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1914
- £35.00
- Based almost entirely on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and on new or little-known letters, diaries, official reports, and papers, the author weaves together an engrossing and moving picture of what it was like to fight in the British Army in 1914. With b/w…
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A Book of Prose Selections
- £12.00
- John Masefield the then Poet Laureate makes his final selection of what he considers is the best of his work in prose. He has, as he admits, made a similar selection before, but it was done many years ago and his likes and dislikes, the general trend of his taste…
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A Brief History of the Future: the origins of the Internet
- £9.00
- The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. A millennium from now, historians will look back at it and marvel that a people equipped with such clumsy tools succeeded in creating such a Leviathan. John NaughtonÀs book intersperses wonderful personal stories with an authoritative…
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A Brief History of the Great Moghuls: India’s Most Flamboyant Rulers
- £10.00
- A paperback edition of a book, previously published in 1971 by Cape, recounting the history of the six Moghul emperors who ruled India for nearly two hundred years. Contains 52 colour pages and 78 black and white illustrations.
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A Chance to die: the life and legacy of Amy Carmichael (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fiftyÐthree years in south India without furlough. There she became known as 'Amma', or 'mother', as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children. AmyÕs life of obedience and courage…
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A History of England from the Accession of James the Second (10 books 5 volumes)
- £150.00
- From Tauchnitz's series Collection of British Authors, as follows (vol, # in series, date etc) - I, #172, 1849 - Bks 1 & 2, 413pp - II, #174, 1849 - Bks 3 & 4, 332pp - III, #338, 1855 - Bks 5 & 6, 300pp - IV, #340, 1855 -…
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A History of England from the Accession of James the Second (in 2 volumes)
- £110.00
- Macaulay's History was originally published in 1848 in 5 volumes, but this edition reduced that to two, without a reduction in text. The History is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England…
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A History of Eton College (1440-1898)
- £150.00
- The third edition of Maxwell Lyte's famous history of Eton College, completely revised throughout and greatly enlarged (1st edition in 1875). With illustrations and pull-out maps, exploring its origins in 1440 and its progression and life through the centuries. Illustrations by P. H. Delamotte
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A Man Called Intrepid: The Incredible WWII Narrative of the Hero
- £15.00
- A classic about real-life WWII espionage, as conducted by its modern master. A Man Called Intrepid is the classic true story of Sir William Stephenson (codenamed Intrepid) and the spy network he founded that would ultimately stall the Nazi war machine and help win World War II. Ian Fleming, bestselling…
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A People Betrayed: The Role Of The West In Rwanda’s Genocide
- £15.00
- In Rwanda in 1994 one million people were killed in a planned, public and political campaign. For six years Linda Melvern has worked on the story of this horrendous crime, and this book, a classic piece of investigative journalism, is the result. Its new and startling information has the making…
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A Rumour of War
- £85.00
- In March 1965, Marine Lieutnant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A…
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A Schoolmaster’s War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance
- £13.00
- The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted…
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A Sense of Place
- £25.00
- A collection of three essays about France by the renowned Oxford professor of history: 1. Becoming a historian; 2. 'L'Affaire Perken'; 3. Seduction and Pregnancy in Revolutionary Lyon.
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A Short History of Europe (From Pericles to Putin) (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- The first short, single-volume history of the continent - from the Dark Ages to present day - by the author of the bestselling A Short History of England. Europe is an astonishingly successful place. In this dazzling new history, bestselling author Simon Jenkins grippingly tells the story of its evolution…
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A Spy’s London
- £45.00
- In 'this remarkable book' (as intelligence historian Nigel West describes it in his Foreword), the reader will be struck by the vibrancy of history made real. Author Roy Berkeley has gone behind the facades of ordinary buildings, in the city that West calls 'the espionage capital of the World', to…
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Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings Ôthe heart-stopping story of the missile crisisÕ Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union.…
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All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45
- £20.00
- From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million livesan average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five…
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An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti: From the Journal of George Robertson (Folio Society)
- £12.00
- Folio edition from the Journal of George Robertson, Master of HMS Dolphin, published originally as The discovery of Tahiti; a journal of the second voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin round the world under the command of Captain Wallis, R.N., in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768, written by her master
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An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power In The Age Of Profumo
- £20.00
- WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of…
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An exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles
- £30.00
- An Exposition of The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England by J. Hamblin Smith of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
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An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
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- An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations. Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764,…
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Angels
- £14.00
- The Bible describes a universe in which we are not the only created beings. There are other creatures who are not human, not animal and not God. Angels are one of those orders of being. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed author Jane Williams explores the world of angels in…
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie, a biography
- £12.00
- Winifred Gérin (1901-1981) was a noted literary biographer, known for writing on each of the Brontë siblings, as well as Horatio Nelson and Elizabeth Gaskell. Anne Thackeray Ritchie was the daughter of W.M. Thackeray and also Virginia Woolf's aunt, thus bridging two extraordinary periods in English letters.
