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Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes: The Secrets of Bletchley Park
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A compelling first-hand account of Britain's battle to crack the German codes Clearly demonstrates the methods used for cracking codes The first memoir detailing life at Bletchley Park's German Air...
Secret Days: Codebreaking in Bletchley Park
Lord Briggs has long been regarded as one of Britain's most important historians. However, until the publication of this remarkable book, he had never written about his time at Bletchley...
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England
From the acclaimed historian and broadcaster Marc Morris comes a gripping new book about one of the most important and turbulent periods in English history- the Anglo-Saxons. Sixteen hundred years...
Who's Who in Victorian Britain
This is part of an eight-volume series providing short biographies of men and women from Roman to Victorian times. Each entry places the subject in the context of their age...
Who's Who in Late Hanoverian Britain, 1789-1837
This is part of an eight-volume series providing short biographies of men and women from Roman to Victorian times. Each entry places the subject in the context of their age...
The Camino: a Journey of the Spirit: A Journey of the Spirit
It has been nearly three decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. In testament to the endurance and vitality...
Demographic Behavior in the Past: A Study of Fourteen German Village
This book provides a detailed examination of the demographic behavior of families during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a sample of fourteen villages in five different regions of Germany....
Snippets of Serbia
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An American artist chronicles her life in Serbia. This is Emma Fick's illustrated journey through the weird, the fun and the unique adventures to be experienced across this small Balkan...
The Cecils: Privilege and Power Behind the Throne
For over 50 years, one family dominated England's high offices of state. William and Robert Cecil, father and son, held unparalleled power as statesmen, diplomats, counsellors and spymasters throughout Elizabeth's...
D-Day: From the Normandy Beaches to the Liberation of France
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The book titled D-Day: From the Normandy Beaches to the Liberation of France by the author Stephen Badsey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Passchendaele: The Day-to-day Account
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The beginning of the end of World War I was fought in Flanders in the autumn of 1917. The author's patented day-by-day method of telling each side's story, based on...
Frontline and Experimental Flying With the Fleet Air Arm
The spectacle of Alan Cobham's Flying Circus and the Fleet at anchor in Weymouth inspired the author's lifelong passion for airplanes, flying and the Royal Navy . World War Two...
Best-Kept Secrets of Venice
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Encompassing all six districts of Cannaregio, San Polo, Dorsoduro (including the Giudecca), Santa Croce, San Marco (including San Giorgio Maggiore) and Castello - "The Secrets of Venice" gives the reader...
Fleet Battle and Blockade: The French Revolutionary War 1793-1797
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This volume is one of a major series which describes the great maritime events of the pre-photographic era from contemporary paintings, prints, drawings, charts and plans. Based on the incomparable...
Lonely Planet Epic Bike Rides of Europe: Detailed Itineraries |
Explore Europe's most thrilling cycling routes with the latest installment in the Epic series from Lonely Planet. From dreamy getaways on sun-dappled Mediterranean Islands to challenging alpine crossings, bike enthusiasts...
The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving
From her childhood in Romania, in a village 'as small as a thimble on the edge of the world', through to life in exile in Germany, Herta Muller's story unspools...
The Wars of the Roses: The conflict that inspired Game of Thrones
"Westeros is probably closer to medieval Britain than anything else." - George R.R. Martin, creator of Game of Thrones. Kings who were insane, infant or imprisoned; feuding families, disputed successions...
The Allied Forces in Italy 1943-45
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The book titled The Allied Forces in Italy 1943-45 by the author Guido Rosignoli. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
The boy in the bed was just fifteen years old. He had been handsome, perhaps recently; but now his face was swollen and disfigured by disease, and by the treatments...
Russia: Experiement With A People
The first history of modern Russia from 1991 to the present day by one of the leading historians of the 20th century USSR and Russia. In 1991, in a huge...
Mary Stuart's Scotland
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The book titled Mary Stuart's Scotland by the author David Steel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Konin: A Quest
A blend of personal memoir, oral history and biography, a story of lives caught up in the sweep of history, the resulting book encompasses the Holocaust in an illuminating way....
Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis
A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and lovingly illustrated by CILIP award winner Jackie...
Smoke
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFirst published in 1867, Ivan Turgenev's Smoke is a masterwork of Russian realism that cuts to the heart...
A Bridge Too Far
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn September 1944, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden — the largest airborne assault in history — with...
Restoration, Revolution, Reaction
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Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: New in original plastic wrap. "Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815-1871" is a work of political and economic history that chronicles...
Catherine The Great: Autocrat And Empress Of All Russia
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodShe seized a throne that was never meant to be hers, yet went on to become the most...
Ulysses
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Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels have shattered and remade the literary world quite like Ulysses — James Joyce's magnum opus that transposes...
The Annals Of Tacitus
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works of ancient literature match the raw, unflinching power of The Annals of Tacitus, a monumental chronicle...
Candide
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of the most wickedly brilliant satires ever written, Candide chronicles the misadventures of its relentlessly optimistic young...
Père Goriot
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the heart of Honoré de Balzac's Père Goriot lies one of literature's most devastating portraits of parental...
The Magic Mountain
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodSet against the rarefied air of a Swiss Alpine sanatorium in the years preceding the First World War,...
Plutarch Selected Lives: From The Parallel Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romans
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of antiquity's most enduring and celebrated works, Plutarch Selected Lives presents a curated collection drawn from the...
The Histories Of Gargantua And Pantagruel
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Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in the Western literary canon match the anarchic brilliance and philosophical depth of François Rabelais's The Histories...
The Decameron
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in the Western literary canon match the audacity and brilliance of The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio's monumental...
Greatest Plays
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Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew writers have captured the aching beauty of human longing quite like Anton Chekhov, whose dramatic works continue to...
Four Plays
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Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew voices in Western drama have cut as deeply into the human condition as Henrik Ibsen's, and Four Plays...
Swann's Way
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the heart of one of literature's most celebrated achievements lies a single, luminous memory: the taste of...
Madame Bovary: A Story Of Provincial Life
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Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels in the Western canon have so devastatingly laid bare the collision between romantic illusion and provincial reality...
The Red And The Black
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels in the Western canon cut as deeply into the marrow of ambition and desire as The...
The Age Of Improvement: 1783-1867
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, Britain stood on the cusp of a transformation so profound it would reshape...
Dreyfus: A Family Affair; 1789-1945
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodOne of the most explosive political scandals in modern European history — the wrongful conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus —...
The End Of The Ancient World
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew questions in the sweep of Western civilization have provoked as much debate as the collapse of the Roman Empire, and Santo Mazzarino's The...
Spain: The Vital Years
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew political upheavals of the twentieth century have been as violently contested — in both blood and ink — as the Spanish Civil War,...
Music In Western Civilization
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew books have shaped the study of music history with the authority and sweep of Paul Henry Lang's monumental Music in Western...
My Longest Night: An Eleven Year Old French Girl's Memories Of D-Day
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOn the eve of the greatest military invasion in history, a young French girl witnessed the chaos, terror, and liberation of D-Day from her...
Stefan George
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of symbolism and mysticism, Stefan George stands as one of the most commanding and controversial figures in German literary...
Peter The Great And The Emergence Of Russia
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the dawn of the eighteenth century, a colossal figure strode across the vast plains of Russia and remade an empire in his own...