History & Historical Biography

Barbara Ann Pawlikowski / The Cost of Compassion: Five Women Who Paid the Ultimate Price (Large Paperback)

This is a story about women who promised to dedicate their life to serving others. The women portrayed here, Sisters Barbara Ann Muttra, Shirley Kolmer, Mary Joel Kolmer, Agnes Mueller, and Kathleen...

Fred Halliday / Two Hours That Shook the World: September 11, 2001: Causes and Consequences (Large Paperback)

Fred Halliday examines the causes and rise of Islamic fundamentalism and how terror became an instrument of political and military conflict. Sobering and encouraging, Two Hours That Shook the World...

Judith Mok / State of Dark (Large Paperback)

Judith Mok was born in Holland to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. She trained as a classical singer and travelled the world performing as a soloist, while publishing poetry and novels in Dutch.The...

George Harvey / Henry Clay Frick : The Man (Large Paperback)

Written by a close friend, this is the story of the industrialist, art collector, and benefactor.   All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture,...

C.J. King / Four Marys and a Jessie : The Story of the Lincoln Women (Large Paperback)

The story of the four key women in Abraham Lincoln's family and life. Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Harlan Lincoln, Mary Lincoln Isham, Mary Lincoln "Peggy" Beckwith, and Jessie Lincoln Beckwith Johnson...

Elizabeth Bowtell / A Zigzag Path (Large Paperback)

Elizabeth Bowtell's childhood was full of simple pleasures, rummaging through sea-shore rock pools with other carefree children, strolling through flower-carpeted meadows and walking down the narrow...

Henry Roth / Shifting Landscape (Large Paperback)

Gathers memoirs, articles, a poem, speech, and excerpt from an unfinished novel, writings from each period in Roth's career     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact...

Mel Gussow / Conversations With Miller (Large Paperback)

Offers a personal and revealing account of one of the major playwrights of our time. Arthur Miller is revealed in deep and candid conversation with the highly regarded dramatic critic, Mel Gussow. ...

Caroline Moorehead / A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France (Large Paperback)

On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four...

Heinz Hohne / The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS (Large Paperback)

  The SS was the terror of Europe. Swearing eternal allegiance to Adolf Hitler, it infiltrated every aspect of German life and was responsible for the deaths of millions. This gripping history...

Jeremy Seal / Treachery at Sharpnose Point: Unraveling the Mystery of the Caledonia's Final Voyage (Large Paperback)

While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the Caledonia , a ship wrecked on...

Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback)

A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of...

Jack Harte , Sandra Mara / To the Limits of Endurance: One Irishman's War (Large Paperback)

Revealing World War II memoir of Jack Harte, who ran away from home to join the British army with just a penny in his pocket and served in Malta and the Middle East, as well as becoming a member of...

Matthew Robinson , Jensen Karp / Just Can't Get Enough: Toys, Games, and Other Stuff from the 80s that Rocked (Large Paperback)

In this fond trip down memory lane, Just Can’t Get Enough celebrates all the awesome products kids collected, begged their parents for, threw tantrums about, and obsessed over in the 1980s. From Hit...

Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback)

Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired...

Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback)

Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters...

Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power

1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes...

Emma Hartley / Did David Hasselhoff End the Cold War?: 50 Facts You Need to Know - Europe by Emma Hartley

This book includes attention grabbing facts and punchy popular analysis. It is a sequel to the bestselling "50 Facts that Should Change the World". It includes facts such as: there are half a million...

Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973

Published by Anvil Press, 1973.  'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the...

Stephen Clarke / 1000 Years Of Annoying The French

Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?Non! The French sentenced her to...

Simon Sebag Montefiore / Speeches that Changed the World

Over 50 momentous and thought-provoking speeches from throughout history.Includes a DVD with recordings of many of the featured speeches.With over a million copies already sold, this is the newly...

Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist

Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might...

Aiping Mu / Vermilion Gate: An Extraordinary Story of Growing Up in Communist China

Aiping Mu was born to parents prominent in the Communist hierarchy—her father was Political Commissar for the Beijing region and her mother ran one of the city's universities—and in her early years...

Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976

An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the...

Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB

A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's.  "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely...

Roger Scruton / The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat

In this astonishing new book, Roger Scruton argues that to understand adequately the roots of Islamic terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic...

