History & Historical Biography

Thomas Ayres / That's Not in My American History Book (Large Paperback)

A Compilation of Little Known Events and Forgotten HeroesThis book tackles the messy details, reclaims disregarded heroes, and sets the record straight. It also explains why July 4th isn't really...

Edward T. Linenthal / History Wars - The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past(Large Paperback)

  From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics.What kind of history Americans...

Lytton Strachey - Queen Victoria - HB 1958 (Originally 1921)

A biography of the British queen covers h

John Bergin, David Dickson, Ivar McGrath, Thomas O'Connor & Rosemary Ryan - Waterford and the Wider World 1575-1825 - PB - BRAND NEW

1575 - 1825 This collection of essays explores Waterford’s wide-ranging connections across Europe and beyond from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through expert essays, it reveals the city’s...

F.L Carsten (Editor)- Material Progress and World-Wide Problems - 1870-1898 - HB - (The New Cambridge Modern History - Volume XI - 1960)

A standalone volume in the multi-volume Cambridge Modern History . Covers the late 19th ecntury in Europe and the world. Hardcover in dustjacket, Dustdarkening to the spine and page block. The...

F.L Carsten (Editor)- The Reformation 1520-1559 - HB - (The New Cambridge Modern History - Volume II - 1958)

A standalone volume in the multi-volume Cambridge Modern History . Covers the era of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. Hardcover in dustjacket, Dustdarkening to the spine and page block. The...

F.L Carsten (Editor)- The Zenith of European Power 1830-1870 - HB - (The New Cambridge Modern History - Volume X - 1960)

A standalone volume in the multi-volume Cambridge Modern History . Covers the era of mid 19th century global history, an era where European colonialism was nearing it's zenith, and the USA a rising...

F.L Carsten (Editor)- The Era of Violence 1898-1945 - HB - (The New Cambridge Modern History - Volume XII - 1960)

A standalone volume in the multi-volume Cambridge Modern History . Covers the first half of the 20th century( but centers mostly on WW1 and the post WW1 era , Hardcover in dustjacket, Dustdarkening...

F.L Carsten (Editor)- The Old Regime 1713-63 - HB - (The New Cambridge Modern History - Volume VII - 1957)

A standalone volume in the multi-volume Cambridge Modern History . Covers the Old regime ( ancien regieme) era in Europe 1713-63 , hardcover in dustjacket, Dustdarkening to the spine and page block...

F.L Carsten (Editor) - The Ascendancy of France 1648-88 - HB - (The New Cambridge Modern History - Volume V - 1961 5)

A standalone volume in the multi-volume Cambridge Modern History . Covers the rise of France 1648-88, hardcover in dustjacket, Dustdarkening to the spine and page block. The dustjacket is now in a...

David Frost / Frost/Nixon (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...

Daniel James Brown /The Boys in the Boat (Large Paperback)

The Boys in the Boat: An Epic True-Life Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin

John Campbell / Margaret Thatcher, Vol. 1

Margaret Thatcher, Vol. 1: The Grocer's Daughter  

David Starkey / Monarchy

Monarchy: England and Her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors

Giles Morgan / A Pocket Essentials Short History of the Anglo-Saxons

But who

Peter Wright - Spycatcher : The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer (Hardback) - 1987

The former assistant director of MI5 offers an account of British Intelligence, including his work on the Ring of Five and exposing Soviet espionage and the conspiracy to oust Harold Wilson from the...

Robert W. Dunning / Arthur : The King in the West (Large Paperback)

The stor

Valerie Hemingway / Running with the Bulls - My Years with the Hemingways(Large Paperback)

A chance

Deborah Poole / Vision, Race, and Modernity (Large Paperback)

Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean World

Michael Lind / The Next American Nation (Large Paperback)

The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution

Paul Aron / Unsolved Mysteries of American History (Large Paperback)

An Eye-Opening Journey through 500 Years of Discoveries, Disappearances, and Baffling Events "A lively tour through our past and an ingenious primer in the art of historical

James Simpson / Burning to Read - English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents (Large Paperback)

  The evidence is fundamentalist reading can stir passions and provoke violence that changes the world. Amid such present-day conflagrations, this illuminating book reminds us of the sources, and...

Ron Chernow / Grant (Large Paperback)

Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union...

James Park / Cultural Icons (Large Paperback)

This book includes all the major style-makers, world-wide, from 1945 to the 1990s. A wide range of human endeavours, including art, life and culture, fashion and philosophy, psychology and...