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Approaching Easter
- £14.00
- What gives meaning to our lives? How can we live a life shared with others? The seasons of Lent and Easter are traditionally times to reflect upon such fundamental questions as these. In this gentle, reflective book, Jane Williams encourages us to make space for reflection and, in so doing,…
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Art, Faith and Modernity
- £25.00
- Which artists in British 20th century art painted religious images? Broadly speaking there seem to have been two categories: The first concerns artists who created religious images when the religious content was in response to a set subject, for example The Deluge in the 1920 Rome Scholarship in Decorative Painting,…
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Asia’s First Republic: The Story of China 1912-1961
- £20.00
- An official illustrated narrative of 20th Century Chinese history from the perspective of The Republic of China (aka Taiwan) rather than the PRC in Beijing.
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Assorted Espionage book bundle
- £50.00
- Espionage books from 2WW and Cold War
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At the Court of the Borgia (Folio)
- £18.00
- At the Court of the Borgia: Being an Account of the Reign of Pope Alexander VI. Johann Burchard (c.1450Ð1506) was an Alsatian-born priest and chronicler during the Italian Renaissance. He spent his entire career at the papal Courts of Sixtus IV, Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Pius III, and Julius II,…
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Australians: Origins to Eureka 1
- £45.00
- Now in paperback, the outstanding first volume of acclaimed author Thomas Keneally's major new three-volume history of Australia bringsto life the vast range of characters who have formed Australia's national story Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers it is from their lives and…
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Bath
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- In eighteenth century Bath, where Beau Nash ruled as uncrowned king for so many years, the fashionable members of English society found a splendid justification for improving their health and enjoying themselves at the same time. They took the waters assiduously, gambled excessively, danced away the evenings at cotillion balls,…
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Benjamin Britten and Russia (Aldeburgh Studies in Music, 11)
- £50.00
- Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten. This book explores Benjamin Britten's creative relationship with Russia throughout his life by examining his engagement with Russian composers, musicians and writers in the context of twentieth-century politics. The remarkable relationship between Britten and Shostakovich is…
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Benjamin Britten: Pictures from a Life 1913-1976
- £15.00
- Donald Mitchell has here gathered together over 400 photographs which fascinatingly document the life and times of Benjamin Britten, who died in 1976. This is not a picture book in the conventional sense. It sets out to document as faithully and revealingly as possible mamny majro aspects of the life…
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Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966
- £16.00
- With nearly 200 unique images photographed on the streets of Berlin by the author between 1959 and 1966, Berlin in the Cold War depicts a city which demonstrated the conflict between East and West at that time like no other. The photographs throw into focus the situation existing both before…
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Betwys-Y-Coed: A pictorial trip down memory lane (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Take a fascinating and delightful trip down the memory lane of Betws-y-coed and compare yesterday with today.
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East
- £12.00
- A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Shortlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2020 'What happened to us?' For decades, the question has haunted the Arab and Muslim world, heard across Iran and Syria, Saudi…
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Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £10.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
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Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £20.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
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Blood River: A journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey. When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone.…
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Blood, Tears and Folly, In the darkest hours of the Second World War
- £15.00
- This study sets the drama of war on a world stage, and examines why, 50 years on, the lessons of World War II - when humanity was consumed by violence and destruction - still reverberate unheeded. Beginning with the political and industrial roots in the Great War of 1914-1918, Deighton…
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Branwell Brontë, a biography
- £25.00
- Winifred Gérin (1901-1981) was a noted literary biographer, known for writing on each of the Brontë siblings, as well as Horatio Nelson and Elizabeth Gaskell. While her seminal work was about Charlotte Brontë, this biography was greatly respected.
