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Lewis / The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This British edition spans the dates 3500 B.C. to 1997. All of our... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41774H Sanghera Sathnam / Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22051K Raimond Gaita / Romulus, My Father Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. 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Donovan / Henry Foxall: Methodist, Industrialist, American (Large Paperback) Henry Foxall was the quintessential catalyst for the transformation of a Spirit-filled movement into a denomination and a young nation into an economic powerhouse. This biography of Henry Foxall (1758-1823), sheds light on second-generation... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x52675K Parragon Publishing / History Makers (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: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30341H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This British edition spans the dates 3500 B.C. to 1997. All of our... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41774H Sanghera Sathnam / Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22051K Raimond Gaita / Romulus, My Father Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy’s life,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45189H Antonia Fraser / The Gunpowder Plot, Terror and Faith in 1605 An erudite and dramatic recollection of the gunpowder plot behind the events of 5th November, 1605. 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Quick view sku: rR41774H Sanghera Sathnam / Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22051K Raimond Gaita / Romulus, My Father Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy’s life,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45189H Antonia Fraser / The Gunpowder Plot, Terror and Faith in 1605 An erudite and dramatic recollection of the gunpowder plot behind the events of 5th November, 1605. 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It demonstrates that the official account of events of 9/11 would have required a dozen... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17560E Albrecht Hagemann / Nelson Mandela All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10770H Mitchell Zuckoff / Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the... 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MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7070 Mary McAuliffe & Catherine Wheelock ( Editors) - The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn : A Life Revealed Through WrIting - PB - Brand New 2023 The diaries of Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916-1955, cover her involvement in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the formative three and a half decades of the Irish Free State. They demonstrate the revolutionary, socialist and feminist... MSRP: £40.21 Now: £34.85 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58264H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk to Freedom All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35574H Robert Marshall / Light in the Dark: The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust Poland, 1943. 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Quick view sku: MED1595 Andrew M Greeley - That Most Distressful Nation : The Taming of the American Irish - PB 1972 Stubborn, difficult, paradoxical, maddening, joyous, brilliant, poetic, visionary, melancholy, frustrating, bedevilling, and ingratiating - all these have been used to describe the Irish. And this unique survey of the Irish experience in America will... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW27737H Richard Kostelanetz / Soho : The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony (Hardback) Soho: The Rise and Fall documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York became, through one of the accidents of history, a nexus of creative activity for a brief but intensive period. Such an ideal situation--entirely... 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Knox / World Cities in a World-System (Large Paperback) The dominating influence of a relatively small number of cities has characterized the shift to a more global economy during the 1970s and 1980s. Eighteen original essays accordingly examine the nature, demands and relationships of world cities such... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW43881H James West Davidson / A Little History of the United States (Large Paperback) This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn."—Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers"Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to... 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MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95540H Joe Moran / Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime (Hardback) Exploring the history of common daily activities as they come up during a typical day, starting with breakfast and ending with bedtime, Joe Moran shows how such tendencies conceal all kinds of hidden histories and meanings. By looking... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x48598E Gillian Shephard / The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) There are many myths about Margaret Thatcher's extraordinary personality and political career. But what was it really like to work with her? In The Real Iron Working with Margaret Thatcher, Gillian Shephard speaks to an eclectic and distinguished... 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MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7070 Mary McAuliffe & Catherine Wheelock ( Editors) - The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn : A Life Revealed Through WrIting - PB - Brand New 2023 The diaries of Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916-1955, cover her involvement in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the formative three and a half decades of the Irish Free State. They demonstrate the revolutionary, socialist and feminist... MSRP: £40.21 Now: £34.85 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58264H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk to Freedom All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35574H Robert Marshall / Light in the Dark: The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews escaped into a grim network of tunnels, living for fourteen months... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43951H Lily Ebert / Lily's Promise : How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17714E David R. Griffin / 9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed Though most britons thought the Afghan war justified in the aftermath of 9/11, this title shows that it was a legally and morally unjust war from the outset. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50574E Inside Harvard: A Student-Written Guide to the History and Lore of America's Oldest University (Large Paperback) Get inside Harvard with this brand-new edition of the Crimson Key Society's guide, a behind-the-scenes look at one of America's most prestigious universities. Tracing Harvard's riveting 375-year-long history — from storied past to thriving... