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Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED633,MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: 85670K Miranda Carter / Anthony Blunt - His Lives .When Anthony Blunt died in 1983, he was a man about whom almost anything could be and was said. As Surveyor of the Queens Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute, Blunts position was assured until his exposure in 1979, leaving his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: 85416K Luke Turner / Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 As a child, Luke Turner was obsessed with the Second World War. He spent hours watching Sunday war films, poring over stories of derring-do and relishing in birthday trips to air museums. Lying in bed beneath Airfix fighter planes suspended from his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: 85315K Frederick Taylor / Coventry: Thursday, 14 November 1940 At a few minutes past seven on the evening of Thursday, November 14 1940, the historic industrial city of Coventry was subjected to the longest, most devastating air raid England had yet experienced. Only after eleven hours of continual bombardment by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: 85226K Annabel Gillings / Brunel Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59) was the outstanding example of an entrepreneurial Victorian engineer, seen at his most memorable in front of the chains used to launch the Great Eastern. His father, the French-born engineer Marc Isambard Brunel... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: 85210K Marilyn Shimon / Auschwitz Survivor 31321: A Memoir: First One In, Last One Out The horrifying true story of one of the first eight men to enter Auschwitz.In this grisly memoir, Marilyn Shimon resurrects her uncle Murray Scheinberg’s stories of six hellish years in Nazi Concentration Camps during World War 2. The Polish Jew... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: 85061K Martin Gilbert / In Search of Churchill Martin Gilbert began work on Winston Churchill's biography, initially as Randolph Churchill's assistant, in 1962 on his 26th birthday. By 1992 he had himself written six of the total eight volumes and edited ten documentary volumes of a projected 15... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
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Quick view Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: MED663,MED664,MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: 73603K Richard Baker / Terror of Tobermory It was as Commodore HMS Western Isles that Sir Gilbert Stephenson earned his nickname, 'The Terror of Tobermory'. Responsible for the training of new recruits in Tobermory harbour on the isle of Mull, Stephenson moulded hundreds of inexperienced recruits... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: 73547K Donald Keene / Appreciations of Japanese Culture Chapters on aesthetics, traditional poetry, modern poetry, novelists, eccentrics, literature and war. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
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Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart
Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: 73288K Stanley Wolpert / An Introduction to India Penguin paperback edition, 1994 India : From the impact of the monsoon rains and tropical heat on Indian history to the birth of Buddhism and the emergence of Hinduism, from the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the tragedy of the Partition to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart
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