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Terra Australis Incognita: The Spanish Quest for the Mysterious Great South Land
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Caesar Against the Celts
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The English World: History, Character And People
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Author: Robert Blake (ed) Format: Hardback Published: 1982, Thames & Hudson Condition Remarks: Excellent. ,,,Unblemished dustjacket,Bright and clear text on unmarked pages Description: The English World: History, Character, and People...
British Battles of the Crimean Wars 1854-1856: Despatches from the Front
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014The Crimean War was the most destructive armed conflict of the Victorian era. It...
Tanks on the Somme: from Morval to Beaumont Hamel
Author: Trevor PidgeonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 160 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2010On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of...
By Fire and Sword: The Rise and Fall of English Supremacy at Arms: 1314-1485
Author: Peter ReidFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 975g, 416 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2007This is a re-evaluation of the rise and fall of English military supremacy. For...
Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords
Author: Steve CliffeFormat: Paperback, 192 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013Do I think the Great War could have been avoided? My answer categorically is yes. So David Lloyd George,...
Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy, c 1680-1740
Author: Ruth Hill (Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia (United States))Format: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 304 pagesPublished: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom, 2000This study centres on science,...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
Hit and Run: Daring Air Attacks in World War Ii
Author: Robert JacksonFormat: Hardback, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2004The book describes some of the most daring air attacks of World War II. Some were outstanding...
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory
Author: Lisa JardineFormat: Hardback, 161mm x 239mm, 1118g, 400 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2008A fascinating exploration of the relationship of competition and assimilation between England and the Netherlands during...
The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins University, USA)Format: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 570g, 336 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet,...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Wingate Pasha: the Life of General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate 1861-1953
Author: R. J. M. PughFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 320 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Wingate Pasha is the first biography of an emminent Scottish soldier-statesman who...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
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Author: Tim BlanningFormat: Hardback, 167mm x 242mm, 998g, 688 pagesPublished: Random House USA Inc, United States, 2016The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of...
Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 138-16
Author: Nancy Bradley WarrenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2005The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were...
Voices in Flight: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII
Author: Martin W BowmanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew...
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
Author: Geoff AndrewsFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 226mm, 553g, 288 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies....
War in Ancient Greece
Author: Bob CarruthersFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 576 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013The Athenian Thucydides (c490-395BC) wrote this history of the Peloponnesian War between the Spartans...
So Great a Prince
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Author: Lauren JohnsonFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 221mm, 363g, 336 pagesPublished: Pegasus Books, United States, 2018England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII,...
Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson
Author: Steven E. MaffeoFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 228mm, 550g, 392 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2012In today's world of satellites and electronic eavesdropping, it is hard to appreciate the...
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
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Author: Christopher de HamelFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 229mm, 1168g, 640 pagesPublished: Penguin Putnam Inc, United States, 2019An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from...
The Arab Rediscovery of Europe: A Study in Cultural Encounters
Author: Ibrahim Abu LughodFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 210mm, 212g, 199 pagesPublished: Saqi Books, United Kingdom, 2011Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 suddenly exposed the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire...
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Author: Rachel WorthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the...
Fighters Over Malta: Gladiators and Hurricanes 1940-1942
Author: Brian CullFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 900g, 512 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Brian Cull's definitive `Fighters over Malta: Gladiators and Hurricanes 1940-1942' is a highly detailed account...
Naval Flank of the Western Front
Format: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 288 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Belgium was once described as the 'dagger held at the throat of England', a collection of...
Spanish Air Force During World War II: Germany'S Hidden Ally?
Author: Eduardo MartinezFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 254mm, 184 pagesPublished: Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza, Poland, 2019Continuing with the study of the lesser known Air Forces that fought in the skies of Europe...
Ghosts on the Somme: Filming the Battle - June-July 1916
Author: Alastair FraserFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 235mm, 224 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016Endorsements: ...'This book is the product of careful and painstaking historical detective work, and...
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
Author: Jenny UglowFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 1085g, 592 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2009Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660....
Early Roman Warfare: From the Regal Period to the First Punic War
Author: Jeremy ArmstrongFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016While copious amounts have been written about the Roman army, most study has focussed...
Western Front 1914-1916
Author: Martin MaceFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 211 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914,...
Queen Elizabeth II: A Celebration of Her Life and Reign in Pictures
Author: David SoudenFormat: Hardback, 198mm x 252mm, 970g, 240 pagesPublished: Ebury Publishing, United Kingdom, 2022A lavish photographic tribute to the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, as seen through...
Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris
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Author: Steven Levingston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 333 A delicious account of a murder most gallic think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon whose lurid combination of sex, brutality, forensics,...
Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords
Author: Steve CliffeFormat: Paperback, 192 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013Do I think the Great War could have been avoided? My answer categorically is yes. So David Lloyd George,...
War in Ancient Greece
Author: Bob CarruthersFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 576 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013The Athenian Thucydides (c490-395BC) wrote this history of the Peloponnesian War between the Spartans...
Voices in Flight: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII
Author: Martin W BowmanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 138-16
Author: Nancy Bradley WarrenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2005The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were...
Early Roman Warfare: From the Regal Period to the First Punic War
Author: Jeremy ArmstrongFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016While copious amounts have been written about the Roman army, most study has focussed...
So Great a Prince
Author: Lauren JohnsonFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 221mm, 363g, 336 pagesPublished: Pegasus Books, United States, 2018England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII,...
Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Author: Jean DanglerFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 230 pagesPublished: University of Notre Dame Press, United States, 2005In this engaging study Jean Dangler examines the way that ideas of difference were...
Boeve de Haumtone and GUI de Warewic: Two Anglo-Norman Romances: Volume 332
Author: Judith WeissFormat: Hardback, 280 pagesPublished: State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, United States, 2008
The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience
Author: Sharon FarmerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 368 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2016For more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
Tanks on the Somme: from Morval to Beaumont Hamel
Author: Trevor PidgeonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 160 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2010On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of...
The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship
Author: Sana HaroonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 534g, 248 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2021In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of...