History & Historical Biography

Patrick O'Sullivan / The Lusitania : Unraveling the Mysteries (Coffee Table Book)

The book portrays the great liner against its war-time background, explaining how evidence was rigged and the cover-up at the tribunal with new evidence regarding the cargo.   This book is second...

Mick Farren / The CIA Files : Secrets of "The Company" (Coffee Table Book)

The first-ever accessible, illustrated history of "The Company, " The CIA Files sifts through the mountain of allegations, rumors and half-truths that have surrounded the CIA and its operations since...

Ernest Shackleton / South: The story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition (Coffee Table Book)

South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated...

On This Day (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Desmond C. Whyman / Shoulder of Mutton Field - The Retail Butcher's Trade in Camden (Coffee Table Book)

Drawing from technical and privately published family histories, this remarkable account provides a broad understanding of the development of the meat industry utilizing England’s Kentish Town as a...

Kitty Kelley / Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the Kennedys (Coffee Table Book)

A bestselling author goes behind the lens of a legendary photographer to capture a magical timeA consummate photojournalist, Stanley Tretick was sent by United Press International to follow the...

Marjorie Caygill / The Story of the British Museum (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Charles Spencer / Althorp: The Story of an English House (Coffee Table Book)

Provides an intimate look at the history of Princess Diana's family home, which spans twenty generations and has gained new interest as the final resting place of a beloved royal   This book is...

Brian Hoey / Mountbatten: the Private Story (Hardback)

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Christopher Ward / And The Band Played On (Hardback) ( Titanic)

On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their...

Horace Greeley - The American Conflict - Two Volume Set 1865-67 - US First Printings

Hartford: O.D. Case & Company, 1865-7. First edition, first issue (copyright 1866; title page dated 1867). Hardcover set of two. Very good. Bound in embossed leather (?) over marbled paper boards,...

Emmet O'Connor - Rotten Prod : The Unlikely Career of Dongaree Baird - PB - BRAND NEW

James 'Dongaree' Baird, a boilermaker in Harland and Wolff's shipyard, was one of hundreds of 'rotten Prods', and thousands of Catholics, driven from their place of work by loyalists in 1920. The...

Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011

Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with...

Anthony Hocking / Randfontein Estate - The First Hundred Years (1 Book Box Set)

Anthony Hocking / Randfontein Estated The First Hundred Years (1 Book Box Set)

John Bew / Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee (Hardback)

Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the Empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO...

Charles B. Dew / Bond of Iron - Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge(Large Paperback)

 

Penguin Publishers / Penguin 1960s Biography (10 Book Box Set)

Penguin 60s Biography (10 Book Box Set)   dirk bogarde / coming of age vladimir nabokov / now remember anthony burgess / childhood barry humphries / less is more please Marianne faithfull / year...

Joseph Raftery ( Editor) - The Celts ( Thomas Davis Lectures Series - PB - 1967 ( Originally 1964)

A slim format paperback, a 1967 reprint , Mercier , originally 1964. Issued in collaboration with the long running Thomas Davis Lectures Series on RTE.   

John F. Kasson / The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression - Shirley Temple and 1930s America (Large Paperback)

  For four consecutive years, she was the world’s box-office champion. With her image appearing in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily, she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the...

Lee Miller / From The Heart - Voices of the American Indian (Large Paperback)

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Antjie Krog / Country of my Skull (Large Paperback)

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W. Morley Punshon - John Bunyan - A Lecture - Rebound Pamphlet

Booklet in a modern marbled boards rebinding, undated but 19th century, on the author of the hugely inflential Pilgrim's Progress, a Christian allegory. 

Hugh Egerton - Proposals Relating to Parliamentary Reform : A Sketch of the History of the Question since 1832 - HB Rebound Booklet - 1883

Rebound in marbled effect boards, the original pamphlet is 31 pages, published by Conservative Central Office, 1883. 

W.E Gladstone - Parliamentary Oaths - A Speech 1883 ( Rebound Booklet)

The full text of a House of Commons speech by Gladstone, , April 1883, rebound in modern  marbled effect boards, with paper label fixed to front. Original booklet is 16 pages, published by the...

David N. Durant / Bess of Hardwick: Portrait of an Elizabethan Dynast (Large Paperback)

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Chanrithy Him / When Broken Glass Floats (Large Paperback)

In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults...

Anne de Courcy / Diana Mosley

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Harold Macmillan / The Macmillan Diaries II, 1959-66

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Philip Ziegler / Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography

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Emily Benedek / The Wind Won't Know Me (Large Paperback)

A History of the Navajo-Hopi Dispute For twenty-five years, the USA's last Indian war has been raging in the Joint Use Area around Big Mountain and Coal Mine Mesa, Arizona. There Navajos are pitted...

