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MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Fletcher, H.L.V - Herefordshire : The County Book Series - Vintage HB with Map, Illustrated 1948 A hardcover first edition, Robert hale publishing, 1948 of a volume in their County books series covering Herefordshire, by H.L.V Fletcher. Internally, in very good condition, illustrated throughout, with the fold out map undamaged and in very good... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED681 Richard Church - Kent : The County Book - Vintage Hardcover 1948 WITH MAP One of a set of books describing the traditional counties of the Britain as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Kent. The author gives a richly personal account of a pageant of two thousand years of history. Includes, Hever Castle, Penshurst... 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MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Fletcher, H.L.V - Herefordshire : The County Book Series - Vintage HB with Map, Illustrated 1948 A hardcover first edition, Robert hale publishing, 1948 of a volume in their County books series covering Herefordshire, by H.L.V Fletcher. Internally, in very good condition, illustrated throughout, with the fold out map undamaged and in very good... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED681 Richard Church - Kent : The County Book - Vintage Hardcover 1948 WITH MAP One of a set of books describing the traditional counties of the Britain as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Kent. The author gives a richly personal account of a pageant of two thousand years of history. Includes, Hever Castle, Penshurst... 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Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: 86959H Max Arthur / Last Post : The Final Word From Our First World War Soldiers The 'Forgotten Voices' of the First World War speak for the final timeFORGOTTEN VOICES OF THE GREAT WAR was the surprise best-seller at Christmas 2002, selling over 60,000 copies in hardback alone. The formula was simple: Max Arthur interviewed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8802H Eamon Collins / Killing Rage This is an account of how an angry young man can cross the line that divides theoretical support for violence from a state of 'killing rage', in which the murder of neighbour becomes thinkable. Over 3000 people have died in Northern Ireland since... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6688H,rR11874H,rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. 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MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Fletcher, H.L.V - Herefordshire : The County Book Series - Vintage HB with Map, Illustrated 1948 A hardcover first edition, Robert hale publishing, 1948 of a volume in their County books series covering Herefordshire, by H.L.V Fletcher. Internally, in very good condition, illustrated throughout, with the fold out map undamaged and in very good... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED681 Richard Church - Kent : The County Book - Vintage Hardcover 1948 WITH MAP One of a set of books describing the traditional counties of the Britain as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Kent. The author gives a richly personal account of a pageant of two thousand years of history. Includes, Hever Castle, Penshurst... 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Philip Warner's WORLD WAR II neatly bridges this gap. Warner writes fluently and has a confident grasp of... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 59223H Fintan O'Toole / After the Ball 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... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7314H Sheena Wilkinson / Star by Star Stella has always looked forward to changing the world. It's what she was brought up to do, by a suffragette mother who knew all about fighting and rebellion. But it's November 1918. The great flu pandemic sweeping the world has robbed... 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MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Fletcher, H.L.V - Herefordshire : The County Book Series - Vintage HB with Map, Illustrated 1948 A hardcover first edition, Robert hale publishing, 1948 of a volume in their County books series covering Herefordshire, by H.L.V Fletcher. Internally, in very good condition, illustrated throughout, with the fold out map undamaged and in very good... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED681 Richard Church - Kent : The County Book - Vintage Hardcover 1948 WITH MAP One of a set of books describing the traditional counties of the Britain as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Kent. The author gives a richly personal account of a pageant of two thousand years of history. Includes, Hever Castle, Penshurst... 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MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Fletcher, H.L.V - Herefordshire : The County Book Series - Vintage HB with Map, Illustrated 1948 A hardcover first edition, Robert hale publishing, 1948 of a volume in their County books series covering Herefordshire, by H.L.V Fletcher. Internally, in very good condition, illustrated throughout, with the fold out map undamaged and in very good... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED681 Richard Church - Kent : The County Book - Vintage Hardcover 1948 WITH MAP One of a set of books describing the traditional counties of the Britain as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Kent. The author gives a richly personal account of a pageant of two thousand years of history. Includes, Hever Castle, Penshurst... 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Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9610H Martin Meredith / The State of Africa : A History of Fifty Years of Independence Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of decolonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58989H Philip Warner / World War Two There are many histories of the Second World War. Some are almost too overwhelming in their detail; other are simply too sparse. Philip Warner's WORLD WAR II neatly bridges this gap. Warner writes fluently and has a confident grasp of... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 59223H Fintan O'Toole / After the Ball 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... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7314H Sheena Wilkinson / Star by Star Stella has always looked forward to changing the world. It's what she was brought up to do, by a suffragette mother who knew all about fighting and rebellion. But it's November 1918. The great flu pandemic sweeping the world has robbed... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 86838H The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches For better, for worse, the great public speakers have always had the power to change the world. Brian MacArthur's anthology includes the most famous and notorious speeches delivered in English since 1899 as well as speeches in translation by Lenin,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 41596H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 87351H,rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Fletcher, H.L.V - Herefordshire : The County Book Series - Vintage HB with Map, Illustrated 1948 A hardcover first edition, Robert hale publishing, 1948 of a volume in their County books series covering Herefordshire, by H.L.V Fletcher. Internally, in very good condition, illustrated throughout, with the fold out map undamaged and in very good... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED681 Richard Church - Kent : The County Book - Vintage Hardcover 1948 WITH MAP One of a set of books describing the traditional counties of the Britain as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Kent. The author gives a richly personal account of a pageant of two thousand years of history. Includes, Hever Castle, Penshurst... 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MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Fletcher, H.L.V - Herefordshire : The County Book Series - Vintage HB with Map, Illustrated 1948 A hardcover first edition, Robert hale publishing, 1948 of a volume in their County books series covering Herefordshire, by H.L.V Fletcher. Internally, in very good condition, illustrated throughout, with the fold out map undamaged and in very good... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED681 Richard Church - Kent : The County Book - Vintage Hardcover 1948 WITH MAP One of a set of books describing the traditional counties of the Britain as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Kent. The author gives a richly personal account of a pageant of two thousand years of history. Includes, Hever Castle, Penshurst... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 86838H The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches For better, for worse, the great public speakers have always had the power to change the world. Brian MacArthur's anthology includes the most famous and notorious speeches delivered in English since 1899 as well as speeches in translation by Lenin,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 41596H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Fletcher, H.L.V - Herefordshire : The County Book Series - Vintage HB with Map, Illustrated 1948 A hardcover first edition, Robert hale publishing, 1948 of a volume in their County books series covering Herefordshire, by H.L.V Fletcher. Internally, in very good condition, illustrated throughout, with the fold out map undamaged and in very good... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED681 Richard Church - Kent : The County Book - Vintage Hardcover 1948 WITH MAP One of a set of books describing the traditional counties of the Britain as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Kent. The author gives a richly personal account of a pageant of two thousand years of history. Includes, Hever Castle, Penshurst... 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SALE Quick view sku: 6805M Robin Gardiner / The Riddle Of The Titanic Ten years after the first exploration of the Titanic wreck two and a half miles under the north Atlantic, and eighty-four years after she sank, Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat reappraised the legendary maritime disaster. Why was the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 86838H The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches For better, for worse, the great public speakers have always had the power to change the world. Brian MacArthur's anthology includes the most famous and notorious speeches delivered in English since 1899 as well as speeches in translation by Lenin,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 41596H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Fletcher, H.L.V - Herefordshire : The County Book Series - Vintage HB with Map, Illustrated 1948 A hardcover first edition, Robert hale publishing, 1948 of a volume in their County books series covering Herefordshire, by H.L.V Fletcher. Internally, in very good condition, illustrated throughout, with the fold out map undamaged and in very good... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED681 Richard Church - Kent : The County Book - Vintage Hardcover 1948 WITH MAP One of a set of books describing the traditional counties of the Britain as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Kent. The author gives a richly personal account of a pageant of two thousand years of history. Includes, Hever Castle, Penshurst... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Tipperary Books | sku: MED3879 Dan Breen - My Fight for Irish Freedom - Anvil Press PB - Tipperary - War of Independence - Vintage 1964 Ed A vintage paperback copy, published by Anvil Press, Tralee, of the classic account of the War of independence by Dan Breen - My fight for Irish Freedom. A 1964 reprint -heavy creasing to corners. Age tanning and spotting to the page block... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Previous 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: 7049E Hillary Rodham Clinton / Hard Choices : A Memoir HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. 'All... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: rR8750H Jack Huberman / Bush Hater's Handbook The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record and for those seeking the perfect gift book for that certain, special Bush-hater in their lives. Summarising,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1877H James Hawes / The Shortest History of Germany 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72287H Anthony Sadler / The 15:17 to Paris The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 other innocent travellers,... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1737H Max Hastings / Warriors An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8190H Andrew Ross Sorkin / Too Big to Fail : Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street SHORTLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2010They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would bring the world to its knees.Andrew Ross... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 506547E Jim Eldridge / Pyramid of Secrets It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. 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Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 87351H,rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Fletcher, H.L.V - Herefordshire : The County Book Series - Vintage HB with Map, Illustrated 1948 A hardcover first edition, Robert hale publishing, 1948 of a volume in their County books series covering Herefordshire, by H.L.V Fletcher. Internally, in very good condition, illustrated throughout, with the fold out map undamaged and in very good... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED681 Richard Church - Kent : The County Book - Vintage Hardcover 1948 WITH MAP One of a set of books describing the traditional counties of the Britain as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Kent. The author gives a richly personal account of a pageant of two thousand years of history. Includes, Hever Castle, Penshurst... 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Quick view sku: rR1877H James Hawes / The Shortest History of Germany 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72287H Anthony Sadler / The 15:17 to Paris The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 other innocent travellers,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2076H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994 The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. 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It takes in the exploits of spies, naval officers and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81324H The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain, a magisterial and entertainingly... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 39441H Catherine Bailey / The Secret Rooms : A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1845 Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952 Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He gained an international reputation... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2115H Paula Byrne / Belle : The True Story of Dido Belle The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England.In one of the most... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 86838H The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches For better, for worse, the great public speakers have always had the power to change the world. Brian MacArthur's anthology includes the most famous and notorious speeches delivered in English since 1899 as well as speeches in translation by Lenin,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 41596H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 87351H,rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Fletcher, H.L.V - Herefordshire : The County Book Series - Vintage HB with Map, Illustrated 1948 A hardcover first edition, Robert hale publishing, 1948 of a volume in their County books series covering Herefordshire, by H.L.V Fletcher. Internally, in very good condition, illustrated throughout, with the fold out map undamaged and in very good... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED681 Richard Church - Kent : The County Book - Vintage Hardcover 1948 WITH MAP One of a set of books describing the traditional counties of the Britain as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Kent. The author gives a richly personal account of a pageant of two thousand years of history. Includes, Hever Castle, Penshurst... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1737H Max Hastings / Warriors An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8190H Andrew Ross Sorkin / Too Big to Fail : Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street SHORTLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2010They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would bring the world to its knees.Andrew Ross... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 506547E Jim Eldridge / Pyramid of Secrets It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 39441H Catherine Bailey / The Secret Rooms : A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1845 Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952 Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He gained an international reputation... 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