History & Historical Biography

Hugh A. Dempsey / Indians of the Rocky Mountain Parks (Coffee Table Book)

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

Rodney P. Carlisle / The Wilson Calendar of World History (Coffee Table Book)

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Shelley Klein / The Most Evil Dictators in History (Coffee Table Book)

This companion volume to "The Most Evil Women in History" and "The Most Evilen And Women in History" contains complete profiles of notorious despots whoave committed some of the most infamous acts in...

I. A. N. SPRAGG / Match! the Manchester United Story (Match! History of Football) (Coffee Table Book)

One of the most successful and iconic teams in the history of football, Manchester United is a club synonymous with style and flair and boasts an unrivalled record of success on the pitch and a...

Freddy O'Connor / Liverpool : Our City our Heritage(Coffee Table Book)

A poignant photographic record compiled when the city was going through one of it's toughest tests.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Rodney Castleden / The History of World Events (Coffee Table Book)

Informative book detailing the main events in world history. Full colour throughout with a mixture of photographs and illustrations, this book is a perfect source of reference for use both at home...

John Schofield / The Building of London (Coffee Table Book)

What did the medieval and Tudor city of London look like? How did it grow from its Roman and Saxon origins to a European metropolis? This is a detailed account of the evolution of Britain's capital...

Geoffrey Regan / Historical Blunders (Coffee Table Book)

In Historical Blunders bestselling author Geoffrey Regan turns his attention to the wider historical stage with this lively and entertaining collection of mishaps from the Classical Era to the Cold...

Daniel Beresniak / Symbols of Freemasonry (Coffee Table Book)

Freemasonry is one of mankind's oldest existing secular brotherhoods. Its past members include kings, presidents, military leaders, writers and philosophers, and today there are over ten million...

Terry Burrows / Visual History of the 20th Century (Coffee Table Book)

The Visual History of the Twentieth Century is a comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable era     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Andrew Cocker / NYPD (Coffee Table Book)

New York City has a colorful and fascinating history in which the New York Police Department has played a prominent role. The NYPD is known and recognized the world over--more often for its fictional...

Sean Callery / Scandals (Coffee Table Book)

Covers a wide variety of scandals, including the Dreyfus affair, Alger Hiss, Edward Kennedy, Watergate, and Jim Bakker' televangelist financial affair.     This book is second hand, and while you may...

Daniel Schwartz / The Great Wall of China (Coffee Table Book)

A series of remarkable duotone photographs captures one of humankind's greatest achievements, the Great Wall of China, tracing the vast monument as it passes through various landscapes and natural...

Keith Lye / Atlas of the World (Coffee Table Book)

A collection of world and regional maps which present information about the natural world, including physical features, habitats, climate, and more.     This book is second hand, and while you may...

David France / How to Survive a Plague

'Epoch-making . . . Brilliantly told. Informative, entertaining, suspenseful, moving, and personal.' Edmund WhiteThe riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic and the...

Sterling Seagrave / The Yamato Dynasty : The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family

A collective biography of the Japanese imperial family, both men and women, covering five generations from the Meiji Restoration of the 19th century. It provides evidence of Hirohito and the family's...

David Wallechinsky / The Book of Lists

The first and best compendium of facts weirder than fiction, of intriguing information and must-talk-about trivia has spawned many imitators - but none as addictive or successful. For nearly three...

Geoffrey C. Ward / The Civil War : An Illustrated History of the War Between the States (Coffee Table Book)

The American Civil War was the largest wa

Andrew Saint / The Chronicles of London (Coffee Table Book)

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Clive Berridge / The almshouses of London (Coffee Table Book)

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Roy Hattersley / Blood and Fire - William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army

An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to...

Ken McGoogan / Searching for Franklin (Hardback)

Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern...

James Shapiro / Oberammergau (Hardback)

According to local legend, in 1632 the Bavarian village of Oberammergau was threatened by an outbreak of plague and desperate villagers vowed to perform a Passion Play every ten years if God would...

Virginia Nicholson / All the Rage (Hardback)

'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN 'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' SARAH DITUM, SUNDAY TIMES 'Wonderfully...

E. J. Hobsbawm / On History (Hardback)

The theory and practice of history and its relevance to the modern world, by Britains greatest radical historian     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Maureen Waller / 1700 - Scenes from London Life (Hardback)

More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the...

