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The Second World War: v. 5: Closing the Ring
The book titled The Second World War: v. 5: Closing the Ring by the author Winston S. Churchill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Second World War: v. 3: Grand Alliance
The book titled The Second World War: v. 3: Grand Alliance by the author Winston S. Churchill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Clever Girl
Communists vilified her as a raging neurotic. Leftists dismissed her as a confused idealist. Her family pitied her as an exploited lover. Some said she was a traitor, a stooge,...
Infantry Warfare: The Theory and Practice of Infantry Combat in the
From the German stormtroopers of 1918 to the jungles of Vietnam, the role of the infantry soldier has developed and evolved. This book describes the changes in the way that...
Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us
So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an astonishing resemblance to the most prominent features of what we call the classical world -...
Ancient History: From the First Civilizations to the Renaissance
A fascinating and highly readable account of humankind's development over 10,000 years in a brilliantly illustrated volume by one of the world's most distinguished historians.
The House: Its Origins and Evolution
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An overview of the development of house and home, from its beginnings in the caves of early man through the variety of structures that have evolved, influenced by climate and...
Scarlet Woman of Wall Street
The book titled Scarlet Woman of Wall Street by the author GORDON. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
"Everyone knows the old saying "necessity is the mother of invention," but if you do a paternity test on many of the modern world's most important ideas or institutions, you...
"Times" Concise Atlas of World History
Originally published in 1982, this atlas of world history - like its parent volume, "'The Times' Atlas of World History" - combines original maps with text, and offers a comprehensive...
A History of the World in the 20th Century (Obee) (Cloth)
In 1980, the first part of the Collins History of the World in the 20th Century was published, covering the years 1900-1945. This is a revision of and extensive expansion...
It's Not Cricket: Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating
An eye-opening survey of cricket, from the crowd violence and blatant match-rigging of the eighteenth century, down to the twentieth century's glaring abuses of the spirit of the game. Written...
The Rock and the Sand
The book titled The Rock and the Sand by the author Mary Durack. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Making of Eastern Europe: From Prehistory to Postcommunism: 1997
`A rich and varied work ...Longworth's a bold and always arresting study' - Jeremy Black, History Today. Why has the collapse of Communism resulted in so much disappointment for the...
Selected Letters
It has been Gorky's great misfortune to be remembered mostly for the wrong things - for his apparent support of the Stalin regime; for his direct involvement in the foundation...
History and Value
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In this work, the author returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we appear to have forgotten how powerful it seemed in a time of economic crisis...
First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea
Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"? If you can vote,...
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War
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On the Eve is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein's original and provocative book presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse...
The Mammoth Book of Combat: Reports from the Frontline
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From the Battle of Bull Run to current-day Iraq, war has fascinated some of the finest writers of the past two centuries, and now over a hundred of their vivid...
A.J.P.Taylor: A Biography
This biography of the great historian fills in the considerable gaps left by Taylor's autobiography, in particular the details of his turbulent personal life and three marriages, and traces his...
Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes and the Immigrant Menace
Amid concerns over use of TB and AIDS to exclude immigrants, this book looks at how earlier generations grappled with such problems, from the Irish immigrants of New York wrongly...
The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
The disintegration of Europe's post-Cold War consensus in the face of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to...
Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800
This comprehensive work explores the broad question of how the English courts dealt with crime in the period during which the foundations of modern forms of judicial administration were being...
Great Tales from New Zealand History
Who really did 'discover' New Zealand?; Why history has turned its back on the timid Abel Tasman; The burning of the sailing ship Boyd sets back European settlement by a...
Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam
How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to. In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence...
The Second World War: v. 4: Hinge of Fate
The book titled The Second World War: v. 4: Hinge of Fate by the author Winston S. Churchill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of
On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and...
The Botanic Garden: The world's greatest botanical sanctuaries
This rich and beautiful guide from bestselling garden writer Ambra Edwards explores the most magnificent botanic havens from every continent across the world. There has never been a better time...
London: A Social History
This dazzling and yet intimate book is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the...
The Search for Peace
Contrary to the claim that a diplomat is paid to lie for his country, former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd contends that from Machievelli to Metternich, from Sir Edward Grey to...
Whisky Opus: The Definitive Guide to the World's Greatest Whisky
A definitive 21st-century reference guide to the world's greatest distilleries and their whiskies No other spirit is as complex as whisky; its appeal is timeless and its fans can spend...
Ritual
Italian-born, Canadian-based documentary photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo has made it his life's mission to photograph the immigrant experience, working class culture and social justice issues. Considered "one of Canada's pre-eminent documentary...
Letters From the Palazzo Barbaro
When Henry James first visited Venice as a tourist he soon became fascinated by the city, especially the gothic Palazzo Barbaro situated on the Grand Canal and home of the...
Adventures on the Freedom Road
The book titled Adventures on the Freedom Road by the author Bernard-Henry Levy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest
A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit. The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest...
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
Humans have been on the move for most of history. Even after the great urban advancement lured people into the great cities of Uruk, Babylon, Rome and Chang'an, most of...
The Unlikely Duke: Memoirs of an eclectic life - from rock 'n' roll to
'Beaufort chronicles his unusual and rarified world with flashes of Wodehousian genius'. --- Jools Holland 'So funny ... bristling with glamorous but eccentric characters'. --- Jilly Cooper 'Very funny and...
The History of the World: The Story of Mankind from Prehistory to the
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Humankind has come a long way since our ancestors first stood up on two feet, but how did we get to where we are today? This book tells our story,...
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of
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A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era--written by the grandson of one of them Only two Americans held positions of great...
My Outback Life: The sequel to the bestselling memoir A Sunburnt
Having grown up on the massive Killarney cattle station near Katherine, NT, Toni Tapp Coutts was well prepared when her husband, Shaun, took a job at McArthur River Station in...
The Unfree French: Life under the Occupation
In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that...
Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in 18th-century England
John Nyren's famous account of the matches of the Hambledon club on Broadhalfpenny Down in the 1770s has passed into cricketing legend, establishing an ideal version of Hambledon at the...
Liberty Against the Law
There seems to be a continuing theme in English literature on the freedom of beggars and highwaymen. Beggars and highwaymen pride themselves on their relative honesty, using a rhetoric of...
Paper Empires: A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005
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" . . . It is highly recommended to anyone who thinks they have a serious interest in the book . . . or would like to discover to discover...
The Seekers
The Seekers is a history of our great Western heritage of ideas, told through the lives of the speakers from Moses and Aristotle and Plato through Thucydides, Machiavelli, Marx, Carlyle...
A Dictionary of Nineteenth-century World History
This dictionary serves as a first point of reference for all aspects of political, diplomatic, military, social and economic history, and provides overviews of the cultural and artistic developments of...