Military History

Author: Lady HerbertBinding: HardbackPublished: M. H. Gill And Son, 1885Condition:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Bumping on spine...

Author: W. M. MaitlandBinding: HardbackPublished: Ward, Lock & Co, 1956Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis non-fiction work, "The Wonder Book Of The Navy" by W. M. Maitland, offers...

Author: E. E. DunlopBinding: HardbackPublished: Nelson, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis historical non-fiction work presents the harrowing personal accounts of Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop, a distinguished Australian...

Author: Prince Constantine Of BavariaBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld And Nicholson, 1954Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowing on both end papers.This compelling...

Author: Pierre Van PaassenBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson Ltd, 1941Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn this compelling memoir, Pierre Van Paassen...

Author: Sheila RossBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsTen men are in an armoured truck nosing its way through the terrorist infested jungle of Malaya. For...

Author: Susan Mary AlsopBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsSusan Mary Alsop's "The Congress Dances; Vienna 1814-1815" is a captivating work...

Author: Aidan CrawleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis biography chronicles the life and political career of Charles de Gaulle,...

Author: Howard MarshallBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson & Co, 1953Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Inscription to previous owner on front end-page, back of DJ has large tear and...

Author: Admiral Sir Barry DomvileBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson & Co., 1936Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Blue cloth in good condition with...

Author: Giancarlo GasponiBinding: HardbackPublished: Trento : Editoria, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Slipcase: Good. In this captivating travelogue, "Rome: A Special Journey," Giancarlo Gasponi guides readers through...

Author: Pavel ŠtechaBinding: HardbackPublished: Orbis Pictus, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Book is in CZECH - no English text. Dust jacket has minor general wear marks.A...

Author: C. C. DysonBinding: HardbackPublished: John Long, Limited, 1910Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Purple cloth with minor...

Author: Joseph E. PersicoBinding: HardbackPublished: The Viking Press, New York, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsJoseph E. Persico’s "My Enemy, My Brother: Men And Days Of Gettysburg" is...

Author: Sir Denis BroganBinding: PaperbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Spine and cover is scratched and...

Author: Georgy ButikovBinding: HardbackPublished: Aurora Art Publishers, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.This architectural history details the...

Author: David Hapgood And David RichardsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Congdon & Weed., 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor tears to DJ, slight yellowing to...

Author: Amy KellyBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1978Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography chronicles the extraordinary life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the most powerful...

Author: Gordon Brook-ShepherdBinding: HardbackPublished: Little, Brown and Company., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsGordon Brook-Shepherd's "November 1918" is a compelling work of historical non-fiction...

Author: Isaac Bashevis SingerBinding: HardbackPublished: H. Wolff., 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Discolouration on pages edge due to foxing, minor...

Author: Georges DubyBinding: HardbackPublished: University of California Press., 1990Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor sun damage to spine and slight foxing to fore-edge.Georges...

Author: Mabel BrookesBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan of Australia, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight tears in dust jacketMabel Brookes' "Riders of Time" is a captivating...

Author: John BeedeBinding: HardbackPublished: Australasian Book Society Sydney, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Chipped and worn DJ with piece missing on back cover. They Hosed Them Out" is...

Author: M.R.D. Foot & J.M. LangleyBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner's name on inside of dust jacket,...

Author: Richard LambBinding: HardbackPublished: Buchan & Enright, Publishers, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis historical analysis, "Montgomery In Europe 1943-45: Success Or Failure?" by Richard Lamb, meticulously examines...

Author: Felix I. Rodriguez And John WeismanBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon & Schuster, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Stained DJ. This gripping non-fiction account, "Shadow Warrior: The CIA...

Author: Peter Badman, Alun Evans, Doug Hurst, Bede JordanBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, Sydney, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight binding separation beginning at title...

Author: John TerraineBinding: HardbackPublished: Book Club Associates, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Spine has slight lean. John Terraine's "White Heat: The New Warfare 1914-18" is a...

Author: F.C. RoeBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Stained endpapers. This academic text, "Modern France" by F.C. Roe, offers a comprehensive historical...

Champion swimmer, trailblazer and film idol - the adventurous life of our first Hollywood superstar, by the bestselling author of Sister Viv , Mrs Kelly , Hudson Fysh , Banks...

Walker's story of intrigue and betrayal will fascinate and enthrall. 'Jon Walker's Pistols deserves to be called our first true work of 'punk history'. Through the dank Venetian alleyways we...

Continuing the book "I Dreamed of Africa", this volume is written in episodes and covers Kuki's life over the last ten to 12 years. She refers glancingly to the deaths...

Follow-up to the bestselling The Victorians in which A. N. Wilson tells the story of the 'Decline and Fall' of Britain. When this book begins, in the reign of Edward...

There is a risk in telling another's story especially when passed down through the family and there are many layers to a life that each person may only glimpse part...

On 4 June 1942, one of the most powerful figurers of the Nazi Third Riech, Reinhard, Heydrich, the 'Butcher of Prague' and architect of the 'Final solution', died from wounds...

An account of the battle for the Siegfried Line in the final year of World War II, which raged for six, long, bloody months along a front of 350 miles...

An historical account of the massacre, in February 1692, of the small Clan MacDonald of Glencoe by Campbell of Glenlyon's troops under orders from the English Government. It marked the...

Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings...

In this wide-ranging study of the Napoleonic regime, Digby Smith tracks Napoleon's rise to power, his stewardship of France from 1804 15, and his exile. He highlights his military mistakes,...

'Loose Ends and Extras' is the last in a trilogy of books Lord Briggs has completed since his 90th birthday in May 2011. Following on from 'Special Relationships: People and...

During the Second World War Fritz Kolbe worked as a Foreign Ministry official in Germany. He hated the Nazi regime and in an attempt to aid its demise he offered...

The story of Jennie, Clara and Leonie Jerome is one of glamour, money and love in equal measure. Their father Leonard was a profligate New York stockbroker whose beautiful wife...

Maximilian and Ju rez recounts one of the great tragicomedies of the nineteenth century, the attempt by Napoleon III to establish Archduke Maximilian of Austria as the Emperor of Mexico....

On paths, roads, seas, in the air, and in space there has never been so much human movement. In contrast we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time'....

The Second World War Illustrated: The Final Year follows the author's visual tour of the war by means of painstakingly researched and digitally restored pictures from the period of the...

Manchester is proud of Alan Turing but does it deserve to be? Dr Jonathan Swinton explores the complexity of the city that Alan Turing encountered in 1948. He goes well...