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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
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- 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 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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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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Humour: its theory and technique. A book of discovery
- £50.00
- Stephen Butler Leacock FRSC (1869Ð1944) was a British-Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. This book was a distillation of his understanding and insights into comedy.
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Identity of England
- £20.00
- The English are now in need of a new sense of home and belonging, and a re-assessment of who they are. This is a history of who they were, with present needs in mind. It begins by considering how the English state created an English nation which from very early…
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Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague
- £12.00
- A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as Ôcompletely and utterly marvellousÕ. ÔPainting É exists and exults in immortal thoughtsÕ William Blake. In 2020, as the spread of Covid-19 causes pandemonium worldwide, an elderly artist returns to his childhood…
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Immortality: the quest to live forever
- £9.00
- Who wants to live forever? According to Stephen Cave, we all do - every single one of us. And the evidence is all around. Eluding the Grim Reaper is humanity's oldest and most pervasive wish. It is embedded in our very nature and provides the real driving force behind every…
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In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent
- £35.00
- This is a comprehensive study of Germany's relationship with Europe since the Second World War. Garton Ash explores, in considerable detail, the division of Germany and the various initiatives -diplomatic, ideological and political, that emerged since 1945 to reconcile and unite East and West Germany. He also examines Germany's key…
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In The Enemy’s House
- £21.00
- In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lampshere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet…
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Introduction to Cambridge
- £11.00
- Introductory guide to the University of Cambridge; 9 b/w photographic plates; 1 pull-out map.
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Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and an acute observer of American life and history, turns his literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In "Inventing a Nation", Vidal transports the reader into the…
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Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You’ve Always Wanted to Read
- £40.00
- Practically a classic itself, Invitation to the Classics is a popular guide to those great works of literature that you always meant to read. Full color and engaging, this book is a gateway to the fulfilling pursuit of understanding our culture by exploring its most enduring writings. "These sparkling essays…
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Iran: A People Interrupted
- £15.00
- Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh, provocative and iconoclastic," Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-;handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies. In this provocative and unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi_the internationally renowned cultural…
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J.S. Bach’s Great Eighteen Organ Chorales
- £40.00
- In lucid and engaging style, Stinson explores Bach's 'Great Eighteen' Organ Chorales - among Bach's most celebrated works for organ - from a wide range of historical and analytical perspectives, including the models used by Bach in conceiving the individual pieces, his subsequent compilation of these works into a collection,…
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John Aubrey and his Friends
- £30.00
- This is a portrait of John Aubrey, one of Britain's greatest eccentrics and authors by one of Britain's greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Best known for his "Brief Lives", Aubrey was a man interested in everything from mathematics to folklore and from heraldry to horticulture. This study of Aubrey's…
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John Charles Ryle (1816-1900), a short biography
- £6.00
- Written by Sir Marcus Loane, who would go on to be Archbishop of Sydney, this brief biography tells the story of J. C. Ryle, first bishop of Liverpool and pioneering evangelical Anglican of the Victorian era.
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Johnson at 10
- £40.00
- Excellent... first class... both fair and damning.' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times 'Authoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer 'Invaluable' New Statesman 'Explosive' Isabel Hardman, The i. After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period…
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Journey Down A Rainbow
- £30.00
- Mr & Mrs Priestley visited the American South-West in the late autumn of 1954 with a set purpose: to observe and reflect upon man, as a social animal (i) in primitive society, a form of which still persists in New Mexico, (ii) in the booming technocracy of mid-twentieth century Texas.…
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Kathleen and Frank
- £15.00
- This is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents – their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father’s death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well…
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Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain's history, Parliament had overpowered King Charles I and now faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of…
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King Charles Preserved: an account of his escape after the Battle of Worcester
- £25.00
- An account of the Preservation of King Charles II, after the Battle of Worcester, Drawn up by Himself - was dictated by the King to Samuel Pepys who recorded it in the cipher in which he kept his own Diary. The manuscript, with others, was presented by Pepys to Magdalene…
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Land at War, The Official Story Of British Farming, 1939 – 1944
- £45.00
- An account of British agriculture during the Second World War, written by renowned writer Laurie Lee, as part of his role as Publications Editor for the UK's Ministry of Information. This was his first published book. Many b/w photographs & diagrams.
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Lascaux and Carnac
- £25.00
- A well-known British Archaeologist on the painted caves in various places in France as well as the magalithic monuments near Carnac in Brittany. Described by the author as 'a light gossipy guide to some aspects of the gastro-archaeology of France.'
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
- £25.00
- Read this prize-winning historianÕs ÒimmersiveÓ ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism. They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s,…
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Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy
- £15.00
- Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. This book identifies six types of lust with which leaders are linked:…
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Biography
- £15.00
- Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, heÕs simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable manÕ Books of the Year - The Times He was historyÕs most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo…
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Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
- £10.00
- This classic gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues…
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Little History of Music (Little Histories)
- £20.00
- Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest…
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Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa with their Letters
- £250.00
- The History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa (comprising a period of 84 years) from 1079 to 1163) with their genuine Letters from the collection of Amboise (second edition)
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Logo Rewind: Trademarks of Medieval Norwich
- £40.00
- Logo Rewind is a fascinating and uniquely enriching source of inspiration for modern designers and provides a treasure trove for anyone interested in UK history, students of history and design, creatives, and the contemporary design community more broadly, both nationally and internationally. The book includes introductions and essays by Jens…
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Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche
- £18.00
- The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and 'Love Me Do', the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day - Friday, 5…
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The BelgicaÕs Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- £9.00
- The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter. August 1897: The Belgica set sail, eager to become the first scientific expedition to reach the white wilderness of the…
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Manhattan ’45
- £25.00
- In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel writer and historian…
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Marx and Engels’ ‘Communist Manifesto’: A Reader’s Guide
- £20.00
- Introducing the most famous work of the nineteenth-century radical thinkers Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, this comprehensive reader's guide to the Communist Manifesto explores the key themes, ideas and issues of the revolutionary pamphlet. Beginning with a discussion of the intellectual, political and social context of the Manifesto, the Reader's…
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Marxism vs Liberalism – an Interview
- £25.00
- Interview of Stalin by Wells conducted July 23, 1934 in Moscow. Introduction by Granville Hicks.
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Mary Slessor of Calabar, pioneer missionary
- £15.00
- A pioneering woman missionary hailing from Aberdeen in Scotland, Mary Slessor's journey to Nigeria set an example to all Christian missions; she gained the trust, respect and thanks of the local peoples, and introduced the gospel of Christ. Most notably from a social viewpoint, Slessor managed to convince the Ibibio…
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Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (Translation From The Latin, And Biographical Notes)
- £18.00
- Helen Waddell (31 May 1889 Ð 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal. was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was lecturing in the Imperial University. She spent…
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Memoir of Henry Venn
- £15.00
- Henry Venn was the grandson of the Henry Venn of Clapham Sect fame and a follower in his footsteps; a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral and honorary secretary of the Church Missionary Society. First published in 1880 without the appendix, this memoir includes selections from Venn's letters and journal.
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Memories of Bygone Eton
- £30.00
- Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (1851-1939) was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist.…
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Meredith
- £20.00
- The great war poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) turned his attention to the great Victorian man of letters George Meredith (who had been nominated for the Nobel Literature prize 7 times).
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Meredith
- £25.00
- The great war poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) turned his attention to the great Victorian man of letters George Meredith (who had been nominated for the Nobel Literature prize 7 times).
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Meredith
- £25.00
- The great war poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) turned his attention to the great Victorian man of letters George Meredith (who had been nominated for the Nobel Literature prize 7 times).
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MI5: British Security Service Operations 1909-1945
- £20.00
- Nigel West is the nom de plume of former MP, Rupert Allason, under which he has written many books on espionage and the Cold War.
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Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot
- £25.00
- A fresh and engaging account of the life of the great English poet and pamphleteer John Milton. For centuries John Milton, author of Paradise Lost and many other poetic works, and of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce and political rights, has emerged from biographies as a woman-hating domestic tyrant…
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Morning, Noon and Night in London
- £16.00
- These slight pages are an invitation to walk with Mr. Sitwell along the pavements and into the music-halls of London upon an August afternoon and evening of the eighteen-sixties. A fantasy begun while London was being daily and nightly blitzed and bombed, and a tribute, therefore, to the eternal London.…
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Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the First World War (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The popular view of the First World War remains that of 'Blackadder': incompetent generals sending our soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up. Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to…
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Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1600
- £30.00
- In the years following the Act of Uniformity in 1549, musicians seemed to thrive on the challenge of the New Prayer Book, and the successive reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I bought a rich and varied repertory of vernacular church music. Peter Le Huray traces these developments…
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Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women
- £20.00
- A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the 'Mutual Admiration Society.' Brilliant, bold, serious, and funny,…
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My Old Man: a Personal History of Music Hall
- £20.00
- Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall. Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, but patriotic and champion of the…
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Never Give In! Winston Churchill’s Finest Speeches (SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Winston Churchill 'mobilized the English language and sent it into battle'. President John F. Kennedy conferring Honorary US Citizenship, April 1963 'This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by…
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New York Yacht Club 1844-1994 (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- A history of the prestigious New York Yacht Club covering its 'first century and a half' in what Walter Cronkite described as 'a dramatic story of winners and losers, gallant gentlemen and an occasional spoilsport, great yachts and real adventurers united by their relentless quest for speed under sail. Its…
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No Earthly Pole: The Search for the Truth about the Franklin Expedition 1845
- £15.00
- Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships the Erebus and the Terror, looking for the North-West Passage. Many theories have been put forward Ð and some of them, in the authorÕs…
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No Empty Chairs: The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War
- £15.00
- The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict…
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Not far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars
- £15.00
- Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and women finally won…
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Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board
- £6.00
- Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made out of ice and sawdust. And a CIA plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon ... just because. In Nuking the Moon, Vince Houghton, Historian and Curator…
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Old Touraine: The Life And History Of The Chateaux Of The Loire (2 vols)
- £45.00
- Theodore Cook's legacy from his artist mother was an early introduction to the world of paintings, sculpture and architecture. This inspired him to travel particularly in Europe and to publish authoritarian works on Old Provence, Twenty-five Great Houses of France, Leonardo da Vinci and sculpture among many others, some of…
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Oliver Cromwell
- £30.00
- From the series: Twelve English Statsmen. Frederic Harrison (1831–1923) was a lawyer and teacher, later positivist and author, who dabbled extensively in politics, education, philosophy and history. Harrison's judgements and reminiscences of other writers are found in The Choice of Books(1886), Studies in Early Victorian Literature (1895), and Tennyson, Ruskin,…
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On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
- £11.00
- As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael Ignatieff. 'This erudite and heartfelt survey reminds us that the…
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
- £25.00
- We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others - enslaved…
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One Minute to Ten: Cameron, Miliband and Clegg. Three Men, One Ambition and the Price of Power
- £8.00
- 10 PM, on the 7 May. The exit poll predicting the result of the 2015 General Election is announced. In that instant three lives are changed for ever. David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg were three very different men, from very different backgrounds. But they shared one ambition. To…
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Operation Big Ben: The Anti-V2 Spitfire Missions 1944-45 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Through Squadron histories, log books, official reports and interviews with the people who flew clipped winged Mark XVI Spitfires to dive-bomb V1 and V2 rocket sites at night in 1944; a story as fascinating as the Dam Busters raid or the Battle of Britain is at last fully told, the…
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Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- From a political cult to the heart of the Washington establishment Ð the bizarre and untold story of how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of US military deserters during the Cold War. Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in…
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Orders To Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder
- £10.00
- Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin's reign that…
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Orwell: the Authorised Biography
- £15.00
- This biography draws on a range of new sources, from a very candid letter giving evidence of Orwell's romantic attachments to other boys at Eton, to records in the India Office Library which alter the conventional view of his service in Burma.
