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Official companion to the Ken Burns PBS film.For readers captivated by the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40788E Ray Takeyh, Steven Simon / The Pragmatic Superpower - Winning the Cold War in the Middle East(Hardback) The Arab Spring, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iraq war― the contemporary conflicts in the Middle East have deep roots in the region’s postwar emergence from colonialism.Foreign policy experts Ray Takeyh and Steven Simon reframe the legacy of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X53827H Sarah Helm / Ravensbrück - Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp For Women(Hardback) A groundbreaking, masterful, and absorbing account of the last hidden atrocity of World War II—Ravensbrück—the largest female-only concentration camp, where more than 100,000 women consisting of more than twenty nationalities were... 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Rothman / Neon Metropolis : How Las Vegas Started the 21st Century (Hardback) A hip, iconic, playground that exports nothing, it nonetheless earns billions from consumer services alone -- gambling, hotels, gaming, and entertainment. It is, historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. As other cities try to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40493E Oliver North / Under Fire (Hardback) In this candid book, Oliver North, the man who has been at the centre of the Iran-Contra controversy tells the story of his life. He reveals the inside story behind the headlines and stresses the importance of his family and his enduring faith, which... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55012H Caroline P. Murphy / The Pope's Daughter : Felice della Rovere (Hardback) The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58959H Craig Collie / Nagasaki (Hardback) Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents, (including several Australian POWs) from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midnight on the day of the second... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40610E Mike Paine / The Crusades - An Introduction (Hardback) ( Pocket Essentials) Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: x40601E Alex R. Larzelere / Witness to History - White House Diary (Hardback) The book is an insider's look at the internal working of the Nixon White House. 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Murphy / The Pope's Daughter : Felice della Rovere (Hardback) The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40405E Boris Johnson / London : The People Who Made the City (Hardback) For centuries, London has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners, shows that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterprise of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40403E James Rennie / The Operators : Inside 14 Intelligence Company (Hardback) 1996 This is the inside story of 14 Company, an elite corps of men and women as highly trained in combat as the SAS and as highly trained as MI5 and MI6 in intelligence techniques, seen through the eyes of an ex-Operations Officer, James Rennie. It was a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40395E Dan White / Under the Stars - How America Fell in Love With Camping (Hardback) An irreverent history of American campingFrom the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and sometimes face first—how the American wilderness transformed from the devil’s... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40387E James C. Humes / Which President Killed a Man? (Hardback) Collection of trivia, history and little-known stories about American Presidents and first ladies. 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40882E Ben Macintyre / Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy (Hardback) In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40848E Stan Lauryssens / The Man Who Invented the Third Reich (Hardback) When Hitler and the Nazis swept to power, Van den Bruck realized Hitler had become the personification of the violent dynamism he had recommended and foresaw the horrors to come. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40838E Adrian Stewart / February 1942 (Hardback) As the saying goes it is darkest before the dawn and so it was for Churchill and the British people during the Second World War. During February 1942, bad news of disasters came in an unbroken and seemingly endless sequence from the Far East to the Home... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56777H Artemis Joukowsky / Defying the Nazis (Hardback) The little-known story of the Sharps whose rescue and relief missions across Europe during World War II saved the lives of countless Jews, refugees, and political dissidents. Official companion to the Ken Burns PBS film.For readers captivated by the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40788E Ray Takeyh, Steven Simon / The Pragmatic Superpower - Winning the Cold War in the Middle East(Hardback) The Arab Spring, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iraq war― the contemporary conflicts in the Middle East have deep roots in the region’s postwar emergence from colonialism.Foreign policy experts Ray Takeyh and Steven Simon reframe the legacy of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X53827H Sarah Helm / Ravensbrück - Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp For Women(Hardback) A groundbreaking, masterful, and absorbing account of the last hidden atrocity of World War II—Ravensbrück—the largest female-only concentration camp, where more than 100,000 women consisting of more than twenty nationalities were... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40773E Ibrahim Warde / The Price of Fear - Al-Quaeda and the Finacial War on Terror (Hardback) Finance has taken centre stage since 9/11 and the waging of the "War on Terror". But despite extensive media coverage, the war on this financial front remains little understood. This book traces the origins of the well-tried money laundering template and... