History & Historical Biography

Studs Terkel / My American Century (Large Paperback)

A collection of Studs Terkel most memorable interviews a panoramic chronicle of America from the 1920's onwards. Millions of US readers enjoyed Studs Terkel's groundbreaking, provocative and moving...

Alan Dawley / Class and Community - The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (Large Paperback)

  In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his prize-winning book, Dawley reflects once more on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn,...

Juliet Gardiner / Who's Who in British History (Large Paperback)

This enc

Leslie Alcock / Arthur's Britain (Large Paperback)

We are a

David S. Landes / The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Large Paperback)

The Weal

Ben Macintyre / The Siege (Large Paperback)

The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

Stephen Pope / The Macmillan Dictionary of the Second World War (Large Paperback)

A comprehensive guide to World War II, th

Peter deRosa - Vicars of Christ : The Dark Side of the Papacy - HB - SIGNED

Signed boldly ( covering the entire blank endpage) - ''with the best wishes of teh author, Peter de Rosa'' in black marker to the page.  The dark side of the papacy.   Peter de Rosa’s international...

John Martin / A Raid Over Berlin (Large Paperback)

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Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - HB ABRIDGED EDITION - Edited by D.M Low - 1960

Hardcover, a large and heavy volume, published in this abridged ( i.e shortened and concise) edition by Chatto & Windus UK, 1960. Lacks the original dustjacket, but solid in lightly scuffed grey...

Stephen Randolf Gibbons & P Morican / The League of Nations and U.N.O. (Large Paperback)

The League of Nations and U.N.O.  

Geoffrey Regan / Elizabeth I (Large Paperback)

Elizabeth I - saviour of the Protestant religion, or cautious and conservative queen? Through an intriguing selection of primary sources - state papers, private correspondence, conspirators' letters,...

Bernard Connolly / The Rotten Heart of Europe (Large Paperback)

John Terraine / The Great War (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Alec Harman / The Sonata Principle (Large Paperback)

The Sonata Principle : Man and His Music, Vol. 3

Peter Ackroyd / The Life of Thomas More (Large Paperback)

Peter Ac

James Spada / Jackie: Her Life in Pictures (Coffee Table Book)

A legendary life shown in rare, mostly never before published photographsArguably the most famous woman of the century, certainly one of its most photographed, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis...

Stella Tillyard / Aristocrats: The Illustrated Companion (Coffee Table Book)

A rich social history of the eighteenth century that accompanies a BBC TV series, here is the story of four sisters as threads in the tapestry of a grand era. The daughters of the Second Duke and...

Fergus Kennedy - Ballybunion to the River Kwai : An Irishman's Story of Survival on the Death Railway - PB

Ballybunion to the River Kwai is the remarkable story of Don Kennedy’s harrowing experience as an Irish prisoner of war under the Japanese from 1942–45. Vividly narrated by Don’s son Fergus, this is...

Michael Holman / Postmark Africa - Half A Century as Foreign Correspondent (Large Paperback)

Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent

Roger Burbach & Ben Clarke / September 11 and the U.S. War (Large Paperback)

September 11 and the U.S. War: Beyond the Curtain of Smoke

Michael Palin / Halfway to Hollywood (Hardback)

Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980--1988  

Margaret Forster / Rich Desserts & Captain's Thin (Hardback)

In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise. Within 15 years, Carr's of Carlisle had become one of...

Paul Fussell / The Great War and Modern Memory (Hardback)

The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory , winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named...

J.F.D Shrewsbury - A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles -HB - 1971

A hardcover reprint, Cambridge University Press, 1971, originally published in 1970.  Condition - Very good, solid in grety cloth, in a grey / cream dustjacket that shows age spotting to edges ...

Lytton Strachey - Eminent Victorians - Vintage HB - 1932

 Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General GordonLytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book...

Terry H. Anderson / The Sixties (Large Paperback)

In The Sixties, Terry Anderson tackles the question of why American experienced a full decade of tumult & change, whose reverberations & consequences are still being felt in America today. Always...

Charles Breunig - The Age of Revolution and Reaction 1789-1850 ( 2nd Edition) - PB 1977

Paperback, 2nd revised edition 1977, originally 1970, a standalone volume in teh wider Norton History of Modern Europe series

Wayne Barrett / Rudy! (Large Paperback)

An Investigative Biography Of Rudy Giuliani Adam Fifield Rudy Guiliani. New York City's May

David Christian / Origin Story (Large Paperback)

A Big History of Everything  This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Remo

Douglas M. Boucher / The Paradox of Plenty (Large Paperback)

Hunger in a Bountiful World Why does the world food system work for some but fails for others? How can we change it? Since its founding in 1975, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy...

Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback)

Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939

Dan Stone - The Holocaust : An Unfinished History - HB - 2023 - BRAND NEW

An authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust, from one of the leading scholars of his generation The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But there are...

John Kenneth Galbraith - The Great Crash 1929 - HB

The classic account of the Great Crash in US ( and subsequent global) stock markets in 1929, an event which precipitated the Great Depression. Originally published in 1954, this is a 2007 reprint...

Tip O'Neill - Man of the House : The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill - HB 1988

The memoirs of Tip O'Neill's career sketch his ties with the Kennedys, his break with Johnson on Vietnam, the turbulent Watergate years, and his dealings with Carter and Reagan.  Perhaps the example...

Michael Palin / Great-Uncle Harry (Hardback)

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him.The quest that...

Matthew Dennison / Queen Victoria : A Life of Contradictions (Hardback)

Queen Victoria 'Queen Victoria had a very

Digby Jones / Fixing Britain (Hardback)

Fixing Britain: The Business of Reshaping Our Nation

Caroline Goodfellow / How We Played: Games from Childhood Past (Hardback)

Games ma

Ian Vince / Britain: What a State (Hardback)

60 million people live on a group of islands on the fringes of the North Atlantic and it seems that no-one has a clear idea of what it takes to be a citizen of Britain.Our climate is temperate, our...

Simon Elmes / Talking for Britain (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Quentin Letts / 50 People Who Buggered up Britain (Hardback)

Which fi

Alan Axelrod / Elizabeth I, CEO (Hardback)

Elizabeth I, CEO: Strategic Lessons from the Leader Who Built an Empire

Quentin Letts / Bog-Standard Britain (Hardback)

Bog-Standard Britain: How Mediocrity Ruined This Great Nation

Chris Woodhead / Class War: The State of British Education (Hardback)

In his time Class War author Chris Woodhead has been a radical 70s schoolmaster, a Local Education Authority bigwig, a Schools Inspector for both Tory and Labour administrations, and a writer on...

Michael Freeman / ESPN: The Uncensored History (Hardback)

The Uncensored History is the first book

C.D.M Ketelbey - A History of Modern Times - HB - ( 4th Revised Edition) 1969

Hardcover, publsihed in this reprint 4th revised and expanded edition 1969, first edition was 1929 ( in a much different version) , updating the text to 1968.  Solid copy, but age foxing and spotting...

Bob Woodward / The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (Hardback)

Working

Martin Page / The First Global Village - How Portugal Changed the World (Large Paperback)

  Over the centuries, Portugal has influenced the course of history and lives of the rest of us far more than many larger and more powerful countries. The Portuguese gave the English afternoon tea,...

Frances Wilson / The Courtesan's Revenge

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Edward Samuel Behr / The Last Emperor

Tells the story of Pu Yi, who became Empe

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd / The Daily Telegraph Second Book of Obituaries: Heroes and Adventurers

The Daily Telegraph's obituaries