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Orwell: the New Life
- £30.00
- Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our…
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Pale Rider, The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it Changed The World
- £12.00
- With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote…
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Palmer’s Treatise on the Church (2 vols)
- £60.00
- A Treatise on the Church of Christ: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Students in Theology, in 2 volumes
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Papers Presented to the PAST & PRESENT CONFERENCE on Literature and the Historians (1967 UCL)
- £20.00
- Papers from a conference held July 10, 1967, forcusing on literature in a historical context with seven scholarly papers presented, covering the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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Parson Austen’s Daughter
- £10.00
- Helen Ashton (1891-1958) was a respected novelist, literary biographer and physician, known for writing about Dorothy Wordsworth or Caroline Herschel. This biography of Jane Austen was first published in 1949.
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Pax (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest…
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Pax (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest…
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Portrait of a Village
- £20.00
- Illustrated with maps (on endpapers) and woodcuts by Joan Hassall.
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Portraits in Miniature and other Essays
- £15.00
- An anthology of Lytton Strachey's famous pen-portraits of various figures, in this case the likes of John Aubrey, James Boswell and six historians.
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Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
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Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
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Public Schools and the Great War: The Generation Lost
- £15.00
- The book examines the impact which the Great War had on the Public Schools and the sacrificial contribution made to the victory which came in 1918. The war consumed about a fifth of all the public schoolboys who fought, while the survivors were scarred by the loss of so many…
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Queen Mary and Others
- £20.00
- A posthumous anthology of essays by Osbert Sitwell published 5 years after his death, including some previously unpublished. Foreword by his close friend Sir Harold Acton.
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Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Saved Thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust
- £25.00
- An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own. A series of unlikely coincidences led to the appointment of Wallenberg, by…
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Realism in 20th Century Painting (World of Art)
- £12.00
- An erudite and superbly illustrated survey of a continuingly vital part of contemporary art. Realist painting has had a persistent and powerful presence in 20th-century art. This book Ð the first ever comprehensive and critical survey of the subject Ð demonstrates realism's vibrant, diverse and restlessly changing place in American…
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Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight in de Gaulle's army for the liberation of France, and trained to become a doctor and psychiatrist. His experiences as a black man under French colonial rule had a profound effect…
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Redefining Christian Britain Post-1945 Perspectives
- £15.00
- Redefining Christian Britain brings together distinguished writers from a number of fields - history, sociology, theology - to reassess the role of Christianity in Britain. This is an area that has been of increasing public debate and interest in recent years, but the debate has followed rather predictable grooves. This…
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Reformation and Catholicity
- £10.00
- Gustaf Aulén was a Swedish theologian, who became the the Bishop of Strängnäs in th Lutheran Church of Sweden. Most known for his work Christus Victor, this is his assessment of the legacy of the Reformation.
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Reformation Anglicanism: A vision for Today’s Global Communion
- £25.00
- The first in a six-volume series, Reformation Anglicanism seeks to be the go-to resource outlining the rich Reformation heritage undergirding Anglicanism, casting a clear vision for what it means to be an Anglican today.
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Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art Through the Eyes of Faith
- £40.00
- How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we understand about God and humanity by looking at the lives of artists? Striving for beauty, art also reveals what is broken. It presents us with the tremendous struggles and longings…
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Renegades: Born in the USA, a former US President and a music icon
- £40.00
- THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AND THE GIFT THAT WILL BE ON EVERY BRUCE AND BARACK FAN'S WISH LIST! Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their…
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Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks
- £23.00
- Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She considers the rebirth of the rhetorical artÑresulting from the rediscovery of complete manuscripts of high-profile ancient texts about rhetoric by Plato,…
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Robert Peel: a Biography
- £20.00
- Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our police force, which became a model for the world. He steered through the Bill which allowed Catholics to sit in Parliament. He reorganised the criminal justice system. He put…
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Rossetti His Life and Works
- £250.00
- Rossetti was Evelyn Waugh's first published book. It details the life and works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Waugh naturally offers his own critique of this magnanimous Victorian pre-raphelite. 8 b/w plates.
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Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army…
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- £20.00
- From the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life comes a celebrated biography that casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Samuel Pepys. Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he…
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- £10.00
- What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered…
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Scottish Pageant
- £15.00
- Agnes Mure Mackenzie CBE (1891-1955) was a Scottish historian and writer who wrote a 6-volume history of Scotland. Towards the end of her life she also wrote a 4-volume Scottish Pageant (oif which this was the first) presenting translated excerpts of important documents from Scottish history.
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Sea Life in Nelson’s Time
- £10.00
- Written by British Poet Laureate John Masefield in 1905, this lyrical tribute to sailors in the Age of Sail captures the grim reality of life at sea. In the clear, muscular English that made him famous, Masefield breathes life into the misery and barbarity that served as a foundation for…
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Searching for Schindler
- £25.00
- The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the dogged persistence of one of 'Schindler's Jews' were vital in bringing it to the world's attention through his Booker…
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Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed
- £9.00
- We are living in an age of heightened individualism. Success is a personal responsibility. Our culture tells us that to succeed is to be slim, rich, happy, extroverted, popular Ð flawless. The pressure to conform to this ideal has changed who we are. We have become self-obsessed. And our expectation…
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Seven Ages of Britain: The story of our nation revealed by its treasures
- £35.00
- What does the delicate beauty of the Wilton Diptych reveal about medieval Britain? How do Henry Moore's sensuous forms reflect the social upheavals of the twentieth century? Are there any similarities between the minds that produced the Bayeaux Tapestry and Gillray's satirical prints? Why do St Paul's Cathedral and the…
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Siegfried Sassoon, a Life
- £16.00
- A biography of the soldier and poet who inspired Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Thomas Hardy, among others, reconstructs the life of this twentieth-century icon in vivid detail.
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SMERSH: Stalin’s Secret Weapon: Soviet military counterintelligence in WWII
- £15.00
- SMERSH is the award-winning account of the top-secret counterintelligence organisation that dealt with Stalin's enemies from within the shadowy recesses of Soviet government. As James Bond's nemesis in Ian Fleming's novels, SMERSH and its operatives were depicted in exotic duels with 007, rather than fostering the bleak oppression and terror…
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Speaking for England: Leo, Julian and John Amery
- £25.00
- SPEAKING FOR ENGLAND is the extraordinary true story of an English political tragedy: the bizarre tale of how the son of a member of Churchill's wartime Cabinet was hanged for treason - the last British citizen to suffer that fate. John Amery had been born into a life of privilege,…
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Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West
- £12.00
- In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy introducing in Russia should do just that. But neither side knew anything about the other. The revolution…
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St Francis of Assisi
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- Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, informally named as Francesco, was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. After Mary…
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St Thomas Aquinas
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- For Chesterton, Thomas Aquinas is a man of mystery, who though born into a noble Neapolitan family chose the life of a mendicant friar. Shy and lumbering, his classmates dubbed him "the Dumb Ox". However he was to lead a revolution in Christian thought. Chesterton's portrayal will engage, enlighten and…
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Studies in Midrash and Historiography (Gospel Perspectives III)
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- Original edition of the important Tyndale House Gospels Research Project. Vol III has contributions from Richard Bauckham, F.F. Bruce, Leon Morris, Craig Blomberg, Douglas J. Moo et al.
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Studies of History and Tradition in the Four Gospels (Gospel Perspectives I)
- £16.00
- Original edition of the important Tyndale House Gospels Research Project. With contributions from F.F. Bruce, Williiam Lane Craig, Robert H. Stein et al.
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Studies of History and Tradition in the Four Gospels (Gospel Perspectives II)
- £16.00
- Original edition of the important Tyndale House Gospels Research Project. Vol II with contributions from D.A. Carson, Grant R. Osborne, William Lane Craig, et al.
