Military History

Born in Ireland in the 1840's, Eliza Lynch left the country as a young girl, fleeing the potato famine with her parents. As a young woman, she became one of...

The political memoir as rousing adventure story--a sizzling account of a life lived in the thick of every important struggle of the era. April 1973: snow falls thick and fast...

Charles Williams' major biography of Philippe Petain (1856-1951) tells of a peasant who became a Marshal of France and the Head of the Vichy State. A slow climb up the...

'Blackburn rescues the man from inside the madman. She redeems a lost life' - The Times In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Brutal." - Huffington Post "Scathing." - New York Post "[D]epicts Biden's decline in vivid detail." - Politico "So many revelations."...

A gripping narrative history of Spain's most brilliant and troubled literary family--a tale about the making of art, myth, and legacy--set against the upheaval of the Spanish Civil War and...

'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday Times The referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first...

A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...

Cherie Booth is Britain's most famous wife and mother, a top lawyer and daughter of the once very famous, and more recently very notorious, actor Tony Booth. Hundreds of stories...

Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard examines the history of beauty in civilisation. Beginning with the Jericho painted skulls from 10,000...

Author: Marketa Goetz-StankiewiczBinding: PaperbackPublished: Performing Arts Journal PublicationsCondition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, foxing and tanning on coverThis academic volume presents a...

Author: C. H. WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly compilation presents a comprehensive collection of primary source materials from a pivotal era...

A riveting account of courageous resistance from the bestselling author of Balcony Over Jerusalem Longlisted for the 2025 Walkley Award On 24 February 2022, residents of Kyiv, Ukraine, woke to...

Author: Paul R. WilsonBinding: PaperbackPublished: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical narrative chronicles the devastating impact...

Author: V. J. ScattergoodBinding: PaperbackPublished: Blandford Press, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly work uncovers the intricate connections between the political...

Author: Alistair MacLeanBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1955Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: DJ faded and worn with some chipping and rips to...

Author: Un Resident Anglais - HENNINGSEN, Charles-Frederick Binding: HardbackPublished: JULES LABITTE, 1845Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: FRENCH...

Author: C. Fitzgerald MatierBinding: HardbackPublished: Spencer & Co., 1910Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Minor marks and...

An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (Andre Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the...

Author: John NunnBinding: PaperbackPublished: Gambit Publications Ltd, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageGambit International Theatre Review: Political Theatre In Europe (2) presents...

Author: Welles HangenBinding: HardbackPublished: VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD, 1967Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical analysis chronicles the complex...

Author: James K. LyonBinding: PaperbackPublished: PRINCETON, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly biography chronicles the tumultuous years Bertolt Brecht spent in...

Author: Joseph ScholmerBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsJoseph Scholmer's Vorkuta: The Story Of A Slave City In The Soviet Arctic chronicles...

Author: Tatiana TchernavinBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1972Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Cut on title page. Clean text. This...

Author: André SoubiranBinding: HardbackPublished: W.H. Allen, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsAndré Soubiran's Bedlam chronicles the harrowing realities within a notorious 18th-century Parisian asylum, vividly portraying...

Author: H.H. Kirst; Translated by J Maxwell BrownjohnBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, London, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis gripping historical novel plunges into the treacherous...

Author: Christine HotchkissBinding: HardbackPublished: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsChristine Hotchkiss presents Home To Poland: A Vivid Eye-Witness Account Of The New Poland,...

Author: Julius HayBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: DJ worn and faded with some rips. Light...

Author: Donald McleanBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe historical account The World Turned Upside Down chronicles a pivotal era of profound societal transformation, presenting a...

Author: Bruce CookBinding: HardbackPublished: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis biographical account chronicles the tumultuous period of Bertolt...

Author: Donald ThomasBinding: HardbackPublished: Viking Press, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe historical thriller The Flight Of The Eagle chronicles a gripping tale of espionage and daring escapes set...

Author: Henri TroyatBinding: PaperbackPublished: MERIDIAN PRESSCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling biography, Pushkin, chronicles the tumultuous life and enduring literary legacy...

Author: Stephen GreenblattBinding: PaperbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis work of historical scholarship illuminates a pivotal era in European history, spanning from the late...

Author: Joseph HyamsBinding: HardbackPublished: FREDERICK MULLER, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsA Field of Buttercups presents a reflective and emotionally charged novel that examines the psychological...

Author: Ernst SchnabelBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, Green and Co, 1959Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsErnst Schnabel's The Footsteps Of Anne Frank chronicles the poignant journey...

Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. The brilliant graphic memoir of growing up...

Author: Nina EptonBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, London, 1959Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markings'Love And The French' presents a captivating examination of...

Based on documents discovered concealed within a simple chair for seventy years, this gripping investigation into the life of a single S.S. officer during World War Two encapsulates the tragic...

'No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win him a second Pulitzer' JOHN SIMPSON, GUARDIAN The epic successor to Tim...

Author: J. Malcolm MorrisBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, 1954Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThe Wise Bamboo presents a vivid account of postwar Japan through the lens of...

Author: Ghislain De DiesbachBinding: HardbackPublished: Chapman & Hall London, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsHappy Families presents a sharp and satirical portrait of European aristocracy in...

This is a collection of colour photographs of the Nazi hierarchy at the peak of its power, just before the outbreak of World War II. Many are images shot by...

Author: Robin CrossBinding: HardbackPublished: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis historical account chronicles the momentous events leading up to and immediately following the Allied victory...

Author: Neville WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThe historical work The Cardinal & The Secretary chronicles a pivotal era in European...

Author: Neville WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsA compelling historical biography, Elizabeth: Queen Of England chronicles the remarkable life and reign of one...

Author: Marvin T. HerrickBinding: PaperbackPublished: University of Illinois Press, 1950Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageComic Theory In The Sixteenth Century...

Michael Swift and Michael Sharpe (authors)