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Quick view Blanning, Tim / The Romantic Revolution A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Brown, Louise / Sex Slaves : The Trafficking of women in Asia The Asian sex trade is often assumed to cater predominantly to foreigners. SEX SLAVES turns that belief on its head to show that while western sex tourists have played a vital part in the growth of the industry, the primary customers of Asia's... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Bliven, Bruce / American Revolution Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. From the unruly Boston Tea Party to the decisive Battle of Yorktown, the tale of our country's fight for independence is brought to life in fast-moving, dramatic detail. ... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Beevor, Antony / Crete : The Battle And the Resistance This book recounts the fall of Greece, the invasion of Crete by the Germans and the Resistance. The book is based on interviews with both the Allies and the Germans who took part. It gives insights into the invasion from the air and explains... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Roberts, John / The Team That Wouldn't Die : Story of the Busby Babes The 6 February 1998 marks the 40th anniversary of the Munich air disaster. Twenty three people died as the plane carrying Manchester United home from a Euopean Cup tie crashed after refuelling in Germany. Eight of those were United players... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Drosnin, Michael / The Bible Code The original THE BIBLE CODE - a phenomenal bestseller across the world For 3000 years a code in the Bible has remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer - and it may reveal our future. The code, broken by an Israeli... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Thompson, Julian / IWM Book of Modern Warfare : British & Commonwealth Forces at War 1945-2000 Since 1945, British and Commonwealth troops have been involved in fifteen major campaigns and conflicts, not a single year having passed in peace. In this remarkable record, the first book to cover the whole of this remarkable period in military... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Greer, Germaine / Whitefella Jump Up : The Shortest Way to Nationhood Race relations are one of the most fraught issues in the world. Almost everywhere in the world where different races rub against each other there is racism and friction. The problem is most acute with displaced indigenous people. White Australia -... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Chadwick, Nora / The Celts 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... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Pierce, Alexander / Notes to my Daughter : A Father's Blitz Diary When Christine Cuss (nee Pierce), was born in 1934, her doting father began a journal addressed to her. At first he recorded everyday details such as first teeth and family holidays, but as the 1930s progressed his words took on a more... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Mallie, Eamonn / Endgame in Ireland Eamonn Mallie and David McKittrick have been granted access to the research undertaken for the television series "Endgame in Ireland". This text tells the story of the Irish peace process from 1981, through the words of the key people involved -... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Sweeney, Eamonn / O'Brien Pocket History of Gaelic Sport A clear, concise and fascinating introduction to Gaelic sport, covering Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and handball. The two greatest finals, the All Ireland Hurling and Football finals, are the largest amateur events in the world, drawing huge... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Thompson, David / England in the Twentieth Century 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... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Navratil, Elisabeth / Survivors : A True-Life Titanic Story Elizabeth Navratil tells the true story of her grandfather, father and uncle and their voyage aboard the Titanic. Two small boys, Michel and Edmond Navratil, are among the crowds waiting to board the ill-fated Titanic on her maiden voyage. The... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Timerman, Jacobo / Chile 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... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Lasky, Kathryn / Elizabeth Daughter of a fallen queen, young Princess Elizabeth lives a complicated and dangerous life. She fears her father's famous temper but loves him dearly - she would trade all her jewels just to be noticed by him! As the royal family moves palaces,... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Ruthven, Malise / Islam in the World 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... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Wilson, A. N. / The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor The Royal Family may indeed have had a particularly "annus horribilis", but their history has long been fraught with crisis. In this provocative and wide-ranging account of the world's best-known family, the biographer, critic, novelist and... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Woodward, Bob / Plan of Attack Award-winning journalist Bob Woodward has spent over thirty years in Washington's corridors of power. In All the President's Men it was he, together with Carl Bernstein, who exposed the Watergate scandal and he has been giving us a privileged... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Bailey, Christopher J. / The Uncertain Power : Political History of the United States Since 1929 This is a short political history of the United States since 1929, focusing on the national political agenda. The book deals with civil rights, the anti-communist crusade, social reform, foreign policy and includes a discussion of military strategy... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Farman, John / Very Bloody History Of Britain Warning: This book could change your ideas about history for ever!! Do you know why the Celts got the best girls? Or who had his portrait painted after he was dead? And have you any idea who planned the first Channel Tunnel? From the dawn of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Leonard, Hugh / Parnell and the Englishwoman : A Love Story This is the story of the great love affair between Charles Stewart Parnell and Katharine O'Shea that led to Parnell's downfall as leader of the Irish party at Westminster in 1889. It is a story of political wrangling and intrigue over Home Rule in... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Dungan, Myles / On This Day 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... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Kealy, Sr. Marie / Dominican Education in Ireland 1820-1930 (Large Paperback) Focusing on the part played by Dominican women in schools and colleges from 1820 to 1930, this book brings new findings to the history of the Catholic education of women and makes an important contribution to the general history of education in... €3.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Cushman, Karen / Catherine, Called Birdy An account of life in medieval England, and runner-up for the 1995 Newbery Medal. Catherine is spirited, stubborn and longing for adventure. Her journal paints a picture full of danger, hardships, and romance. Here are bawdy villagers, travelling... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Timmerman, K.R. / The Death Lobby 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... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view O hEithir, Breandan / A Pocket History of Ireland A short and entertaining history from earliest times to the present by one of Ireland's best-loved writers. This book deals with prehistory, the Celts, Christianity, the Vikings and the Normans. The various conquests and rebellions are covered,... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Coates, Time / The Siege of the Peking Embassy, 1900 : Sir Claude MacDonald's Report on the Boxer Rebellion 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... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Feeney, Paul / A 1950s Childhood : From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping Do you remember Pathe News? Taking the train to the seaside? The purple stains of iodine on the knees of boys in short trousers? Knitted bathing costumes? Then the chances are you were born in or around 1950. To the young people of today, the 1950s... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Roth, Melinda / From Baghdad, With Love When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around a corner, and prepare to open fire.What they find during the US-led attack on the 'most dangerous city on Earth', however,... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Ellis, Nesta Wyn / John Major An analysis of the history and character of John Major, not even an MP until 1979 but Prime Minister at the age of 47. It charts his story from poverty to power and is updated to include details of the G7 summit, the BCCI affair and the Citizen's... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Coote, Stephen / Royal Survivor : Life of Charles II This sweeping narrative takes the reader from palaces and battlefields through exile, bitterness, triumph and deceit. Charles is revealed as a fascinating, brave and dangerous man - a gambler, a fixer, a survivor. The twists and turns of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Dimbleby, Jonathan / The Last Governor : Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong In July 1997, Hong Kong will ceased to be a British colony and will reverted to the People's Republic of China. Five million people lost their status as British subjects and became citizens of a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. It was... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Robinson, Jeffrey / Rainier and Grace A biography of the Grimaldi royal family of Monaco, in which Prince Rainier speaks of his romance with Grace Kelly; Princess Stephanie recounts the tragic car crash that killed her mother; and Prince Albert and Princess Caroline reveal the private... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Boston, Anne / Wave Me Goodbye/Hearts Undefeated An invaluable omnibus that brings together women as diverse as Barbara Cartland, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, a Soho street-sweeper and an air-raid warden. Containing fiction and non- fiction from some of the most well-known writers of the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Colville, John Rupert / The Fringes of Power: October 1941-April 1955 v. 2 : Downing Street Diaries, 1939-55 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... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Tillyard, Stella / Aristocrats A fascinating insight into 18th century aristocratic life through the lives of the four Lennox sisters, the great grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the period 1740-1832. Passionate, witty and moving, the voices of the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Radzinsky, Edvard / Rasputin: The Last Word Sensational new biography - using the discovery of long lost contemporary documents - of the Russian peasant mystic whose malign influence helped lead to the downfall of the Romanovs. An unprecedented insight into the most enigmatic of men... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Friedman, Thomas L. / The World is Flat The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization - a `flattening' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Thatcher, Margaret / Statecraft A collection of the former Prime Minister's speeches and articles, `Statecraft' brought Margaret Thatcher's unrivalled political experience to bear on the challenges of the early new millennium. Margaret Thatcher's influence on modern politics... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Darylmple, William / From the Holy Mountain A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Ardagh, John / Germany And the Germans Aims to capture the diversity and contradictions of the Germany of the mid-1990s. This new edition looks at events such as Chancellor Kohl's re-election in 1994, the recession, the flare up of racial violence, and the continued malaise in the east... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Janik, Erika / A Short History of Wisconsin Rediscover Wisconsin history from the very beginning. "A Short History of Wisconsin" recounts the landscapes, people, and traditions that have made the state the multifaceted place it is today. With an approach both comprehensive and accessible,... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Crofts, Lewis / The Pornographer of Vienna 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... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Ivins, Molly / Bushwhacked : Life in George W. Bush's America For all our mockery of America, we are morbidly fascinated by it. This is a book about George W. Bush 'uncut', his extreme ideology, his capabilities, and his past. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Constitution of Ireland / Bunreacht na hEireann (English and Irish Edition) 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... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Frankl, Viktor E. / Man's Search for Meaning When Beacon Press first published Man's Search for Meaning in 1959, Carl Rogers called it "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." In the thirty-three years since then, this book - at once a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Grant, Garvan / The Trueish History of Ireland Did you ever think there was something funny about Irish history? Turns out you were right. As the centenary of 1916 approaches, 'The True(ish) History of Ireland' reveals the funny side of Ireland's story. Using hearsay, rumour and some... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Woodward, Bob / Bush at War With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers led the nation to war. Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Amis, Martin / The Moronic Inferno And Other Visits to America A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog. At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Summers, Julie / Jambusters The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. The whole of its previous history - two decades of educating, entertaining and supporting women and campaigning on women's issues - culminated in the enormous collective responsibility felt by... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Sebald, W.G. / Austerlitz In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of... €2.00 Add to Cart