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Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- £25.00
- This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways. The Clotilda docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860 Ð more than half a century after the passage of a…
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Sweet Adelaide, a Victorian Puzzle Solved
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- In 1886 Adelaide Bartlett was tried at the Old Bailey on the charge of poisoning her husband Edwin. In Sweed Adelaide Julian Symons offers an imaginative interpretation of this famous case, ending with a solution of an affair which remains a mystery. Did the adjective 'sweet' apply to Adelaide, or…
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Tales my Father Taught Me: an Evocation of Extravagant Episodes
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- SIR OSBERT SITWELL's five-volume autobiography, Left Hand, Right Hand! is accepted as one of the great literary accomplishments of our time; the work of an artist, polished, witty, brilliant; a piece of social history, full of vivid characterization of people, above and below stairs, with their graces and oddities. From…
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Testament of Youth: an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925 (SIGNED)
- £275.00
- In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of…
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The Age Of Nothing: How We Have Sought To Live Since The Death Of God
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- From one of EnglandÕs most distinguished intellectual historians comes Òan exhilarating rideÉthat will stand the test of time as a masterful account ofÓ (The Boston Globe) one of the WestÕs most important intellectual movements: Atheism. In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that ÒGod is deadÓ and ever since tens of thousands…
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The Ascent of Everest
- £25.00
- This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. 'Yet this will not be the whole story, for the ascent of Everest was not the work of…
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The Ascent of Everest (SIGNED by Hillary and Evans)
- £2,000.00
- This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. 'Yet this will not be the whole story, for the ascent of Everest was not the work of…
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The Berlin Wall Story: Biography of a Monument
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- Where did the Berlin Wall actually stand? Why was it built? How did people keep managing to escape across it? And how many died in the attempt? Why did it come down in the end? Numerous previously unknown photographs document the construction of this barrier system of barbed wire, alarm…
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The Bible Student’s The Life of Our Lord
- £40.00
- Dr. Solomon Andrews said: ÒThis book was [first] published in 1862. That it has continued in request for so many years, shows at least that it meets a want not otherwise adequately met. It has seemed to me, therefore, little less than a duty carefully to revise it, and to…
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
- £12.00
- WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times 'A gripping story of courage, professionalism, and betrayal in the secret world.' Rodric Braithwaite,…
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The Blast of War (1939-45) (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- The second volume of Macmillan's autobiography, covering the years of the Second World War, in which he participated as a senioar member of Churchill's War Cabinet. With multiple b/w photos and 4 maps (incl on endpapers)
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The Blunders of Our Governments
- £10.00
- Let us take a look back over three decades of outrageous political mishaps.A gross mistake; an error due to stupidity or carelessness. There are a handful of cock-ups that we remember all too well, from the poll tax to the Millennium Dome. However, the list is longer than most of…
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The Caliban Shore: the fate of the Grosvenor castaways (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, but she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa. An astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely, but the castaways found themselves hundreds of miles from the nearest…
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The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism
- £35.00
- The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on the third through the seventeenth centuries. The book is thematically organized in terms of the central contexts, practices and concepts associated with the mystical life in early, medieval and…
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The Cambridge Companion to Francis of Assisi
- £26.00
- Francis of Assisi (1181/82Ð1226) was one of the most vibrant and colourful personalities in the Middle Ages. The life of this remarkable reformer of the medieval Church was celebrated in art, drama, poetry, music, the new vernacular literature and architecture. His ideal was to enter into a restorative and enriching…
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The Canon Of The Old Testament
- £18.00
- Classic history of the biblical canon by J. C. Ryle's son Herbert, the noted theologian and bishop (after holding bishoprics of Exeter and Winchester, became Dean of Westminster).
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The Caxton Edition of Raemaekers’ Cartoons
- £50.00
- Louis Raemaekers (1869Ð1956) was a Dutch painter, caricaturist and editorial cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper De Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. Full colour page illustrations with commentary by a range of writers.
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The Church in Crisis: A History of the Twenty Great Councils
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- On January 25, 1959, Pope John XXIII convoked the Second Vatican Council, initiating a series of history-shaping achievements and crises. Yet, as The Church in Crisis: A History of the General Councils, 325-1870Ñpublished one year after that convocationÑillustrates, Vatican II is but one among many in that regard. Each of…
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The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret Of The Cold War
- £21.00
- The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. The Iron Curtain, a near-impenetrable barrier of wire and…
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The Civilisation Of The Renaissance In Italy: An Essay (Folio)
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- Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (Basel, May 25, 1818 Ð August 8, 1897 in Basel) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history,albeit in a form very different from how…
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The Clue to Pascal
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- Pascal was a great scientific thinker and inventor from whose work mankind still profits. He was also a great religious thinker and this is being recognised afresh today. The author of this study of his personality and work claims that Pascal was 'one of the profoundest thinkers of all time.'
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The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History, 3rd Edition
- £30.00
- Now available in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History offers an authoritative and accessible introduction to the history and enduring legacy of the Cold War. Thoroughly updated in light of new scholarship, including revised sections on President NixonÕs policies in Vietnam and…
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The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War
- £75.00
- The cultural Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was without precedent. At the outset of this original and wide-ranging historical survey, David Caute establishes the nature of the extraordinary cultural competition set up post-1945 between Moscow, New York, London and Paris, with the most intimate frontier war…
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
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- The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world--decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In spellbinding detail, Jane Mayer relates the impact of…
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The Death of a President: November 20 – November 25, 1963 (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- William Manchester's evocative history of the events surrounding the assassination and funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Working with the cooperation of the Kennedy family and top Kennedy associates, Manchester illuminates the many dimensions of the tragedy at the public and private level and constructs a vivid portrait of the…
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The Defence of the Realm: the authorized history of MI5 (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Sensationally good ... A riveting story, the real-life spooks and spies far more compelling than anything you will see on the screen ... history doesn't come more fascinating than this' Evening Standard. For over 100 years, the agents of MI5 have defended Britain against enemy subversion. Their work has remained…
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The Diary of a Country Parson
- £12.00
- Parson Woodforde's diary provides an unrivalled portrayal of traditional rural life in Georgian England, but it is the diarist's humour and unpretentiousness which ensure its continuing place among the classics of English literature.
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- When we think about history, we rarely pay much attention to the most destructive floods, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts or the ways that ecosystems have changed over time. In The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, one of the world's leading historians, shows that the natural environment is a…
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The Eighth Army: El Alamein to the River Sangro
- £65.00
- Montgomery commanded the Eighth Army from 13th August 1942 until the 31st December 1943, and the 21st Army Group from 1st January 1944 until the German surrender on 5th May, 1945. These 2 accounts (concerned with the victorious campaigns of both Armies during the periods they were under his command)…
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The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-45
- £85.00
- Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction. In almost every major…
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The Endless Web: John Dickinson & Co.Ltd. 1804-1954
- £25.00
- England can boast of a number of industrial firms whose record goes back to the Napoleonic Wars; their archives provide material for a continuous economic history of the last century and a half. John Dickinson, a 'character' of volcanic energy, first set up as a manufacturing stationer in 1804, and…
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The England of Nimrod and Surtees 1815-1854
- £10.00
- A focused history of Fox Hunting and Coaching in the limited period between Waterloo and the Crimean War. An interesting read on an element of social history that shaped English culture and society.
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The English Public School: An Irreverent and Personal History
- £13.00
- Until his retirement in 2011, Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of St Paul's School, and before that of Manchester Grammar School, two of the most academically successful independent schools in the world, bar none. As such, he is uniquely placed to write a study of that extraordinary phenomenon, the…
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The English: a portrait of a people (SIGNED)
- £24.00
- In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are? Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is…
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The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
- £14.00
- It is not uncommon to hear Christians argue that America was founded as a Christian nation. But how true is this claim? In this compact book, David L. Holmes offers a clear, concise and illuminating look at the spiritual beliefs of our founding fathers. He begins with an informative account…
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The Far Off and the Near (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sequel to Browne-Wilkinson's book Pepperell Posterity, this tells the story of 3 English families in the mid-nineteenth century connected by friendship and marriage. Several members spent years in New Zealand, and all were regarded as 'the men you can rely on for the uniform discharge of simple rural duties'.
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The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army
- £35.00
- This is a unique book to accompany an extraordinary new exhibition of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th centuries, the Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China. The Terracotta Army is evidence of the organisational power of the Qin Dynasty that unified China in 221 BC.…
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The French and their Revolution: selected writings
- £40.00
- These writings on the French Revolution discuss aspects of the revolutionary mentality in France; popular movements, popular protest and repression; and counter-revolutionary tendencies. The book includes a list of revolutionary figures, factions and historians and a revolutionary calendar.
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The General Vs. The President: MacArthur And Truman At The Brink Of Nuclear War
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- From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent…
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The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century
- £11.00
- From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States. In…
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The Gift Of Music: Great Composers And Their Influences
- £14.00
- One of the finest achievements of Western culture is its brilliant heritage of classical music. A Gift of Music looks at the lives of the greatest composers who have given us this heritage, and especially at how their music was shaped by their beliefs. The result is a remarkable and…
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The Girl in Rose: Haydn’s Last Love
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- Rebecca Schroeter was an attractive and educated Scottish heiress who always had a weakness for musicians, as they did for her. 'My dearest love', Haydn called her. 'Beautiful', 'amiable' and 'a young lady of fashion', Rebecca was also independently minded and determined. She fell for her charismatic German music master,…
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The Girl in Rose: Haydn’s Last Love
- £14.00
- Rebecca Schroeter was an attractive and educated Scottish heiress who always had a weakness for musicians, as they did for her. 'My dearest love', Haydn called her. 'Beautiful', 'amiable' and 'a young lady of fashion', Rebecca was also independently minded and determined. She fell for her charismatic German music master,…
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The Gospel Code: Novel Claims about Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Da Vinci
- £15.00
- Ben Witherington III confronts the claims of The Da Vinci Code with the sure-footedness of a New Testament scholar, yet in the plain language that any interested reader can follow. Dan Brown's international bestseller The Da Vinci Code has raised many questions in the minds of readers: Was Jesus really…
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The Grand Tour 1592-1796
- £15.00
- Generously illustrated Folio Society volume presenting an account of the Grand Tour - the 'edifying' excursion many young Englishmen took to continental europe - through the writings of a selection of authors. Many of the writers assembled here do not strictly fall within the strict definition of Grand Tourists being…
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The Great Shame (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- In The Great Shame, Thomas Keneally--the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's List--combines the authority of a brilliant historian and the narrative grace of a great novelist to present a gripping account of the Irish diaspora. The nineteenth century saw Ireland lose half of its population to famine, emigration, or…
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The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah
- £12.00
- The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in…
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The Gurneys of Earlham (2 volumes)
- £50.00
- The two-volume account of the extraordinary Quaker banking family from Norfolk that included Elizabeth Fry and the abolitionist Thomas Fowell Buxton, by famed Victorian writer Augustus Hare (1834-1903). Frontispieces and 30 illustrations.
