History & Historical Biography

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...

Simon Schama / Story Of The Jews - 1492-1900 : Belonging

A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.Belonging is a magnificent cultural...

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...

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,...

Des Ekin - The Brutish Empire : Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities- PB - BRAND NEW

For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empire’s methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars...

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)

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Ian Hannigan - Timeless Colours - Waterford - BRAND NEW ( September 2024)

Timeless Colours: Waterford celebrates the rich history of the Déise and its people through the meticulous colourisation of over 100 stunning images. From architectural gems like the Dromana Gate to...

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...

Dick Morris / Behind the Oval Office: Winning the Presidency in the Nineties (Hardback)

Dick Morris has written the ultimate inside story about the dramatic reelection of President Clinton, one that is certain to stir controversy about the way politics really works in America today. No...

Benjamin R. Barber / Jihad vs. McWorld

JIHAD VS. MCWORLD is an essential text for anyone who wants to understand the challenges facing us after the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and in light of the current conflict in the Middle...

James A. MacKay / Pocket Scottish History

From the Mesolithic era to the 1997 referendum that restored the Scottish parliament, this compact volume offers a chronological overview of Scotlandâ€s history. The events, people and political...

Olga Watkins, James Gillespie / A Greater Love

The true story of a woman's incredible journey into the heart of the Third Reich to find the man she loves. When the Gestapo seize 20-year-old Olga Czepf's fiance she is determined to find him and...

Timothy Garton Ash / History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the 1990s

In the 1980s, Timothy Garton Ash was a respected Central Europe reporter, his books The Magic Lantern , The Uses of Adversity , and The Polish Revolution required reading on the area, still very much...

Eric Lomax / The Railway Manm - PB

Eric Lomax (1919-2012) had always been fascinated by steam locomotives; during the Second World War he became a railway man on the notorious Japanese Burma route. In this memoir he describes the...

Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self (Hardback)

For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys ,...

Steven Matthews / The Day the Nazis Came : The True Story of a Childhood Journey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp (Hardback)

An poignant and timeless true story of one child’s journey to a German prison camp during World War II.The Day the Nazis Came is an utterly unique memoir, depicting the world of prison camps through...

Edward Samuel Behr / Prohibition: The 13 Years That Changed America (Hardback)

Exploring the USA's 13 years of Prohibition from political, historical and cultural perspectives, this book discusses not only gangsters, speakeasies and two-tone shoes, but also other, more unusual...

Will Williams / I Used to Know That: Geography (Hardback).

Discover the physical world of rivers, glaciers and coasts; the human world of population changes and migration; agriculture, including farming, GM foods and the green revolution; and industry, from...

Mike Dash / Tulipomania : The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused (Hardback)

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J. Anthony Foley / Gill & Macmillan annotated Constitution of Ireland, 1937-1994: With commentary (Large Paperback)

We sell Rare, out-of-print, uncommon, & used BOOKS, PRINTS, MAPS, DOCUMENTS, AND EPHEMERA. We do not sell ebooks, print on demand, or other reproduced materials. Each item you see here is...

Laurence W. Martin, John C. Garnett / British Foreign Policy (Large Paperback)

Has the 20th century been one of steady decline for British foreign policy? Can there be a distinct British foreign policy in age ofregionalism and globalization? This study challenges perceptions of...

Brian Fagan / The Time Detectives : Archeology: Revealing the Mysteries (Hardback)

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A Parragon Micropedia: World History (Hardback)

      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...

Antonia Fraser / The Gunpower Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 (Part Two)

      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...

Jon Sopel / A Year At The Circus: Inside Trump's White House (Hardback)

Welcome to the White House.At the heart of Washington, there is a circus. It's raucous, noisy and full of clowns. Reporting on it is a daily cacophony. Four major stories can blow up and blow out...

Otto B. Kraus / The Children's Block : Based on a True Story by an Auschwitz Survivor

We lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times even eight. There was so little space on the berth that when one of us wanted to ease his hip, we all had...