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British Columbia in the Making
- £100.00
- Account of the history, geography and economy of Canada's Western-most province. With many b/w photographs and diagrams
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Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
- £25.00
- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the…
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BRIXMIS: The Last Cold War Mission
- £12.00
- BRIXMIS (British Commander-in-ChiefÕs Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most covert elite units of the British Army. They were dropped in behind Ôenemy linesÕ ten months after the Second World War had ended and continued with their intelligence-gathering missions until the fall…
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Byron: The Last Journey April 1823-April 1824
- £35.00
- Lord Byron's first epic poem, "Childe Harold", was published in 1812. Only 12 years later after a life including exile, marriage and fatherhood, he died aged 36 at Missolonghi in Greece. First written in 1924, this is an acclaimed narrative of the final months of Lord Byron's life when he…
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C. S. Lewis trilogy: Becoming C. S. Lewis; The Making of C. S. Lewis; The Completion of C. S. Lewis (3 vols)
- £95.00
- Becoming C. S. Lewis (3-Volume Set) by scholar Harry Lee Poe represents a landmark achievement in the study of one of the greatest Christian thinkers of the modern era. This groundbreaking trilogy provides an in-depth look into literary scholar, novelist, and apologist C. S. Lewis. Each book painstakingly unfolds Lewis's…
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Capability Brown and Humphry Repton
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- Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of landscaping, in terms both of genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton. Both transformed many thousands of acres of England and Wales from "natural' into 'picturesque' landscape; both were gifted architects of beautiful houses;…
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Censored: a literary history of subversion and control
- £20.00
- The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politicians, judges, prison officers, slaveholders,…
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Characters from the histories and memoirs of the Seventeenth Century
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- First published in 1918, Nichol Smith compiled a classic of its kind: Characters from the histories and memoirs of the seventeenth century with an essay on the character and historical notes: drawn from writings of contemporaries and acquaintences from the Earl of Clarendon to Richard Baxter and the 2nd Duke…
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Charles Simeon of Cambridge
- £12.00
- Charles Simeon ministered for over fifty years in one parish at the heart of Cambridge during the bleak period of English national life between the French Wars and the passing of the Reform Bill. He was considered by Lord Macaulay to have had greater influence on the life of the…
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Churchill, by his Granddaughter (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From his birthplace at Blenheim Palace to his tumultuous political life in Westminster, Celia Sandys is uniquely placed to examine the life of one of the most revered Britons in history. This book accompanies the launch of the Churchill Museum and includes many previously unpublished images and artifacts displayed in…
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Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval
- £25.00
- One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current era of man-made climate change, the world has suffered repeated, severe climate-driven shocks. These shocks have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. But these…
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
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Coleridge and Wordsworth in Somerset
- £25.00
- A vivid, detailed picture of the period Coleridge and Wordsworth in the beautiful Quantock countryside in Somerset. This period was of major importance to Coleridge and Wordsworth as poets, particularly the year July 1797 to July 1798 that they spent near to each other.
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Coming Apart: The State Of White America, 1960-2010
- £15.00
- In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy, the acclaimed bestseller than explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class. In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as…
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe - have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will unravels the…
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Corts and Montezuma
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- From publisher: Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernn Corts felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their sophisticated astronomical…
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Crossway ESV Bible Atlas (with CD-Rom & Poster)
- £32.00
- Capitalizing on recent advances in satellite imaging and geographic information systems, the Crossway ESV Bible Atlas offers Bible readers a comprehensive, up-to-date resource that blends technical sophistication with readability, visual appeal, and historical and biblical accuracy. All the key methods of presenting Bible geography and history are here, including more…
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Cumberland and Westmorland (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE (1914Ð1987) was an English poet associated with the Cumbrian town of Millom. His poetry is noted for local concerns, straightforward language, and elements of common speech. Although known chiefly for poetry, Nicholson wrote much in other forms: novels, plays, essays, topography and criticism. This book of…
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Cunegonde’s Kidnapping: A story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment
- £20.00
- How a popular religious war erupted on the Dutch-German border, despite the ideals of religious tolerance proclaimed by the Enlightenment. In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When…
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DDR!
- £15.00
- A travel guide to a country that no longer exists, the Ddr. What could be more useful than that? Find out where and what you should have been drinking in Thringen and East Berlin almost thirty years ago.
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Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? The Resurrection Debate
- £18.00
- [This] is the most important question regarding the claims of the Christian faith. Certainly no question in modern religious history demands more attention or interest, as witnessed by the vast body of literature dealing with the Resurrection. James I. Packer says it well in his response to this debate: 'When…
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Dolphin of the Sepulchre: a tale of the times of Becket
- £30.00
- An account of the martyrdom of St Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, under Henry II. Colour frontispiece by W. S. Stacey, w tissue guard.
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Double-Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
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- From the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat , comes a thrilling new true story of Second World War deception.D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation:…
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Downton Abbey: A Celebration
- £35.00
- Since the moment we first entered Downton Abbey in 1912, we have been swept away by Julian Fellowes' evocative world of romance, intrigue, drama and tradition. Now, in 1925, as Downton Abbey prepares to close its doors for the final time, Jessica Fellowes leads us through the house and estate,…
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Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it…
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Early Christianity and Society
- £10.00
- An original and scholarly book that challenged and countered cherished assumptions about the early Christian Church and its adherents.
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Eighteenth Century Vignettes (vol I & II)
- £25.00
- The first two series of Dobson's very popular vignettes (from 1894).
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Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince, a biography
- £16.00
- A definitive portrait of one of the most compelling monarchs England has ever had: Elizabeth I. 'We are a prince from a line of princes.' Lisa Hilton's majestic biography of Elizabeth I, 'The Virgin Queen', provides vibrant new insights on a monarch who continues to compel and enthral readers. It…
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Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland
- £100.00
- The forerunner of Burke's Peerage. Full title: Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland, comprising a registry of all armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time, including the late grants by the College of Arms. Third Edition, with a supplement.
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England’s Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton. Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become England's first media superstar. Nothing could stand in the way…
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £75.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £100.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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Epitaphs from Oxfordshire
- £15.00
- This collection gathers verses or prosepieces that are beautiful, touching or ecceintric, telling us what people over the centuries have been moved to say about their dead.