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The Haienda: How Not To Run A Club (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's…
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The Historical Reliability of the Gospels
- £14.00
- Many people continue to believe that only a small percentage of the New Testament accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth reflect what he really said and did. The reasons for scepticism may vary over the years, but some arguments have proved remarkably persistent - for example,…
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The History Of England From The Accession Of James II (2 volumes)
- £80.00
- 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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The History Today Companion to British History
- £14.00
- Six British historians contribute to a comprehensive dictionary which not only is a reference work for events, people and places from 43 AD, but also acknowledges that history is as much about the writing of what happened as what actually did happen. It also includes information on historical concepts and…
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The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany
- £5.00
- In 2013, Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin which she had been forced to leave when the Nazis swept to power. What was once her 'soul place' now stood empty and derelict. A concrete footpath cut through the garden, marking where the Berlin Wall…
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The House of Mitford
- £10.00
- The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.' A rare glimpse of the tangled undergrowth of English snobbery, prejudice and reactionary politics' New York Times 'A fine group portrait of a truly remarkable tribe' Atlantic Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second…
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The Immortal Evening – A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb
- £14.00
- On December 28, 1817, the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon hosts what he refers to in his diaries and autobiography as the immortal dinner. He wants to introduce his young friend John Keats to the great William Wordsworth and to celebrate with his friends his progress on his most important historical…
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The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
- £20.00
- Published in 1928 when Shaw was seventy-two, this book draws on decades of political activity and remains one of his brilliant exercises in propaganda. Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, hailed the work as the world's most important book since the Bible. As a Fabian and lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic…
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The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit
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- Families are societies in miniature.' The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fame, it tells the tragic story of three generations: George, one of Australia's leading painters; his talented composer-conductor son Constant; and grandson Kit, who managed the…
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The Life and Times of ‘England’s Patriot King’ William the Fourth, with a brief memoir of HM Queen Adelaide
- £160.00
- Biography of King William IV and his Queen Adelaide, published in 1831, the year of his coronation. He would of course die in 1837, succeeded by his niece, the young Victoria.
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The Life of Charlemagne (Folio)
- £18.00
- Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts…
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The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robt Sanderson
- £50.00
- Izaak Walton is best known today for The compleat Angler (first published in 1653). He was celebrated in his lifetime for his biographies, however, with the first on John Donne published in 1640 and Bishop Sanderson in 1678 (5 years before his death). Three at least of them were anglers…
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The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers (in 3 vols)
- £150.00
- The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers chiefly written by themselves from Christopher Hopper to John Pritchard
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944. The D-Day Story
- £65.00
- Compiled from many participants' accounts, this is still the finest one-volume account of D-Day. It is the basis of Ken Annakin's well-known feature film (1962) starring John Wayne, Kenneth More and a host of other stars. With 28 plates and colour endpaper maps.
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The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
- £30.00
- *The dramatic history of Europe's shape-shifting centre, from the author of The Habsburgs* Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and misapprehensions. From the Roman Empire onwards, it has been the target of invasion from…
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The Modern Search for the Real Jesus
- £12.00
- This book examines the claims and assumptions of critical scholars in this concise survey of the historical roots of Gospels criticism from Reimarus to Bultmann and beyond.
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The Netherlands: A Study of some aspects of Art, Costume and Social Life
- £12.00
- Sacheverell Sitwell goes beyond the generic images of Holland as all museums, windmills, canals, tulips and clogs. Sitwell leads us out of museums and away from the great cities, where tourist, and their guidebooks, usually remain cloistered. By traveling outside the usual, Sitwell has discovered a new and beautiful Holland…
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The New Russia
- £20.00
- After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. PutinÕs motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, RussiaÕs elder statesman…
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The New Scriabin: Enigmas and Answers
- £35.00
- The Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, after an era of neglect and obscurity, is today appearing on concert programs with startling frequency. In response to the growing vogue, especially among younter audiences in America and Europe, the well-known writer and foremost Scriabin authoirty, Faubion Bowers has written a completely new and…
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The Old Ways
- £10.00
- The original bestseller from the beloved author of UNDERLAND, LANDMARKS and THE LOST WORDS - Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, underappreciated landscape. The Old Ways confirms Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature' Scotland…
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The Oxford Pastorate
- £20.00
- Because of the Second World War, the 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Pastorate in 1943 could not be celebrated and the publication of this book had to be postponed. The foreword was written by the then Bishop of Rochester, Christopher Chevasse.
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The Power of Geography: ten maps that reveal the future of the world
- £10.00
- Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nationÕs choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasnÕt changed. But the world has. In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age…
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The Principles Of Art (Galaxy Books)
- £10.00
- This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, magic, and amusement, each of which, by confusion with art proper, generates a…
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The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the secrets of Britain’s greatest dynasty
- £25.00
- Tracy Borman's passion for the Tudor period shines forth from the pages of this fascinatingly detailed book, which vividly illuminates what went on behind the scenes at the Tudor court.' Alison Weir 'I do not live in a corner. A thousand eyes see all I do.' Elizabeth I The Tudor…
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The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
- £15.00
- A rich family archive reveals the incredible lives and loves of two sisters who captivated EuropeÕs intelligentsia When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives of the Paget…
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The Queen’s Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth’s Court
- £15.00
- Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen's court lay Elizabeth's bedchamber, closely guarded by the favoured women who helped her dress, looked after her jewels and shared her bed. Elizabeth's private life was of public, political…
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The Re-Inherited Mind: Recovering The Judaeo-Christian Inheritance In Western Christendom
- £15.00
- In this book, Reverend Doctor Scott argues that the Judaeo-Christian tradition contains many excellent insights into what we are as human beings, which we are in grave danger of forgetting, but which we can recall to our infinite advantage if we seek to do so. The book is filled with…
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The Real Persuasion: Portrait of a real-life Jane Austen Heroine
- £10.00
- Her father is a vain, foolish baronet, obsessed with his lineage but so careless with money that he is obliged to quit his ancestral seat. Her sister is a fretful invalid with a good-natured husband and two disobedient sons. She herself falls in love with a handsome naval officer, and…
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The Retreat from Moscow: The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 1812-1813 (Folio Society)
- £16.00
- Folio edition. n June 1812, NapoleonÕs 680,000 strong Grande Arme crossed the Neman River and invaded Russia. When the remnants of Napoleon's army returned over the Berezina River in November, only 27,000 effective soldiers remained. Adrien BourgogneÕs Memoirs is one of the most vivid and moving accounts of this dramatic…
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The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
- £30.00
- Moiss Nam's The Revenge of Power is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world. In his bestselling book The…
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The Rise of Moralism: The Proclamation of the Gospel from Hooker to Baxter
- £40.00
- During the seventeenth century, a remarkable change took place in Anglican theology. FitzSimons Allison describes a unique consensus that emerged in the century's early years through the labors of such seminal theologians as Hooker, Andrewes, Donne, and Davanant. Their difficult task was to outline an English theology to be distinguished…
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The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
- £18.00
- Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and flawed. Why are we so afraid of it? Time and again, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher levels of cunning, malevolence…
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The Secret World: a history of Intelligence (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Almost every page includes a sizzling historical titbit ... captivating, insightful and masterly' (Edward Lucas, The Times) The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The first mention of espionage in world literature is…
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The Shadow of Vesuvius: Pompeii AD 79 (Folio)
- £40.00
- A detailed and comprehensive study of the discovery of the remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the eighteenth century. With chapters on the volcano itself, discoveries and the reawakening of the story, the Romantics, science and methodology, the stones of Pompeii, and more. Written by Walter Raleigh Trevelyan, a British…
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The Shoulders of Giants: A History of Human Flight to 1919
- £20.00
- Between the mythical flights of Icarus and Daedalus and the establishment of the airplane as practical transportation lie centuries of inspired failure and dogged technological advancement. The Shoulders of Giants brings to life this long and colorful history of humanity's quest for flight.
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The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- April 30, 1980. Six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy in London, taking 26 people hostage. A tense six-day siege ensued as millions gathered around screens across the country to witness the longest news flash in British history. Six days in which police negotiators and psychiatrists sought a…
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The Solitary Spy: A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin
- £13.00
- Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the Warsaw Pact saw air forces become the greatest danger to the West.…
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The Spencer Family (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A full insider's history of the Spencer family, from the sheep-farmers of the sixteenth century through the Civil War and then the relationship with the Marlboroughs, on through the 19th century when the third Earl was one of the architects of the 1832 Reform Bill, to recent years and the…
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The Spy and the Traitor
- £15.00
- The best true spy story I have ever read' John le Carr. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any…
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The Spy with 29 Names: The story of the Second World War’s most audacious double agent
- £10.00
- He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist…
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The Story of the Household Cavalry (vol 1)
- £100.00
- From the introduction: The chief aim of this Book will have been fulfilled if its perusal should remind those now serving in the Household Cavalry that devotion to duty, alike in peace and in war, is for them an inherited tradition - that in long bygone days, not less than…
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The Treacherous Path: An Insider’s Account of Modern Russia
- £18.00
- Tackling topics as diverse as terrorism, government intrigue and the reality of doing business in Russia, and offering unparalleled insights into the post-Soviet mindset, this is the first time that a figure with Yakunin's background has talked so openly and frankly about his country.
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The Undeclared War: The Struggle for Control of the World’s Film Industry (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- An account of the way in which Hollywood has achieved almost total sovereignty over the world's movies. It tells of a battle which has seen Hollywood establish itself as a global cultural and economic force, and in the process, devastate the national industries of many other countries.
