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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of
In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant...
Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia
Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the...
To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain
A brilliant history of the First World War by the bestselling and prizewinning author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains. Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected...
Return to Midway: The Quest to Find the Lost Ships from the Greatest
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Dr Robert Ballard's challenge for this work was to discover and photograph the ships sunk in the Battle of Midway, one of the most dramatic engagements of the Pacific War....
Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
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***The Instant New York Times Bestseller*** Endgame , the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, is a penetrating investigation into...
The Italian Job (The Kathryn Freeman Romcom Collection, Book 6)
Dream job. Dream house. Fake fiance. A year in a gorgeous Italian castle... When Anna Roberts' life implodes, an online search leads her to an ad for the ultimate dream...
The Snow Song
'A gorgeous love story ... with more than a touch of magical realism' Independent 'It's fabulous, we should all have copies' Simon Mayo, Scala Radio 'A glorious love story, a...
Australians And Greeks (Three-Volume Set)
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Slipcase - good with minor shelf wear. A landmark work of cultural and historical scholarship, Australians and Greeks presents a sweeping, meticulously...
From Hamburg To Hobsons Bay: German Emigration To Port Phillip (Australia Felix) 1848-51 (SIGNED)
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the mid-nineteenth century, thousands of German emigrants made the gruelling sea...
The Early Modern World: 1450–1700
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBetween the fall of...
Greece: History - Museums - Monuments
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew civilizations have cast as long a shadow over human history as ancient Greece, and Greece: History -...
The Quiet Conquest: The Huguenots 1685 To 1985
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: One small tear at back of jacket - repaired with non-acidic tape.Three hundred years after the revocation of...
Return To Greece: 50Th Anniversary Of The Campaign
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of the Second World War's most daring and desperate campaigns, Return to Greece:...
Twenty-Two Views of the Cupola
Following in the footsteps of the painters and engravers who portrayed Florence and its dome, Giovanni Fanelli pays a homage to Brunelleschi's masterpiece with a fine collection of drawings: a...
The Worm in the Apple: A History of the Conservative Party and Europe
The first extensive history of the relationship between the UK Conservative Party and the European Union. The Conservative Party has been in power for 47 of the 65 years since...
Nelson's Duchy: A Sicilian Anomaly
It describes not only the story of the estate and its very foreign owners, but also that of the English in eastern Sicily during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Not...
It's All Greek to Me: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins,
Welcome to our village. Meet Elpida, who cures bad backs with a raw egg and spells.Ajax the death-dealing butcher.Saint John the goat-headed saint . . . beautiful Eleni yearning for...
The Domesday Book: England's Heritage Then and Now
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The book titled The Domesday Book: England's Heritage Then and Now by the author Thomas Hinde. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
In the Footsteps of Smugglers: My Life on a Basque Mountain
An enchanting travel-writing debut, In the Footsteps of Smugglers is a humorous memoir of an English single mother who exchanges suburban life for a tiny, isolated barn high in the...
The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in
The 3rd Earl of Portsmouth voted in the House of Lords, took county positions, invited Jane Austen to his balls, counted William Cobbett as one of his Hampshire neighbours and...
The Longest Campaign: Britain's Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and
A complete account of the British maritime contribution to victory in World War II. For four centuries the British realm depended upon sea power to defend its interest and independence...
History of Britain & Ireland: The Definitive Visual Guide
"Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that shaped British and Irish history, from Stone Age Britain to the present day, in this fully revised and updated book. Combining...
Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 was the most famous of the age of sail, and the last in the long series between Britain and France. Brian Lavery paints a...
The Sins of our Fathers: SHORTLISTED for the CWA Crime Fiction in
** Now shortlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger** Winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year Winner of the Storytel Award for Best Suspense Novel...
Political Thought in Medieval Times
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Originally published by Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., 1958.
The History of the Atzec & Inca: Two Illustrated Reference Books:
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This boxed set of two encyclopedias charts the rise and fall of the ancient American empires - including the Chavin, Paracas, Moche, Olmec and Zapotec. It is an absorbing guide...
The Myth Of The Blitz
The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. It rested upon the assumed invincibility of an island race distinguished by good humour, understatement and the ability...
The City of London: v. 2: Golden Years, 1890-1914
Between 1890 and 1914 the city of London was all dominant, as Britain's legendary gold-standard reigned supreme across the globe. The author shows how this was possible, anatomizes an elite...
A Gentry Community: Leicestershire in the Fifteenth Century,
This book examines the fifteenth-century gentry of Leicestershire under five broad headings: as landholders, as members of a social community based on the county, as participants in and leaders of...
Lordship, Knighthood and Locality: A Study in English Society,
This book is a study in the evolution of English society between c. 1180 and c. 1280. The argument proceeds by means of a detailed analysis of the honour and...
European Jewry and the First Crusade
One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the first detailed...
The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British
At the end of the 20th century, tourism is the world's largest single industry. Tourism, however, is not only an economic and social phenomenon but can be "read" in semiotic...
Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome
The family has played a central role in most societies and the complexity, and variety of that role has engaged the minds of many froma wide range of disciplines. There...
Subtle is the Lord
Abraham Pais and Albert Einstein were friends and correspondents for the last nine years of Einstein's life. This definitive account of the life and work of the 20th century's most...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant...
The Reformation: Basic Interpretations
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew moments in Western history carry the seismic weight of the sixteenth-century Reformation, a period that...
Collected Plays: Volume Five Part One
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBertolt Brecht's Collected Plays: Volume Five Part One presents one of the twentieth century's most formidable dramatic voices...
La Grande Mademoiselle
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt the glittering and treacherous heart of the...
Elizabeth The Great
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew monarchs in history have commanded such enduring fascination as Elizabeth I of England, and Elizabeth Jenkins's Elizabeth...
The Story Of San Michele
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew memoirs have captured the imagination of the reading world quite like The Story of San Michele, a sweeping autobiography that transports...
The House That Nino Built
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWhat happens when an Italian family's dream of building their own home collides with the glorious chaos of postwar Italian...
A Dictionary Of Modern History: 1789-1945
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the fall of the Bastille to the ruins of a post-war world, A Dictionary of Modern History: 1789–1945 by A. W. Palmer is an...
A Dictionary Of Modern History: 1789 - 1945
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the storming of the Bastille to the final surrender of the Axis powers, A Dictionary of Modern History: 1789–1945 by A. W. Palmer presents...
The Windsor Tapestry: Being A Study Of The Life, Heritage And Abdication Of H.R.H. The Duke Of Windsor, K.G.
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew moments in modern British history carry the seismic weight of the 1936 abdication crisis, and The Windsor Tapestry presents a sweeping, authoritative examination...
The Life Of Elizabeth I
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew monarchs in history have commanded the stage of power, pageantry, and political intrigue with the authority of...
Young Hitler: The Making Of The Führer
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the swastika, before the bunker, before the world burned — there was a bitter, directionless young man...
The Glass-Blowers
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the sweeping backdrop of Revolutionary France, The Glass-Blowers chronicles the turbulent lives of the Busson family...