Greg Muttitt / Fuel on the Fire : Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq (Large Paperback)

John Davis Billings / Hardtack and Coffee - The Unwritten Story of Army Life (Large Paperback)

  Most histories of the US Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every day—in camp, on...

Michael W. Kauffman / American Brutus - John Wilkes Booth (Large Paperback)

John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies It is a tale as familiar as our history A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded...

Dan van der Vat / Standard of Power : The Royal Navy in the Twentieth Century (Large Paperback)

Dan van der Vat, author of authoritative bestselling books on the Titanic and the history of the submarine, has now produced an enthralling and thoroughly researched history of the Royal Navy in the...

Olivier Philipponnat / The Life of Irene Nemirovsky (Large Paperback)

The first major biography of the author of Suite FrançaiseThe posthumous publication of Suite Française won Irène Némirovsky international acclaim and brought millions of readers to her work. But the...

Orlando Figes / Natasha's Dance

From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia's mighty culture.Orlando Figes' enthralling, richly...

Richard Ramsbotham / Who Wrote Bacon (Large Paperback)

Who Wrote Bacon?: William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and James I

Ruth Cowen / Relish - The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef(Hardback)

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

Richard Holmes / Coleridge : Early Visions (Hardback)

Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes’s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain’s greatest poets. ‘Coleridge:...

Graeme Lofts / Heart and Soul - Australia's First Families of Wine(Large Paperback)

Heart and Soul: Australia's First Families of Wine

Gertraud Junge / Last Witnesses in the Bunker (Hardback)

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Loung Ung / First They Killed My Father (Large Paperback)

Daughter of Cambodia #1

Bruce Nunn / History with a Twist (Large Paperback)

Wonderful & wacky tales of Nova Scotia history, told with Mr. Nova Scotia Know-It-All's humour & wit.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

David Thomson - Europe Since Napoleon Pelican PB Reprint 1982 ( Originally 1957)

 A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period, A comprehensive historical study of modern Europe from 1789, analyzing continent-wide forces including...

Laura Barcella / Fight Like a Girl - 50 Feminists Who Changed the World (Large Paperback)

  Feminism is a hot topic. The battle for gender equality is being fought by everybody from politicians to indie social media campaigners, celebrities to school girls. But how did we get here and who...

Martin Gutmann / The Unseen Leader (Large Paperback)

The Unseen Leader: How History Can Help Us Rethink Leadership

David V. Herlihy / The Lost Cyclist (Large Paperback)

The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an America

Peter Kurth / Anastasia (Large Paperback)

The Riddle Of Anna Anderson   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 exi

Anthony Birley - Lives of the Later Caesars - HB - 1992

Published in this edition by Guild Publishing, London, 1992, first published in this translation ( from the original Latin) in 1976.  Light edgewear to covers.  One of the most controversial of all...

Stephen Coote / A Play of Passion: The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh (Hardback)

Sir Walter Raleigh is well-know as an exp

Amanda Foreman / Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Hardback)

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one

John Boardman - The Greeks Overseas - Vintage Pelican PB - 1964

Paperback, published by Pelican paperbacks UK , 1964 A study of exploration and travel by the ancient Greeks ( primarily between  the 8th and 6th centuries BCE, and the wider dissemination of Greek...

Renia Spiegel / Renia's Diary - A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Large Paperback)

A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust Introduction by Deborah Lipstadt, author of DenialJuly 15, 1942, WednesdayRemember this day; remember it

John Symonds & Kenneth Grant ( Editors) - The Confessions of Aleister Crowley - An Autohagiograpy - HB 1979 ( Corrected Edition)

One of the most famous books on the occult ever written, this is a record of Crowley's journey into strange regions of consciousness: his initiation into magic his world-wide travels and mistresses,...

Robert M. Edsel / Saving Italy (Large Paperback)

Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

Alan Farmer / The Origins of the American Civil War (Large Paperback)

The text provides a detailed account of the causes of the American Civil War, identifying slavery as central to the dispute between Northern and Southern American states during the mid-nineteenth...

A.W Ward, G.W Prothero & Stanley Leathes ( Editors) - The Cambridge Modern History , Volume II - The Reformation - HB 1904

The standalone second volume ( covering the European and English Reformation era ( approximately 1503 to the close of the council of Trent circa 1568) - a period in which all of Europe underwent...

Robert Gellately - Backing Hitler : Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany - HB - 2001

Hardcover, published by Oxford University Press, 2001.  A solid copy , internally unmarked, but lacking the dustjacket, titles in gilt to spine.  With three sections of period b&w photographs ...