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The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
- £20.00
- Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' Ð Sunday Times. Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America:…
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The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-century England
- £25.00
- The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents, which paint an extraordinarily accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies."To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes…
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The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
- £12.00
- The book Politico calls ÒMoneyball for politicsÓ shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign. Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called wise men and replacing them with a radical new data-driven order. WeÕve seen it in…
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The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution
- £15.00
- At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and organised and minuted by Adolf Eichmann, it brought together representatives of all the principal Nazi agencies in…
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The Wanderer of Liverpool
- £10.00
- Masefield's classic retelling of the story of The Wanderer, a Liverpool-built barque that was wrecked in the Elbe estuary in 1907. Incl poems at end.
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The Wandering Scholars
- £24.00
- Helen Waddell (31 May 1889 Ð 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal. was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was lecturing in the Imperial University. She spent…
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The War On Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe
- £12.00
- The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. R. I. Moore's vivid narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen? And…
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The Witch Ð A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
- £16.00
- Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in EuropeÕs history "Traces the idea of witches far beyond the Salem witch trials to beliefs and attitudes about witches around the world throughout history.Ó_Los Angeles Times. The witch came to…
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The Work We Have To Do: A History Of Protestants In America
- £7.00
- A readable, far-reaching history of a multi-denominational, multi-regional, and multi-ethnic religious group, Protestants in America explores the physical and ideological roots of the denomination up to the present day, and traces the origins of American Protestants all the way back to the first English colony at Jamestown. The book covers…
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The World after the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
- £15.00
- One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments. Instead the two allies improvised an uneasy, shifting partnership for twelve long years while most of western Europe lay…
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
- £20.00
- From the author of No.1 international bestseller Collapse, a mesmerizing portrait of the human past that offers profound lessons for how we can live today Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs…
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Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC: Macbeth to Matilda
- £80.00
- This book discusses an exciting laboratory that has been developing the practice of theatre music composition and sound design since 1961: the Royal Shakespeare Company. Musical practices have evolved as composers and musical directors inherited from the past and innovated with new technology; different interpretations of single plays in multiple…
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They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
- £15.00
- From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story of Britain's Special Operations Executive, one of World War II's most important secret fighting forces. As far as the public knew, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army…
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They Were Pilgrims
- £15.00
- A small collection of biographical sketches of pioneering missionaries (originally published 1970): David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Ion Keith-Falconer.
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Tour de France
- £15.00
- An anthology of essays by the renowned Oxford professor of history, about the France that was his lifelong passion.
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Two Lives (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But…
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Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century was Reported
- £18.00
- Informative, amusing, sometimes shocking' Ð Giles Foden, The Guardian A critical examination of the British press over the last century, from legendary foreign correspondent John Simpson. Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism across the globe, John Simpson has become one of the most recognisable and trusted British reporters. In Unreliable…
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Unruly (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in…
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Van Gogh: From the Early Gloom-laden Paintings to the Works of His Final Years
- £20.00
- Vincent Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man. This study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, to the work of his final…
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Venice
- £300.00
- Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its…
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Venice: the most triumphant city
- £10.00
- Bull was a multi-talented and accomplished journalist, translator and art historian. This account of Venice was widely-regarded.
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Vermeer’s Family Secrets
- £35.00
- Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art:…
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Victoria: A Life
- £25.00
- When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff…
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- £40.00
- How can one European capital be responsible for most of the WestÕs intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens_every aspect of our…
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Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America
- £25.00
- Walt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements, craft, and whimsy. ItÕs a pedestrianÕs world, where the streets are clean, the employees are friendly, and the trains run on time. All of its elements are themed, presented in a consistent architectural, decorative, horticultural, musical, even olfactory tone,…
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Voices by the Sea: the story of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir
- £12.00
- In 1947, when the UK was deep in the throes of post-war austerity, that the concept of the Aldeburgh festival was first conceived. The prime movers were the singer Peter Pears, the librettist Eric Crozier, and above all, the composer Benjamin Britten.
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War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
- £20.00
- War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in the North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, but his publisher over-ruled…
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What does Jeremy Think? The Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain
- £11.00
- Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: ÒIt wouldnÕt have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around.Ó É How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become reliant on a single man?Õ Guardian ÔThis book should be read in a similar spirit to MantelÕs masterpieces…
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What They Heard: How The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Bob Dylan Listened to Each Other
- £12.00
- They were the artists who revolutionised popular music and took it to new levels of originality and influence. But they didnÕt do it in a bubble. In fact, The Beatles, Beach Boys and Bob Dylan remade modern music by listening to each other, and using what they heard to drive…
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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
- £25.00
- A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war. At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers…
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William de Morgan and his wife
- £40.00
- William and Evelyn de Morgan were very influential in the cultural life of late Victorian London - he was a ceramicist and writer; she a pre-Raphaelite painter and suffrage-supporter. This biography was written by Evelyn's sister, Anna Marie Willhelmina Stirling.
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William III (Brief Lives)
- £22.00
- In Collins' Brief Lives series, Oxford historian succinctly accounts for the life of William III, who reigned with his wife Mary from 1689-1702.
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Wine in Peace and War
- £190.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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Wine in Peace and War
- £200.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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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 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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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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Humour: its theory and technique. A book of discovery
- £50.00
- Stephen Butler Leacock FRSC (1869Ð1944) was a British-Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. This book was a distillation of his understanding and insights into comedy.
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Identity of England
- £20.00
- The English are now in need of a new sense of home and belonging, and a re-assessment of who they are. This is a history of who they were, with present needs in mind. It begins by considering how the English state created an English nation which from very early…
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Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague
- £12.00
- A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as Ôcompletely and utterly marvellousÕ. ÔPainting É exists and exults in immortal thoughtsÕ William Blake. In 2020, as the spread of Covid-19 causes pandemonium worldwide, an elderly artist returns to his childhood…
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Immortality: the quest to live forever
- £9.00
- Who wants to live forever? According to Stephen Cave, we all do - every single one of us. And the evidence is all around. Eluding the Grim Reaper is humanity's oldest and most pervasive wish. It is embedded in our very nature and provides the real driving force behind every…
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In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent
- £35.00
- This is a comprehensive study of Germany's relationship with Europe since the Second World War. Garton Ash explores, in considerable detail, the division of Germany and the various initiatives -diplomatic, ideological and political, that emerged since 1945 to reconcile and unite East and West Germany. He also examines Germany's key…
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In The Enemy’s House
- £21.00
- In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lampshere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet…
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Introduction to Cambridge
- £11.00
- Introductory guide to the University of Cambridge; 9 b/w photographic plates; 1 pull-out map.
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Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and an acute observer of American life and history, turns his literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In "Inventing a Nation", Vidal transports the reader into the…
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Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You’ve Always Wanted to Read
- £40.00
- Practically a classic itself, Invitation to the Classics is a popular guide to those great works of literature that you always meant to read. Full color and engaging, this book is a gateway to the fulfilling pursuit of understanding our culture by exploring its most enduring writings. "These sparkling essays…
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Iran: A People Interrupted
- £15.00
- Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh, provocative and iconoclastic," Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-;handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies. In this provocative and unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi_the internationally renowned cultural…
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J.S. Bach’s Great Eighteen Organ Chorales
- £40.00
- In lucid and engaging style, Stinson explores Bach's 'Great Eighteen' Organ Chorales - among Bach's most celebrated works for organ - from a wide range of historical and analytical perspectives, including the models used by Bach in conceiving the individual pieces, his subsequent compilation of these works into a collection,…
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John Aubrey and his Friends
- £30.00
- This is a portrait of John Aubrey, one of Britain's greatest eccentrics and authors by one of Britain's greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Best known for his "Brief Lives", Aubrey was a man interested in everything from mathematics to folklore and from heraldry to horticulture. This study of Aubrey's…
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John Charles Ryle (1816-1900), a short biography
- £6.00
- Written by Sir Marcus Loane, who would go on to be Archbishop of Sydney, this brief biography tells the story of J. C. Ryle, first bishop of Liverpool and pioneering evangelical Anglican of the Victorian era.
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Johnson at 10
- £40.00
- Excellent... first class... both fair and damning.' Daniel Finkelstein, The Times 'Authoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer 'Invaluable' New Statesman 'Explosive' Isabel Hardman, The i. After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period…
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Journey Down A Rainbow
- £30.00
- Mr & Mrs Priestley visited the American South-West in the late autumn of 1954 with a set purpose: to observe and reflect upon man, as a social animal (i) in primitive society, a form of which still persists in New Mexico, (ii) in the booming technocracy of mid-twentieth century Texas.…
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Kathleen and Frank
- £15.00
- This is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents – their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father’s death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well…
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Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain's history, Parliament had overpowered King Charles I and now faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of…
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King Charles Preserved: an account of his escape after the Battle of Worcester
- £25.00
- An account of the Preservation of King Charles II, after the Battle of Worcester, Drawn up by Himself - was dictated by the King to Samuel Pepys who recorded it in the cipher in which he kept his own Diary. The manuscript, with others, was presented by Pepys to Magdalene…
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Land at War, The Official Story Of British Farming, 1939 – 1944
- £45.00
- An account of British agriculture during the Second World War, written by renowned writer Laurie Lee, as part of his role as Publications Editor for the UK's Ministry of Information. This was his first published book. Many b/w photographs & diagrams.
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Lascaux and Carnac
- £25.00
- A well-known British Archaeologist on the painted caves in various places in France as well as the magalithic monuments near Carnac in Brittany. Described by the author as 'a light gossipy guide to some aspects of the gastro-archaeology of France.'