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28089H Nelson Johnson / Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City (Large Paperback) Providing the inspiration and source material for the upcoming HBO series produced by Academy Award–winning director Martin Scorsese and Emmy Award–winning screenwriter Terence Winter, this riveting and wide-reaching history explores... 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Knox / World Cities in a World-System (Large Paperback) The dominating influence of a relatively small number of cities has characterized the shift to a more global economy during the 1970s and 1980s. Eighteen original essays accordingly examine the nature, demands and relationships of world cities such... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW43881H James West Davidson / A Little History of the United States (Large Paperback) This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn."—Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers"Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38822H Norman Davies / Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR61206H Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land". All of... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. 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Quick view sku: wW36961H Monty Halls / Escaping Hitler: Stories Of Courage And Endurance On The Freedom Trails (Large Paperback) I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .’Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50574E Inside Harvard: A Student-Written Guide to the History and Lore of America's Oldest University (Large Paperback) Get inside Harvard with this brand-new edition of the Crimson Key Society's guide, a behind-the-scenes look at one of America's most prestigious universities. Tracing Harvard's riveting 375-year-long history — from storied past to thriving... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW43881H James West Davidson / A Little History of the United States (Large Paperback) This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn."—Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers"Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: wW36875H Hugh Gough / The Terror in the French Revolution (Large Paperback) In the STUDIES IN EUROPEAN HISTORY series, this book examines the arguments, analyses the Terror's background and charts the history that lies between the fall of the Bastille and the work of the guillotine during the Terror. Aimed at history... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW30823H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning (Hardback) Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95540H Joe Moran / Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime (Hardback) Exploring the history of common daily activities as they come up during a typical day, starting with breakfast and ending with bedtime, Joe Moran shows how such tendencies conceal all kinds of hidden histories and meanings. By looking... 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Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events. TRUE COMPASSThe youngest of nine... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7070 Mary McAuliffe & Catherine Wheelock ( Editors) - The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn : A Life Revealed Through WrIting - PB - Brand New 2023 The diaries of Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916-1955, cover her involvement in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the formative three and a half decades of the Irish Free State. They demonstrate the revolutionary, socialist and feminist... MSRP: £40.21 Now: £34.85 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58264H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk to Freedom All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35574H Robert Marshall / Light in the Dark: The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews escaped into a grim network of tunnels, living for fourteen months... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43951H Lily Ebert / Lily's Promise : How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17714E David R. Griffin / 9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed Though most britons thought the Afghan war justified in the aftermath of 9/11, this title shows that it was a legally and morally unjust war from the outset. It demonstrates that the official account of events of 9/11 would have required a dozen... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17560E Albrecht Hagemann / Nelson Mandela All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10770H Mitchell Zuckoff / Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23421H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream: The Speeches That Changed History 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33074H Sam Pivnik / Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom In 1939, on his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38822H Norman Davies / Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR61206H Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land". All of... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23125H Marie Jalowicz Simon / Gone to Ground Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4340H Ken Wharfe / Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: x50574E Inside Harvard: A Student-Written Guide to the History and Lore of America's Oldest University (Large Paperback) Get inside Harvard with this brand-new edition of the Crimson Key Society's guide, a behind-the-scenes look at one of America's most prestigious universities. Tracing Harvard's riveting 375-year-long history — from storied past to thriving... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28089H Nelson Johnson / Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City (Large Paperback) Providing the inspiration and source material for the upcoming HBO series produced by Academy Award–winning director Martin Scorsese and Emmy Award–winning screenwriter Terence Winter, this riveting and wide-reaching history explores... 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Knox / World Cities in a World-System (Large Paperback) The dominating influence of a relatively small number of cities has characterized the shift to a more global economy during the 1970s and 1980s. Eighteen original essays accordingly examine the nature, demands and relationships of world cities such... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW43881H James West Davidson / A Little History of the United States (Large Paperback) This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn."—Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers"Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: wW36875H Hugh Gough / The Terror in the French Revolution (Large Paperback) In the STUDIES IN EUROPEAN HISTORY series, this book examines the arguments, analyses the Terror's background and charts the history that lies between the fall of the Bastille and the work of the guillotine during the Terror. Aimed at history... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW30823H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning (Hardback) Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95540H Joe Moran / Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime (Hardback) Exploring the history of common daily activities as they come up during a typical day, starting with breakfast and ending with bedtime, Joe Moran shows how such tendencies conceal all kinds of hidden histories and meanings. By looking... