History & Historical Biography

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...

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)

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.   

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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Harold Macmillan / The Macmillan Diaries II, 1959-66

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Philip Ziegler / Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography

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Jonathan Freedland / The Escape Artist (Large Paperback)

April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of the very first Jews to successfully escape Auschwitz. Evading the thousands of SS men hunting them, Vrba and...

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...

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

Chronicle of the Year (2 Book Collection)   1988 1990

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...

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...

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) 

Airey Neave - They Have Their Exits - PB 1970 (Originally 1953)

Airey Neave had the most distinguished of war records. Wounded and taken prisoner in the desperate fighting at Calais in 1940, he became a compulsive escaper and the first one of the very few to make...

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...

The 20th Century Year by Year: The Family Guide to the People and Events That Shaped the Last Hundred Years (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...

Charlee J. Brodsky / Pittsburgh Revealed: Photographs Since 1850 (Coffee Table Book)

From Pittsburgh's spectacular mills to its labor disputes to its natural disasters, 111 photographs of the city include fifty of the early city never seen before and the work of contemporary...

Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book)

A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of...

Simon Maier / The 100 with 10 Extra Speeches (Large Paperback)

The 100 with 10 Extra Speeches: Insights and Lessons from 110 of the Greatest Speakers and Speeche

Jack Fairweather / The Volunteer (Large Paperback)

Claudia Converso / Herculaneum: Civilisation and Art: Treasures of Italy (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...

James L. Swanson / Lincoln's Assassins : Their Trial and Execution (Coffee Table Book)

This definitive illustrated history of Abraham Lincoln's assassination follows the shocking events from the tragic scene at Ford's Theatre to the trial and execution of John Wilkes Booth's...

Terry Hardick / Bath Boating Station - An Illustrated History(Coffee Table Book)

A well written narrative history on the Bath Boating Station, a historic landmark on the River Avon. This book looks at the people involved with life at the boating club as well as the history of the...

Peter L. Gillman / Duty Men - The Inside Story of the Customs & Excise (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...

Peter Jennings / In Search of America (Coffee Table Book)

Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster conceived of this fascinating book long before the events of September 11th. But watching America respond to one of the worst attacks in its history deepened the...

Tim Graham / Diana, Princess of Wales: A Tribute (Coffee Table Book)

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Sandra Forty / Disasters - Defining Moments (Coffee Table Book)

Like rubber-neckers at an accident, people can't help but be fascinated by disasters. Is it the massive destruction and gruesome body counts? Or is it the unthinkable terror of the people caught in...

Ken Kimberley / Oi Jimmy Knacker : A Memoir of an East Ender's Childhood (Coffee Table Book)

Presents over 40 incidents that are illustrated by detailed watercolours that draw the reader into the childhood world. Accompanying each picture is a pen portrait recounting the story behind it...

Jeroen Koolbergen / Mozart (Coffee Table Book)

In the Great Composers Series, the lives of the world's greatest musical minds are examined in engrossing narrative and a variety of period illustrations, along with lively discussions of the...