's career and writings for the first time in English. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and...
Phoenix - a Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945: Volume 2 - the Genesis of Air Power 1935-1937
Based on forty years of detailed research, Phoenix - A Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945 is a unique history of the wartime German Luftwaffe. Going far beyond a simple...
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany - A Chronicle of Their Lives
Author: Steven E. Ozment Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 Through correspondence to mothers and guardians, the reader experiences the lives of three generations of German boys in sixteenth- and...
The Battle of Normandy
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The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
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Clarissa Eden: A Memoir - From Churchill To Eden
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Gold, Glory, and the Gospel: The Adventurous Lives and Times of the Renaissance Explorers
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Author: Louis B. WrightBinding: HardbackPublished: Atheneum, 1970Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the adventurous lives and times of Renaissance explorers, detailing their motivations—God, Gold, and Glory—and...
Go Spy the Land: Being the Adventures of Ik8 of the British Secret Service
Author: George Alexander Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The latest in Biteback's best-selling Dialogue Espionage Classics series of rediscovered spy masterpieces, Go Spy the Land is George Alexander...
Adventures of Hebe
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Author: John Lathambinding: HardbackPublished: H. Regnery, 1976Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book chronicles the exciting journeys and experiences of Hebe, capturing her adventures in...
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance
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Author: John HaleBinding: SoftbackPublished: Atheneum, 1994Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn this extraordinarily rich and engaging book, John Hale has painted, on a grand canvas, what he...
The King's Peace, 1637-1641
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Author: C. V. WedgwoodBinding: HardbackPublished: BOCM, 1991Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the period of relative peace in England during the years leading up...
Fishbourne: A Roman Palace and Its Garden
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Author: Barry CunliffeBinding: HardbackPublished: John Hopkins Press, 1971Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the significance of Fishbourne Roman Palace within the broader context of...
The Kingdom of the Franks North-West Europe before Charlemagne
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Author: Peter LaskoBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1971Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerExplore the fascinating world of the Franks and their kingdom in this engrossing read by...
Is Paris Burning?
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Author: Larry Collins; Dominique LapierreBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, BCE, 1965Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsIs Paris Burning? is a historical account of the liberation of...
Utopia in Power
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Author: Mikhail Heller, Aleksandr M. NekrichBinding: HardbackPublished: Summit Books, 1986Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsUtopia in Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to...
History Of Middle Europe: From the Earliest Times to the Age of the World Wars
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Author: L. TihanyBinding: HardbackPublished: Dorset Press, 1987Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides an extensive overview of the history of Middle Europe, covering significant events and developments...
Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis
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Author: Daniel B. SilverBinding: HardbackPublished: Houghton Mifflin, 2003Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book tells the incredible story of how Berlin's Jewish Hospital survived during World War II,...
The Medieval World: Europe 1100-1350
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Author: Friedrich HeerBinding: HardbackPublished: The World Publishing Company, 1962Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the history and culture of Western Europe during the medieval...
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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Author: Barbara Wertheim TuchmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA Distant Mirror explores the complexities of 14th-century Europe, particularly France, capturing the social,...
The Storm Petrels
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Author: Gordon Brook-ShepherdBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Union, 1978Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Storm Petrels: The Flight of the First Soviet Defectors provides an insightful look into the lives...
The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71
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Author: Alistair HorneBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1965Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsIn this brilliant study of the Siege and its aftermath, Alistair Horne evokes the high...
The Black Death, 1347
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Author: George DeauxBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1969Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the Black Death, a devastating epidemic that struck Europe between 1347 and 1351,...
The Celts
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Author: Nora ChadwickBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 2002, Third PrintingCondition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsNora Chadwick's book 'The Celts' is a landmark in Celtic Studies, first published...
Hellenika: Heritage and History
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Author: T. Peter LimberBinding: HardbackPublished: Pilgrimage Pub, 1989Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsHellenika: Heritage and History offers a detailed exploration of Greek heritage, covering significant historical periods and...
The Normans
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Author: David C. DouglasBinding: HardbackPublished: Folio Society, 2002Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Normans by David C. Douglas is a beautifully illustrated book with fine binding, offering...
Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France
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Elizabeth's Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen's Court
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Victoria
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The Grimaldis of Monaco
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Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'This will be the most important political book of...
The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State, 1922-97
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Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the 20th Century
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