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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. 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Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... 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It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. 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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. 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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... 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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. 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Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... 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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... 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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... 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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. 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Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... 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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. 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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. 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Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. 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Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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... 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Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... 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Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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... 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Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... 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Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... 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Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... 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Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... 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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... 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Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. 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Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. 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Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: X74199H Eva Hardback / Eva's Story (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: X91097H Niall Ferguson / Colossus : The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: X91097H Niall Ferguson / Colossus : The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... 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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED2869 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 51372H Brenda Power / The Noughties : From Glitz to Gloom Brenda Power has worked in the media for more than 20 years, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. This book features her views on many difficult issues and provides snapshots of issues that have shaped lives in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 84325H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Germany | sku: LAR42 Eugen Kusch - The Immortal Nuremberg - HB - Slipcased ILLUSTRATED - Post WW2 Reconstruction 3rd Ed - 1965 A third printing, 1965, of a photographic work chronicling the reconstruction of Nuremberg post world war two destruction, black and whute photographs of the ( mostly medieval) centre of the city, regarded as one of the most notable German cities for... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80697H David Cannadine / The Aristocratic Adventurer In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... 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Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: MED551 William Hart - My Life East and West - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1994 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1994. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. William S. Hart was a major silent movie cowboy star, one of the first "greats" in the... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 67958H Juliet Barker / Agincourt Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and the French were famously... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED563,MED564,MED565,MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
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