Julie Burchill / Diana (Coffee Table Book)

In the early hours of August 31, 1997, a spirited, compassionate, and beautiful woman—who just happened to be the most famous woman in the world—was killed in a tunnel under the streets of Paris,...

Chronicle of the Year ( 1988 & 1990) (2 Book Collection)

Chronicle of the Year (2 Book Collection)   1988 1990

Reader's Digest / Illustrated History of the World (4 Book Collection)

Reader's Digest Illustrated History of the World (4 Book Collection)   discovery and religious crisis 1942 to 1648 the ancient world 900 bc to ad 430 countdown to crisis 1905 to 1914 europe's golden...

Ian Westwell / World War I Day by Day (Coffee Table Book)

Organized by year, this easy-to-use reference collection gives students side-by-side comparable facts on battles, war plans, and important key leaders in military history. This book is second hand,...

David Ross / History of a Nation : Scotland | England (2 Book Collection)

David Ross / History of a Nation (2 Book Collection)   Scotland England

Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers (3 Book Collection)

The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers (3 Book Collection)   Mozart Elgar Mahler

John Elliott - Fall of Eagles : The End of the Great European Dynasties - PB - 1974

Paperback, published by BBC Books, 1974, moderate to heavy age tanning to pages, tied in to a BBC TV series of the same name. The book examines the fall of three lareg European Empires as a direct...

Piers Brendon / Winston Churchill

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Daniel Halper / Clinton, Inc. (Large Paperback)

Published 2015, in teh run up to Hilary Clinton's presidential run.  Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper provides a meticulously researched account of the brilliant calculations, secret deals, and...

Tom Heneghan / Faith, Hope and Paris : English Speaking Catholics in Turbulent France(Large Paperback)

When in 1869 Fr. Bernard O'Loughlin, C.P. founded St. Joseph's Church, he wrote it would be a Catholic parish "for all those at Paris who speak the English language." Over the next century and a...

Gordon Smith / Politics in Western Europe - 4th Edition (Large Paperback)

Comparative analysis of political power and political parties in Western Europe from the end of WW2 to the 1980's.  4th Edition 1984.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Joe P. Plant - The Adventures of a Soldier's Wife - Ireland | India | England - 1915-1974 - PB

IRELAND  INDIA  ENGLAND 1915 - 1974 A story based on the memoirs of Pte. Sarah Kathleen Cunningham A memoir entrusted to and written by Joe P. Plant 1915. The true story of a young Irish Colleen...

Philip Parker / World History (Large Paperback)

Published by Eyewitness , a brand more commonly associated with travel guides, this is an illustrated , concise history of the world in a handy PB format.    This book is second hand, and while you...

John Barnes - Eva Peron - PB - 1978

A 1978 biography of the Argentinian 'First Lady' - exploring the paradoxes in her life.  Fontana Books, there is repair to the inside pages with (yellowing tape) 

William H. Rehnquist / Grand Inquests - (The Historic Impeachments Of Justice Samuel Chase And President Andrew JohnsonLarge Paperback)

Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments Of Justice Samuel Chase And President Andrew Johnson

A.A. Hoehling / Last Train From Atlanta (Large Paperback)

“The last train for the north leaves here tomorrow morning, Our soldiers are scattered along the railroad as hundred miles north, and as soon as that train passes, the work of destruction will...

Nicholas Owen / Diana: People's Princess (Coffee Table Book)

This updated edition includes new material on the aftermath of Diana's death, including controversy over the Memorial Fountain, the enquiry into her death, the achievements of the Memorial Fund, and...

Ali A. Mazrui / The Africans: A Triple Heritage (Coffee Table Book)

7 3/4 By 10 1/2`` Three civilizations shaped Africa, rich inheritance, Islamic culture and the impact of Western Traditions, book examines the interplay of these. 1986   This book is second hand, and...

Neil Thomson / 1930s (Coffee Table Book)

Glyn Davies was born in 1924 in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales. He tells the story of growing up in a small mining town in the 1930s.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Lois E. Anderson / John F.Kennedy (Coffee Table Book)

Traces the life of the U.S. president, and shows photographs from his childhood, military service, and political career   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Caxton / The Millennium Chronicles (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Emma Beare / Speeches That Changed the World (Coffee Table Book)

OVER 100 OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SPEECHES EVER MADE. IT IS THE CHOICE OF WORDS, THE FEELINGS THEY EXPRESS, THE PASSION WITH WHICH THE SPEAKER DELIVERS THEM, THE CIRCUMSTANCES OR THE LASTING EFFECT...