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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW13098H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. 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Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30574H Gordon Kerr / A Short History of the Middle East Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilisation and... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR50420H Jonathan Dimbleby / Russia : A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma' and even today it remains a country little understood by the West. 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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Quick view sku: MED2887 Constitution of the United States of America - HB The Constitution of the United states, full text, with full text of amendments ( the last amendment ( ratified) being the 27th Amendment , 1992) Small format hardcover, 30 pages with red and white colour endpapers, , seal of the USA on the front... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58530H Kevin Passmore / Fascism: A Very Short Introduction What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? 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USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47746H Tim Marshall / The Power of Geography *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year' Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... 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Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30574H Gordon Kerr / A Short History of the Middle East Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilisation and... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR50420H Jonathan Dimbleby / Russia : A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma' and even today it remains a country little understood by the West. In this revealing portrait, Jonathan Dimbleby crosses eight time zones and covers... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW42159H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47746H Tim Marshall / The Power of Geography *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year' Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG16 Harry Batsford & Charles Fry - The Cathedrals of England ( 3rd Edition 1936) This classic guide ( 1st published in 1934) gives a brief account and detailed pictorial guide to every Church of England cathedral in England that existed at the time . Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30574H Gordon Kerr / A Short History of the Middle East Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilisation and... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR50420H Jonathan Dimbleby / Russia : A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma' and even today it remains a country little understood by the West. In this revealing portrait, Jonathan Dimbleby crosses eight time zones and covers... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW42159H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1009 Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39189H John Baldock / The Essence of Sufism (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47746H Tim Marshall / The Power of Geography *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year' Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG16 Harry Batsford & Charles Fry - The Cathedrals of England ( 3rd Edition 1936) This classic guide ( 1st published in 1934) gives a brief account and detailed pictorial guide to every Church of England cathedral in England that existed at the time . Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR30574H Gordon Kerr / A Short History of the Middle East Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilisation and... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR50420H Jonathan Dimbleby / Russia : A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma' and even today it remains a country little understood by the West. In this revealing portrait, Jonathan Dimbleby crosses eight time zones and covers... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW42159H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47746H Tim Marshall / The Power of Geography *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year' Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG16 Harry Batsford & Charles Fry - The Cathedrals of England ( 3rd Edition 1936) This classic guide ( 1st published in 1934) gives a brief account and detailed pictorial guide to every Church of England cathedral in England that existed at the time . Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Russia | sku: rR50420H Jonathan Dimbleby / Russia : A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma' and even today it remains a country little understood by the West. In this revealing portrait, Jonathan Dimbleby crosses eight time zones and covers... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW42159H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1009 Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39189H John Baldock / The Essence of Sufism (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47746H Tim Marshall / The Power of Geography *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year' Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... 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Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW42159H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47746H Tim Marshall / The Power of Geography *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year' Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG16 Harry Batsford & Charles Fry - The Cathedrals of England ( 3rd Edition 1936) This classic guide ( 1st published in 1934) gives a brief account and detailed pictorial guide to every Church of England cathedral in England that existed at the time . Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47746H Tim Marshall / The Power of Geography *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year' Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47746H Tim Marshall / The Power of Geography *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year' Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... 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MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... 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Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1009 Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39189H John Baldock / The Essence of Sufism (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47746H Tim Marshall / The Power of Geography *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year' Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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Quick view sku: BIG1009 Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39189H John Baldock / The Essence of Sufism (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. 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Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... 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Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG16 Harry Batsford & Charles Fry - The Cathedrals of England ( 3rd Edition 1936) This classic guide ( 1st published in 1934) gives a brief account and detailed pictorial guide to every Church of England cathedral in England that existed at the time . Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW39189H John Baldock / The Essence of Sufism (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47746H Tim Marshall / The Power of Geography *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year' Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG16 Harry Batsford & Charles Fry - The Cathedrals of England ( 3rd Edition 1936) This classic guide ( 1st published in 1934) gives a brief account and detailed pictorial guide to every Church of England cathedral in England that existed at the time . Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47746H Tim Marshall / The Power of Geography *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year' Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR47746H Tim Marshall / The Power of Geography *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'I can't imagine reading a better book this year' Daily MirrorTim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG16 Harry Batsford & Charles Fry - The Cathedrals of England ( 3rd Edition 1936) This classic guide ( 1st published in 1934) gives a brief account and detailed pictorial guide to every Church of England cathedral in England that existed at the time . Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG16 Harry Batsford & Charles Fry - The Cathedrals of England ( 3rd Edition 1936) This classic guide ( 1st published in 1934) gives a brief account and detailed pictorial guide to every Church of England cathedral in England that existed at the time . Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8507,MED8545 David Ogg - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB ( Fontana History of Europe) The 18th century is a century of profound contrasts. It is the moment of the estate society, of the absolute predominance of the power of the crowns, of administrative centralization and of social immobility. It is the Age of... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG16 Harry Batsford & Charles Fry - The Cathedrals of England ( 3rd Edition 1936) This classic guide ( 1st published in 1934) gives a brief account and detailed pictorial guide to every Church of England cathedral in England that existed at the time . Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR18470H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR15432H Peter Hitchens / The Abolition of Britain A gloomy overview of British culture. The author argues that British culture is in ruins,and institutions held in contempt. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47641H,rR48986H,rR49397H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography | sku: BIG59 Patrick Myler- Ring of Hate : The Brown Bomber & Hitler's Hero - Joe Louis v Max Schmeling - HB - 2005 More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on 22 June 1938. In a world on the brink of war, the contest was projected as a test of nationalistic, racial and political ideals. It was America v. Germany,... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG16 Harry Batsford & Charles Fry - The Cathedrals of England ( 3rd Edition 1936) This classic guide ( 1st published in 1934) gives a brief account and detailed pictorial guide to every Church of England cathedral in England that existed at the time . Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG16 Harry Batsford & Charles Fry - The Cathedrals of England ( 3rd Edition 1936) This classic guide ( 1st published in 1934) gives a brief account and detailed pictorial guide to every Church of England cathedral in England that existed at the time . Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Boxing and Boxing Biography McRae, Donald - In Black & White : The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens - HB - 2002 The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG20 Antonia Fraser - The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 ( Hardback ) Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ...With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... 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Quick view sku: 79625H Ron Rosenbaum / Manhattan Passions All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED460 Billy Bryant - Children of Ol'Man River: The Life and Times of a Showboat Trooper- HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1989 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1988. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. The life of a showboat family, the Bryants, as related by son Billy. It is also... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... 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Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) This is a 'Left Biook Club' edition, 1937, Gollancz, in plain oreange paper covers, light curling to corners, titles in black to front and spine. Numbers ( probably catalogue related) written in pencil on front endpapers. This classic text from... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1225 Martin Mayer - madison avenue u.s.a - The Inside Story of American Advertising ( Penguin Special PB ) 1961 Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED550 John S. Sewell - The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk : Adventures in the China Seas - HB - ( Lakeside Press Classics 1995 ) Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Gilt embossed brown linen boards. Gilt to upper text edge. Frontispiece. This journal concerns itself with Commodore Perry's mission to the east including... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2879H David Aaronovitch / Voodoo Histories : How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks?Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death?Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED153,MED1063,MED7467 Tadeusz Sobolewicz- But I Survived - PB ( Auschwitz Birkenau) - PB 2005 - Wytrzymałem, więc jestem Sobolewicz was born in Poznan in 1923 , and was imprisoned in Auschwitz Birkenau ( his father was a member of the Polish Resistance and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942) ) , and he later was moved to other prison camps - Buchenwald, Flossenburg and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED129, Michael Zezima ( Mickey Z) - Saving Private Power : The Hidden History of ' The Good War' - HB 2000 Saving Private Power questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth. The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED566,MED567,MED568,MED569,MED2972,MED2973 Edward J Bourke - The Guinness Story : The Family, The Business , The Black Stuff - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland’s most famous export. Over 100 fascinating photographs bring to... MSRP: £11.61 Was: £10.72 Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79653H Thomas J. Curry / American Religious Liberty and Catholicism All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26116H Bill OReilly / Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardback) The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED3399 Kingsley Martin - The Crown and the Establishment ( Britain in the Sixties ) ( Penguin Special PB 1963) An examination of the historic relation between the crown ( as an institution as well as a representative organ of state) and the people. The author - a former editor of the New Statesman magazine criticises the monarchy - its esoteric finances, stuffy... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG16 Harry Batsford & Charles Fry - The Cathedrals of England ( 3rd Edition 1936) This classic guide ( 1st published in 1934) gives a brief account and detailed pictorial guide to every Church of England cathedral in England that existed at the time . Simply and concisely written to be read by anyone with an interest in the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 A first edition, 1976 , in which Tony Bunyan examines the history, development and role of the police and the intelligence agencies in the UK . Cover the ( then) standard police organisations, the Special Branch, MI5, surveillance techniques, notable... 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