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Scotti / Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Large Paperback) In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, readers experience The Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76119K Elizabeth Green / East to West - The Eraly Years (Large Paperback) Born in the East End of London in the 1920s, Elizabeth was brought up above the family business. She spent much of her early life playing in the shop, under the watchful eye of her father. The author tells of the happier moments of childhood, but she... 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Scotti / Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Large Paperback) In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, readers experience The Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76119K Elizabeth Green / East to West - The Eraly Years (Large Paperback) Born in the East End of London in the 1920s, Elizabeth was brought up above the family business. She spent much of her early life playing in the shop, under the watchful eye of her father. The author tells of the happier moments of childhood, but she... 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Scotti / Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Large Paperback) In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, readers experience The Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76119K Elizabeth Green / East to West - The Eraly Years (Large Paperback) Born in the East End of London in the 1920s, Elizabeth was brought up above the family business. She spent much of her early life playing in the shop, under the watchful eye of her father. The author tells of the happier moments of childhood, but she... 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Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75918K Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback) A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... 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Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. 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'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... 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Scotti / Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Large Paperback) In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, readers experience The Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76119K Elizabeth Green / East to West - The Eraly Years (Large Paperback) Born in the East End of London in the 1920s, Elizabeth was brought up above the family business. She spent much of her early life playing in the shop, under the watchful eye of her father. The author tells of the happier moments of childhood, but she... 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Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. 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'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... 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"Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... 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Scotti / Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Large Paperback) In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, readers experience The Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76119K Elizabeth Green / East to West - The Eraly Years (Large Paperback) Born in the East End of London in the 1920s, Elizabeth was brought up above the family business. She spent much of her early life playing in the shop, under the watchful eye of her father. The author tells of the happier moments of childhood, but she... 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Kennedy (Large Paperback) In the last decade, there has been much research into the exact events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to new information gathered and assessed by Matthew Smith, JFK was murdered on orders emanating from the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76042K Herbert Eustace Maxwell / The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272 - 1346 (Large Paperback) Students of English and Scottish history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have so long been familiar with the record known as The Chronicle of Lanercost that an English translation may seem to be a superfluity. The writer or writers of the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76033K A.A. Hoehling / Lost at Sea (Large Paperback) Lost at Sea features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. 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Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75918K Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback) A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... 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Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... 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'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... 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Quick view Details sku: VP1482 Jacques Damase / Picasso (Vintage Paperback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: VP1476 Irving Stone / The Agony and the Ecstasy (Vintage Paperback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: VP1385 Ronald Frankenberg / Communities in Britain - Social Life in Town and Country(Vintage Paperback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88737H Alan Gurney / The Race to the White Continent: Voyages to the Antarctic (Large Paperback) A fascinating account of the early days of Antarctic exploration from an expert storyteller. In the 1830s, the forbidding Antarctic region represented the ultimate mystery. The prospect of discovering a lucrative whaling ground made this uncharted and... 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Scotti / Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Large Paperback) In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, readers experience The Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76119K Elizabeth Green / East to West - The Eraly Years (Large Paperback) Born in the East End of London in the 1920s, Elizabeth was brought up above the family business. She spent much of her early life playing in the shop, under the watchful eye of her father. The author tells of the happier moments of childhood, but she... 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Quick view Details sku: VP1476 Irving Stone / The Agony and the Ecstasy (Vintage Paperback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: VP1385 Ronald Frankenberg / Communities in Britain - Social Life in Town and Country(Vintage Paperback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88737H Alan Gurney / The Race to the White Continent: Voyages to the Antarctic (Large Paperback) A fascinating account of the early days of Antarctic exploration from an expert storyteller. In the 1830s, the forbidding Antarctic region represented the ultimate mystery. The prospect of discovering a lucrative whaling ground made this uncharted and... 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Scotti / Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Large Paperback) In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, readers experience The Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76119K Elizabeth Green / East to West - The Eraly Years (Large Paperback) Born in the East End of London in the 1920s, Elizabeth was brought up above the family business. She spent much of her early life playing in the shop, under the watchful eye of her father. The author tells of the happier moments of childhood, but she... 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Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75918K Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback) A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... 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Hoehling / Lost at Sea (Large Paperback) Lost at Sea features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. Veteran history and mystery writer A.A.Hoehling explores these previously unexplained maritime mishaps with... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76025K Keggie Carew / Dadland : A Journey into Uncharted Territory (Large Paperback) Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X78767H Kathryn Tidrick / Empire and the English Character (Large Paperback) Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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. 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'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? 