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Eton of Old (1811-1822)
- £50.00
- A snapshot of a decade in the life of Eton College, the famous public school, during which the author attended.. Completed not long before the author died in his 100th year. With 14 illustrations.
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Faces of Christ: Jesus in Art
- £10.00
- Jesus is one of the most often portrayed figures of all time. But what do all of his faces - in art from different ages and around the world - tell us about him? In this beautiful book images of Jesus are used to explore his life and legacy, including…
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Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The first official account of the iconic record label. An NME Book of the Year 2013 ¥ A Rough Trade Book of the Year 2013 ¥ A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2013 This Mortal Coil, Birthday Party, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Pixies, Throwing Muses, Breeders, Dead Can Dance,…
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Fasti Etonenses: a Biographical History of Eton from The Lives Of Celebrated Etonians
- £250.00
- A history of Eton College, told through the lives of some of its famous students. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates, some of which are coloured. Including chapters on De Quincey, Charles Simeon, Tennyson, Gladstone, and many others. Benson was an Etonian himself, from a literary family which included E.F Benson…
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Fighter, the true story of the Battle of Britain
- £15.00
- History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton drew on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these myths and point…
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Figures of Several Centuries
- £50.00
- An anthology of essays by Arthur Symons (1865-1945), a noted poet, critic and magazine editor.
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Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations
- £18.00
- The Gestapo kept me three days in this interrogation house. They especially wanted to know what I did after my escape, and precise things on the organisation of the SOE. And just for fun I suspect, because I had really not much to tell them, they pulled one of my…
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Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
- £12.00
- Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of StalinÕs Russia. Historian Douglas Smith's Former People is a book filled with chilling tales of…
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French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War
- £110.00
- This book draws upon both musicology and cultural history to argue that French musical meanings and values from 1898 to 1914 are best explained not in terms of contemporary artistic movements but of the political culture. During these years, France was undergoing many subtle yet profound political changes. Nationalist leagues…
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French Masters of the Organ: Saint-Sans, Franck, Widor, Vierne, Dupr, Langlais, Messiaen
- £45.00
- This engaging book discusses the colorful personalities and beloved music of the French romantic organist-composers. Michael Murray draws vivid portraits of Aristide Cavaill-Coll (1811-1899), the greatest and most influential organ builder of his time, and of seven other musicians with connections to Cavaill-Coll and to one another: Camille Saint-Sans (1835-1921),…
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From the Land of Shadows
- £8.00
- His third book of cultural criticism, From the Land of Shadows sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James at his erudite, enlightening best. '[T]he lasting impression is of our critic's truly amazing breadth of reference' Ð Times Literary Supplement. Collecting his work from the late 1970s and into the early…
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G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
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Getting to Know The General: the story of an involvement
- £15.00
- In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host. . . At that moment the idea came to me to write a short personal memoir.…
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God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
- £14.00
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was one of Britain's greatest architects, and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of a French draftsman, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21…
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Great Olympic Moments (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Complete with stunning, specially selected photographs, Sir Steve Redgrave recounts his favourite Olympic stories and reveals what it is that makes these moments truly great. All the stars of past and present are here, including Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Nadia Comaneci, Mark Spitz, Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Bob Beamon, Ed…
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Great-Uncle Harry: A tale of war and empire (SIGNED)
- £70.00
- From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of…
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Greta & Cecil
- £15.00
- Greta Garbo was a legend of beauty and elusiveness and Cecil Beaton a leading society photographer and authority on fashion and style. At the time of their first meeting in Hollywood in March 1932 both were involved in turbulent same-sex affairs: Greta with Mercedes de Acosta and Beaton with Peter…
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Growling Over The Oceans: The Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton, the Men, the Missions 1951-1991
- £20.00
- The Avro Shackleton was a formidable machine with its Griffon engines producing the characteristic grumble that gave the aircraft one of its nicknames, the Growler. This book contains stories from the men for whom the aircraft became a way of life. Combining memories and anecdotes from crew members with archive…
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Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
- £15.00
- Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald delivers a stunning account of Elizabeth I that focuses on her role in the Wars on Religion--the battle between Protestantism and Catholicisim that tore apart Europe in the 16th Century. Elizabeth's 1558 coronation procession was met with an extravagant outpouring of love. Only twenty-five years old,…
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Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged
- £25.00
- National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writers point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a self-portrait of…
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History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (vols 1 & II but missing III)
- £50.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubign (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (combined vol I-V)
- £100.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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Hitler & Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted' EVENING STANDARD. Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two totally opposite leaders - both in what they stood for and in the…
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How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States
- £20.00
- Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York Times The United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by…
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Hume’s History of England (vols I & II only)
- £75.00
- Hume set out at first only to write a history of England under the Stuart monarchs James I and Charles I, which appeared in 1754. He followed this with a second history that continued to the Revolution of 1688. With the relative success of these two volumes, Hume researched the…
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1914
- £35.00
- Based almost entirely on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and on new or little-known letters, diaries, official reports, and papers, the author weaves together an engrossing and moving picture of what it was like to fight in the British Army in 1914. With b/w…
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A Book of Prose Selections
- £12.00
- John Masefield the then Poet Laureate makes his final selection of what he considers is the best of his work in prose. He has, as he admits, made a similar selection before, but it was done many years ago and his likes and dislikes, the general trend of his taste…
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A Brief History of the Future: the origins of the Internet
- £9.00
- The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. A millennium from now, historians will look back at it and marvel that a people equipped with such clumsy tools succeeded in creating such a Leviathan. John NaughtonÀs book intersperses wonderful personal stories with an authoritative…
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A Brief History of the Great Moghuls: India’s Most Flamboyant Rulers
- £10.00
- A paperback edition of a book, previously published in 1971 by Cape, recounting the history of the six Moghul emperors who ruled India for nearly two hundred years. Contains 52 colour pages and 78 black and white illustrations.