Masha Gessen / The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Putin's bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most...

Adrian Bridget Plass / The Son of God is Dancing

AIDS. Africa. Sickness. Read these words and what comes into your mind? Death? Destruction? Hopelessness? Definitely not my problem? Well, Adrian and Bridget Plass went to Zambia and found out for...

Ian Clayton / Bringing It All Back Home

When you hear a certain song, where does it take you What is the secret that connects music to our lives Heart warming, moving and laugh out loud funny, Bringing It All Back Home is the truest book...

Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track...

Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback)

Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland...

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...

David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century ( 1815-1914) - Vintage Pelican PB

Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1964,...

David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century - Vintage Pelican PB

Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1969,...

Betty Miller - Robert Browning : A Portrait - Vintage Penguin PB -1958 ( Originally 1952)

Originally published in 1952, this is the first Penguin paperback edition, 1958 ( Penguin 1264) - vertical ornage triband design, caricature drwing of Browning to centre cover.  Spine lean, usual age...

Jean Guitton - Abbé Pouget : Discourses - HB - 1959 ( Ex-libris copy)

Guillaume Pouget (14 October 1847 – 24 February 1933) was a French Vincentian priest who had great influence on many Christian scholars in the early 20th century. Translated from the original French...

Angela Byrne - Anarchy and Authority : Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia - PB - BRAND NEW

From the ascent of Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution. From the Battle of the Boyne to the Easter Rising. Between these epochal events were two astounding centuries of war, diplomacy,...

Bruce Kellner - The Harlem Renaissance : A Historical Dictionary for the Era - PB 1987 ( Originally 1984)

Covers '18 years of Afro-American  artistic and intellectual ferment, characterized as the Harlem Renaissance but which encompassed much of urban Afro-America. Over 800 entries, on individuals,...

B.A. Young / The Rattigan Version: Sir Terence Rattigan and the Theatre of Character (Large Paperback)

A financially successful playwright (The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version, Separate Tables and 20 others), an intimate of John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, notable enough to lunch...

C.R Williams - The History of Flintshire - From Earliest Times to the Act of Union - HB - 1961

Hardcover, published by Gee & Son, Denbigh, 1961. Illustrated throughout.  Larger format hardcover, in cream coloured dustjacket. Internally in very good condition.  Flintshire ( Sir y Fflint) is an...

Kelly Knauer / Great Events of the 20th Century (Coffee Table Book)

Since 1923, one magazine -- TIME -- has taken the pulse of the century week by week, and the result is an unparalleled chronicle of our times. Now, the editors of TIME have opened their archives to...

Thomas Morris / The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018· A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions… · A teenage boy who...

Donald Woods / Rainbow nation revisited: South Africa's decade of democracy (Hardback)

In Rainbow Nation Revisited, Donald Woods, now recognized as being an instrumental figure in the emergence of the new South Africa, revisits the country of his birth for the first time since he fled...

Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB

Bounty Books / Speeches that Changed the World (Coffee Table Book)

      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...

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen / Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (Large Paperback)

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those...

Russ Rymer / American Beach: How "Progress" Robbed a Black Town--and Nation--of History, Wealth, and Power (Large Paperback)

Focusing on the lives of three black Americans from northeastern Florida--an unarmed motorist killed by a white cop, the granddaughter of the state's first black millionaire, and novelist Zora Neale...

Loung Ung / Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (Large Paperback)

After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother...

Jeffrey Meyers / Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography (Hardback)

Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decade between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his “My characters are all Scott Fitzgerald...

Nicholas Davies / Diana : The Princess Who Changed the World (Hardback)

Many biographies have been written which dwell on the problems in Diana's life. " The Princess Who Changed The World" is the true and inspirational story of the real life of this exceptional woman...

Robert Lacey / Sotheby's - Bidding for Class (Hardback)

This volume explores the history of Sotheby's auction house, tracing its beginnings back to 1744. It was in the latter half of the 19th century, when economic instability forced the aristocrats to...

David P. Waddington / Memoirs (Hardback)

David Waddington, Baron Waddington, was a Conservative MP from 1968 to 1990, before becoming a life peer. For over twenty years he was a government Chief Whip, then served in the Cabinet as Home...