European History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the twilight of Europe's most glittering era of royal absolutism, a storm was gathering that would tear...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe nineteenth century was an era of towering intellects, revolutionary movements, and cultural transformations that reshaped the modern world — and Makers of Nineteenth...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. maps included. Long before the Indo-European migrations reshaped the European continent, another civilisation laid its deep...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFor the traveller who believes that a country is best understood through its food, its...

In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze , Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten...

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Follow the misadventures of Ian Moore as he chronicles the charming and chaotic escapades of his family and their eccentric assembly of animals, on their continued search for serenity in...

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The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack . Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret...

The finest book yet from the bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest: an ageing man with an unreliable mind plans the final days before he flies to Switzerland...

The story of the Giro d'Italia - Italy's equivalent of the Tour de France, and its superior in the eyes of many - is as dramatic and full of extraordinary...

Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt...and his excitement is contagious.--James Wood,...

Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do you write about...

A gripping thriller inspired by the unsolved murder of Hitler's twenty-one-year-old niece. Perfect for fans of Frederick Forsyth and The Rise of Evil. Munich, 1931. A young woman is found...

A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma. A luminous...

From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with...

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The official prequel to the hit television show France, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl...

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The classic! This new edition of Paul Carrell's eastern front study picks up where Hitler Moves East left off. Beginning with the battle of Kursk in July 1943, Carell traverses...

This volume showcases the Venetian style of living and entertaining, featuring stunningly photographed interiors paired with artfully presented local recipes amidst the backdrop of the most elegant private rooms and...

In late summer 1940, Hitler told his army to prepare to invade England. The nation waited, breathless with tension, for the Nazi threat to become real. Acclaimed author Midge Gillies...

Wry, off-beat and subversive - a Jewish family memoir like no other, from the author of the cult classic novel Submarine Joe Dunthorne's great-grandfather was a family legend: the eccentric...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn an era defined by industry, empire, and radical transformation, Victorian Visionaries illuminates the extraordinary minds who dared to imagine a different...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the ancient Roman frontier settlements along the Danube to the dazzling twilight of the Habsburg Empire, A Brief Survey of Austrian History presents a sweeping...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Britain stood at a crossroads — caught between the dying embers of Victorian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the heart of one of history's most formidable reigns stands a woman of startling contradictions — a young girl who ascended the throne at eighteen...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedIn the turbulent decades of the seventeenth century, England tore itself apart in one of the most dramatic and consequential conflicts in its history — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew figures in Western history cast as long a shadow as Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican-born general whose military genius and relentless ambition reshaped the map of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the ashes of the Napoleonic Wars to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the first stirrings of prehistoric civilization to the complex, interconnected world of the twentieth century, A World History presents an ambitious and panoramic sweep...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the annals of military catastrophe, few episodes are as haunting or as grimly spectacular as the Charge of the Light Brigade, and Cecil...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the grandeur of the Pantheon to the sweeping arches of the Colosseum, Roman Art and Architecture presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Advanced Reading Copy.From the rubble of World War II to the fractured politics of the twenty-first century, Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 chronicles seven...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Advanced Reading Copy.Before he became the most feared ruler of the twentieth century, Joseph Stalin was simply Soso — a cobbler's son...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the modern world, Britain stood as the forge of a global empire — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in history command the imagination quite like Elizabeth I — a woman who seized the throne...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the rugged, tradition-bound landscape of nineteenth-century Sardinia, a young girl named Cosima burns with an ambition that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previousowner inscription to FEP and annotation throughout.In an era defined by clashing visions of human society, Karl Dietrich Bracher's The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew civilizations have left behind a legacy as enduring or as breathtaking as that of ancient Greece, and The Greek...

Edition: special edition for sandpiper booksCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the intersection of royal power and parliamentary authority lies one of the most consequential struggles of the medieval...