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A Chance to die: the life and legacy of Amy Carmichael (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fiftyÐthree years in south India without furlough. There she became known as 'Amma', or 'mother', as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children. AmyÕs life of obedience and courage…
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A History of England from the Accession of James the Second (10 books 5 volumes)
- £150.00
- From Tauchnitz's series Collection of British Authors, as follows (vol, # in series, date etc) - I, #172, 1849 - Bks 1 & 2, 413pp - II, #174, 1849 - Bks 3 & 4, 332pp - III, #338, 1855 - Bks 5 & 6, 300pp - IV, #340, 1855 -…
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A History of England from the Accession of James the Second (in 2 volumes)
- £110.00
- Macaulay's History was originally published in 1848 in 5 volumes, but this edition reduced that to two, without a reduction in text. The History is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England…
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A History of Eton College (1440-1898)
- £150.00
- The third edition of Maxwell Lyte's famous history of Eton College, completely revised throughout and greatly enlarged (1st edition in 1875). With illustrations and pull-out maps, exploring its origins in 1440 and its progression and life through the centuries. Illustrations by P. H. Delamotte
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A Man Called Intrepid: The Incredible WWII Narrative of the Hero
- £15.00
- A classic about real-life WWII espionage, as conducted by its modern master. A Man Called Intrepid is the classic true story of Sir William Stephenson (codenamed Intrepid) and the spy network he founded that would ultimately stall the Nazi war machine and help win World War II. Ian Fleming, bestselling…
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A People Betrayed: The Role Of The West In Rwanda’s Genocide
- £15.00
- In Rwanda in 1994 one million people were killed in a planned, public and political campaign. For six years Linda Melvern has worked on the story of this horrendous crime, and this book, a classic piece of investigative journalism, is the result. Its new and startling information has the making…
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A Rumour of War
- £85.00
- In March 1965, Marine Lieutnant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A…
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A Schoolmaster’s War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance
- £13.00
- The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted…
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A Sense of Place
- £25.00
- A collection of three essays about France by the renowned Oxford professor of history: 1. Becoming a historian; 2. 'L'Affaire Perken'; 3. Seduction and Pregnancy in Revolutionary Lyon.
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A Short History of Europe (From Pericles to Putin) (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- The first short, single-volume history of the continent - from the Dark Ages to present day - by the author of the bestselling A Short History of England. Europe is an astonishingly successful place. In this dazzling new history, bestselling author Simon Jenkins grippingly tells the story of its evolution…
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A Spy’s London
- £45.00
- In 'this remarkable book' (as intelligence historian Nigel West describes it in his Foreword), the reader will be struck by the vibrancy of history made real. Author Roy Berkeley has gone behind the facades of ordinary buildings, in the city that West calls 'the espionage capital of the World', to…
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Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings Ôthe heart-stopping story of the missile crisisÕ Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union.…
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All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45
- £20.00
- From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million livesan average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five…
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An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti: From the Journal of George Robertson (Folio Society)
- £12.00
- Folio edition from the Journal of George Robertson, Master of HMS Dolphin, published originally as The discovery of Tahiti; a journal of the second voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin round the world under the command of Captain Wallis, R.N., in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768, written by her master
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An English Affair: Sex, Class And Power In The Age Of Profumo
- £20.00
- WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of…
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An exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles
- £30.00
- An Exposition of The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England by J. Hamblin Smith of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
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An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
- £30.00
- An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations. Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764,…
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Angels
- £14.00
- The Bible describes a universe in which we are not the only created beings. There are other creatures who are not human, not animal and not God. Angels are one of those orders of being. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed author Jane Williams explores the world of angels in…
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie, a biography
- £12.00
- Winifred Gérin (1901-1981) was a noted literary biographer, known for writing on each of the Brontë siblings, as well as Horatio Nelson and Elizabeth Gaskell. Anne Thackeray Ritchie was the daughter of W.M. Thackeray and also Virginia Woolf's aunt, thus bridging two extraordinary periods in English letters.
