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The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick's monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship...

Journalist Osmar White's gripping story of the Australian and American forces' struggle against the Japanese invasion of New Guinea in 1942-43 is stark, vivid, chilling. White is true to his...

LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD A radical new series - edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece,...

'A wonderfully curious writer' OBSERVER 'This is a book that reshapes our story of global human geography' PROFESSOR DANNY DORLING Mountains, meridians, rivers and borders; these are some of the...

Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy investigates the modern concept of "tribes" and how New Tribalism has pernicious effects on the health of our society. TRIBES will explore ways in...

Where can you find first-hand accounts of the Arab Spring, Japan's nuclear disaster or the Norwegian atrocities? Thousands flouting celebrity superinjunctions? X-rated snaps of politicians? A babysitter mistaken for a...

"It's a nice piece of pageantry. . . . Rationally it's lunatic, but in practice, everyone enjoys it, I think."-HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Founded by Edward III in...

During the century that has passed since that first Ford truck chassis, the F-series has become the best-selling truck in the world, and the best-selling vehicle of any type in...

Which are the finest aircraft ever to have flown? The finest military aircraft, the finest airliners, the finest planes of today, and yesterday? This book answers these questions comprehensively, and...

In 1988 Iain McCalman's seminal work, Radical Underworld, unravelled the complex and clandestine revolutionary networks of democrats that operated in London between 1790 and the beginnings of Chartism, to reveal...

Winner of the American Publishers Association's Award for an outstanding Professional and Scholarly title and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 1996 from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.In...

Celestial Empire: Life in China, 1644-1911 provides a unique insight into the diversity of life in China during the last imperial dynasty. Through the lives of the Chinese people-from the...

The 120 years that separate the first publication of John Stow's famous Survey of London in 1598 from John Strype's enormous new edition of the same work in 1720 witnessed...

Chase Robinson's book is a timely introduction to Islamic historiography, from its origins in the seventh and eighth centuries to the fifteenth century. It covers the rise of the tradition,...

The story of thirteen modern Empires, a story full of suspense, cruelty, conflict, heroism, great explorations and extraordinary feats of endurance, is here told with a rich profusion of illustrations...

The book titled Lifting the Veil: British Society Along the Nile, 1768-1956 by the author Anthony Sattin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The thrilling family saga of five unforgettable women who remade Europe. From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story of four spirited...

An eminent historian offers rare insight into his craft and the way it has changed over his lifetime From the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted to research and...

Among the 70,000 refugees from Nazi Germany who had entered Britain by 1939 were many intellectuals of the Weimar era. This book tells the story of five emigre writers, three...

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A portrait of Grant's public and private life depicts his childhood in Ohio, military career, and experiences in the Civil War.

"The New Yorker" is one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era it occupied an almost unique niche of...

This introductory study argues that a broadly based nuclear criticism ought to be a component of cultural studies in a post-Cold War period characterized by fewer nuclear weapons and more...

The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this...

This is an innovative analysis of the relationship between women's economic opportunity and marriage in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It is based on an intensive study of York and...

The book titled Romans and Barbarians by the author Derek Williams. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Instant New York Times Bestseller "A masterwork. ... O'Connor answers every question, deftly and deeply, that we've had about the most controversial person in America's biggest game." -Peter King Four-time...

A moving account of how war is remembered - and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David...

The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour....

It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all...

An uproarious, illuminating trek through contested history, from the creator of the hit podcast and TV series. Plt;iPgt;In the days of the British Empire, things were taken that probably shouldnP#8217;t...

In 1832, the British government sent 400 young single women to Sydney and Hobart to balance the male-dominated societies. Viewed as a colourful butterflies alighting on the antipodean shores, the...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the SPECTATOR , MAIL ON SUNDAY , NEW STATESMAN...

Secondhand WWII Military History Bargain Book Box SP2952 Fifteen books spanning the sweep of the Second World War — from the British Army and the Western Desert to the Australian...

The book titled D-Day: From the Normandy Beaches to the Liberation of France by the author Stephen Badsey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Aeronautics wrote the Russian aviation pioneeer Igor Sikorsky, was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle. The miracle was achieved a hundred times over by the audacious...

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it...

The book titled War in the Shadows by the author Peter Medcalf. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Monty, a Life in Photographs: Family, Life and Times of Field Marshal by the author Brian Montgomery. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The book titled Life in World War II by the author Philip B. Kunhardt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the heart of the West Country to the remote highlands of Scotland, the landscape of Britain is dotted with extraordinary sights, scapes and structures - treasure-filled Neolithic burial chambers,...

With the call to action stations of August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson. Geoffrey Bennett's classic history of the Great War at...

"A first-class popular history of the war, lively, entertaining, and continuously informative."--"Publishers Weekly" "His ability to recreate the emotions of war makes this monumental work a living history."--"Booklist"

The book titled Monty: The Lonely Leader 1944-1945 by the author Alistair Horne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.