History & Historical Biography

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

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

John Campbell / Margaret Thatcher, Vol. 1

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

David Starkey / Monarchy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Lind / The Next American Nation (Large Paperback)

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

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

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

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

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

James Park / Cultural Icons (Large Paperback)

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

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

   

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Ramsbotham / Who Wrote Bacon (Large Paperback)

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

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

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

Richard Holmes / Coleridge : Early Visions (Hardback)

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

Gertraud Junge / Last Witnesses in the Bunker (Hardback)

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

Daughter of Cambodia #1

Bruce Nunn / History with a Twist (Large Paperback)

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an America

Peter Kurth / Anastasia (Large Paperback)

The Riddle Of Anna Anderson   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing exi

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

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

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

Sir Walter Raleigh is well-know as an exp

Amanda Foreman / Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Hardback)

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robert M. Edsel / Saving Italy (Large Paperback)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feroz Ahmad / Turkey (Large Paperback)

The Quest for Identity This insightful history of Turkey tells the story of a country caught between the ideologies of East and West. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

David Potter / The Victor's Crown (Large Paperback)

How the Birth of the Olympics and the Rise of the Roman Games Changed Sport For Ever The Victor's Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging over a

Bob Clarke / From Grub Street to Fleet Street (Large Paperback)

From the broadsides of the sixteenth century to the broadsheets of the 19th century, taking in the Civil War newsbooks, the gutter press of the 18th century, the rise of the Sunday papers full of...

Blaine Baggett & Ernest Volkman / Secret Intelligence (Large Paperback)

  The Inside Story of America's Espionage Empire. A companion volume to the US PBS series of the same name is "a lucid review of the development of US espionage. Based on interviews with spies,...

Robert Guest / The Shackled Continent (Large Paperback)

The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future

Verlag Haus am Checkpoint Charlie - Es Geschah an der ,Mauer | It Happened at the Wall ( PB 1990) - Berlin Wall Illustrated History

Published 1990 ( as he Berlin Wall and the DDR was collapsing) this is a 5 language illustrated edition of a history of the Berlin Wall, with photographs ocf escapes, the Wall's construction, Berlin...

C.W Previté-Orton - The Shoter Cambridge Medieval History - 2 Volume HB Set -Reprints

Originally published in 1952 ( posthumously) - this is a key study of medieval life and culture in Europe from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. In two volumes, both uniform but lacking original...

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

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

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

This enc

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

The Weal

Ben Macintyre / The Siege (Large Paperback)

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

Phillips P. O'Brien / The Strategists (Large Paperback)

The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler: How War Made Them and How They Made

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

A comprehensive guide to World War II, th

John Martin / A Raid Over Berlin (Large Paperback)

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

The League of Nations and U.N.O.  

Geoffrey Regan / Elizabeth I (Large Paperback)

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