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
- £25.00
- Read this prize-winning historianÕs ÒimmersiveÓ ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism. They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s,…
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Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy
- £15.00
- Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. This book identifies six types of lust with which leaders are linked:…
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Biography
- £15.00
- Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, heÕs simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable manÕ Books of the Year - The Times He was historyÕs most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo…
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Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
- £10.00
- This classic gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues…
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Little History of Music (Little Histories)
- £20.00
- Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest…
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Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa with their Letters
- £250.00
- The History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa (comprising a period of 84 years) from 1079 to 1163) with their genuine Letters from the collection of Amboise (second edition)
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Logo Rewind: Trademarks of Medieval Norwich
- £40.00
- Logo Rewind is a fascinating and uniquely enriching source of inspiration for modern designers and provides a treasure trove for anyone interested in UK history, students of history and design, creatives, and the contemporary design community more broadly, both nationally and internationally. The book includes introductions and essays by Jens…
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Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche
- £18.00
- The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and 'Love Me Do', the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day - Friday, 5…
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The BelgicaÕs Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- £9.00
- The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter. August 1897: The Belgica set sail, eager to become the first scientific expedition to reach the white wilderness of the…
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Manhattan ’45
- £25.00
- In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel writer and historian…
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Marx and Engels’ ‘Communist Manifesto’: A Reader’s Guide
- £20.00
- Introducing the most famous work of the nineteenth-century radical thinkers Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, this comprehensive reader's guide to the Communist Manifesto explores the key themes, ideas and issues of the revolutionary pamphlet. Beginning with a discussion of the intellectual, political and social context of the Manifesto, the Reader's…
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Marxism vs Liberalism – an Interview
- £25.00
- Interview of Stalin by Wells conducted July 23, 1934 in Moscow. Introduction by Granville Hicks.
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Mary Slessor of Calabar, pioneer missionary
- £15.00
- A pioneering woman missionary hailing from Aberdeen in Scotland, Mary Slessor's journey to Nigeria set an example to all Christian missions; she gained the trust, respect and thanks of the local peoples, and introduced the gospel of Christ. Most notably from a social viewpoint, Slessor managed to convince the Ibibio…
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Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (Translation From The Latin, And Biographical Notes)
- £18.00
- Helen Waddell (31 May 1889 Ð 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal. was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was lecturing in the Imperial University. She spent…
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Memoir of Henry Venn
- £15.00
- Henry Venn was the grandson of the Henry Venn of Clapham Sect fame and a follower in his footsteps; a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral and honorary secretary of the Church Missionary Society. First published in 1880 without the appendix, this memoir includes selections from Venn's letters and journal.
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Memories of Bygone Eton
- £30.00
- Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt (1851-1939) was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist.…
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Meredith
- £20.00
- The great war poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) turned his attention to the great Victorian man of letters George Meredith (who had been nominated for the Nobel Literature prize 7 times).
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Meredith
- £25.00
- The great war poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) turned his attention to the great Victorian man of letters George Meredith (who had been nominated for the Nobel Literature prize 7 times).
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Meredith
- £25.00
- The great war poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) turned his attention to the great Victorian man of letters George Meredith (who had been nominated for the Nobel Literature prize 7 times).
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MI5: British Security Service Operations 1909-1945
- £20.00
- Nigel West is the nom de plume of former MP, Rupert Allason, under which he has written many books on espionage and the Cold War.
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Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot
- £25.00
- A fresh and engaging account of the life of the great English poet and pamphleteer John Milton. For centuries John Milton, author of Paradise Lost and many other poetic works, and of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce and political rights, has emerged from biographies as a woman-hating domestic tyrant…
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Morning, Noon and Night in London
- £16.00
- These slight pages are an invitation to walk with Mr. Sitwell along the pavements and into the music-halls of London upon an August afternoon and evening of the eighteen-sixties. A fantasy begun while London was being daily and nightly blitzed and bombed, and a tribute, therefore, to the eternal London.…
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Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the First World War (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The popular view of the First World War remains that of 'Blackadder': incompetent generals sending our soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up. Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to…
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Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1600
- £30.00
- In the years following the Act of Uniformity in 1549, musicians seemed to thrive on the challenge of the New Prayer Book, and the successive reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I bought a rich and varied repertory of vernacular church music. Peter Le Huray traces these developments…
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Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women
- £20.00
- A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the 'Mutual Admiration Society.' Brilliant, bold, serious, and funny,…
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My Old Man: a Personal History of Music Hall
- £20.00
- Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall. Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, but patriotic and champion of the…
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Never Give In! Winston Churchill’s Finest Speeches (SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Winston Churchill 'mobilized the English language and sent it into battle'. President John F. Kennedy conferring Honorary US Citizenship, April 1963 'This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by…
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New York Yacht Club 1844-1994 (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- A history of the prestigious New York Yacht Club covering its 'first century and a half' in what Walter Cronkite described as 'a dramatic story of winners and losers, gallant gentlemen and an occasional spoilsport, great yachts and real adventurers united by their relentless quest for speed under sail. Its…
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No Earthly Pole: The Search for the Truth about the Franklin Expedition 1845
- £15.00
- Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships the Erebus and the Terror, looking for the North-West Passage. Many theories have been put forward Ð and some of them, in the authorÕs…
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No Empty Chairs: The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War
- £15.00
- The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict…
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Not far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars
- £15.00
- Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and women finally won…
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Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board
- £6.00
- Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made out of ice and sawdust. And a CIA plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon ... just because. In Nuking the Moon, Vince Houghton, Historian and Curator…
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Old Touraine: The Life And History Of The Chateaux Of The Loire (2 vols)
- £45.00
- Theodore Cook's legacy from his artist mother was an early introduction to the world of paintings, sculpture and architecture. This inspired him to travel particularly in Europe and to publish authoritarian works on Old Provence, Twenty-five Great Houses of France, Leonardo da Vinci and sculpture among many others, some of…
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Oliver Cromwell
- £30.00
- From the series: Twelve English Statsmen. Frederic Harrison (1831–1923) was a lawyer and teacher, later positivist and author, who dabbled extensively in politics, education, philosophy and history. Harrison's judgements and reminiscences of other writers are found in The Choice of Books(1886), Studies in Early Victorian Literature (1895), and Tennyson, Ruskin,…
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On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
- £11.00
- As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael Ignatieff. 'This erudite and heartfelt survey reminds us that the…
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
- £25.00
- We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others - enslaved…
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One Minute to Ten: Cameron, Miliband and Clegg. Three Men, One Ambition and the Price of Power
- £8.00
- 10 PM, on the 7 May. The exit poll predicting the result of the 2015 General Election is announced. In that instant three lives are changed for ever. David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg were three very different men, from very different backgrounds. But they shared one ambition. To…
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Operation Big Ben: The Anti-V2 Spitfire Missions 1944-45 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Through Squadron histories, log books, official reports and interviews with the people who flew clipped winged Mark XVI Spitfires to dive-bomb V1 and V2 rocket sites at night in 1944; a story as fascinating as the Dam Busters raid or the Battle of Britain is at last fully told, the…
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Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- From a political cult to the heart of the Washington establishment Ð the bizarre and untold story of how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of US military deserters during the Cold War. Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in…
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Orders To Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder
- £10.00
- Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin's reign that…
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Orwell: the Authorised Biography
- £15.00
- This biography draws on a range of new sources, from a very candid letter giving evidence of Orwell's romantic attachments to other boys at Eton, to records in the India Office Library which alter the conventional view of his service in Burma.
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Orwell: the New Life
- £30.00
- Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our…
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Pale Rider, The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it Changed The World
- £12.00
- With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote…
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Palmer’s Treatise on the Church (2 vols)
- £60.00
- A Treatise on the Church of Christ: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Students in Theology, in 2 volumes
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Papers Presented to the PAST & PRESENT CONFERENCE on Literature and the Historians (1967 UCL)
- £20.00
- Papers from a conference held July 10, 1967, forcusing on literature in a historical context with seven scholarly papers presented, covering the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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Parson Austen’s Daughter
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- Helen Ashton (1891-1958) was a respected novelist, literary biographer and physician, known for writing about Dorothy Wordsworth or Caroline Herschel. This biography of Jane Austen was first published in 1949.
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Pax (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest…
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Pax (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness. The Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest…
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Portrait of a Village
- £20.00
- Illustrated with maps (on endpapers) and woodcuts by Joan Hassall.
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Portraits in Miniature and other Essays
- £15.00
- An anthology of Lytton Strachey's famous pen-portraits of various figures, in this case the likes of John Aubrey, James Boswell and six historians.
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Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
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Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
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Public Schools and the Great War: The Generation Lost
- £15.00
- The book examines the impact which the Great War had on the Public Schools and the sacrificial contribution made to the victory which came in 1918. The war consumed about a fifth of all the public schoolboys who fought, while the survivors were scarred by the loss of so many…
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Queen Mary and Others
- £20.00
- A posthumous anthology of essays by Osbert Sitwell published 5 years after his death, including some previously unpublished. Foreword by his close friend Sir Harold Acton.
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Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Saved Thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust
- £25.00
- An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own. A series of unlikely coincidences led to the appointment of Wallenberg, by…
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Realism in 20th Century Painting (World of Art)
- £12.00
- An erudite and superbly illustrated survey of a continuingly vital part of contemporary art. Realist painting has had a persistent and powerful presence in 20th-century art. This book Ð the first ever comprehensive and critical survey of the subject Ð demonstrates realism's vibrant, diverse and restlessly changing place in American…
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Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight in de Gaulle's army for the liberation of France, and trained to become a doctor and psychiatrist. His experiences as a black man under French colonial rule had a profound effect…
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Redefining Christian Britain Post-1945 Perspectives
- £15.00
- Redefining Christian Britain brings together distinguished writers from a number of fields - history, sociology, theology - to reassess the role of Christianity in Britain. This is an area that has been of increasing public debate and interest in recent years, but the debate has followed rather predictable grooves. This…
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Reformation and Catholicity
- £10.00
- Gustaf Aulén was a Swedish theologian, who became the the Bishop of Strängnäs in th Lutheran Church of Sweden. Most known for his work Christus Victor, this is his assessment of the legacy of the Reformation.
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Reformation Anglicanism: A vision for Today’s Global Communion
- £25.00
- The first in a six-volume series, Reformation Anglicanism seeks to be the go-to resource outlining the rich Reformation heritage undergirding Anglicanism, casting a clear vision for what it means to be an Anglican today.