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Quick view sku: X88737H Alan Gurney / The Race to the White Continent: Voyages to the Antarctic (Large Paperback) A fascinating account of the early days of Antarctic exploration from an expert storyteller. In the 1830s, the forbidding Antarctic region represented the ultimate mystery. The prospect of discovering a lucrative whaling ground made this uncharted and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76229K Paul Roberts / The End of Oil (Large Paperback) Petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our economy, our politics, and our personal expectations that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail by the most powerful forces in the companies and governments that depend on oil revenues;... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X76215K Ida Macalpine , Richard A. Hunter / George III & The Mad Business (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76126K R.A. Scotti / Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Large Paperback) In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, readers experience The Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76119K Elizabeth Green / East to West - The Eraly Years (Large Paperback) Born in the East End of London in the 1920s, Elizabeth was brought up above the family business. She spent much of her early life playing in the shop, under the watchful eye of her father. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X76047K Matthew Smith / Say Goodbye to America: The Sensational and Untold Story Behind the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (Large Paperback) In the last decade, there has been much research into the exact events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to new information gathered and assessed by Matthew Smith, JFK was murdered on orders emanating from the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76042K Herbert Eustace Maxwell / The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272 - 1346 (Large Paperback) Students of English and Scottish history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have so long been familiar with the record known as The Chronicle of Lanercost that an English translation may seem to be a superfluity. The writer or writers of the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76033K A.A. Hoehling / Lost at Sea (Large Paperback) Lost at Sea features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. Veteran history and mystery writer A.A.Hoehling explores these previously unexplained maritime mishaps with... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76025K Keggie Carew / Dadland : A Journey into Uncharted Territory (Large Paperback) Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X78767H Kathryn Tidrick / Empire and the English Character (Large Paperback) Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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. 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'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. 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Quick view sku: X76229K Paul Roberts / The End of Oil (Large Paperback) Petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our economy, our politics, and our personal expectations that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail by the most powerful forces in the companies and governments that depend on oil revenues;... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X76215K Ida Macalpine , Richard A. Hunter / George III & The Mad Business (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76126K R.A. Scotti / Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Large Paperback) In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. 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As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X78767H Kathryn Tidrick / Empire and the English Character (Large Paperback) Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. From the Lawrence brothers of the Punjab, Rajah James Brooke of Sarawak and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75967K Michael S. Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75918K Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback) A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... 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(Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X76215K Ida Macalpine , Richard A. Hunter / George III & The Mad Business (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76126K R.A. Scotti / Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Large Paperback) In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, readers experience The Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76119K Elizabeth Green / East to West - The Eraly Years (Large Paperback) Born in the East End of London in the 1920s, Elizabeth was brought up above the family business. She spent much of her early life playing in the shop, under the watchful eye of her father. The author tells of the happier moments of childhood, but she... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76110K Jeremy Seal / Treachery at Sharpnose Point: Unraveling the Mystery of the Caledonia's Final Voyage (Large Paperback) While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the Caledonia , a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842. Through further... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92951H Andrew Morton / Meghan: A Hollywood Princess (Large Paperback) From Andrew Morton, the New York Times bestselling author of Her True Story, comes a revealing, juicy, and inspiring biography of Meghan Markle, the American actress who won Prince Harry's heart. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X76047K Matthew Smith / Say Goodbye to America: The Sensational and Untold Story Behind the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (Large Paperback) In the last decade, there has been much research into the exact events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to new information gathered and assessed by Matthew Smith, JFK was murdered on orders emanating from the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76042K Herbert Eustace Maxwell / The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272 - 1346 (Large Paperback) Students of English and Scottish history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have so long been familiar with the record known as The Chronicle of Lanercost that an English translation may seem to be a superfluity. The writer or writers of the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76033K A.A. Hoehling / Lost at Sea (Large Paperback) Lost at Sea features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. Veteran history and mystery writer A.A.Hoehling explores these previously unexplained maritime mishaps with... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76025K Keggie Carew / Dadland : A Journey into Uncharted Territory (Large Paperback) Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X78767H Kathryn Tidrick / Empire and the English Character (Large Paperback) Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. From the Lawrence brothers of the Punjab, Rajah James Brooke of Sarawak and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75967K Michael S. Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75918K Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback) A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... 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'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X76126K R.A. Scotti / Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Large Paperback) In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, readers experience The Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76119K Elizabeth Green / East to West - The Eraly Years (Large Paperback) Born in the East End of London in the 1920s, Elizabeth was brought up above the family business. She spent much of her early life playing in the shop, under the watchful eye of her father. The author tells of the happier moments of childhood, but she... 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Kennedy (Large Paperback) In the last decade, there has been much research into the exact events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to new information gathered and assessed by Matthew Smith, JFK was murdered on orders emanating from the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76042K Herbert Eustace Maxwell / The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272 - 1346 (Large Paperback) Students of English and Scottish history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have so long been familiar with the record known as The Chronicle of Lanercost that an English translation may seem to be a superfluity. The writer or writers of the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76033K A.A. Hoehling / Lost at Sea (Large Paperback) Lost at Sea features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. Veteran history and mystery writer A.A.Hoehling explores these previously unexplained maritime mishaps with... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76025K Keggie Carew / Dadland : A Journey into Uncharted Territory (Large Paperback) Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X78767H Kathryn Tidrick / Empire and the English Character (Large Paperback) Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. From the Lawrence brothers of the Punjab, Rajah James Brooke of Sarawak and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75967K Michael S. Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75918K Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback) A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X76119K Elizabeth Green / East to West - The Eraly Years (Large Paperback) Born in the East End of London in the 1920s, Elizabeth was brought up above the family business. She spent much of her early life playing in the shop, under the watchful eye of her father. The author tells of the happier moments of childhood, but she... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76110K Jeremy Seal / Treachery at Sharpnose Point: Unraveling the Mystery of the Caledonia's Final Voyage (Large Paperback) While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the Caledonia , a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842. Through further... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92951H Andrew Morton / Meghan: A Hollywood Princess (Large Paperback) From Andrew Morton, the New York Times bestselling author of Her True Story, comes a revealing, juicy, and inspiring biography of Meghan Markle, the American actress who won Prince Harry's heart. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X76047K Matthew Smith / Say Goodbye to America: The Sensational and Untold Story Behind the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (Large Paperback) In the last decade, there has been much research into the exact events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to new information gathered and assessed by Matthew Smith, JFK was murdered on orders emanating from the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76042K Herbert Eustace Maxwell / The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272 - 1346 (Large Paperback) Students of English and Scottish history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have so long been familiar with the record known as The Chronicle of Lanercost that an English translation may seem to be a superfluity. The writer or writers of the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76033K A.A. Hoehling / Lost at Sea (Large Paperback) Lost at Sea features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. Veteran history and mystery writer A.A.Hoehling explores these previously unexplained maritime mishaps with... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76025K Keggie Carew / Dadland : A Journey into Uncharted Territory (Large Paperback) Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X78767H Kathryn Tidrick / Empire and the English Character (Large Paperback) Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. From the Lawrence brothers of the Punjab, Rajah James Brooke of Sarawak and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75967K Michael S. Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... 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Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... 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(Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X76110K Jeremy Seal / Treachery at Sharpnose Point: Unraveling the Mystery of the Caledonia's Final Voyage (Large Paperback) While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the Caledonia , a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842. Through further... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92951H Andrew Morton / Meghan: A Hollywood Princess (Large Paperback) From Andrew Morton, the New York Times bestselling author of Her True Story, comes a revealing, juicy, and inspiring biography of Meghan Markle, the American actress who won Prince Harry's heart. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X76047K Matthew Smith / Say Goodbye to America: The Sensational and Untold Story Behind the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (Large Paperback) In the last decade, there has been much research into the exact events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to new information gathered and assessed by Matthew Smith, JFK was murdered on orders emanating from the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76042K Herbert Eustace Maxwell / The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272 - 1346 (Large Paperback) Students of English and Scottish history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have so long been familiar with the record known as The Chronicle of Lanercost that an English translation may seem to be a superfluity. The writer or writers of the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76033K A.A. Hoehling / Lost at Sea (Large Paperback) Lost at Sea features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. Veteran history and mystery writer A.A.Hoehling explores these previously unexplained maritime mishaps with... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76025K Keggie Carew / Dadland : A Journey into Uncharted Territory (Large Paperback) Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X78767H Kathryn Tidrick / Empire and the English Character (Large Paperback) Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. From the Lawrence brothers of the Punjab, Rajah James Brooke of Sarawak and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75967K Michael S. Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75918K Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback) A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? 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Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92951H Andrew Morton / Meghan: A Hollywood Princess (Large Paperback) From Andrew Morton, the New York Times bestselling author of Her True Story, comes a revealing, juicy, and inspiring biography of Meghan Markle, the American actress who won Prince Harry's heart. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X76047K Matthew Smith / Say Goodbye to America: The Sensational and Untold Story Behind the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (Large Paperback) In the last decade, there has been much research into the exact events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to new information gathered and assessed by Matthew Smith, JFK was murdered on orders emanating from the... 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Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. 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(Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. 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"Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X76047K Matthew Smith / Say Goodbye to America: The Sensational and Untold Story Behind the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (Large Paperback) In the last decade, there has been much research into the exact events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to new information gathered and assessed by Matthew Smith, JFK was murdered on orders emanating from the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76042K Herbert Eustace Maxwell / The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272 - 1346 (Large Paperback) Students of English and Scottish history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have so long been familiar with the record known as The Chronicle of Lanercost that an English translation may seem to be a superfluity. The writer or writers of the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76033K A.A. Hoehling / Lost at Sea (Large Paperback) Lost at Sea features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. Veteran history and mystery writer A.A.Hoehling explores these previously unexplained maritime mishaps with... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76025K Keggie Carew / Dadland : A Journey into Uncharted Territory (Large Paperback) Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X78767H Kathryn Tidrick / Empire and the English Character (Large Paperback) Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. From the Lawrence brothers of the Punjab, Rajah James Brooke of Sarawak and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75967K Michael S. Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75918K Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback) A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X76042K Herbert Eustace Maxwell / The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272 - 1346 (Large Paperback) Students of English and Scottish history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have so long been familiar with the record known as The Chronicle of Lanercost that an English translation may seem to be a superfluity. The writer or writers of the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76033K A.A. Hoehling / Lost at Sea (Large Paperback) Lost at Sea features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. Veteran history and mystery writer A.A.Hoehling explores these previously unexplained maritime mishaps with... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76025K Keggie Carew / Dadland : A Journey into Uncharted Territory (Large Paperback) Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X78767H Kathryn Tidrick / Empire and the English Character (Large Paperback) Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. From the Lawrence brothers of the Punjab, Rajah James Brooke of Sarawak and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75967K Michael S. Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... 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Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. 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(Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. 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"Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... 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Quick view sku: X76033K A.A. Hoehling / Lost at Sea (Large Paperback) Lost at Sea features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. Veteran history and mystery writer A.A.Hoehling explores these previously unexplained maritime mishaps with... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X76025K Keggie Carew / Dadland : A Journey into Uncharted Territory (Large Paperback) Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X78767H Kathryn Tidrick / Empire and the English Character (Large Paperback) Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. From the Lawrence brothers of the Punjab, Rajah James Brooke of Sarawak and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75967K Michael S. Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75918K Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback) A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X76025K Keggie Carew / Dadland : A Journey into Uncharted Territory (Large Paperback) Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X78767H Kathryn Tidrick / Empire and the English Character (Large Paperback) Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. From the Lawrence brothers of the Punjab, Rajah James Brooke of Sarawak and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75967K Michael S. Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75918K Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback) A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X78767H Kathryn Tidrick / Empire and the English Character (Large Paperback) Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. From the Lawrence brothers of the Punjab, Rajah James Brooke of Sarawak and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75967K Michael S. Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75918K Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback) A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X75967K Michael S. Goodman / The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Large Paperback) Volume One of the Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee draws upon a range of released and classified papers to produce the first, authoritative account of the way in which intelligence was used to inform policy. For almost 80 years the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75918K Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback) A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X75918K Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback) A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X75891K Alexis de Tocqueville / Democracy in America (Large Paperback) Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X75853K Timothy Wilford / Pearl Harbor Redefined: U.S.N. Radio Intelligence in 1941 (Large Paperback) This book redefines the Pearl Harbor controversy through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (U.S.N.) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X75838K David M. Knight / Humphry Davy : Science and Power (Large Paperback) In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X75816K Harriet Sergeant / Shanghai (Large Paperback) In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X75757K Michael Staunton / The Lives of Thomas Becket (Large Paperback) This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view France | sku: X75726K Roger Price / A Concise History of France (Large Paperback) This book provides a clear and up-to-date guide to French history from the early middle ages to the present--from Charlemagne to Chirac. Among the book's central themes are the relationship between state and society, the impact of war and the use of... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X75695K Deirdre David / Olivia Manning : A Woman at War (Large Paperback) Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X75675K Jim Cullen / The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (Large Paperback) The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90786H Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback) Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... 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Quick view sku: X73913K Michael Kenny / The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin (Large Paperback) In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X73721K Robert W. Scribner / The German Reformation (Large Paperback) Eminently valuable and useful.' - The American Historical Review 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... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X73618K Guy Walters / Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice. (Large Paperback) At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story of some of the biggest skelms to grace our (un)fair shores, showing that dodgy dealings have... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51700K Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power 1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... 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'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... 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"Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? 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Quick view Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51564K Helena Drysdale / Looking for George Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54019H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50682K Courtney Angela Brkic / The Stone Fields : An Epitaph for the Living At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 50510K Mel White / Aquino Corazon Aquino has become a legend in her own time. And in his exciting, informative new book, author Mel White tells the story behind that legend. He takes his readers back to the childhoods of Cory and Benign (Nino) Aquino, her martyred husband. He... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49975K Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? 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SALE Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart
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SALE Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.45 Add to Cart
Quick view Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988 Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic . Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's . Previous owner's name on front... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 62559H Alan Clarke / Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 63454H Gordon Corera / Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: sS2566 Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback) Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track mud onto the White House carpets? These are some of the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view
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