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Approaching Easter
- £14.00
- What gives meaning to our lives? How can we live a life shared with others? The seasons of Lent and Easter are traditionally times to reflect upon such fundamental questions as these. In this gentle, reflective book, Jane Williams encourages us to make space for reflection and, in so doing,…
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Art, Faith and Modernity
- £25.00
- Which artists in British 20th century art painted religious images? Broadly speaking there seem to have been two categories: The first concerns artists who created religious images when the religious content was in response to a set subject, for example The Deluge in the 1920 Rome Scholarship in Decorative Painting,…
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Asia’s First Republic: The Story of China 1912-1961
- £20.00
- An official illustrated narrative of 20th Century Chinese history from the perspective of The Republic of China (aka Taiwan) rather than the PRC in Beijing.
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Assorted Espionage book bundle
- £50.00
- Espionage books from 2WW and Cold War
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At the Court of the Borgia (Folio)
- £18.00
- At the Court of the Borgia: Being an Account of the Reign of Pope Alexander VI. Johann Burchard (c.1450Ð1506) was an Alsatian-born priest and chronicler during the Italian Renaissance. He spent his entire career at the papal Courts of Sixtus IV, Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Pius III, and Julius II,…
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Australians: Origins to Eureka 1
- £45.00
- Now in paperback, the outstanding first volume of acclaimed author Thomas Keneally's major new three-volume history of Australia bringsto life the vast range of characters who have formed Australia's national story Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers it is from their lives and…
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Bath
- £30.00
- In eighteenth century Bath, where Beau Nash ruled as uncrowned king for so many years, the fashionable members of English society found a splendid justification for improving their health and enjoying themselves at the same time. They took the waters assiduously, gambled excessively, danced away the evenings at cotillion balls,…
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Benjamin Britten and Russia (Aldeburgh Studies in Music, 11)
- £50.00
- Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten. This book explores Benjamin Britten's creative relationship with Russia throughout his life by examining his engagement with Russian composers, musicians and writers in the context of twentieth-century politics. The remarkable relationship between Britten and Shostakovich is…
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Benjamin Britten: Pictures from a Life 1913-1976
- £15.00
- Donald Mitchell has here gathered together over 400 photographs which fascinatingly document the life and times of Benjamin Britten, who died in 1976. This is not a picture book in the conventional sense. It sets out to document as faithully and revealingly as possible mamny majro aspects of the life…
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Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966
- £16.00
- With nearly 200 unique images photographed on the streets of Berlin by the author between 1959 and 1966, Berlin in the Cold War depicts a city which demonstrated the conflict between East and West at that time like no other. The photographs throw into focus the situation existing both before…
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Betwys-Y-Coed: A pictorial trip down memory lane (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Take a fascinating and delightful trip down the memory lane of Betws-y-coed and compare yesterday with today.
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East
- £12.00
- A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Shortlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2020 'What happened to us?' For decades, the question has haunted the Arab and Muslim world, heard across Iran and Syria, Saudi…
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Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £10.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
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Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £20.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
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Blood River: A journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey. When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone.…
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Blood, Tears and Folly, In the darkest hours of the Second World War
- £15.00
- This study sets the drama of war on a world stage, and examines why, 50 years on, the lessons of World War II - when humanity was consumed by violence and destruction - still reverberate unheeded. Beginning with the political and industrial roots in the Great War of 1914-1918, Deighton…
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Branwell Brontë, a biography
- £25.00
- Winifred Gérin (1901-1981) was a noted literary biographer, known for writing on each of the Brontë siblings, as well as Horatio Nelson and Elizabeth Gaskell. While her seminal work was about Charlotte Brontë, this biography was greatly respected.