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Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art Through the Eyes of Faith
- £40.00
- How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we understand about God and humanity by looking at the lives of artists? Striving for beauty, art also reveals what is broken. It presents us with the tremendous struggles and longings…
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Renegades: Born in the USA, a former US President and a music icon
- £40.00
- THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AND THE GIFT THAT WILL BE ON EVERY BRUCE AND BARACK FAN'S WISH LIST! Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their…
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Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks
- £23.00
- Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She considers the rebirth of the rhetorical artÑresulting from the rediscovery of complete manuscripts of high-profile ancient texts about rhetoric by Plato,…
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Robert Peel: a Biography
- £20.00
- Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our police force, which became a model for the world. He steered through the Bill which allowed Catholics to sit in Parliament. He reorganised the criminal justice system. He put…
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Rossetti His Life and Works
- £250.00
- Rossetti was Evelyn Waugh's first published book. It details the life and works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Waugh naturally offers his own critique of this magnanimous Victorian pre-raphelite. 8 b/w plates.
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Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army…
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- £20.00
- From the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life comes a celebrated biography that casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Samuel Pepys. Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he…
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- £10.00
- What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered…
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Scottish Pageant
- £15.00
- Agnes Mure Mackenzie CBE (1891-1955) was a Scottish historian and writer who wrote a 6-volume history of Scotland. Towards the end of her life she also wrote a 4-volume Scottish Pageant (oif which this was the first) presenting translated excerpts of important documents from Scottish history.
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Sea Life in Nelson’s Time
- £10.00
- Written by British Poet Laureate John Masefield in 1905, this lyrical tribute to sailors in the Age of Sail captures the grim reality of life at sea. In the clear, muscular English that made him famous, Masefield breathes life into the misery and barbarity that served as a foundation for…
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Searching for Schindler
- £25.00
- The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the dogged persistence of one of 'Schindler's Jews' were vital in bringing it to the world's attention through his Booker…
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Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed
- £9.00
- We are living in an age of heightened individualism. Success is a personal responsibility. Our culture tells us that to succeed is to be slim, rich, happy, extroverted, popular Ð flawless. The pressure to conform to this ideal has changed who we are. We have become self-obsessed. And our expectation…
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Seven Ages of Britain: The story of our nation revealed by its treasures
- £35.00
- What does the delicate beauty of the Wilton Diptych reveal about medieval Britain? How do Henry Moore's sensuous forms reflect the social upheavals of the twentieth century? Are there any similarities between the minds that produced the Bayeaux Tapestry and Gillray's satirical prints? Why do St Paul's Cathedral and the…
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Siegfried Sassoon, a Life
- £16.00
- A biography of the soldier and poet who inspired Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Thomas Hardy, among others, reconstructs the life of this twentieth-century icon in vivid detail.
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SMERSH: Stalin’s Secret Weapon: Soviet military counterintelligence in WWII
- £15.00
- SMERSH is the award-winning account of the top-secret counterintelligence organisation that dealt with Stalin's enemies from within the shadowy recesses of Soviet government. As James Bond's nemesis in Ian Fleming's novels, SMERSH and its operatives were depicted in exotic duels with 007, rather than fostering the bleak oppression and terror…
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Speaking for England: Leo, Julian and John Amery
- £25.00
- SPEAKING FOR ENGLAND is the extraordinary true story of an English political tragedy: the bizarre tale of how the son of a member of Churchill's wartime Cabinet was hanged for treason - the last British citizen to suffer that fate. John Amery had been born into a life of privilege,…
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Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West
- £12.00
- In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy introducing in Russia should do just that. But neither side knew anything about the other. The revolution…
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St Francis of Assisi
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- Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, informally named as Francesco, was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. After Mary…
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St Thomas Aquinas
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- For Chesterton, Thomas Aquinas is a man of mystery, who though born into a noble Neapolitan family chose the life of a mendicant friar. Shy and lumbering, his classmates dubbed him "the Dumb Ox". However he was to lead a revolution in Christian thought. Chesterton's portrayal will engage, enlighten and…
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Studies in Midrash and Historiography (Gospel Perspectives III)
- £16.00
- Original edition of the important Tyndale House Gospels Research Project. Vol III has contributions from Richard Bauckham, F.F. Bruce, Leon Morris, Craig Blomberg, Douglas J. Moo et al.
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Studies of History and Tradition in the Four Gospels (Gospel Perspectives I)
- £16.00
- Original edition of the important Tyndale House Gospels Research Project. With contributions from F.F. Bruce, Williiam Lane Craig, Robert H. Stein et al.
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Studies of History and Tradition in the Four Gospels (Gospel Perspectives II)
- £16.00
- Original edition of the important Tyndale House Gospels Research Project. Vol II with contributions from D.A. Carson, Grant R. Osborne, William Lane Craig, et al.
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Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- £25.00
- This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways. The Clotilda docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860 Ð more than half a century after the passage of a…
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Sweet Adelaide, a Victorian Puzzle Solved
- £10.00
- In 1886 Adelaide Bartlett was tried at the Old Bailey on the charge of poisoning her husband Edwin. In Sweed Adelaide Julian Symons offers an imaginative interpretation of this famous case, ending with a solution of an affair which remains a mystery. Did the adjective 'sweet' apply to Adelaide, or…
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Tales my Father Taught Me: an Evocation of Extravagant Episodes
- £20.00
- SIR OSBERT SITWELL's five-volume autobiography, Left Hand, Right Hand! is accepted as one of the great literary accomplishments of our time; the work of an artist, polished, witty, brilliant; a piece of social history, full of vivid characterization of people, above and below stairs, with their graces and oddities. From…
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Testament of Youth: an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925 (SIGNED)
- £275.00
- In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of…
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The Age Of Nothing: How We Have Sought To Live Since The Death Of God
- £15.00
- From one of EnglandÕs most distinguished intellectual historians comes Òan exhilarating rideÉthat will stand the test of time as a masterful account ofÓ (The Boston Globe) one of the WestÕs most important intellectual movements: Atheism. In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that ÒGod is deadÓ and ever since tens of thousands…
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The Ascent of Everest
- £25.00
- This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. 'Yet this will not be the whole story, for the ascent of Everest was not the work of…
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The Ascent of Everest (SIGNED by Hillary and Evans)
- £2,000.00
- This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. 'Yet this will not be the whole story, for the ascent of Everest was not the work of…
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The Berlin Wall Story: Biography of a Monument
- £15.00
- Where did the Berlin Wall actually stand? Why was it built? How did people keep managing to escape across it? And how many died in the attempt? Why did it come down in the end? Numerous previously unknown photographs document the construction of this barrier system of barbed wire, alarm…
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The Bible Student’s The Life of Our Lord
- £40.00
- Dr. Solomon Andrews said: ÒThis book was [first] published in 1862. That it has continued in request for so many years, shows at least that it meets a want not otherwise adequately met. It has seemed to me, therefore, little less than a duty carefully to revise it, and to…
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
- £12.00
- WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times 'A gripping story of courage, professionalism, and betrayal in the secret world.' Rodric Braithwaite,…
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The Blast of War (1939-45) (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- The second volume of Macmillan's autobiography, covering the years of the Second World War, in which he participated as a senioar member of Churchill's War Cabinet. With multiple b/w photos and 4 maps (incl on endpapers)
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The Blunders of Our Governments
- £10.00
- Let us take a look back over three decades of outrageous political mishaps.A gross mistake; an error due to stupidity or carelessness. There are a handful of cock-ups that we remember all too well, from the poll tax to the Millennium Dome. However, the list is longer than most of…
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The Caliban Shore: the fate of the Grosvenor castaways (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, but she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa. An astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely, but the castaways found themselves hundreds of miles from the nearest…
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The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism
- £35.00
- The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on the third through the seventeenth centuries. The book is thematically organized in terms of the central contexts, practices and concepts associated with the mystical life in early, medieval and…
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The Cambridge Companion to Francis of Assisi
- £26.00
- Francis of Assisi (1181/82Ð1226) was one of the most vibrant and colourful personalities in the Middle Ages. The life of this remarkable reformer of the medieval Church was celebrated in art, drama, poetry, music, the new vernacular literature and architecture. His ideal was to enter into a restorative and enriching…
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The Canon Of The Old Testament
- £18.00
- Classic history of the biblical canon by J. C. Ryle's son Herbert, the noted theologian and bishop (after holding bishoprics of Exeter and Winchester, became Dean of Westminster).
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The Caxton Edition of Raemaekers’ Cartoons
- £50.00
- Louis Raemaekers (1869Ð1956) was a Dutch painter, caricaturist and editorial cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper De Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. Full colour page illustrations with commentary by a range of writers.
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The Church in Crisis: A History of the Twenty Great Councils
- £22.00
- On January 25, 1959, Pope John XXIII convoked the Second Vatican Council, initiating a series of history-shaping achievements and crises. Yet, as The Church in Crisis: A History of the General Councils, 325-1870Ñpublished one year after that convocationÑillustrates, Vatican II is but one among many in that regard. Each of…
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The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret Of The Cold War
- £21.00
- The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. The Iron Curtain, a near-impenetrable barrier of wire and…
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The Civilisation Of The Renaissance In Italy: An Essay (Folio)
- £24.00
- Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (Basel, May 25, 1818 Ð August 8, 1897 in Basel) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history,albeit in a form very different from how…
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The Clue to Pascal
- £10.00
- Pascal was a great scientific thinker and inventor from whose work mankind still profits. He was also a great religious thinker and this is being recognised afresh today. The author of this study of his personality and work claims that Pascal was 'one of the profoundest thinkers of all time.'
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The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History, 3rd Edition
- £30.00
- Now available in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History offers an authoritative and accessible introduction to the history and enduring legacy of the Cold War. Thoroughly updated in light of new scholarship, including revised sections on President NixonÕs policies in Vietnam and…
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The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War
- £75.00
- The cultural Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was without precedent. At the outset of this original and wide-ranging historical survey, David Caute establishes the nature of the extraordinary cultural competition set up post-1945 between Moscow, New York, London and Paris, with the most intimate frontier war…
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
- £18.00
- The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world--decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In spellbinding detail, Jane Mayer relates the impact of…
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The Death of a President: November 20 – November 25, 1963 (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- William Manchester's evocative history of the events surrounding the assassination and funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Working with the cooperation of the Kennedy family and top Kennedy associates, Manchester illuminates the many dimensions of the tragedy at the public and private level and constructs a vivid portrait of the…
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The Defence of the Realm: the authorized history of MI5 (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Sensationally good ... A riveting story, the real-life spooks and spies far more compelling than anything you will see on the screen ... history doesn't come more fascinating than this' Evening Standard. For over 100 years, the agents of MI5 have defended Britain against enemy subversion. Their work has remained…
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The Diary of a Country Parson
- £12.00
- Parson Woodforde's diary provides an unrivalled portrayal of traditional rural life in Georgian England, but it is the diarist's humour and unpretentiousness which ensure its continuing place among the classics of English literature.
