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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Minor staining to fore-edge.In the sweltering summer of 1914, the great powers of Europe stumbled — with catastrophic certainty — into the...

Tuchman's spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war - reissued for the 2014 Centenary War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the guns of August shattered the old world forever, there existed a civilisation of breathtaking complexity, contradictions,...

A classic history of fourteenth-century Europe, from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Guns of August The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and...

From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a major new book that penetrates one of the most bizarre and fascinating paradoxes in history: the...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodIn the summer of 1914, the great empires of Europe stumbled into a catastrophe of their own making — and Barbara W. Tuchman's magisterial...

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A glowing first novel that brings us "historical fiction in the grand epic manner, beautifully felt and written" It is England, in the fourteenth century -- a time of plague,...

For fifty years Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it truly mean to dedicate a life to dance? Striking a Balance: Dancers Talk About Dancing presents an intimate and...

Would you have the courage to remove your breasts before you had breast cancer? T That's the choice Veronica must make when she discovers that she has the BRCA2 gene...

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Katharine Hepburn is not only one of Hollywood's greatest actresses, she is also considered to be a prototype feminist. So what drove Katharine Hepburn? Why was she so loved? How...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA reflective work of Australian natural history and memoir, Twice Trodden Ground chronicles Barbara...

From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Demon Copperhead : a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first...

A "smart, juicy, deeply reported" (Katie Couric) biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time-Barbara Walters-a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules...

Author: Barbara IrelandBinding: HardbackPublished: Taschen, 2018Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis travel guide, compiled by Barbara Ireland for The New York Times, presents a curated collection of articles...

The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of a world that sounds as thoroughly maniacal as it...

Stunning historical immersion into the world of Rembrandt with a gripping plot of a promise turned sour. For fans of Stacey Halls, Maggie O'Farrell and Tracy Chevalier. 'With glorious language,...

A warm, colourful and heartfelt tribute to Barbara Windsor's rich, varied and remarkable life from the man who knew her best. 'I'm so glad you had the life you did,...

Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series, out now. The gripping twenty-fifth Ikmen mystery from award-winning crime...

The book titled Greygallows by the author Barbara Michaels. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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'I'm so glad you had the life you did, Barbara. I'm sorry you can't remember, but my God, what a life! You haven't wasted a minute of it...'In December 2020,...

Author: Gwen RobynsBinding: HardbackPublished: Sidgwick & Jackson., 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Sun-fading to DJ, minor foxing to page edges.Gwen Robyns's Barbara Cartland: An...

Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told. THE MATRIARCH tells the riveting tale of a woman...

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America is a grotesquely polarised society and becoming more so all the time. The widening gap between rich and poor over the past eight years has left the country increasingly...

Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Small tear on title page, otherwise fine. This authoritative biography chronicles the remarkable and often...

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Author: William Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America's bloodiest battle ever--World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive--and the shocking American...

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The next novel in the international publishing phenomenon the Ice Planet Barbarians series, now in a special print edition with a bonus original novella! Tiffany doesn't care about all the...

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4183 Beevor’s Stalingrad and Berlin, Keegan’s The Face of Battle, Tuchman’s August 1914, Macintyre’s SAS: Rogue Heroes, Hastings on the Dambusters and three Forgotten...

An in-depth, authoritative account of the autumn of 1914 on the Western Front and the First Battle of Ypres, a true turning point in modern warfare. The final months of...

Three brave women, three strong men...and one town on the brink. The Cattleman's Ready-Made Family - Michelle Douglas A fresh start? Tess Laing has suffered more heartbreak than most. So...

Secondhand Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4285 Eighteen recent literary novels in near-new condition, several of them publisher’s proofs: Colson Whitehead twice (The Nickel Boys proof and Crook Manifesto), Patricia...

Secondhand Penguin Modern Classics Bargain Book Box SP4149 Twenty-one literary paperbacks, most in vintage Penguin Modern Classics: Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, Christina Stead, Henry Handel Richardson’s Ultima Thule, Patrick White’s...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP4147 Twenty-one biographies and memoirs, nearly all hardback with jackets: Flea’s Acid for the Children, Will Sergeant’s Echoes, Mike Love’s Good Vibrations, Tom...

ALL FAMILIES HAVE SECRETS. BUT IT'S THE LIES THAT CAN KILL. The compelling new novel about power, money and lies from the author of Anatomy of a Scandal. 'A timely...

Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 10-14) Bargain Book Box SP4297 Eighteen action books, two complete series between them: all nine CHERUBs from The Recruit to Mad Dogs (minus Dark Sun), and...