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British Columbia in the Making
- £100.00
- Account of the history, geography and economy of Canada's Western-most province. With many b/w photographs and diagrams
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Britten & Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
- £25.00
- A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the…
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BRIXMIS: The Last Cold War Mission
- £12.00
- BRIXMIS (British Commander-in-ChiefÕs Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most covert elite units of the British Army. They were dropped in behind Ôenemy linesÕ ten months after the Second World War had ended and continued with their intelligence-gathering missions until the fall…
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Byron: The Last Journey April 1823-April 1824
- £35.00
- Lord Byron's first epic poem, "Childe Harold", was published in 1812. Only 12 years later after a life including exile, marriage and fatherhood, he died aged 36 at Missolonghi in Greece. First written in 1924, this is an acclaimed narrative of the final months of Lord Byron's life when he…
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C. S. Lewis trilogy: Becoming C. S. Lewis; The Making of C. S. Lewis; The Completion of C. S. Lewis (3 vols)
- £95.00
- Becoming C. S. Lewis (3-Volume Set) by scholar Harry Lee Poe represents a landmark achievement in the study of one of the greatest Christian thinkers of the modern era. This groundbreaking trilogy provides an in-depth look into literary scholar, novelist, and apologist C. S. Lewis. Each book painstakingly unfolds Lewis's…
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Capability Brown and Humphry Repton
- £18.00
- Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of landscaping, in terms both of genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton. Both transformed many thousands of acres of England and Wales from "natural' into 'picturesque' landscape; both were gifted architects of beautiful houses;…
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Censored: a literary history of subversion and control
- £20.00
- The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politicians, judges, prison officers, slaveholders,…
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Characters from the histories and memoirs of the Seventeenth Century
- £15.00
- First published in 1918, Nichol Smith compiled a classic of its kind: Characters from the histories and memoirs of the seventeenth century with an essay on the character and historical notes: drawn from writings of contemporaries and acquaintences from the Earl of Clarendon to Richard Baxter and the 2nd Duke…
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Charles Simeon of Cambridge
- £12.00
- Charles Simeon ministered for over fifty years in one parish at the heart of Cambridge during the bleak period of English national life between the French Wars and the passing of the Reform Bill. He was considered by Lord Macaulay to have had greater influence on the life of the…
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Churchill, by his Granddaughter (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From his birthplace at Blenheim Palace to his tumultuous political life in Westminster, Celia Sandys is uniquely placed to examine the life of one of the most revered Britons in history. This book accompanies the launch of the Churchill Museum and includes many previously unpublished images and artifacts displayed in…
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Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval
- £25.00
- One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current era of man-made climate change, the world has suffered repeated, severe climate-driven shocks. These shocks have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. But these…
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
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Coleridge and Wordsworth in Somerset
- £25.00
- A vivid, detailed picture of the period Coleridge and Wordsworth in the beautiful Quantock countryside in Somerset. This period was of major importance to Coleridge and Wordsworth as poets, particularly the year July 1797 to July 1798 that they spent near to each other.
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Coming Apart: The State Of White America, 1960-2010
- £15.00
- In the bestselling tradition of Hillbilly Elegy, the acclaimed bestseller than explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class. In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as…
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe - have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will unravels the…
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Corts and Montezuma
- £14.00
- From publisher: Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernn Corts felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their sophisticated astronomical…
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Crossway ESV Bible Atlas (with CD-Rom & Poster)
- £32.00
- Capitalizing on recent advances in satellite imaging and geographic information systems, the Crossway ESV Bible Atlas offers Bible readers a comprehensive, up-to-date resource that blends technical sophistication with readability, visual appeal, and historical and biblical accuracy. All the key methods of presenting Bible geography and history are here, including more…
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Cumberland and Westmorland (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE (1914Ð1987) was an English poet associated with the Cumbrian town of Millom. His poetry is noted for local concerns, straightforward language, and elements of common speech. Although known chiefly for poetry, Nicholson wrote much in other forms: novels, plays, essays, topography and criticism. This book of…
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Cunegonde’s Kidnapping: A story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment
- £20.00
- How a popular religious war erupted on the Dutch-German border, despite the ideals of religious tolerance proclaimed by the Enlightenment. In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When…
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DDR!
- £15.00
- A travel guide to a country that no longer exists, the Ddr. What could be more useful than that? Find out where and what you should have been drinking in Thringen and East Berlin almost thirty years ago.
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Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? The Resurrection Debate
- £18.00
- [This] is the most important question regarding the claims of the Christian faith. Certainly no question in modern religious history demands more attention or interest, as witnessed by the vast body of literature dealing with the Resurrection. James I. Packer says it well in his response to this debate: 'When…
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Dolphin of the Sepulchre: a tale of the times of Becket
- £30.00
- An account of the martyrdom of St Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, under Henry II. Colour frontispiece by W. S. Stacey, w tissue guard.
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Double-Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
- £16.00
- From the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat , comes a thrilling new true story of Second World War deception.D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation:…
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Downton Abbey: A Celebration
- £35.00
- Since the moment we first entered Downton Abbey in 1912, we have been swept away by Julian Fellowes' evocative world of romance, intrigue, drama and tradition. Now, in 1925, as Downton Abbey prepares to close its doors for the final time, Jessica Fellowes leads us through the house and estate,…
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Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it…
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Early Christianity and Society
- £10.00
- An original and scholarly book that challenged and countered cherished assumptions about the early Christian Church and its adherents.
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Eighteenth Century Vignettes (vol I & II)
- £25.00
- The first two series of Dobson's very popular vignettes (from 1894).
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Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince, a biography
- £16.00
- A definitive portrait of one of the most compelling monarchs England has ever had: Elizabeth I. 'We are a prince from a line of princes.' Lisa Hilton's majestic biography of Elizabeth I, 'The Virgin Queen', provides vibrant new insights on a monarch who continues to compel and enthral readers. It…
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Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland
- £100.00
- The forerunner of Burke's Peerage. Full title: Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland, comprising a registry of all armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time, including the late grants by the College of Arms. Third Edition, with a supplement.
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England’s Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton. Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become England's first media superstar. Nothing could stand in the way…
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £75.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £100.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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Epitaphs from Oxfordshire
- £15.00
- This collection gathers verses or prosepieces that are beautiful, touching or ecceintric, telling us what people over the centuries have been moved to say about their dead.