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40743E Edward Steers Jr. / Hoax (Hardback) Did a collector with a knack for making sensational discoveries find the first document ever printed in America? Did Adolf Hitler pen a revealing multivolume set of diaries? Has Jesus of Nazareth's burial cloth survived the ages? Can the shocking true... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40740E Benjamin Wittes / Starr: A Reassessment (Hardback) How is Kenneth Starr's extraordinary term as independent counsel to be understood? Was he a partisan warrior out to get the Clintons or a savior of the Republic? An unstoppable menace, an unethical lawyer, or a sex-obsessed Puritan striving to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40649E Daniel Smith / The Spade as Mighty as the Sword - WW2'S Dig For Victory (Hardback) After food rationing was introduced in 1940, and German U-boats began threatening merchant shipping bringing in essential foodstuffs, the Ministry of Agriculture decided something had to be done to make the kitchens of Britain more self-sufficient. The... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58959H Craig Collie / Nagasaki (Hardback) Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents, (including several Australian POWs) from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midnight on the day of the second... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40610E Mike Paine / The Crusades - An Introduction (Hardback) ( Pocket Essentials) Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: x40601E Alex R. Larzelere / Witness to History - White House Diary (Hardback) The book is an insider's look at the internal working of the Nixon White House. It describes human and historic events that occurred at the Residence, Camp David, presidential retreats, and aboard Air Force One, the helicopters, and yacht Sequoia. The... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40500E Hal K. Rothman / Neon Metropolis : How Las Vegas Started the 21st Century (Hardback) A hip, iconic, playground that exports nothing, it nonetheless earns billions from consumer services alone -- gambling, hotels, gaming, and entertainment. It is, historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. As other cities try to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40493E Oliver North / Under Fire (Hardback) In this candid book, Oliver North, the man who has been at the centre of the Iran-Contra controversy tells the story of his life. He reveals the inside story behind the headlines and stresses the importance of his family and his enduring faith, which... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55012H Caroline P. Murphy / The Pope's Daughter : Felice della Rovere (Hardback) The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40405E Boris Johnson / London : The People Who Made the City (Hardback) For centuries, London has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners, shows that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterprise of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40403E James Rennie / The Operators : Inside 14 Intelligence Company (Hardback) 1996 This is the inside story of 14 Company, an elite corps of men and women as highly trained in combat as the SAS and as highly trained as MI5 and MI6 in intelligence techniques, seen through the eyes of an ex-Operations Officer, James Rennie. It was a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40395E Dan White / Under the Stars - How America Fell in Love With Camping (Hardback) An irreverent history of American campingFrom the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and sometimes face first—how the American wilderness transformed from the devil’s... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40387E James C. Humes / Which President Killed a Man? (Hardback) Collection of trivia, history and little-known stories about American Presidents and first ladies. 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... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40369E Mark Amory / Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric (Hardback) Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners, Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored. So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky),... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53315H Tom Lodge / Mandela: A Critical Life (Hardback) Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance, Nelson Mandela is the greatest African leader in modern history, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and an iconic... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x59153H Tina Brow / The Palace Papers (Hardback) 'Never again', became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Diana's death. More specifically, there could never be 'another Diana' - a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40976E Chris Mackey, Greg Miller / The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against al Qaeda (Hardback) Shares the inside stories of five American interrogators at the front lines of the war against terror, revealing the mental and psychological battles waged between interrogation soldiers and their Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners of war... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: x40932E Nina Lugovskaya / I Want to Live - The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia (Hardback) Does that boy like me? Why are my sisters so mean? Does anyone think I'm pretty? Will my father be arrested? These were the everyday concerns of thirteen-year-old Moscow schoolgirl Nina Lugovskaya, who began to write a diary in 1932. Her indignant... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40882E Ben Macintyre / Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy (Hardback) In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40848E Stan Lauryssens / The Man Who Invented the Third Reich (Hardback) When Hitler and the Nazis swept to power, Van den Bruck realized Hitler had become the personification of the violent dynamism he had recommended and foresaw the horrors to come. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40838E Adrian Stewart / February 1942 (Hardback) As the saying goes it is darkest before the dawn and so it was for Churchill and the British people during the Second World War. During February 1942, bad news of disasters came in an unbroken and seemingly endless sequence from the Far East to the Home... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56777H Artemis Joukowsky / Defying the Nazis (Hardback) The little-known story of the Sharps whose rescue and relief missions across Europe during World War II saved the lives of countless Jews, refugees, and political dissidents. Official companion to the Ken Burns PBS film.For readers captivated by the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40788E Ray Takeyh, Steven Simon / The Pragmatic Superpower - Winning the Cold War in the Middle East(Hardback) The Arab Spring, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iraq war― the contemporary conflicts in the Middle East have deep roots in the region’s postwar emergence from colonialism.Foreign policy experts Ray Takeyh and Steven Simon reframe the legacy of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X53827H Sarah Helm / Ravensbrück - Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp For Women(Hardback) A groundbreaking, masterful, and absorbing account of the last hidden atrocity of World War II—Ravensbrück—the largest female-only concentration camp, where more than 100,000 women consisting of more than twenty nationalities were... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40773E Ibrahim Warde / The Price of Fear - Al-Quaeda and the Finacial War on Terror (Hardback) Finance has taken centre stage since 9/11 and the waging of the "War on Terror". But despite extensive media coverage, the war on this financial front remains little understood. This book traces the origins of the well-tried money laundering template and... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40743E Edward Steers Jr. / Hoax (Hardback) Did a collector with a knack for making sensational discoveries find the first document ever printed in America? Did Adolf Hitler pen a revealing multivolume set of diaries? Has Jesus of Nazareth's burial cloth survived the ages? Can the shocking true... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40740E Benjamin Wittes / Starr: A Reassessment (Hardback) How is Kenneth Starr's extraordinary term as independent counsel to be understood? Was he a partisan warrior out to get the Clintons or a savior of the Republic? An unstoppable menace, an unethical lawyer, or a sex-obsessed Puritan striving to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40649E Daniel Smith / The Spade as Mighty as the Sword - WW2'S Dig For Victory (Hardback) After food rationing was introduced in 1940, and German U-boats began threatening merchant shipping bringing in essential foodstuffs, the Ministry of Agriculture decided something had to be done to make the kitchens of Britain more self-sufficient. The... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58959H Craig Collie / Nagasaki (Hardback) Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents, (including several Australian POWs) from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midnight on the day of the second... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40610E Mike Paine / The Crusades - An Introduction (Hardback) ( Pocket Essentials) Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: x40601E Alex R. Larzelere / Witness to History - White House Diary (Hardback) The book is an insider's look at the internal working of the Nixon White House. It describes human and historic events that occurred at the Residence, Camp David, presidential retreats, and aboard Air Force One, the helicopters, and yacht Sequoia. The... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40500E Hal K. Rothman / Neon Metropolis : How Las Vegas Started the 21st Century (Hardback) A hip, iconic, playground that exports nothing, it nonetheless earns billions from consumer services alone -- gambling, hotels, gaming, and entertainment. It is, historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. As other cities try to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40493E Oliver North / Under Fire (Hardback) In this candid book, Oliver North, the man who has been at the centre of the Iran-Contra controversy tells the story of his life. He reveals the inside story behind the headlines and stresses the importance of his family and his enduring faith, which... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55012H Caroline P. Murphy / The Pope's Daughter : Felice della Rovere (Hardback) The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40405E Boris Johnson / London : The People Who Made the City (Hardback) For centuries, London has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners, shows that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterprise of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40403E James Rennie / The Operators : Inside 14 Intelligence Company (Hardback) 1996 This is the inside story of 14 Company, an elite corps of men and women as highly trained in combat as the SAS and as highly trained as MI5 and MI6 in intelligence techniques, seen through the eyes of an ex-Operations Officer, James Rennie. It was a... 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In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky),... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53315H Tom Lodge / Mandela: A Critical Life (Hardback) Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance, Nelson Mandela is the greatest African leader in modern history, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and an iconic... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58959H Craig Collie / Nagasaki (Hardback) Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents, (including several Australian POWs) from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midnight on the day of the second... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40610E Mike Paine / The Crusades - An Introduction (Hardback) ( Pocket Essentials) Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: x40601E Alex R. Larzelere / Witness to History - White House Diary (Hardback) The book is an insider's look at the internal working of the Nixon White House. It describes human and historic events that occurred at the Residence, Camp David, presidential retreats, and aboard Air Force One, the helicopters, and yacht Sequoia. The... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40500E Hal K. Rothman / Neon Metropolis : How Las Vegas Started the 21st Century (Hardback) A hip, iconic, playground that exports nothing, it nonetheless earns billions from consumer services alone -- gambling, hotels, gaming, and entertainment. It is, historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. As other cities try to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40493E Oliver North / Under Fire (Hardback) In this candid book, Oliver North, the man who has been at the centre of the Iran-Contra controversy tells the story of his life. He reveals the inside story behind the headlines and stresses the importance of his family and his enduring faith, which... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55012H Caroline P. Murphy / The Pope's Daughter : Felice della Rovere (Hardback) The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40405E Boris Johnson / London : The People Who Made the City (Hardback) For centuries, London has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners, shows that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterprise of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40403E James Rennie / The Operators : Inside 14 Intelligence Company (Hardback) 1996 This is the inside story of 14 Company, an elite corps of men and women as highly trained in combat as the SAS and as highly trained as MI5 and MI6 in intelligence techniques, seen through the eyes of an ex-Operations Officer, James Rennie. It was a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40395E Dan White / Under the Stars - How America Fell in Love With Camping (Hardback) An irreverent history of American campingFrom the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and sometimes face first—how the American wilderness transformed from the devil’s... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40387E James C. Humes / Which President Killed a Man? (Hardback) Collection of trivia, history and little-known stories about American Presidents and first ladies. 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... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40369E Mark Amory / Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric (Hardback) Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners, Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored. So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky),... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53315H Tom Lodge / Mandela: A Critical Life (Hardback) Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance, Nelson Mandela is the greatest African leader in modern history, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and an iconic... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Russia | sku: x40932E Nina Lugovskaya / I Want to Live - The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia (Hardback) Does that boy like me? Why are my sisters so mean? Does anyone think I'm pretty? Will my father be arrested? These were the everyday concerns of thirteen-year-old Moscow schoolgirl Nina Lugovskaya, who began to write a diary in 1932. Her indignant... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40882E Ben Macintyre / Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy (Hardback) In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40848E Stan Lauryssens / The Man Who Invented the Third Reich (Hardback) When Hitler and the Nazis swept to power, Van den Bruck realized Hitler had become the personification of the violent dynamism he had recommended and foresaw the horrors to come. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40838E Adrian Stewart / February 1942 (Hardback) As the saying goes it is darkest before the dawn and so it was for Churchill and the British people during the Second World War. During February 1942, bad news of disasters came in an unbroken and seemingly endless sequence from the Far East to the Home... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56777H Artemis Joukowsky / Defying the Nazis (Hardback) The little-known story of the Sharps whose rescue and relief missions across Europe during World War II saved the lives of countless Jews, refugees, and political dissidents. Official companion to the Ken Burns PBS film.For readers captivated by the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40788E Ray Takeyh, Steven Simon / The Pragmatic Superpower - Winning the Cold War in the Middle East(Hardback) The Arab Spring, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iraq war― the contemporary conflicts in the Middle East have deep roots in the region’s postwar emergence from colonialism.Foreign policy experts Ray Takeyh and Steven Simon reframe the legacy of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X53827H Sarah Helm / Ravensbrück - Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp For Women(Hardback) A groundbreaking, masterful, and absorbing account of the last hidden atrocity of World War II—Ravensbrück—the largest female-only concentration camp, where more than 100,000 women consisting of more than twenty nationalities were... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40610E Mike Paine / The Crusades - An Introduction (Hardback) ( Pocket Essentials) Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: x40601E Alex R. Larzelere / Witness to History - White House Diary (Hardback) The book is an insider's look at the internal working of the Nixon White House. It describes human and historic events that occurred at the Residence, Camp David, presidential retreats, and aboard Air Force One, the helicopters, and yacht Sequoia. The... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40500E Hal K. Rothman / Neon Metropolis : How Las Vegas Started the 21st Century (Hardback) A hip, iconic, playground that exports nothing, it nonetheless earns billions from consumer services alone -- gambling, hotels, gaming, and entertainment. It is, historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. As other cities try to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40493E Oliver North / Under Fire (Hardback) In this candid book, Oliver North, the man who has been at the centre of the Iran-Contra controversy tells the story of his life. He reveals the inside story behind the headlines and stresses the importance of his family and his enduring faith, which... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55012H Caroline P. Murphy / The Pope's Daughter : Felice della Rovere (Hardback) The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40405E Boris Johnson / London : The People Who Made the City (Hardback) For centuries, London has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners, shows that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterprise of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40403E James Rennie / The Operators : Inside 14 Intelligence Company (Hardback) 1996 This is the inside story of 14 Company, an elite corps of men and women as highly trained in combat as the SAS and as highly trained as MI5 and MI6 in intelligence techniques, seen through the eyes of an ex-Operations Officer, James Rennie. It was a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40395E Dan White / Under the Stars - How America Fell in Love With Camping (Hardback) An irreverent history of American campingFrom the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and sometimes face first—how the American wilderness transformed from the devil’s... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40387E James C. Humes / Which President Killed a Man? (Hardback) Collection of trivia, history and little-known stories about American Presidents and first ladies. 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... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40369E Mark Amory / Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric (Hardback) Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners, Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored. So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky),... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53315H Tom Lodge / Mandela: A Critical Life (Hardback) Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance, Nelson Mandela is the greatest African leader in modern history, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and an iconic... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x40882E Ben Macintyre / Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy (Hardback) In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40848E Stan Lauryssens / The Man Who Invented the Third Reich (Hardback) When Hitler and the Nazis swept to power, Van den Bruck realized Hitler had become the personification of the violent dynamism he had recommended and foresaw the horrors to come. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40838E Adrian Stewart / February 1942 (Hardback) As the saying goes it is darkest before the dawn and so it was for Churchill and the British people during the Second World War. 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X53827H Sarah Helm / Ravensbrück - Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp For Women(Hardback) A groundbreaking, masterful, and absorbing account of the last hidden atrocity of World War II—Ravensbrück—the largest female-only concentration camp, where more than 100,000 women consisting of more than twenty nationalities were... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40773E Ibrahim Warde / The Price of Fear - Al-Quaeda and the Finacial War on Terror (Hardback) Finance has taken centre stage since 9/11 and the waging of the "War on Terror". But despite extensive media coverage, the war on this financial front remains little understood. This book traces the origins of the well-tried money laundering template and... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40743E Edward Steers Jr. / Hoax (Hardback) Did a collector with a knack for making sensational discoveries find the first document ever printed in America? Did Adolf Hitler pen a revealing multivolume set of diaries? Has Jesus of Nazareth's burial cloth survived the ages? Can the shocking true... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40740E Benjamin Wittes / Starr: A Reassessment (Hardback) How is Kenneth Starr's extraordinary term as independent counsel to be understood? Was he a partisan warrior out to get the Clintons or a savior of the Republic? An unstoppable menace, an unethical lawyer, or a sex-obsessed Puritan striving to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40649E Daniel Smith / The Spade as Mighty as the Sword - WW2'S Dig For Victory (Hardback) After food rationing was introduced in 1940, and German U-boats began threatening merchant shipping bringing in essential foodstuffs, the Ministry of Agriculture decided something had to be done to make the kitchens of Britain more self-sufficient. The... 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It describes human and historic events that occurred at the Residence, Camp David, presidential retreats, and aboard Air Force One, the helicopters, and yacht Sequoia. The... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40500E Hal K. Rothman / Neon Metropolis : How Las Vegas Started the 21st Century (Hardback) A hip, iconic, playground that exports nothing, it nonetheless earns billions from consumer services alone -- gambling, hotels, gaming, and entertainment. It is, historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. As other cities try to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40493E Oliver North / Under Fire (Hardback) In this candid book, Oliver North, the man who has been at the centre of the Iran-Contra controversy tells the story of his life. He reveals the inside story behind the headlines and stresses the importance of his family and his enduring faith, which... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55012H Caroline P. Murphy / The Pope's Daughter : Felice della Rovere (Hardback) The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40405E Boris Johnson / London : The People Who Made the City (Hardback) For centuries, London has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners, shows that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterprise of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40403E James Rennie / The Operators : Inside 14 Intelligence Company (Hardback) 1996 This is the inside story of 14 Company, an elite corps of men and women as highly trained in combat as the SAS and as highly trained as MI5 and MI6 in intelligence techniques, seen through the eyes of an ex-Operations Officer, James Rennie. It was a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40395E Dan White / Under the Stars - How America Fell in Love With Camping (Hardback) An irreverent history of American campingFrom the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and sometimes face first—how the American wilderness transformed from the devil’s... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40387E James C. Humes / Which President Killed a Man? (Hardback) Collection of trivia, history and little-known stories about American Presidents and first ladies. 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... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40369E Mark Amory / Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric (Hardback) Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners, Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored. So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky),... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53315H Tom Lodge / Mandela: A Critical Life (Hardback) Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance, Nelson Mandela is the greatest African leader in modern history, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and an iconic... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x40848E Stan Lauryssens / The Man Who Invented the Third Reich (Hardback) When Hitler and the Nazis swept to power, Van den Bruck realized Hitler had become the personification of the violent dynamism he had recommended and foresaw the horrors to come. All of our books are second hand, and while you may... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40838E Adrian Stewart / February 1942 (Hardback) As the saying goes it is darkest before the dawn and so it was for Churchill and the British people during the Second World War. During February 1942, bad news of disasters came in an unbroken and seemingly endless sequence from the Far East to the Home... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56777H Artemis Joukowsky / Defying the Nazis (Hardback) The little-known story of the Sharps whose rescue and relief missions across Europe during World War II saved the lives of countless Jews, refugees, and political dissidents. Official companion to the Ken Burns PBS film.For readers captivated by the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40788E Ray Takeyh, Steven Simon / The Pragmatic Superpower - Winning the Cold War in the Middle East(Hardback) The Arab Spring, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iraq war― the contemporary conflicts in the Middle East have deep roots in the region’s postwar emergence from colonialism.Foreign policy experts Ray Takeyh and Steven Simon reframe the legacy of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Germany | sku: X53827H Sarah Helm / Ravensbrück - Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp For Women(Hardback) A groundbreaking, masterful, and absorbing account of the last hidden atrocity of World War II—Ravensbrück—the largest female-only concentration camp, where more than 100,000 women consisting of more than twenty nationalities were... 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Rothman / Neon Metropolis : How Las Vegas Started the 21st Century (Hardback) A hip, iconic, playground that exports nothing, it nonetheless earns billions from consumer services alone -- gambling, hotels, gaming, and entertainment. It is, historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. As other cities try to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40493E Oliver North / Under Fire (Hardback) In this candid book, Oliver North, the man who has been at the centre of the Iran-Contra controversy tells the story of his life. He reveals the inside story behind the headlines and stresses the importance of his family and his enduring faith, which... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55012H Caroline P. Murphy / The Pope's Daughter : Felice della Rovere (Hardback) The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58959H Craig Collie / Nagasaki (Hardback) Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents, (including several Australian POWs) from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midnight on the day of the second... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40610E Mike Paine / The Crusades - An Introduction (Hardback) ( Pocket Essentials) Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: x40601E Alex R. Larzelere / Witness to History - White House Diary (Hardback) The book is an insider's look at the internal working of the Nixon White House. 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Murphy / The Pope's Daughter : Felice della Rovere (Hardback) The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40405E Boris Johnson / London : The People Who Made the City (Hardback) For centuries, London has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners, shows that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterprise of... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40403E James Rennie / The Operators : Inside 14 Intelligence Company (Hardback) 1996 This is the inside story of 14 Company, an elite corps of men and women as highly trained in combat as the SAS and as highly trained as MI5 and MI6 in intelligence techniques, seen through the eyes of an ex-Operations Officer, James Rennie. It was a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40395E Dan White / Under the Stars - How America Fell in Love With Camping (Hardback) An irreverent history of American campingFrom the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and sometimes face first—how the American wilderness transformed from the devil’s... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40387E James C. Humes / Which President Killed a Man? (Hardback) Collection of trivia, history and little-known stories about American Presidents and first ladies. 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But despite extensive media coverage, the war on this financial front remains little understood. This book traces the origins of the well-tried money laundering template and... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40743E Edward Steers Jr. / Hoax (Hardback) Did a collector with a knack for making sensational discoveries find the first document ever printed in America? Did Adolf Hitler pen a revealing multivolume set of diaries? Has Jesus of Nazareth's burial cloth survived the ages? Can the shocking true... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40740E Benjamin Wittes / Starr: A Reassessment (Hardback) How is Kenneth Starr's extraordinary term as independent counsel to be understood? Was he a partisan warrior out to get the Clintons or a savior of the Republic? An unstoppable menace, an unethical lawyer, or a sex-obsessed Puritan striving to... 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Did Adolf Hitler pen a revealing multivolume set of diaries? Has Jesus of Nazareth's burial cloth survived the ages? Can the shocking true... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40740E Benjamin Wittes / Starr: A Reassessment (Hardback) How is Kenneth Starr's extraordinary term as independent counsel to be understood? Was he a partisan warrior out to get the Clintons or a savior of the Republic? An unstoppable menace, an unethical lawyer, or a sex-obsessed Puritan striving to... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40649E Daniel Smith / The Spade as Mighty as the Sword - WW2'S Dig For Victory (Hardback) After food rationing was introduced in 1940, and German U-boats began threatening merchant shipping bringing in essential foodstuffs, the Ministry of Agriculture decided something had to be done to make the kitchens of Britain more self-sufficient. The... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58959H Craig Collie / Nagasaki (Hardback) Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents, (including several Australian POWs) from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midnight on the day of the second... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40610E Mike Paine / The Crusades - An Introduction (Hardback) ( Pocket Essentials) Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: x40601E Alex R. Larzelere / Witness to History - White House Diary (Hardback) The book is an insider's look at the internal working of the Nixon White House. 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Murphy / The Pope's Daughter : Felice della Rovere (Hardback) The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40405E Boris Johnson / London : The People Who Made the City (Hardback) For centuries, London has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners, shows that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterprise of... 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Murphy / The Pope's Daughter : Felice della Rovere (Hardback) The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40405E Boris Johnson / London : The People Who Made the City (Hardback) For centuries, London has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners, shows that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterprise of... 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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... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40369E Mark Amory / Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric (Hardback) Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners, Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored. So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky),... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53315H Tom Lodge / Mandela: A Critical Life (Hardback) Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance, Nelson Mandela is the greatest African leader in modern history, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and an iconic... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: x40387E James C. Humes / Which President Killed a Man? (Hardback) Collection of trivia, history and little-known stories about American Presidents and first ladies. 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... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40369E Mark Amory / Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric (Hardback) Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners, Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored. So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky),... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53315H Tom Lodge / Mandela: A Critical Life (Hardback) Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance, Nelson Mandela is the greatest African leader in modern history, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and an iconic... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x40369E Mark Amory / Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric (Hardback) Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners, Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored. So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky),... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53315H Tom Lodge / Mandela: A Critical Life (Hardback) Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance, Nelson Mandela is the greatest African leader in modern history, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and an iconic... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X53315H Tom Lodge / Mandela: A Critical Life (Hardback) Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance, Nelson Mandela is the greatest African leader in modern history, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and an iconic... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view