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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA sweeping panorama of over a century of German civilization, German Cultural History from 1860 to the Present...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the soaring vaults of the Sistine Chapel to the gilded theatricality of Versailles, Larousse Encyclopedia of Renaissance and Baroque Art stands as one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFlorence — the cradle of the Renaissance — has long stood as the world's most concentrated repository of artistic genius, and Art Masterpieces: Florence brings...

Edition: enlarged ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA magnificent treasury of sacred imagery and imperial splendour, Byzantine Art in the Collections of Soviet Museums presents one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the rugged coastal village of Pont-Aven, Brittany, a radical artistic revolution quietly took root — and Gauguin...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the world's most celebrated repositories of Renaissance art, Florence's Uffizi Gallery holds a collection so vast...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodJacques-Louis David's The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons stands as one of the most politically charged...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodOne of the most explosive and controversial canvases in the history of Western art, Eugène Delacroix's The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) shattered the decorum of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the baptism of its first duke in 966 AD to its turbulent passage through centuries of conquest, partition, and...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the heart of nineteenth-century Russian aristocratic society, Ivan Turgenev's A Nest of the Gentry chronicles the poignant and ill-fated love between Fyodor Lavretsky, a disillusioned...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of faith, power, and artistic genius stands the Vatican — the world's smallest sovereign state...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the blazing summer of 1938, with Europe teetering on the edge of catastrophe, the British Surrealist artist...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAs the twentieth century draws to a close and a new millennium dawns, Australia faces a complex and...

It is the story of mankind's deadliest discovery, in the words of those who were there. Their voices include the scientists who unravelled and then unleashed the secrets of the...

50 of the world's most successful fighting aircraft are depicted in this book via a series of colour illustrations. Special features of major developments in aircraft technology are highlighted with...

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A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intolerance,...

'Highly original' Simon Heffer, Telegraph'Masterful... A gripping tale' Giles MiltonThey certainly were not soldiers, yet they suddenly found themselves in uniform, in a foreign land. But, as locomotive drivers, track-workers,...

'Iain Dale introduces Margaret Thatcher to a new generation and intelligently explodes some of the myths about her' Simon Heffer Margaret Thatcher was a woman of tremendous paradoxes: a conviction...

In his short new biography of Winston Churchill, author Peter Caddick-Adams writes than the recipe for Winston Churchill's success during his wartime premiership of 1940-45 can be found in the...

'Rounds slammed the ground all around the Taliban. He hit the earth face first, vanishing into the foggy confusion of desert conflict. The Apache's engines rumbled on as we orbited,...

When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in 1874, no one could have predicted the path that lay ahead. But, as it turned out, from Winston's undistinguished academic career to his...

In summer 2018, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries will open in the church's medieval triforium, an internal gallery which runs 70 feet above the floor of the Abbey. Entrance to...

'I want you to make a promise to me that you will always take care of your sisters. That you will always be there for one another. That you will...

Very little was known about Bushell until 2011, when his family donated his private papers - a treasure trove of letters, photographs and diaries - to the Imperial War Museum....

THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the notorious concentration camp. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey...

The Vietnamese hilltribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen. In 1963, 28-year-old Australian Captain...

Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better...

The true story of one of the most charismatic commanders of World War II. Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart, and posthumously promoted to Brigadier General by...

The author argues against the orthodox interpretation of the changing nature of the relief and administration of poverty from the 17th century to the reform of poor law administration in...

Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity...

'Queen Victoria had a very complicated and psychologically fascinating personality and only a very talented biographer could get to the key of her character. Fortunately in Matthew Dennison's pithy, well-researched,...

The masterpiece of Britain's leading Renaissance scholar, winner of the Time-Life Silver Pen Award and The Royal Society of Literature Award, beautifully reissued in Harper Perennial. The Civilisation of Europe...

A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition. These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides...

This is the incredible untold story of four women who helped win World War II by generating a wave of black propaganda. Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii....

Judged by contemporaries to be a 'perfidious rogue', Sir George Downing rose to prominence during the English Civil War as Oliver Cromwell's chief of military intelligence. In the Interregnum he...

From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist...

'Tom Bower is the Inspector Morse of investigative biographers, a fluent, phlegmatic story-teller and a master of intricacies.' Sunday Times The British Crown is in crisis, with constitutional threats at...

By 1914 Australia's German immigrants were well-regarded in their communities and made up (after Irish and Scots) the fourth-largest white ethnic community in Australia. This thoroughly readable history, with lively...

The First World War was a conflict in which personality and character mattered. Its course and outcome were decided by determined individuals who had to make momentous decisions in very...

During the Second World War, there were over 100 instances of naval engagements between ships, submarines and aircraft of the same side. In the past there has often been a...

On 22 June 2013, Corporal Cameron Baird was a 2nd Commando Regiment Special Forces soldier when he led his platoon into a known Taliban stronghold to back-up another Australian unit...

A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition. These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides...

"Fascinating."-New York Times Book Review. "Well-written."-The Boston Globe . "Extraordinary."-The Christian Science Monitor . "A compelling page-turner."-Adam Hochschild On the eve of a new century, an up-and-coming Theodore Roosevelt set...

"In the tradition of Alison Weir's "New York Times "bestselling "Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley, "comes the most sensational crime story of Tudor England. "On...

After Pearl harbour was bombed in 1941 the war in the Pacific gained momentum; Japanese troops began to move relentlessly south, towards Australia. Determined to provide an information network along...