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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. 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George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93181H Thomas Buergenthal / A Lucky Child (Hardback) At the age of seven Thomas Buergenthal was imprisoned in Nazi ghettos and camps, being rescued by Soviet and Polish troops when he was eleven. Separated from his parents in Auschwitz and surviving the 'Death March' of 1945 he was miraculously... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96737H Robert Lacey / The Year 1000 (Hardback) In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR26921H Doris Kearns Goodwin / Team of Rivals The bestselling and prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency. When Barack Obama was asked which book he could... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11492H Philip Ashby / Unscathed Major Phil Ashby already had a reputation for surviving scrapes, where others would - and did - break bones and worse. His strength, resourcefulness and luck had been tested to the full during his career in the Royal Marines' elite Mountain and... 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George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93181H Thomas Buergenthal / A Lucky Child (Hardback) At the age of seven Thomas Buergenthal was imprisoned in Nazi ghettos and camps, being rescued by Soviet and Polish troops when he was eleven. Separated from his parents in Auschwitz and surviving the 'Death March' of 1945 he was miraculously... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96737H Robert Lacey / The Year 1000 (Hardback) In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark... 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Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Darkest night has fallen over the empire on which the sun never set. Or so we like to think. In Out of Empire, Jeremy Paxman... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87758H Robert Bauval / The Orion Mystery (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR26921H Doris Kearns Goodwin / Team of Rivals The bestselling and prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency. When Barack Obama was asked which book he could... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11492H Philip Ashby / Unscathed Major Phil Ashby already had a reputation for surviving scrapes, where others would - and did - break bones and worse. His strength, resourcefulness and luck had been tested to the full during his career in the Royal Marines' elite Mountain and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4791H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World (Hardback) In "The New Rulers of the World" the award-winning journalist John Pilger selects from his recent "Guardian" and "New Statesman" essays on power, its secrets and illusions. The title is from his television film about the mythology of... 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Separated from his parents in Auschwitz and surviving the 'Death March' of 1945 he was miraculously... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96737H Robert Lacey / The Year 1000 (Hardback) In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5939H Sandra MacLiammoir / The Secret Life of Joan Denise Moriarty (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91592H Philip Ardagh / The Not-So-Very-Nice-Goings-On at Victoria Lodge (Hardback) Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of mystery and intrigue in the seemingly unrelated illustrations.With... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31777H Charles Allen / Plain Tales From The Raj The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW23236H Jeremy Paxman / Empire (Large Paperback) The British empire is long gone. Conventional wisdom has decreed it was A Bad Thing and that there's no more to be said. Darkest night has fallen over the empire on which the sun never set. Or so we like to think. In Out of Empire, Jeremy Paxman... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31777H Charles Allen / Plain Tales From The Raj The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW23236H Jeremy Paxman / Empire (Large Paperback) The British empire is long gone. Conventional wisdom has decreed it was A Bad Thing and that there's no more to be said. Darkest night has fallen over the empire on which the sun never set. Or so we like to think. In Out of Empire, Jeremy Paxman... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87758H Robert Bauval / The Orion Mystery (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR26921H Doris Kearns Goodwin / Team of Rivals The bestselling and prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency. When Barack Obama was asked which book he could... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11492H Philip Ashby / Unscathed Major Phil Ashby already had a reputation for surviving scrapes, where others would - and did - break bones and worse. His strength, resourcefulness and luck had been tested to the full during his career in the Royal Marines' elite Mountain and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4791H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World (Hardback) In "The New Rulers of the World" the award-winning journalist John Pilger selects from his recent "Guardian" and "New Statesman" essays on power, its secrets and illusions. The title is from his television film about the mythology of... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23365H John Cornwell / Seminary Boy One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.John Cornwell decided to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94058H Adrian Mourby / Rooms with a View (Hardback) Salvador Dali once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93181H Thomas Buergenthal / A Lucky Child (Hardback) At the age of seven Thomas Buergenthal was imprisoned in Nazi ghettos and camps, being rescued by Soviet and Polish troops when he was eleven. Separated from his parents in Auschwitz and surviving the 'Death March' of 1945 he was miraculously... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96737H Robert Lacey / The Year 1000 (Hardback) In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5939H Sandra MacLiammoir / The Secret Life of Joan Denise Moriarty (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91592H Philip Ardagh / The Not-So-Very-Nice-Goings-On at Victoria Lodge (Hardback) Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of mystery and intrigue in the seemingly unrelated illustrations.With... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR31777H Charles Allen / Plain Tales From The Raj The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW23236H Jeremy Paxman / Empire (Large Paperback) The British empire is long gone. Conventional wisdom has decreed it was A Bad Thing and that there's no more to be said. Darkest night has fallen over the empire on which the sun never set. Or so we like to think. In Out of Empire, Jeremy Paxman... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87758H Robert Bauval / The Orion Mystery (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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The title is from his television film about the mythology of... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23365H John Cornwell / Seminary Boy One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.John Cornwell decided to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94058H Adrian Mourby / Rooms with a View (Hardback) Salvador Dali once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93181H Thomas Buergenthal / A Lucky Child (Hardback) At the age of seven Thomas Buergenthal was imprisoned in Nazi ghettos and camps, being rescued by Soviet and Polish troops when he was eleven. Separated from his parents in Auschwitz and surviving the 'Death March' of 1945 he was miraculously... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96737H Robert Lacey / The Year 1000 (Hardback) In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5939H Sandra MacLiammoir / The Secret Life of Joan Denise Moriarty (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91592H Philip Ardagh / The Not-So-Very-Nice-Goings-On at Victoria Lodge (Hardback) Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of mystery and intrigue in the seemingly unrelated illustrations.With... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW23236H Jeremy Paxman / Empire (Large Paperback) The British empire is long gone. Conventional wisdom has decreed it was A Bad Thing and that there's no more to be said. Darkest night has fallen over the empire on which the sun never set. Or so we like to think. In Out of Empire, Jeremy Paxman... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87758H Robert Bauval / The Orion Mystery (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR26921H Doris Kearns Goodwin / Team of Rivals The bestselling and prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency. When Barack Obama was asked which book he could... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11492H Philip Ashby / Unscathed Major Phil Ashby already had a reputation for surviving scrapes, where others would - and did - break bones and worse. His strength, resourcefulness and luck had been tested to the full during his career in the Royal Marines' elite Mountain and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4791H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World (Hardback) In "The New Rulers of the World" the award-winning journalist John Pilger selects from his recent "Guardian" and "New Statesman" essays on power, its secrets and illusions. The title is from his television film about the mythology of... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23365H John Cornwell / Seminary Boy One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.John Cornwell decided to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94058H Adrian Mourby / Rooms with a View (Hardback) Salvador Dali once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93181H Thomas Buergenthal / A Lucky Child (Hardback) At the age of seven Thomas Buergenthal was imprisoned in Nazi ghettos and camps, being rescued by Soviet and Polish troops when he was eleven. Separated from his parents in Auschwitz and surviving the 'Death March' of 1945 he was miraculously... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96737H Robert Lacey / The Year 1000 (Hardback) In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5939H Sandra MacLiammoir / The Secret Life of Joan Denise Moriarty (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91592H Philip Ardagh / The Not-So-Very-Nice-Goings-On at Victoria Lodge (Hardback) Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of mystery and intrigue in the seemingly unrelated illustrations.With... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4791H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World (Hardback) In "The New Rulers of the World" the award-winning journalist John Pilger selects from his recent "Guardian" and "New Statesman" essays on power, its secrets and illusions. The title is from his television film about the mythology of... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23365H John Cornwell / Seminary Boy One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.John Cornwell decided to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94058H Adrian Mourby / Rooms with a View (Hardback) Salvador Dali once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93181H Thomas Buergenthal / A Lucky Child (Hardback) At the age of seven Thomas Buergenthal was imprisoned in Nazi ghettos and camps, being rescued by Soviet and Polish troops when he was eleven. Separated from his parents in Auschwitz and surviving the 'Death March' of 1945 he was miraculously... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96737H Robert Lacey / The Year 1000 (Hardback) In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5939H Sandra MacLiammoir / The Secret Life of Joan Denise Moriarty (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91592H Philip Ardagh / The Not-So-Very-Nice-Goings-On at Victoria Lodge (Hardback) Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of mystery and intrigue in the seemingly unrelated illustrations.With... