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If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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... 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If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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... 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If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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... 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Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49116H Albert Jack / Red Herrings and White Elephants Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to wonder what we say actually means? The origins... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87386H John Campbell / The Iron Lady : Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady In this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes on Margaret Thatcher, we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge for leadership of the Conservative party... 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Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898 Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with decorated cloth covers. Alexander Mattock... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37203H Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43831H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... 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If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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... 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Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898 Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with decorated cloth covers. Alexander Mattock... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37203H Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43831H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR42065H Jasper Ridley / The Freemasons To the layman, the Freemasons are a mysterious brotherhood. This text follows the development of Freemasonry from the operative working masons of the Middle Ages to the gentlemen masons of the 18th century through to the position of the Freemasons... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR42099H Laurence Rees / The Nazis : A Warning From History Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.During a 16-year period,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32418H,rR38866H Michael Burleigh / The Third Reich : A New History In this riveting book, Michael Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context, showing how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread in the Europe of the period. He shows how a radical,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38831H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22624H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. 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If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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... 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Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898 Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with decorated cloth covers. Alexander Mattock... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37203H Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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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If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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... 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Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898 Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with decorated cloth covers. Alexander Mattock... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37203H Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... 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If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... 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But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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... 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Quick view Details sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here MSRP: Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30669H Giles Whittell / Spitfire Women of World War II This is the incredible true story of a wartime sisterhood of women pilots: a group of courageous pioneers who took exceptional risks to fly Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancasters to the frontlines of World War II.The women pilots of Air... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR42065H Jasper Ridley / The Freemasons To the layman, the Freemasons are a mysterious brotherhood. This text follows the development of Freemasonry from the operative working masons of the Middle Ages to the gentlemen masons of the 18th century through to the position of the Freemasons... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR42099H Laurence Rees / The Nazis : A Warning From History Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.During a 16-year period,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32418H,rR38866H Michael Burleigh / The Third Reich : A New History In this riveting book, Michael Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context, showing how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread in the Europe of the period. He shows how a radical,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38831H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22624H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49116H Albert Jack / Red Herrings and White Elephants Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to wonder what we say actually means? The origins... 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Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43831H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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... 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Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898 Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with decorated cloth covers. Alexander Mattock... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37203H Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... 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If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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... 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Quick view sku: rR42065H Jasper Ridley / The Freemasons To the layman, the Freemasons are a mysterious brotherhood. This text follows the development of Freemasonry from the operative working masons of the Middle Ages to the gentlemen masons of the 18th century through to the position of the Freemasons... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR42099H Laurence Rees / The Nazis : A Warning From History Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.During a 16-year period,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32418H,rR38866H Michael Burleigh / The Third Reich : A New History In this riveting book, Michael Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context, showing how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread in the Europe of the period. He shows how a radical,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38831H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22624H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49116H Albert Jack / Red Herrings and White Elephants Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to wonder what we say actually means? The origins... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87386H John Campbell / The Iron Lady : Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady In this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes on Margaret Thatcher, we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge for leadership of the Conservative party... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28257H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... 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Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43831H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR42099H Laurence Rees / The Nazis : A Warning From History Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.During a 16-year period,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32418H,rR38866H Michael Burleigh / The Third Reich : A New History In this riveting book, Michael Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context, showing how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread in the Europe of the period. He shows how a radical,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38831H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22624H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49116H Albert Jack / Red Herrings and White Elephants Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to wonder what we say actually means? The origins... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87386H John Campbell / The Iron Lady : Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady In this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes on Margaret Thatcher, we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge for leadership of the Conservative party... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28257H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR47736H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4541 Alex M. Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898 Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with decorated cloth covers. Alexander Mattock... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37203H Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43831H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR32418H,rR38866H Michael Burleigh / The Third Reich : A New History In this riveting book, Michael Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context, showing how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread in the Europe of the period. He shows how a radical,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38831H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22624H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49116H Albert Jack / Red Herrings and White Elephants Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to wonder what we say actually means? The origins... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87386H John Campbell / The Iron Lady : Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady In this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes on Margaret Thatcher, we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge for leadership of the Conservative party... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28257H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR47736H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4541 Alex M. Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898 Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with decorated cloth covers. Alexander Mattock... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37203H Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43831H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR38831H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22624H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49116H Albert Jack / Red Herrings and White Elephants Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to wonder what we say actually means? The origins... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87386H John Campbell / The Iron Lady : Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady In this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes on Margaret Thatcher, we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge for leadership of the Conservative party... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28257H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR47736H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4541 Alex M. Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898 Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with decorated cloth covers. Alexander Mattock... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37203H Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43831H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR22624H John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49116H Albert Jack / Red Herrings and White Elephants Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to wonder what we say actually means? The origins... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87386H John Campbell / The Iron Lady : Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady In this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes on Margaret Thatcher, we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge for leadership of the Conservative party... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28257H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR47736H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4541 Alex M. Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898 Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with decorated cloth covers. Alexander Mattock... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37203H Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43831H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... 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But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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... 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Quick view sku: rR49116H Albert Jack / Red Herrings and White Elephants Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to wonder what we say actually means? The origins... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87386H John Campbell / The Iron Lady : Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady In this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes on Margaret Thatcher, we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge for leadership of the Conservative party... 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Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898 Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with decorated cloth covers. Alexander Mattock... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37203H Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 87386H John Campbell / The Iron Lady : Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady In this abridged edition of John Campbell's two acclaimed volumes on Margaret Thatcher, we trace the life of Britain's only female Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge for leadership of the Conservative party... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28257H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR47736H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4541 Alex M. Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898 Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with decorated cloth covers. Alexander Mattock... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37203H Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43831H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR28257H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR47736H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4541 Alex M. Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898 Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with decorated cloth covers. Alexander Mattock... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37203H Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43831H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view First World War | sku: rR47736H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4541 Alex M. Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898 Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with decorated cloth covers. Alexander Mattock... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37203H Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful campaigns and anti-terror operations, from... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43831H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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... 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There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43831H 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... 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But it's November 1918. The great flu pandemic sweeping the world has robbed... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... 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If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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... 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Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43831H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR43831H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR49436H Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: rR45946H 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: Now: £2.64 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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
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... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR48803H Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR38986H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED7115 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970 This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were Irish, and worked as organised gang labour doing some of teh... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart 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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
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: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view
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