British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the bitter winter of 1982, Britain dispatched a naval task force 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic to reclaim the Falkland Islands from...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the blood-soaked fields of the Western Front, one young British officer captured the raw, unfiltered truth of the First World War...

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Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the twilight of the medieval world, English literature stood on the precipice of transformation —...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodOne of the most scandalous and romantic episodes in modern royal history comes alive in The Windsor Story, the definitive account of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the quiet Dorset village of Tolpuddle in 1834, six agricultural labourers made a stand that would shake the foundations...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedTwo thousand years ago, the most powerful military force the ancient world had ever seen set its sights on a remote, fog-shrouded...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the spring of 1940, the fate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in British history inspire such fierce debate as Oliver Cromwell — soldier, statesman, regicide, and Lord Protector —...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: clean ex-lib copy with minimal stamps. At the heart of England's most turbulent century,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the turbulent year of AD 60, a warrior queen named Boudica led one of the most ferocious and dramatic uprisings the Roman Empire...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn nine tense days in May 1926, Britain came closer to a class confrontation than at any other...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the tradition of early twentieth-century British girls' fiction, The Old Brigade by...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sleepy, genteel village of Cranford, where the gracious rituals of tea-taking...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent years following the Sand River Convention, a young British officer stationed in the newly established Orange River Sovereignty set down his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodNestled on the rugged southwestern coast of Victoria, Port Fairy stands as one of Australia's most historically rich colonial settlements, and Port Fairy: The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the heart of one of England's most turbulent and transformative centuries stands Samuel Pepys — diarist, civil servant, and,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the fate of nations hung in the balance at 30,000 feet, it was the Allied fighter aircraft...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor collectors, curators, and connoisseurs alike, Dictionary of British Antique Glass stands as an indispensable reference guide to one of Britain's most refined decorative...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the fifth volume of his monumental six-part memoir, Winston S. Churchill chronicles the critical turning...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of the most intimate and vivid windows into seventeenth-century England, Pepys' Diary stands as an unparalleled masterpiece of personal writing — a candid,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew conflicts in the annals of the British Empire carry the dramatic, almost mythic weight of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, and The Zulu War:...