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Eton of Old (1811-1822)
- £50.00
- A snapshot of a decade in the life of Eton College, the famous public school, during which the author attended.. Completed not long before the author died in his 100th year. With 14 illustrations.
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Faces of Christ: Jesus in Art
- £10.00
- Jesus is one of the most often portrayed figures of all time. But what do all of his faces - in art from different ages and around the world - tell us about him? In this beautiful book images of Jesus are used to explore his life and legacy, including…
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Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The first official account of the iconic record label. An NME Book of the Year 2013 ¥ A Rough Trade Book of the Year 2013 ¥ A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2013 This Mortal Coil, Birthday Party, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Pixies, Throwing Muses, Breeders, Dead Can Dance,…
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Fasti Etonenses: a Biographical History of Eton from The Lives Of Celebrated Etonians
- £250.00
- A history of Eton College, told through the lives of some of its famous students. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates, some of which are coloured. Including chapters on De Quincey, Charles Simeon, Tennyson, Gladstone, and many others. Benson was an Etonian himself, from a literary family which included E.F Benson…
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Fighter, the true story of the Battle of Britain
- £15.00
- History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton drew on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these myths and point…
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Figures of Several Centuries
- £50.00
- An anthology of essays by Arthur Symons (1865-1945), a noted poet, critic and magazine editor.
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Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations
- £18.00
- The Gestapo kept me three days in this interrogation house. They especially wanted to know what I did after my escape, and precise things on the organisation of the SOE. And just for fun I suspect, because I had really not much to tell them, they pulled one of my…
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Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
- £12.00
- Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of StalinÕs Russia. Historian Douglas Smith's Former People is a book filled with chilling tales of…
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French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War
- £110.00
- This book draws upon both musicology and cultural history to argue that French musical meanings and values from 1898 to 1914 are best explained not in terms of contemporary artistic movements but of the political culture. During these years, France was undergoing many subtle yet profound political changes. Nationalist leagues…
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French Masters of the Organ: Saint-Sans, Franck, Widor, Vierne, Dupr, Langlais, Messiaen
- £45.00
- This engaging book discusses the colorful personalities and beloved music of the French romantic organist-composers. Michael Murray draws vivid portraits of Aristide Cavaill-Coll (1811-1899), the greatest and most influential organ builder of his time, and of seven other musicians with connections to Cavaill-Coll and to one another: Camille Saint-Sans (1835-1921),…
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From the Land of Shadows
- £8.00
- His third book of cultural criticism, From the Land of Shadows sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James at his erudite, enlightening best. '[T]he lasting impression is of our critic's truly amazing breadth of reference' Ð Times Literary Supplement. Collecting his work from the late 1970s and into the early…
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G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
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Getting to Know The General: the story of an involvement
- £15.00
- In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host. . . At that moment the idea came to me to write a short personal memoir.…
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God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
- £14.00
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was one of Britain's greatest architects, and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of a French draftsman, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21…
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Great Olympic Moments (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Complete with stunning, specially selected photographs, Sir Steve Redgrave recounts his favourite Olympic stories and reveals what it is that makes these moments truly great. All the stars of past and present are here, including Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Nadia Comaneci, Mark Spitz, Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Bob Beamon, Ed…
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Great-Uncle Harry: A tale of war and empire (SIGNED)
- £70.00
- From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of…
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Greta & Cecil
- £15.00
- Greta Garbo was a legend of beauty and elusiveness and Cecil Beaton a leading society photographer and authority on fashion and style. At the time of their first meeting in Hollywood in March 1932 both were involved in turbulent same-sex affairs: Greta with Mercedes de Acosta and Beaton with Peter…
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Growling Over The Oceans: The Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton, the Men, the Missions 1951-1991
- £20.00
- The Avro Shackleton was a formidable machine with its Griffon engines producing the characteristic grumble that gave the aircraft one of its nicknames, the Growler. This book contains stories from the men for whom the aircraft became a way of life. Combining memories and anecdotes from crew members with archive…
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Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
- £15.00
- Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald delivers a stunning account of Elizabeth I that focuses on her role in the Wars on Religion--the battle between Protestantism and Catholicisim that tore apart Europe in the 16th Century. Elizabeth's 1558 coronation procession was met with an extravagant outpouring of love. Only twenty-five years old,…
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Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged
- £25.00
- National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writers point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a self-portrait of…
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History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (vols 1 & II but missing III)
- £50.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubign (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (combined vol I-V)
- £100.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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Hitler & Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted' EVENING STANDARD. Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two totally opposite leaders - both in what they stood for and in the…
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How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States
- £20.00
- Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York Times The United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by…
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Hume’s History of England (vols I & II only)
- £75.00
- Hume set out at first only to write a history of England under the Stuart monarchs James I and Charles I, which appeared in 1754. He followed this with a second history that continued to the Revolution of 1688. With the relative success of these two volumes, Hume researched the…
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