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x48598E Gillian Shephard / The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) There are many myths about Margaret Thatcher's extraordinary personality and political career. But what was it really like to work with her? In The Real Iron Working with Margaret Thatcher, Gillian Shephard speaks to an eclectic and distinguished... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW21741H Martyn Gregory / Diana: The Last Days (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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14833H Susan Bivin Aller / Mark Twain (Hardback) Lerner Publications and the A&E Television Networks have teamed up to create Biography for young readers. With highly accessible text and engaging photographs, this engrossing collection offers in-depth profiles of some of the world's most... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21241H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII (Hardback) Take a look at the wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon, pious Catholic princess and mother of Mary Tudor; Anne Boleyn, the pretty Lutheran with whom Henry was madly in love; Jane Seymour, whose submissiveness was in such contrast to Anne's... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: x47506E Edward M. Kennedy / True Compass: A Memoir (Hardback) In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events. TRUE COMPASSThe youngest of nine... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7070 Mary McAuliffe & Catherine Wheelock ( Editors) - The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn : A Life Revealed Through WrIting - PB - Brand New 2023 The diaries of Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916-1955, cover her involvement in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the formative three and a half decades of the Irish Free State. They demonstrate the revolutionary, socialist and feminist... MSRP: £40.21 Now: £34.85 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58264H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk to Freedom All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35574H Robert Marshall / Light in the Dark: The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews escaped into a grim network of tunnels, living for fourteen months... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43951H Lily Ebert / Lily's Promise : How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17714E David R. Griffin / 9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed Though most britons thought the Afghan war justified in the aftermath of 9/11, this title shows that it was a legally and morally unjust war from the outset. It demonstrates that the official account of events of 9/11 would have required a dozen... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17560E Albrecht Hagemann / Nelson Mandela All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10770H Mitchell Zuckoff / Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23421H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream: The Speeches That Changed History 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33074H Sam Pivnik / Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom In 1939, on his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38822H Norman Davies / Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR61206H Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land". All of... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. 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Griffin / 9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed Though most britons thought the Afghan war justified in the aftermath of 9/11, this title shows that it was a legally and morally unjust war from the outset. It demonstrates that the official account of events of 9/11 would have required a dozen... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17560E Albrecht Hagemann / Nelson Mandela All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10770H Mitchell Zuckoff / Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38822H Norman Davies / Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR61206H Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land". All of... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. 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Quick view sku: x50127E Helen Rezatto / Mount Moriah: Kill a Man...Start a Cemetery (Large Paperback) Helen Rezatto researches the violent deaths of the Gold Rush days in Deadwood, South Dakota, for this, her first book. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48949E Bertha Thorne / It's Like A Dream To Me - Paddy 'Iron' McCarthy Of Renews Relives His First Hundred Years (Large Paperback) Patrick McCarthy was born on October 19th, 1903 - nearly two months before the Wright Brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk. In "It's Like a Dream to Me", 100-year-old Paddy reminisces about the major events that occurred in his life over the past... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48944E Paul L. Knox / World Cities in a World-System (Large Paperback) The dominating influence of a relatively small number of cities has characterized the shift to a more global economy during the 1970s and 1980s. Eighteen original essays accordingly examine the nature, demands and relationships of world cities such... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW43881H James West Davidson / A Little History of the United States (Large Paperback) This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn."—Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers"Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to... 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MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7070 Mary McAuliffe & Catherine Wheelock ( Editors) - The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn : A Life Revealed Through WrIting - PB - Brand New 2023 The diaries of Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916-1955, cover her involvement in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the formative three and a half decades of the Irish Free State. They demonstrate the revolutionary, socialist and feminist... MSRP: £40.21 Now: £34.85 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58264H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk to Freedom All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35574H Robert Marshall / Light in the Dark: The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews escaped into a grim network of tunnels, living for fourteen months... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43951H Lily Ebert / Lily's Promise : How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17714E David R. Griffin / 9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed Though most britons thought the Afghan war justified in the aftermath of 9/11, this title shows that it was a legally and morally unjust war from the outset. It demonstrates that the official account of events of 9/11 would have required a dozen... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17560E Albrecht Hagemann / Nelson Mandela All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10770H Mitchell Zuckoff / Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23421H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream: The Speeches That Changed History 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33074H Sam Pivnik / Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom In 1939, on his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38822H Norman Davies / Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR61206H Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land". All of... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23125H Marie Jalowicz Simon / Gone to Ground Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4340H Ken Wharfe / Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: x48949E Bertha Thorne / It's Like A Dream To Me - Paddy 'Iron' McCarthy Of Renews Relives His First Hundred Years (Large Paperback) Patrick McCarthy was born on October 19th, 1903 - nearly two months before the Wright Brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk. In "It's Like a Dream to Me", 100-year-old Paddy reminisces about the major events that occurred in his life over the past... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48944E Paul L. Knox / World Cities in a World-System (Large Paperback) The dominating influence of a relatively small number of cities has characterized the shift to a more global economy during the 1970s and 1980s. Eighteen original essays accordingly examine the nature, demands and relationships of world cities such... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW43881H James West Davidson / A Little History of the United States (Large Paperback) This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn."—Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers"Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: wW36875H Hugh Gough / The Terror in the French Revolution (Large Paperback) In the STUDIES IN EUROPEAN HISTORY series, this book examines the arguments, analyses the Terror's background and charts the history that lies between the fall of the Bastille and the work of the guillotine during the Terror. Aimed at history... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW30823H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning (Hardback) Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X95540H Joe Moran / Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime (Hardback) Exploring the history of common daily activities as they come up during a typical day, starting with breakfast and ending with bedtime, Joe Moran shows how such tendencies conceal all kinds of hidden histories and meanings. By looking... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x48598E Gillian Shephard / The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) There are many myths about Margaret Thatcher's extraordinary personality and political career. But what was it really like to work with her? In The Real Iron Working with Margaret Thatcher, Gillian Shephard speaks to an eclectic and distinguished... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW21741H Martyn Gregory / Diana: The Last Days (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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW14833H Susan Bivin Aller / Mark Twain (Hardback) Lerner Publications and the A&E Television Networks have teamed up to create Biography for young readers. With highly accessible text and engaging photographs, this engrossing collection offers in-depth profiles of some of the world's most... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW21241H David Starkey / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII (Hardback) Take a look at the wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon, pious Catholic princess and mother of Mary Tudor; Anne Boleyn, the pretty Lutheran with whom Henry was madly in love; Jane Seymour, whose submissiveness was in such contrast to Anne's... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: x47506E Edward M. Kennedy / True Compass: A Memoir (Hardback) In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events. TRUE COMPASSThe youngest of nine... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7070 Mary McAuliffe & Catherine Wheelock ( Editors) - The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn : A Life Revealed Through WrIting - PB - Brand New 2023 The diaries of Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916-1955, cover her involvement in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the formative three and a half decades of the Irish Free State. They demonstrate the revolutionary, socialist and feminist... MSRP: £40.21 Now: £34.85 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58264H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk to Freedom All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35574H Robert Marshall / Light in the Dark: The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews escaped into a grim network of tunnels, living for fourteen months... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43951H Lily Ebert / Lily's Promise : How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17714E David R. Griffin / 9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed Though most britons thought the Afghan war justified in the aftermath of 9/11, this title shows that it was a legally and morally unjust war from the outset. It demonstrates that the official account of events of 9/11 would have required a dozen... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17560E Albrecht Hagemann / Nelson Mandela All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10770H Mitchell Zuckoff / Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the... 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Griffin / 9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed Though most britons thought the Afghan war justified in the aftermath of 9/11, this title shows that it was a legally and morally unjust war from the outset. It demonstrates that the official account of events of 9/11 would have required a dozen... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17560E Albrecht Hagemann / Nelson Mandela All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10770H Mitchell Zuckoff / Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the... 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MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED7070 Mary McAuliffe & Catherine Wheelock ( Editors) - The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn : A Life Revealed Through WrIting - PB - Brand New 2023 The diaries of Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916-1955, cover her involvement in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the formative three and a half decades of the Irish Free State. They demonstrate the revolutionary, socialist and feminist... MSRP: £40.21 Now: £34.85 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58264H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk to Freedom All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35574H Robert Marshall / Light in the Dark: The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews escaped into a grim network of tunnels, living for fourteen months... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43951H Lily Ebert / Lily's Promise : How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17714E David R. Griffin / 9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed Though most britons thought the Afghan war justified in the aftermath of 9/11, this title shows that it was a legally and morally unjust war from the outset. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23421H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream: The Speeches That Changed History 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33074H Sam Pivnik / Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom In 1939, on his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp... 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Quick view sku: rR43951H Lily Ebert / Lily's Promise : How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17714E David R. Griffin / 9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed Though most britons thought the Afghan war justified in the aftermath of 9/11, this title shows that it was a legally and morally unjust war from the outset. It demonstrates that the official account of events of 9/11 would have required a dozen... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17560E Albrecht Hagemann / Nelson Mandela All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10770H Mitchell Zuckoff / Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23421H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream: The Speeches That Changed History 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33074H Sam Pivnik / Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom In 1939, on his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38822H Norman Davies / Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR61206H Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land". All of... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23125H Marie Jalowicz Simon / Gone to Ground Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4340H Ken Wharfe / Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 17714E David R. Griffin / 9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed Though most britons thought the Afghan war justified in the aftermath of 9/11, this title shows that it was a legally and morally unjust war from the outset. It demonstrates that the official account of events of 9/11 would have required a dozen... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17560E Albrecht Hagemann / Nelson Mandela All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10770H Mitchell Zuckoff / Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23421H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream: The Speeches That Changed History 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33074H Sam Pivnik / Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom In 1939, on his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38822H Norman Davies / Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR61206H Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land". All of... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23125H Marie Jalowicz Simon / Gone to Ground Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4340H Ken Wharfe / Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 17560E Albrecht Hagemann / Nelson Mandela All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10770H Mitchell Zuckoff / Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23421H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream: The Speeches That Changed History 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33074H Sam Pivnik / Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom In 1939, on his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38822H Norman Davies / Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR61206H Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land". All of... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23125H Marie Jalowicz Simon / Gone to Ground Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4340H Ken Wharfe / Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR10770H Mitchell Zuckoff / Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23421H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream: The Speeches That Changed History 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33074H Sam Pivnik / Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom In 1939, on his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38822H Norman Davies / Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR61206H Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land". All of... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23125H Marie Jalowicz Simon / Gone to Ground Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4340H Ken Wharfe / Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR23421H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream: The Speeches That Changed History 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33074H Sam Pivnik / Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom In 1939, on his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38822H Norman Davies / Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR61206H Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land". All of... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23125H Marie Jalowicz Simon / Gone to Ground Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4340H Ken Wharfe / Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR33074H Sam Pivnik / Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom In 1939, on his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38822H Norman Davies / Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR61206H Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land". All of... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23125H Marie Jalowicz Simon / Gone to Ground Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4340H Ken Wharfe / Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR38822H Norman Davies / Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR61206H Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land". All of... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23125H Marie Jalowicz Simon / Gone to Ground Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4340H Ken Wharfe / Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view First World War | sku: rR61206H Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land". All of... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23125H Marie Jalowicz Simon / Gone to Ground Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4340H Ken Wharfe / Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR38869H Trevor Royle / Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23125H Marie Jalowicz Simon / Gone to Ground Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4340H Ken Wharfe / Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR23125H Marie Jalowicz Simon / Gone to Ground Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4340H Ken Wharfe / Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Compare Selected
Quick view sku: rR4340H Ken Wharfe / Diana - A Closely Guarded Secret Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Previous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Next Compare Selected
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