British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind the ancient stone walls of Windsor Castle lies a thousand years of intimacy, intrigue, and power —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingBeneath the glittering chandeliers and behind the gilded carriages of Victorian and Edwardian England, a world of scandal, ambition, and elaborate social...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of one of the most turbulent centuries in English history stood Sir Edward...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the pageantry of a monarchy that has endured for centuries, Elizabeth & Philip: The Untold Story pulls back the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind the powdered wig and the austere bench of the Old Bailey stood one of the most formidable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedA literary life lived at the intersection of royalty, war, and world affairs — Thirty Years is Hector Bolitho's compelling memoir chronicling...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedShe cooked for kings, charmed aristocrats, and ran one of London's most legendary hotels with a iron will and a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew figures in British royal history court as much fascination and controversy as George IV, a man whose extravagance, romanticism,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the gilded drawing rooms and country estates of Victorian and Edwardian England, a new and audacious social transaction was...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind every throne lies a story of desire, ambition, and dangerous influence — and The Kings' Mistresses by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA titan of British wit, law, and letters finally turns the lens on himself — the result is a memoir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodShe was imperious, eccentric, and utterly unlike anyone who had come before her — Dame Edith Sitwell, one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBritain has always harboured a magnificent gallery of gloriously peculiar souls, and Edith Sitwell's The English Eccentrics chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to dedicate a life to the pursuit of history? The Making of an Historian presents the collected essays...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodBeneath the grey skies of England, the Thames has flowed silently through millennia of human ambition, worship, tragedy, and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the desperate opening years of the Second World War, as Nazi forces swept across Europe with terrifying speed, the Allied nations...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the height of an era defined by aerial warfare, J. M. Spaight — one of Britain's foremost authorities on...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the quiet, leafy streets of interwar Tunbridge Wells, a world of rigid social codes, suburban rituals, and...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat would you do if sudden wealth transformed you overnight from a draper's assistant into a gentleman of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageDublin in the 1920s was a city of contradictions — scarred by revolution, yet alive with wit, poetry,...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHe was called The Big Fellow — a revolutionary genius who built an intelligence network from nothing and...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Christopher Isherwood became one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices, he was a...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBeneath the golden myth of T.E. Lawrence — soldier, scholar, and self-styled desert warrior — lies a far...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of Britain's most desperate struggle for survival, one RAF pilot's story cuts through...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the smoke-filled skies above southern England during the summer of 1940, one New Zealand-born RAF pilot defied...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a pivotal moment in British cultural history, Raymond Williams issued a sharp and prescient intervention into the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWith the warmth of a summer afternoon and the gentle absurdity of rural life, Oh! To...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the ashes of the Napoleonic Wars to the trembling eve of the First World War,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew literary biographies have matched the ambition and intimacy of Edgar Johnson's Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the dying months of the First World War, a bold and visionary experiment in aerial warfare was launched — the Independent...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of ambition and decline, Britain's Aircraft Industry: What Went Right? What Went Wrong? presents a rigorous and unflinching post-mortem...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew aircraft have shaped the fate of a nation as decisively as the Hawker Hurricane, and Paul Gallico's The Hurricane Story is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the rugged pastoral landscape of nineteenth-century Queensland, a family's story becomes the story of a nation. The Generations of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the annals of military history, few stories grip the imagination quite like the tale of a command...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched decks of aircraft carriers to the freezing Arctic convoys, Pictorial History of the Fleet Air Arm chronicles the dramatic story of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the thunder of Spitfires over the English Channel to the lumbering might of Lancaster bombers on night raids over occupied Europe, Aircraft for...

Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of Britain's wartime media establishment, Cecil H. King witnessed the Second World War not from the trenches, but from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA world defined by brilliance, eccentricity, and intimacy comes alive in Loved Ones: Pen Portraits, Diana Mosley's exquisitely rendered collection of biographical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in the twentieth century did more to bring art to the masses than Kenneth Clark — the aristocratic scholar, broadcaster,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of privilege and catastrophe, Lady Cynthia Asquith's Diaries 1915-1918 presents an intimate, unfiltered chronicle of life in Britain during the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNestled in the heart of Norfolk, Swanton Morley airfield witnessed some of the most dramatic chapters of aerial...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA life shaped by duty, distinction, and the turbulent currents of twentieth-century Britain — Score of Years is the memoir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersBefore he became the defining statesman of the twentieth...