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR26921H Doris Kearns Goodwin / Team of Rivals The bestselling and prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency. When Barack Obama was asked which book he could... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11492H Philip Ashby / Unscathed Major Phil Ashby already had a reputation for surviving scrapes, where others would - and did - break bones and worse. His strength, resourcefulness and luck had been tested to the full during his career in the Royal Marines' elite Mountain and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4791H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World (Hardback) In "The New Rulers of the World" the award-winning journalist John Pilger selects from his recent "Guardian" and "New Statesman" essays on power, its secrets and illusions. The title is from his television film about the mythology of... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23365H John Cornwell / Seminary Boy One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.John Cornwell decided to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94058H Adrian Mourby / Rooms with a View (Hardback) Salvador Dali once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93181H Thomas Buergenthal / A Lucky Child (Hardback) At the age of seven Thomas Buergenthal was imprisoned in Nazi ghettos and camps, being rescued by Soviet and Polish troops when he was eleven. Separated from his parents in Auschwitz and surviving the 'Death March' of 1945 he was miraculously... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96737H Robert Lacey / The Year 1000 (Hardback) In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5939H Sandra MacLiammoir / The Secret Life of Joan Denise Moriarty (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91592H Philip Ardagh / The Not-So-Very-Nice-Goings-On at Victoria Lodge (Hardback) Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of mystery and intrigue in the seemingly unrelated illustrations.With... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR11492H Philip Ashby / Unscathed Major Phil Ashby already had a reputation for surviving scrapes, where others would - and did - break bones and worse. His strength, resourcefulness and luck had been tested to the full during his career in the Royal Marines' elite Mountain and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4791H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World (Hardback) In "The New Rulers of the World" the award-winning journalist John Pilger selects from his recent "Guardian" and "New Statesman" essays on power, its secrets and illusions. The title is from his television film about the mythology of... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23365H John Cornwell / Seminary Boy One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.John Cornwell decided to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94058H Adrian Mourby / Rooms with a View (Hardback) Salvador Dali once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93181H Thomas Buergenthal / A Lucky Child (Hardback) At the age of seven Thomas Buergenthal was imprisoned in Nazi ghettos and camps, being rescued by Soviet and Polish troops when he was eleven. Separated from his parents in Auschwitz and surviving the 'Death March' of 1945 he was miraculously... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96737H Robert Lacey / The Year 1000 (Hardback) In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5939H Sandra MacLiammoir / The Secret Life of Joan Denise Moriarty (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91592H Philip Ardagh / The Not-So-Very-Nice-Goings-On at Victoria Lodge (Hardback) Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of mystery and intrigue in the seemingly unrelated illustrations.With... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: wW4791H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World (Hardback) In "The New Rulers of the World" the award-winning journalist John Pilger selects from his recent "Guardian" and "New Statesman" essays on power, its secrets and illusions. The title is from his television film about the mythology of... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: rR23365H John Cornwell / Seminary Boy One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.John Cornwell decided to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94058H Adrian Mourby / Rooms with a View (Hardback) Salvador Dali once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93181H Thomas Buergenthal / A Lucky Child (Hardback) At the age of seven Thomas Buergenthal was imprisoned in Nazi ghettos and camps, being rescued by Soviet and Polish troops when he was eleven. Separated from his parents in Auschwitz and surviving the 'Death March' of 1945 he was miraculously... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96737H Robert Lacey / The Year 1000 (Hardback) In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5939H Sandra MacLiammoir / The Secret Life of Joan Denise Moriarty (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91592H Philip Ardagh / The Not-So-Very-Nice-Goings-On at Victoria Lodge (Hardback) Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of mystery and intrigue in the seemingly unrelated illustrations.With... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X94058H Adrian Mourby / Rooms with a View (Hardback) Salvador Dali once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93181H Thomas Buergenthal / A Lucky Child (Hardback) At the age of seven Thomas Buergenthal was imprisoned in Nazi ghettos and camps, being rescued by Soviet and Polish troops when he was eleven. Separated from his parents in Auschwitz and surviving the 'Death March' of 1945 he was miraculously... