European History

Author: Anne-Marie WaltersBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, London , 1947Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Light foxing on book block. Clean text. This...

Author: Nancy MitfordBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton London, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, Frederick The Great, chronicles the life and reign of one of history's most enigmatic...

Author: Henry Charles BainbridgeBinding: HardbackPublished: SPRING BOOKS, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative biography, Peter Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith And Jeweller To The Russian Imperial Court. His Life And...

The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade 'A delightful companion in life and on the page' The Times 'Donna Leon has...

Author: Louis De Rouvroy, Duc De Saint-SimonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Heritage Press, 1959Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Sandglass pamphlet and foldout family tree laid-in. Saint-Simon: The Memoirs Of...

Author: Sir John Wheeler-BennettBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, London, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Name penned on fep of the 1st vol. Otherwise clean...

Author: William GerhardieBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Remainder mark on baseGod's Fifth Column: A Biography Of The Age 1890-1940...

Author: George MillarBinding: HardbackPublished: THE BODLEY HEAD, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerRoad To Resistance: An Autobiography chronicles the extraordinary life of a man thrust into the...

Author: Ian VorresBinding: HardbackPublished: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, The Last Grand Duchess: Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess...

Author: Composers: Dan Godfrey, Percy Hazeldine, H.R. Marriott, Ricardo Linter, and othersBinding: HardbackPublished: Various London imprints including Chappell & Co.,Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and...

Author: Marie-Madeleine FourcadeBinding: HardbackPublished: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: 1st edition in mint condition. Loose publishers review slip on the insideNoah's...

Author: M. R. D. FootBinding: HardbackPublished: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsSoe In France: An Account Of The Work Of The British Special...

Author: Edward GibbonBinding: HardbackPublished: Ball, Arnold, and Co., 1840Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards detached. Faded and...

Author: R. E. VintrasBinding: HardbackPublished: BACHMAN & TURNER LONDON, 1974Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThe historical account The Portuguese Connection: The Secret History Of The Azores...

Author: Michael Mitterauer & Reinhard SiederBinding: PaperbackPublished: Basil Blackwell, 1982Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Bumped corners and spine. Light staining on book block. No loose pages. This scholarly...

Author: Sotheby'sBinding: HardbackPublished: SOTHEBYS, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: 3 Softcover volumes in a hard caseThis compelling biography chronicles the tumultuous lives of Edward VIII and Wallis...

Author: Paul Lund And Harry LudlamBinding: HardbackPublished: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd., 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis gripping historical account chronicles the catastrophic journey of Convoy PQ...

Author: Christopher HibbertBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Union, 1959Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the tumultuous events of the 1780 Gordon...

Author: R. H. SavageBinding: HardbackPublished: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1896Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn boards....

Author: Klaus-Peter KoeppingBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press., 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Spine slightly discoloured from age, minor chips to edges...

Author: Giovanni BOCCACCIO; translated by J.M. Rigg; drawings by Louis ChalonBinding: HardbackPublished: Navarre Society, 1111Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No...

Author: Joseph Banks, J.C. BeagleholeBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1962Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jackets have light tanning along spinesVolume 1 and 2/ Two...

What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries? These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne...

Age range 3 to 8 Enter a world of friendship, honour, and duty to your King in 17th century France with this beautifully illustrated adaptation of the classic French novel...

Let Marco Polo Mallorca guide you around this beautiful island. Explore Mallorca with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants, the island's trendiest...

Go Slow France is the third book in Sawday's hugely successful Go Slow series. Discover 47 of France's most exquisite ch?teaux, B&Bs and hotels chosen as places to 'go slow'....

Employing pictures and words to examine the life of Prince William, this book reveals who he is and how being born into the Royal family, the tragic loss of his...

Rudolf Laban's provocative, experimental, explosive dance theatre works have lain hidden since the Third Reich deliberately annihilated his name. This book exposes Laban's audacity and his significance for dance theatre...

This volume contains speeches from great works of European drama that have either been translated or adapted by Robert David MacDonald, awarded the Goethe Medal for Services to German literature'

Two women. An extraordinary power. An explosive bond. In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card . . . It is the early...

Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the officer ranks and promotion owed more to money than...

This work explores how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge...

With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper--an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than...

During the late nineteenth century a remarkable combination of circumstances and individual talents permitted the Court theatre of a small German state to become the theatrical sensation of its age....

The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain's twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more...

When Sgt. Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment flew into Iraq in April, 2004, they were supposed to be winning hearts...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki has lived a colourful and picaresque life. Born in 1920 of Polish Jewish parents, he spent his youth in Berlin until the Nazis came to power. In 1938...

The Sunday Times bestselling novel about two star-crossed lovers in war-torn Cyprus Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both...

This account of the cataclysmic events in Russia in 1917 begins with the murder of Rasputin by an Oxford-educated transvestite, and the collapse of Old Russia. It ends with the...

Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and harvesting honey will distract her from a scandal that drove her...

Now a major documentary film starring Billy Bragg In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Government banished their political enemies - viewed with the same alarm as today's...

Looking at the "old religion" of Italy, this text presents overview of the history and lore of the "hereditary craft", showing how the Italian witches viewed nature, magick, and the...

On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness settled over the country. The majority of those men...

In the original French, this book is a practical guide to social living, good manners and etiquette in France and for the French. But this book on the art of...

Hunting, sword fighting, jousting, feasting ... follow a day in the life of a knight as he takes part in an exciting tournament. Find out all about what life was...