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British Submarines in the Great War
Originally published in 1970 and out of print for nearly thirty years, this book has already earned its place as a classic of submarine history by an author with an...
Russia and the Russians: A History
From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge, flat expanse dominates the Eurasian continent. Here, over more than a thousand years, the...
One Day in a Very Long War: Wednesday 25th October 1944
This text gives an overview of a single day in World War II - 25th October 1944, as it was seen on all fronts. Through a succession of vignettes, showing...
A History of Britain in 100 Dogs
An illustrated history of Great Britain told through dogs Throughout history they have sniffed, rolled, shaken and pawed their way to our hearts, and behind almost every great Briton is...
D-Day to VE Day: The Final Year of the War in Europe
On the evening of Monday, 5th June 1944, the people of Britain went to bed with a sense of great events impending. They knew that any day now would come...
Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798
A biography of the 18th century revolutionary Edward Fitzgerald, the son of Emily Lennox, one of the sisters featured in ARISTOCRATS. The book naturally follows on from ARISTOCRATS and is...
La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life
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The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction--its rules, its pleasures, its secrets France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its...
Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime
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A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many...
Rose Cocktails: A Collection of Classic and Modern Rose Cocktails
With an elegant pink rose-foil hardcover, Rose Cocktails is an evocative collection of 60+ rose cocktail recipes perfect for any occasion all year round! It's always rose season! And this...
Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas
Published in Antwerp in 1570, the THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM did something no previous book had done: here was the world in all its component parts, the chance to see our...
The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present
"By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing...
Dear Dickhead: A Telegraph Best Novel of the Year
"The book of the moment" Sunday Times A Guardian Book of the Year "Highly entertaining . . . subtle and complex" Guardian "Despentes at her very best" New European "Full...
Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots
In Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots , Jade Scott, a historian and expert on Mary's correspondence, draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint...
A Walk Through Ancient Rome: A Tour of the Historical Sites That
In this expert guide to the ancient city, Dr Philip Matyszak takes us on a tour of ancient Rome's most fascinating and important sites and locations, revealing the secrets of...
The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell
This work gives a compelling account of the officer who waged the intelligence battle against Napoleon's army, a forerunner to the great code-breakers of the 20th century. The French army,...
D-Day Normandy: The Story and Photographs
Features more than four hundred American, Allied, and German photographs that present the dramatic events of the invasion from both sides.
Great Museums of Europe
The myth of the Universal Museum, a place where cultures and the arts would be documented and preserved for future generations, inspired by the tradition of the Museum and the...
Italian Women Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
This title discusses women's artistic productions within established historical and geographical frameworks, also provides a survey of women professionally active as painters, engravers and sculptors in 16th and 17th century...
The Lost Child of Chernobyl
One April night, people living near Chernobyl see a great flash in the sky...Everyone is told to move out of the forbidden zone around the destroyed nuclear reactor, but two...
Dinner with Persephone
Patricia Storace begins by telling of her first day in Greece. She brings to bear on modern Greece a deep knowledge of the classics, of the Greek myths and of...
Lords of Battle: The World of the Celtic Warrior
To the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome, the Celtic warrior of the late Iron Age was the archetypal barbarian: savage, undisciplined, and bloodthirsty. In a clash of cultures that...
A Walk Through Ancient Rome: A Tour of the Historical Sites That
In this expert guide to the ancient city, Dr Philip Matyszak takes us on a tour of ancient Rome's most fascinating and important sites and locations, revealing the secrets of...
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
No city on earth has preserved its past as has Rome. Visitors stand on bridges that were crossed by Julius Caesar and Cicero, walk around temples visited by Roman emperors,...
Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance
'A n outstanding revisionist portrait of an age' Telegraph 'Targoff tells their stories with vim and vigour' i Paper '[A] fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women' Tina Brown, New...
The Taste Of Fear: A Polish Childhood In Germany 1939-46
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Author: Zofia KrukBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson London, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Inscription to previous owner on front end-page and minor...
Nights Of Plague
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Author: Orhan PamukBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber, 2022Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedNobel laureate Orhan Pamuk presents "Nights of Plague," a sweeping work of historical fiction set in 1901 on the fictional...
Death In The Middle Ages: Mortality, Judgment And Remembrance
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Author: T. S. R. BoaseBinding: HardbackPublished: McGraw-Hill, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic historical non-fiction work by T. S. R. Boase meticulously chronicles the pervasive presence and...
Maculan's Daughter
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Author: Sarah GainhamBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, London, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSarah Gainham's "Maculan's Daughter" is a compelling work of historical fiction set against the tumultuous backdrop of...
Dido Queen Of Carthage And The Massacre At Paris
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Author: Christopher MarloweBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Clipped priceThis volume presents two powerful tragedies by the Elizabethan playwright...
The Life And Times Of Alfred The Great
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Author: Douglas WoodruffBinding: HardbackPublished: Book Club Associates, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography chronicles the remarkable reign of Alfred the Great, the Anglo-Saxon king...
Patterns Of Government: The Major Political Systems Of Europe
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Author: Samuel H. Beer, Adam B. Ulam, Harry Eckstein, Herbert J. Spiro, And Nicholas WahlBinding: HardbackPublished: Random House, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis seminal academic work, 'Patterns...
Bulwer And His Wife: A Panorama 1803-1836
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Author: Michael SadleirBinding: HardbackPublished: Constable & Co Ltd, 1933Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a comprehensive biographical account of Bulwer and his wife. The narrative...
History And Hope: Essays On History And The English Civil War
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Author: C. V. WedgwoodBinding: HardbackPublished: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1962Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Base of book has a remainder markThis collection of essays offers profound...
When Fathers Ruled: Family Life In Reformation Europe
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Author: Steven OzmentBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1983Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Small tears to the edges of the dj.This scholarly work examines the intricate dynamics...
Cities Of The Flesh: Or The Story Of Roger De Montbrun
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Author: Zoë OldenbourgBinding: HardbackPublished: Pantheon Books, 1963Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight damage to the back of the cover.This historical novel transports readers to a...
James Fitzjames Stephen: Portrait Of A Victorian Rationalist
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Author: K. J. M. SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 2002Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a biographical account of James Fitzjames Stephen. It examines his intellectual contributions and...
Marie Antoinette And The Last Garden At Versailles
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Author: Christian DuvernoisBinding: HardbackPublished: Rizzoli, 2008Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Scuffed dj.The book details the life of Marie Antoinette and her connection to the gardens...
The Road To The Dictated Peace
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Author: László BotosBinding: HardbackPublished: Árpád Publishing Company, 1999Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn "The Road to the Dictated Peace," László Botos presents a profound and meticulously researched challenge...
Ville Venete: The Villa Civilization In The Mainland Dominion
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Author: Francesco MonicelliBinding: HardbackPublished: arsenale et editrice, 2003Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: In slipcase with plastic coverThe book presents an in-depth study of the Venetian villas. It examines...
Statesman And Saint: Cardinal Wolsey Sir Thomas More And The Politics Of Henry Viii
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Author: Jasper RidleyBinding: HardbackPublished: The Viking Press, 1983Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Fold to the back of the DJThis historical account scrutinizes the intertwined lives...
Elizabeth I
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Author: Jasper RidleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Constable London, 1987Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a comprehensive account of the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It chronicles her journey...
Garibaldi
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Author: Jasper RidleyBinding: HardbackPublished: The Viking Press, 1976Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a comprehensive account of Giuseppe Garibaldi's life. It details his pivotal role in the...
Henry Viii
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Author: Jasper RidleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Guild Publishing London, 1985Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a comprehensive account of King Henry VIII's life and reign. It examines the political landscape...