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96737H Robert Lacey / The Year 1000 (Hardback) In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5939H Sandra MacLiammoir / The Secret Life of Joan Denise Moriarty (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91592H Philip Ardagh / The Not-So-Very-Nice-Goings-On at Victoria Lodge (Hardback) Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of mystery and intrigue in the seemingly unrelated illustrations.With... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X93181H Thomas Buergenthal / A Lucky Child (Hardback) At the age of seven Thomas Buergenthal was imprisoned in Nazi ghettos and camps, being rescued by Soviet and Polish troops when he was eleven. Separated from his parents in Auschwitz and surviving the 'Death March' of 1945 he was miraculously... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96737H Robert Lacey / The Year 1000 (Hardback) In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5939H Sandra MacLiammoir / The Secret Life of Joan Denise Moriarty (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91592H Philip Ardagh / The Not-So-Very-Nice-Goings-On at Victoria Lodge (Hardback) Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of mystery and intrigue in the seemingly unrelated illustrations.With... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X96737H Robert Lacey / The Year 1000 (Hardback) In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5939H Sandra MacLiammoir / The Secret Life of Joan Denise Moriarty (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91592H Philip Ardagh / The Not-So-Very-Nice-Goings-On at Victoria Lodge (Hardback) Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of mystery and intrigue in the seemingly unrelated illustrations.With... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW5939H Sandra MacLiammoir / The Secret Life of Joan Denise Moriarty (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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91592H Philip Ardagh / The Not-So-Very-Nice-Goings-On at Victoria Lodge (Hardback) Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of mystery and intrigue in the seemingly unrelated illustrations.With... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X91592H Philip Ardagh / The Not-So-Very-Nice-Goings-On at Victoria Lodge (Hardback) Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of an unfolding story of mystery and intrigue in the seemingly unrelated illustrations.With... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED417 T.W Earp - Augustus John - HB - Illustrated - 1930 Hardcover, published by Nelson & Sons UK, Undated but circa 1930. Untrimmed pages, ( some at rear are still uncut) , includes 6 full colour reproductions. Green cloth with titles in dark green to front. Ths copy has a neat bookshop stamp from... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: wW21085H,wW21119H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardback) BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its... MSRP: Was: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: wW13084H Anthony Summers / The Eleventh Day (Hardback) With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW21785H Peter Frankopan / The New Silk Roads (Hardback) From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening StandardThe New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh look at the network of... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: X71203H Greg Mortenson / Three Cups Of Tea (Large Paperback) The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: X94843H Thomas Kiggins / Maynooth mission to Africa (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW4817H Paul Mason / Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere (Large Paperback) Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW12574H Ben Mezrich / Once Upon a Time in Russia (Large Paperback) A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House.Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... 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Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... 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Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 83781H Dominique Lapierre / A Thousand Suns : Witness to History By the author of "The City of Joy", these are stories of the people behind many of the 20th century's most significant movements and events: from Mother Teresa to a Nazi with a conscience, from Earl Mountbatten of Burma to freedom fighters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95110H,wW3977H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Large Paperback) **DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: rR16541H Caroline B. Cooney / Mercy It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide 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: Was: €2.50 Now: €1.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. 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Quick view sku: rR30349H Richard Vinen / The Unfree French In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED239 David Hart Dyke - Four Weeks in May : A Captain's Story of war at Sea - PB - Falklands War A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding. - John Shirley, GuardianHMS Coventry's job during the Falklands War was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20130H Conor O'Clery / Moscow, December 25, 1991 History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91146H Thomas Cahill / The Gifts of the Jews (Hardback) Taking us first to Sumer in the third millennium, Cahill explores a civilization in which life is seen -- as it was in all ancient societies -- as part of an endless cycle of birth and death: time perceived as a wheel, spinning ceaselessly,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: rR31222H John Boardman / The Oxford History of the Roman World Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire, this book reproduces the text of the "Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome" in a smaller paperback form. Written by a team of specialist... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR15246H Mark Binelli / The Last Days of Detroit Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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