History & Historical Biography

Michael Smith / An Unsung Hero (Coffee Table Book)

Kerry-born Tom Crean ran away from home as a youth, and joined Scott's Discovery voyage in December 1901, not returning to England until 1904. He went back to the Antarctic with Scott on his fateful...

Robin Cross / World War II in Photographs (Coffee Table Book)

World War II was the single most destructive conflict in world history, fought from the icy seas of the North Atlantic to the deserts of North Africa and the jungles of the Far East. It saw German...

Andrew Morton / The Queen (Large Paperback)

In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind the...

Jim Volkert / National Museum of the American Indian (Large Paperback)

The National Museum of the American Indian, an addition to the Smithsonian Institution's most celebrated Mall of Museums in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's largest and finest assemblages of...

Stephanie Marie Thornton / And They Called It Camelot (Large Paperback)

And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis  

Esther Kaplan / With God on Their Side - George W. Bush and the Christian Right (Large Paperback)

When asked which single issue most affected their vote in the 2004 US presidential election, more than one in five Americans said "moral values"―and 78 percent of these voters chose to reelect...

Simon Morrison / Bolshoi Confidential (Large Paperback)

Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today

Ferguson Niall / The Square and the Tower : Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power(Large Paperback)

  What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From the global bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization

Ronald Hutton / The Making of Oliver Cromwell

The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell—providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history“Hutton’s book is intelligent, well documented, and stylish...

Reuel Golden - New York 365 Day By Day - TASCHEN - HB New & Sealed

Have your inspiration soar sky-high with TASCHEN’s 365 Day-By-Day New York Each day you’ll discover a beautiful city portrait and a related quote, bringing the essence of New York’s spirit and charm...

Robert Hughes - The Fatal Shore : The Epic of Australia's Founding

In this bestselling account of the colonization of Australia, Robert Hughes explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. Digging deep into the dark history of...

Richard Vinen / A History in Fragments : Europe in the Twentieth Century

The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that everyone thinks they know it. The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and communism, female...

W.B. Marsh / 365: Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year

A fascinating compendium of historical ta

Richard Holmes / Wellington: The Iron Duke

Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain’s greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke...

Thomas Keneally - Australians : Origins to Eureka ( Volume 1 ) - HB

Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers: bestselling author Thomas Keneally has woven their lives and their stories together in a vibrant...

Prince Bernhard Von Bülow- Memoirs 1903-1909 - HB ( Volume 2 of the 4 Volume Edition)

Hardcover, published by POutnam , London and New York, 1931. What looks like a library accession number on front tiotle page, but no other evidence taht it's an ex library copy.  Von Bulow was a key...

Harry Mount / How England Made the English

Join Harry Mount on his journey through England as he uncovers the national characteristics behind the English look -- a liking for old things, for smallness and gentleness; a taste for the...

Sarah Burton / A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb

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Janine Di Giovanni / The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East

    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...

Thomas J. Morrissey / Where Two Traditions Meet: John Sullivan SJ, 1861-1933 (Large Paperback)

John Sullivan embraced in his life the two main traditions in Irish history: the unionist, Anglo-Irish, Church of Ireland tradition and the Catholic tradition of the majority of the population...

Basil Howitt / Love Lives of the Great Composers (Large Paperback)

Basil Howitt delves into the love lives of a cluster of the great composers from Gesualdo to Wagner and finds much to delight, surprise, shock, and even appall his readers -- but never bore...

Life Time Books / World War II (11 Book Collection)

Life Time Books: World War II (11 Book Collection) Contains: The Battle of the bluge The Battle of britain war in the desert The Battle of the atlantic partisans and guerrillas victory in...

History of the Royal Navy / Air Force (2 Book Collection)

History of the Royal Navy / Air Force (2 Book Collection)     This collection is second hand unless otherwise stated in the description. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage...

Joseph Robins - Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland in the Twentieth Century - HB

Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland in the Twentieth Century: Fifty Years of An Bord Altranais (The Nursing Board) 1950 - 2000 by Joseph RobinsIllustratedPublished by An Bord Altranais, 2000

Thomas C. Reeves / A Life of John F. Kennedy (Hardback)

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Christopher Hitchens / Thomas Jefferson (Hardback)

In this

William Horsley / Nippon: New Superpower Japan Since 1945 (Hardback)

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Sam Erman / At Ground Zero - 25 Stories from Young Reporters Who Were There(Large Paperback)

9/11. New York. 

Jeremy Brecher / Strike! (Large Paperback)

No book has done as much as Strike! to bring U.S. labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the exciting hidden history of the U.S. labor movement from the point of view of the rank-and-file...

Olwyn M. Blouet / The Contemporary Caribbean (Large Paperback)

Life, History and Culture Since 1945

Eng Kok Thay / Norng Chan Phal: The Mystery Of The Boy At S-21 (Large Paperback)

Norng Chan Phal's life journey is a story of family, love and the struggle to survive and rebuild life after the Khmer Rouge genocide. It is also a story of separation between a young boy, his...

Princess Michael of Kent / Cupid and the King (Large Paperback)

    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...

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...

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)

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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.   

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

Some of

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.