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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA stunning two-volume slipcase set from DK, Battle & Weapon presents a sweeping visual chronicle of human conflict...

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

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew rivalries in military history have captured the American imagination quite like that of Ulysses S. Grant and...

From Alexander the Great's conquest of the known world to generals leading today's campaigns in the Middle East, "Commanders" illuminates the leaders who have forged history on the battlefield. Each...

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"The foremost military memoir in the English language, written in a clear, supple style . . . a masterpiece." -Ron Chernow, in Grant Faced with cancer and financial ruin, Ulysses...

Stop all the clocks: the spring issue of Granta - Dead Friends - brings vital figures from one's past momentarily back into focus. Eschewing dewy-eyed remembrances and dry obituaries, features...

Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in...

Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in...

As long as people have been writing, they have been writing about nature. But nature - as we know it - is changing. Economic migration, overpopulation and - most significantly...

Coming up in Granta 103, a brilliant investigation into the rise of the British jihad by Richard Watson, fiction from James Lasdun, Thamima Anam, Daniel Alarcon and Jennifer Haigh; poetry...

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...

India is familiar ground for Granta , having devoted two classic issues to the country, though much has changed since the last dispatch, published on the cusp of the Modi...

Granta: Best of British Novelists: 43

Big as in substantial, powerful, famous; men as in weak, wicked, and notorious. Gitta Sereny on Albert Speer, the tyrant as survivor; Caroline Alexander on the classical tyrant, Hastings Banda;...

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Appealing to both those who like to travel and those who just like to read about travel, this book features entries about a wide variety of locations in a style...

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Any schoolchild can smell the rat in the adage. Everybody knows a game is not worth watching...

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Author: Rana Dasgupta Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Membranes - porous biological interfaces which regulate flows between one zone and another - are the foundational image for...

Granta 100 will be edited by William Boyd and will include pieces by: Martin Amis Julian Barnes Bill Buford AM Homes Ian Jack Mario Vargas Llosa Nicholas Shakespeare Ian McEwan...

Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Brian Dillon, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing) Diana Evans, Wiam El-Tamami, Tabitha Lasley, Adele Rosenfeld (tr....

Granta 100 will be edited by William Boyd and will include pieces by: Martin Amis Julian Barnes Bill Buford AM Homes Ian Jack Mario Vargas Llosa Nicholas Shakespeare Ian McEwan...

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Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's...

The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. This is not a...

Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Granta 158: In the Family features Fatima Bhutto on her dog Coco, Chris Dennis on parenting, Charif Majdalani (tr. Ruth Diver)...

An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City. Drawing on his family's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the vast and unforgiving landscape of colonial Australia, two distinct groups collided, competed, and ultimately shaped the nation's identity — the land-hungry squatters who seized...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: wear and tear. Page Condition: yellowed with signs of ageing. Markings: possibly inscribed by the author. Binding: intact. "Emigrant Eucalypts: Gum Trees as...