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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... 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John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... 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John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... 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This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... 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John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: 73108K Brigitte Hamann / The Reluctant Empress - Empress Elisabeth of Austria She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73104K Hugh Thomas / Cuba First published in 1971. Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and the authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as a leading historian of Spanish-speaking... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72948K Jason Webster / ¡Guerra!: Living in the Shadows of the Spanish Civil War After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72942K Jason Webster / The Spy with 29 Names He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... 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John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: 73108K Brigitte Hamann / The Reluctant Empress - Empress Elisabeth of Austria She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73104K Hugh Thomas / Cuba First published in 1971. Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and the authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as a leading historian of Spanish-speaking... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... 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Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73154K Sven Lindqvist / Saharan Journey Saharan Journey describes Lindqvist's journey through Algeria and Morocco, and explores the way European writers of the early twentieth century plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: 73108K Brigitte Hamann / The Reluctant Empress - Empress Elisabeth of Austria She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73104K Hugh Thomas / Cuba First published in 1971. Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and the authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as a leading historian of Spanish-speaking... 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Quick view Details US Politics & Presidency | sku: X89251K Gore Vidal / Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... 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Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: 73108K Brigitte Hamann / The Reluctant Empress - Empress Elisabeth of Austria She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73104K Hugh Thomas / Cuba First published in 1971. Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and the authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as a leading historian of Spanish-speaking... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... 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Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73154K Sven Lindqvist / Saharan Journey Saharan Journey describes Lindqvist's journey through Algeria and Morocco, and explores the way European writers of the early twentieth century plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: 73108K Brigitte Hamann / The Reluctant Empress - Empress Elisabeth of Austria She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73104K Hugh Thomas / Cuba First published in 1971. Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and the authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as a leading historian of Spanish-speaking... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72948K Jason Webster / ¡Guerra!: Living in the Shadows of the Spanish Civil War After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72942K Jason Webster / The Spy with 29 Names He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73154K Sven Lindqvist / Saharan Journey Saharan Journey describes Lindqvist's journey through Algeria and Morocco, and explores the way European writers of the early twentieth century plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: 73108K Brigitte Hamann / The Reluctant Empress - Empress Elisabeth of Austria She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73104K Hugh Thomas / Cuba First published in 1971. Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and the authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as a leading historian of Spanish-speaking... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72948K Jason Webster / ¡Guerra!: Living in the Shadows of the Spanish Civil War After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72942K Jason Webster / The Spy with 29 Names He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... 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Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73154K Sven Lindqvist / Saharan Journey Saharan Journey describes Lindqvist's journey through Algeria and Morocco, and explores the way European writers of the early twentieth century plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: 73108K Brigitte Hamann / The Reluctant Empress - Empress Elisabeth of Austria She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73104K Hugh Thomas / Cuba First published in 1971. Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and the authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as a leading historian of Spanish-speaking... 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But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72942K Jason Webster / The Spy with 29 Names He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... 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Quick view Folio Society Editions Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967 Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translated... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73154K Sven Lindqvist / Saharan Journey Saharan Journey describes Lindqvist's journey through Algeria and Morocco, and explores the way European writers of the early twentieth century plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: 73108K Brigitte Hamann / The Reluctant Empress - Empress Elisabeth of Austria She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73104K Hugh Thomas / Cuba First published in 1971. Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and the authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as a leading historian of Spanish-speaking... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72948K Jason Webster / ¡Guerra!: Living in the Shadows of the Spanish Civil War After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72942K Jason Webster / The Spy with 29 Names He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Folio Society Editions Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73154K Sven Lindqvist / Saharan Journey Saharan Journey describes Lindqvist's journey through Algeria and Morocco, and explores the way European writers of the early twentieth century plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: 73108K Brigitte Hamann / The Reluctant Empress - Empress Elisabeth of Austria She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73104K Hugh Thomas / Cuba First published in 1971. Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and the authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as a leading historian of Spanish-speaking... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72948K Jason Webster / ¡Guerra!: Living in the Shadows of the Spanish Civil War After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72942K Jason Webster / The Spy with 29 Names He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... 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Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73154K Sven Lindqvist / Saharan Journey Saharan Journey describes Lindqvist's journey through Algeria and Morocco, and explores the way European writers of the early twentieth century plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: 73108K Brigitte Hamann / The Reluctant Empress - Empress Elisabeth of Austria She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73104K Hugh Thomas / Cuba First published in 1971. Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and the authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as a leading historian of Spanish-speaking... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72948K Jason Webster / ¡Guerra!: Living in the Shadows of the Spanish Civil War After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72942K Jason Webster / The Spy with 29 Names He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... 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Quick view sku: 73154K Sven Lindqvist / Saharan Journey Saharan Journey describes Lindqvist's journey through Algeria and Morocco, and explores the way European writers of the early twentieth century plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: 73108K Brigitte Hamann / The Reluctant Empress - Empress Elisabeth of Austria She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73104K Hugh Thomas / Cuba First published in 1971. Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and the authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as a leading historian of Spanish-speaking... 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But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72942K Jason Webster / The Spy with 29 Names He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: 73108K Brigitte Hamann / The Reluctant Empress - Empress Elisabeth of Austria She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73104K Hugh Thomas / Cuba First published in 1971. Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and the authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as a leading historian of Spanish-speaking... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72948K Jason Webster / ¡Guerra!: Living in the Shadows of the Spanish Civil War After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72942K Jason Webster / The Spy with 29 Names He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... 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This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... 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This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... 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Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... 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Quick view sku: 72942K Jason Webster / The Spy with 29 Names He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72899K Giles Milton / Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: 72890K Robert Harvey / The Liberators : Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810 - 1850 This is the story of the seven extraordinary young men who gave their lives for South America's independence in the early years of the 19th century. They Francisco de Miranda, who narrowly escaped the guillotine in France, impressed both George... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 72887K Clayborne Carson / A Knock at Midnight : Great Sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. Before Martin Luther King Jr shared his dream with the nation and the world, he was preaching it from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 72882K Taylor Downing / Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition government to triumphant victory in the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 72864K Peter Hofschröer / Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo "The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time - incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington." All of our books are second hand, and while you... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 72843K James R. Hansen / First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America’s most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong – the man whose “one small step” changed history. In First Man,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 72842K Frank McDonough / The Hitler Years: Triumph In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in a coup. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life.He embarked on a crash programme of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 72818K Patrick Bishop / Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view British Monarchy | sku: 72768K Gareth Russell / Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisisTwice before in its history, the United... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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