Isobel Charman / The Zoo : The Wild and Wonderful tale of the founding of London Zoo (Hardback)

How one man's mad mission became one of the best-loved places in the world.  The creation of a zoo in Dickensian London - when only one other existed across the world - is a story of jaw-dropping...

Simon Winchester / Atlantic (Hardback)

"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." — Kirkus Reviews...

Alister E. McGrath / The Twilight of Atheism (Hardback)

The author challenges beliefs that the modern world is becoming more secular, presenting arguments that demonstrate why atheism cannot provide the moral and intellectual guidance necessary for coping...

Mariana Mazzucato / The Value of Everything (Hardback)

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism,...

Ferdinand Mount / Big Caesars and Little Caesars (Hardback)

Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars...

Ben Macintyre / Double Cross (Hardback)

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Steve Humphries / The Making of Modern London (Hardback)

On their original publication, the four volumes of "The Making of Modern London" were hailed as innovative and riveting histories of the city, combining living memory with diligent historical...

Noel Malcolm / Kosovo (Hardback)

The situation in Kosovo is different to that of the rest of Yugoslavia. Trapped between Albania and Serbia, the tensions between these two are, it seems, "ethnic", as two groups with different...

Philip Dennis / Gibraltar and Its People (Hardback)

In this account of the rock of Gibraltar's history, economic and social life, the author attempts to set the scene for a clear and balanced view of Gibraltar today and in the future. The book...

John L. Allen / All the Pope's Men (Hardback)

A guide to the inner workings of the Vatican reveals the beliefs and bureaucracies behind its decision-making processes, offering insight into the career path of the Roman Curia and challenging myths...

Michael Angold / Byzantium (Hardback)

Byzantium was a Greek "polis" on the Bosphorous that gained importance in 324AD when it was re-founded by Constantine the Great and named Constantinople. One of the pre-eminent cities of the Middle...

Brian Groom / These Isles (Hardback)

An inventive new look at the entwined histories of Britain and Ireland’s nations – and the people who have called them home. Acclaimed author and journalist Brian Groom reveals the colourful and...

Susan Goodman / Children of War (Hardback)

'Were you a child, toddler or teenager during the War? If so, please share your memories and anecdotes: the blackout, bombing, evacuation, shortages, absent fathers...and the fun. Need Your help...

Bernard Grun / The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (Coffee Table Book)

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Peter Sillitoe / The Guide to Shakespearean London Theatres (Coffee Table Book)

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Robert Coates-Stephens / Immagini e Memoria: Rome in the photographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey, 1890-1901 (Coffee Table Book)

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John Reeve / The Lives of the Mughal Emperors (Coffee Table Book)

One of the most powerful of all the world’s great dynasties, the Mughals ruled India for over three hundred years. Beginning in 1526, the first six emperors—Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah...

Richard Tames / Soho Past (Coffee Table Book)

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John Richardson / Covent Garden Past (Coffee Table Book)

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

Gerry Black / Jewish London : An Illustrated History (Coffee Table Book)

Jewish history in London properly begins

Nicholas Orme / Medieval Schools: Roman Britain to Renaissance England (Coffee Table Book)

A sequel to Nicholas Orme’s widely praised study, Medieval ChildrenChildren have gone to school in England since Roman times. By the end of the middle ages there were hundreds of schools, supporting...

Peter Thorold / The London Rich - The Creation of a Great City from 1666 to the Present (Hardback)

A detailed tracing of the growth of modern London after the devastating fire of 1666 shows how the wealthy classes incorporated former villages into the city as, for example, the nobility took St...

Teresa Carpenter / New York Diaries, 1609 to 2009 (Hardback)

Draws from library archives, historical societies, and private estates in a year-long tribute to New York that is comprised of diary entries selected from four centuries of writings by famous city...

Roy Jenkins / Gladstone (Hardback)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of...

Liza Picard / Dr. Johnson's London (Hardback)

Like its popular and acclaimed predecessor Restoration London, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of the everyday life of our ancestors, so often...

Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) / Civil Defence Handbook (Advising Householder Protection Against Nuclear Attack) (Hardback)

In 1963, the Home Office and Central Office of Information distributed this handbook for the civil defence, police and fire services to advise the public on what to do in the event of a nuclear...