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How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... 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MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. 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Quick view Details sku: rR21609H Ed Husain / The Islamist MSRP: Now: €2.50 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 Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 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 British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6992H Sharon Bertsch McGrayne / The Theory That Would Not Die (Large Paperback) A vivid account of the generations-long dispute over Bayes' rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statistics"An intellectual romp touching on, among other topics, military ingenuity, the origins of modern... 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How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... 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MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30439H Seymour Hersh / The Dark Side of Camelot Sex, the Kennedys, Monroe and the Mafia; the controversial American bestseller - 'Hersh has found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge' Gore VidalJack Kennedy had it all. And he used it all - his father's... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88196H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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 Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 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 British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6992H Sharon Bertsch McGrayne / The Theory That Would Not Die (Large Paperback) A vivid account of the generations-long dispute over Bayes' rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statistics"An intellectual romp touching on, among other topics, military ingenuity, the origins of modern... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15817H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters 'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation ... Two Sisters isn't only the story of how a pair of teenage girls became radicalised but an unsparing portrait of our own society - of its failings and its joys' Luke HardingOn... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR31788H Simon Sebag Montefiore / The Romanovs : 1613-1918 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30320H,rR31336H Geoffrey Hindley / A Brief History of the Crusades Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25823H Yuval Noah Harari / 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Large Paperback) **FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS**Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30439H Seymour Hersh / The Dark Side of Camelot Sex, the Kennedys, Monroe and the Mafia; the controversial American bestseller - 'Hersh has found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge' Gore VidalJack Kennedy had it all. And he used it all - his father's... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88196H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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 Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 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 British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6992H Sharon Bertsch McGrayne / The Theory That Would Not Die (Large Paperback) A vivid account of the generations-long dispute over Bayes' rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statistics"An intellectual romp touching on, among other topics, military ingenuity, the origins of modern... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15817H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters 'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation ... Two Sisters isn't only the story of how a pair of teenage girls became radicalised but an unsparing portrait of our own society - of its failings and its joys' Luke HardingOn... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR31788H Simon Sebag Montefiore / The Romanovs : 1613-1918 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30320H,rR31336H Geoffrey Hindley / A Brief History of the Crusades Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25823H Yuval Noah Harari / 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Large Paperback) **FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS**Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30439H Seymour Hersh / The Dark Side of Camelot Sex, the Kennedys, Monroe and the Mafia; the controversial American bestseller - 'Hersh has found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge' Gore VidalJack Kennedy had it all. And he used it all - his father's... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88196H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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 Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 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 British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6992H Sharon Bertsch McGrayne / The Theory That Would Not Die (Large Paperback) A vivid account of the generations-long dispute over Bayes' rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statistics"An intellectual romp touching on, among other topics, military ingenuity, the origins of modern... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15817H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters 'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation ... Two Sisters isn't only the story of how a pair of teenage girls became radicalised but an unsparing portrait of our own society - of its failings and its joys' Luke HardingOn... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR31788H Simon Sebag Montefiore / The Romanovs : 1613-1918 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30320H,rR31336H Geoffrey Hindley / A Brief History of the Crusades Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25823H Yuval Noah Harari / 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Large Paperback) **FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS**Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30439H Seymour Hersh / The Dark Side of Camelot Sex, the Kennedys, Monroe and the Mafia; the controversial American bestseller - 'Hersh has found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge' Gore VidalJack Kennedy had it all. And he used it all - his father's... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88196H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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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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 British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... 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Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... 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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 Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 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 British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6992H Sharon Bertsch McGrayne / The Theory That Would Not Die (Large Paperback) A vivid account of the generations-long dispute over Bayes' rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statistics"An intellectual romp touching on, among other topics, military ingenuity, the origins of modern... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15817H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters 'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation ... Two Sisters isn't only the story of how a pair of teenage girls became radicalised but an unsparing portrait of our own society - of its failings and its joys' Luke HardingOn... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR31788H Simon Sebag Montefiore / The Romanovs : 1613-1918 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30320H,rR31336H Geoffrey Hindley / A Brief History of the Crusades Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25823H Yuval Noah Harari / 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Large Paperback) **FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS**Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30439H Seymour Hersh / The Dark Side of Camelot Sex, the Kennedys, Monroe and the Mafia; the controversial American bestseller - 'Hersh has found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge' Gore VidalJack Kennedy had it all. And he used it all - his father's... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88196H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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 Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 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 British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6992H Sharon Bertsch McGrayne / The Theory That Would Not Die (Large Paperback) A vivid account of the generations-long dispute over Bayes' rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statistics"An intellectual romp touching on, among other topics, military ingenuity, the origins of modern... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15817H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters 'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation ... Two Sisters isn't only the story of how a pair of teenage girls became radicalised but an unsparing portrait of our own society - of its failings and its joys' Luke HardingOn... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR31788H Simon Sebag Montefiore / The Romanovs : 1613-1918 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30320H,rR31336H Geoffrey Hindley / A Brief History of the Crusades Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25823H Yuval Noah Harari / 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Large Paperback) **FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS**Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... 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Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... 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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,... 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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 British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6992H Sharon Bertsch McGrayne / The Theory That Would Not Die (Large Paperback) A vivid account of the generations-long dispute over Bayes' rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statistics"An intellectual romp touching on, among other topics, military ingenuity, the origins of modern... 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But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30439H Seymour Hersh / The Dark Side of Camelot Sex, the Kennedys, Monroe and the Mafia; the controversial American bestseller - 'Hersh has found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge' Gore VidalJack Kennedy had it all. And he used it all - his father's... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88196H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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 Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 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 British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6992H Sharon Bertsch McGrayne / The Theory That Would Not Die (Large Paperback) A vivid account of the generations-long dispute over Bayes' rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statistics"An intellectual romp touching on, among other topics, military ingenuity, the origins of modern... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15817H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters 'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation ... Two Sisters isn't only the story of how a pair of teenage girls became radicalised but an unsparing portrait of our own society - of its failings and its joys' Luke HardingOn... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR31788H Simon Sebag Montefiore / The Romanovs : 1613-1918 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30320H,rR31336H Geoffrey Hindley / A Brief History of the Crusades Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25823H Yuval Noah Harari / 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Large Paperback) **FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS**Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88196H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? 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Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 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. 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MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88196H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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 British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6992H Sharon Bertsch McGrayne / The Theory That Would Not Die (Large Paperback) A vivid account of the generations-long dispute over Bayes' rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statistics"An intellectual romp touching on, among other topics, military ingenuity, the origins of modern... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15817H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters 'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation ... Two Sisters isn't only the story of how a pair of teenage girls became radicalised but an unsparing portrait of our own society - of its failings and its joys' Luke HardingOn... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR31788H Simon Sebag Montefiore / The Romanovs : 1613-1918 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30320H,rR31336H Geoffrey Hindley / A Brief History of the Crusades Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25823H Yuval Noah Harari / 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Large Paperback) **FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS**Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88196H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 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 British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6992H Sharon Bertsch McGrayne / The Theory That Would Not Die (Large Paperback) A vivid account of the generations-long dispute over Bayes' rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statistics"An intellectual romp touching on, among other topics, military ingenuity, the origins of modern... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15817H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters 'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation ... Two Sisters isn't only the story of how a pair of teenage girls became radicalised but an unsparing portrait of our own society - of its failings and its joys' Luke HardingOn... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR31788H Simon Sebag Montefiore / The Romanovs : 1613-1918 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30320H,rR31336H Geoffrey Hindley / A Brief History of the Crusades Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25823H Yuval Noah Harari / 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Large Paperback) **FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS**Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... 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Quick view sku: wW6992H Sharon Bertsch McGrayne / The Theory That Would Not Die (Large Paperback) A vivid account of the generations-long dispute over Bayes' rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statistics"An intellectual romp touching on, among other topics, military ingenuity, the origins of modern... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15817H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters 'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation ... Two Sisters isn't only the story of how a pair of teenage girls became radicalised but an unsparing portrait of our own society - of its failings and its joys' Luke HardingOn... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR31788H Simon Sebag Montefiore / The Romanovs : 1613-1918 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? 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Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25823H Yuval Noah Harari / 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Large Paperback) **FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS**Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. 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Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... 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MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88196H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Russia | sku: rR31788H Simon Sebag Montefiore / The Romanovs : 1613-1918 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR30320H,rR31336H Geoffrey Hindley / A Brief History of the Crusades Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and... MSRP: Was: €2.95 Now: €1.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25823H Yuval Noah Harari / 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Large Paperback) **FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS**Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92283H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92544H Anne Glenconner / Lady in Waiting (Hardback) **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: €4.50 Now: €2.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... 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