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- When we think about history, we rarely pay much attention to the most destructive floods, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts or the ways that ecosystems have changed over time. In The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, one of the world's leading historians, shows that the natural environment is a…
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The Eighth Army: El Alamein to the River Sangro
- £65.00
- Montgomery commanded the Eighth Army from 13th August 1942 until the 31st December 1943, and the 21st Army Group from 1st January 1944 until the German surrender on 5th May, 1945. These 2 accounts (concerned with the victorious campaigns of both Armies during the periods they were under his command)…
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The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-45
- £85.00
- Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction. In almost every major…
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The Endless Web: John Dickinson & Co.Ltd. 1804-1954
- £25.00
- England can boast of a number of industrial firms whose record goes back to the Napoleonic Wars; their archives provide material for a continuous economic history of the last century and a half. John Dickinson, a 'character' of volcanic energy, first set up as a manufacturing stationer in 1804, and…
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The England of Nimrod and Surtees 1815-1854
- £10.00
- A focused history of Fox Hunting and Coaching in the limited period between Waterloo and the Crimean War. An interesting read on an element of social history that shaped English culture and society.
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The English Public School: An Irreverent and Personal History
- £13.00
- Until his retirement in 2011, Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of St Paul's School, and before that of Manchester Grammar School, two of the most academically successful independent schools in the world, bar none. As such, he is uniquely placed to write a study of that extraordinary phenomenon, the…
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The English: a portrait of a people (SIGNED)
- £24.00
- In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are? Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is…
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The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
- £14.00
- It is not uncommon to hear Christians argue that America was founded as a Christian nation. But how true is this claim? In this compact book, David L. Holmes offers a clear, concise and illuminating look at the spiritual beliefs of our founding fathers. He begins with an informative account…
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The Far Off and the Near (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sequel to Browne-Wilkinson's book Pepperell Posterity, this tells the story of 3 English families in the mid-nineteenth century connected by friendship and marriage. Several members spent years in New Zealand, and all were regarded as 'the men you can rely on for the uniform discharge of simple rural duties'.
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The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army
- £35.00
- This is a unique book to accompany an extraordinary new exhibition of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th centuries, the Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China. The Terracotta Army is evidence of the organisational power of the Qin Dynasty that unified China in 221 BC.…
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The French and their Revolution: selected writings
- £40.00
- These writings on the French Revolution discuss aspects of the revolutionary mentality in France; popular movements, popular protest and repression; and counter-revolutionary tendencies. The book includes a list of revolutionary figures, factions and historians and a revolutionary calendar.
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The General Vs. The President: MacArthur And Truman At The Brink Of Nuclear War
- £12.00
- From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent…
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The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century
- £11.00
- From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States. In…
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The Gift Of Music: Great Composers And Their Influences
- £14.00
- One of the finest achievements of Western culture is its brilliant heritage of classical music. A Gift of Music looks at the lives of the greatest composers who have given us this heritage, and especially at how their music was shaped by their beliefs. The result is a remarkable and…
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The Girl in Rose: Haydn’s Last Love
- £14.00
- Rebecca Schroeter was an attractive and educated Scottish heiress who always had a weakness for musicians, as they did for her. 'My dearest love', Haydn called her. 'Beautiful', 'amiable' and 'a young lady of fashion', Rebecca was also independently minded and determined. She fell for her charismatic German music master,…
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The Girl in Rose: Haydn’s Last Love
- £14.00
- Rebecca Schroeter was an attractive and educated Scottish heiress who always had a weakness for musicians, as they did for her. 'My dearest love', Haydn called her. 'Beautiful', 'amiable' and 'a young lady of fashion', Rebecca was also independently minded and determined. She fell for her charismatic German music master,…
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The Gospel Code: Novel Claims about Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Da Vinci
- £15.00
- Ben Witherington III confronts the claims of The Da Vinci Code with the sure-footedness of a New Testament scholar, yet in the plain language that any interested reader can follow. Dan Brown's international bestseller The Da Vinci Code has raised many questions in the minds of readers: Was Jesus really…
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The Grand Tour 1592-1796
- £15.00
- Generously illustrated Folio Society volume presenting an account of the Grand Tour - the 'edifying' excursion many young Englishmen took to continental europe - through the writings of a selection of authors. Many of the writers assembled here do not strictly fall within the strict definition of Grand Tourists being…
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The Great Shame (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- In The Great Shame, Thomas Keneally--the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's List--combines the authority of a brilliant historian and the narrative grace of a great novelist to present a gripping account of the Irish diaspora. The nineteenth century saw Ireland lose half of its population to famine, emigration, or…
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The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah
- £12.00
- The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in…
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The Gurneys of Earlham (2 volumes)
- £50.00
- The two-volume account of the extraordinary Quaker banking family from Norfolk that included Elizabeth Fry and the abolitionist Thomas Fowell Buxton, by famed Victorian writer Augustus Hare (1834-1903). Frontispieces and 30 illustrations.
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The Haienda: How Not To Run A Club (SIGNED)
- £65.00
- Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's…
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The Historical Reliability of the Gospels
- £14.00
- Many people continue to believe that only a small percentage of the New Testament accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth reflect what he really said and did. The reasons for scepticism may vary over the years, but some arguments have proved remarkably persistent - for example,…
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The History Of England From The Accession Of James II (2 volumes)
- £80.00
- 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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The History Today Companion to British History
- £14.00
- Six British historians contribute to a comprehensive dictionary which not only is a reference work for events, people and places from 43 AD, but also acknowledges that history is as much about the writing of what happened as what actually did happen. It also includes information on historical concepts and…
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The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany
- £5.00
- In 2013, Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin which she had been forced to leave when the Nazis swept to power. What was once her 'soul place' now stood empty and derelict. A concrete footpath cut through the garden, marking where the Berlin Wall…
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The House of Mitford
- £10.00
- The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.' A rare glimpse of the tangled undergrowth of English snobbery, prejudice and reactionary politics' New York Times 'A fine group portrait of a truly remarkable tribe' Atlantic Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second…
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The Immortal Evening – A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb
- £14.00
- On December 28, 1817, the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon hosts what he refers to in his diaries and autobiography as the immortal dinner. He wants to introduce his young friend John Keats to the great William Wordsworth and to celebrate with his friends his progress on his most important historical…
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The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
- £20.00
- Published in 1928 when Shaw was seventy-two, this book draws on decades of political activity and remains one of his brilliant exercises in propaganda. Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, hailed the work as the world's most important book since the Bible. As a Fabian and lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic…
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The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit
- £14.00
- Families are societies in miniature.' The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fame, it tells the tragic story of three generations: George, one of Australia's leading painters; his talented composer-conductor son Constant; and grandson Kit, who managed the…
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The Life and Times of ‘England’s Patriot King’ William the Fourth, with a brief memoir of HM Queen Adelaide
- £160.00
- Biography of King William IV and his Queen Adelaide, published in 1831, the year of his coronation. He would of course die in 1837, succeeded by his niece, the young Victoria.
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The Life of Charlemagne (Folio)
- £18.00
- Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts…
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The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robt Sanderson
- £50.00
- Izaak Walton is best known today for The compleat Angler (first published in 1653). He was celebrated in his lifetime for his biographies, however, with the first on John Donne published in 1640 and Bishop Sanderson in 1678 (5 years before his death). Three at least of them were anglers…
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The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers (in 3 vols)
- £150.00
- The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers chiefly written by themselves from Christopher Hopper to John Pritchard
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944. The D-Day Story
- £65.00
- Compiled from many participants' accounts, this is still the finest one-volume account of D-Day. It is the basis of Ken Annakin's well-known feature film (1962) starring John Wayne, Kenneth More and a host of other stars. With 28 plates and colour endpaper maps.
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The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
- £30.00
- *The dramatic history of Europe's shape-shifting centre, from the author of The Habsburgs* Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and misapprehensions. From the Roman Empire onwards, it has been the target of invasion from…
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The Modern Search for the Real Jesus
- £12.00
- This book examines the claims and assumptions of critical scholars in this concise survey of the historical roots of Gospels criticism from Reimarus to Bultmann and beyond.
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The Netherlands: A Study of some aspects of Art, Costume and Social Life
- £12.00
- Sacheverell Sitwell goes beyond the generic images of Holland as all museums, windmills, canals, tulips and clogs. Sitwell leads us out of museums and away from the great cities, where tourist, and their guidebooks, usually remain cloistered. By traveling outside the usual, Sitwell has discovered a new and beautiful Holland…
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The New Russia
- £20.00
- After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. PutinÕs motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, RussiaÕs elder statesman…
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The New Scriabin: Enigmas and Answers
- £35.00
- The Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, after an era of neglect and obscurity, is today appearing on concert programs with startling frequency. In response to the growing vogue, especially among younter audiences in America and Europe, the well-known writer and foremost Scriabin authoirty, Faubion Bowers has written a completely new and…
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The Old Ways
- £10.00
- The original bestseller from the beloved author of UNDERLAND, LANDMARKS and THE LOST WORDS - Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, underappreciated landscape. The Old Ways confirms Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature' Scotland…
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The Oxford Pastorate
- £20.00
- Because of the Second World War, the 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Pastorate in 1943 could not be celebrated and the publication of this book had to be postponed. The foreword was written by the then Bishop of Rochester, Christopher Chevasse.
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The Power of Geography: ten maps that reveal the future of the world
- £10.00
- Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nationÕs choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasnÕt changed. But the world has. In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age…
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The Principles Of Art (Galaxy Books)
- £10.00
- This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, magic, and amusement, each of which, by confusion with art proper, generates a…
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The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the secrets of Britain’s greatest dynasty
- £25.00
- Tracy Borman's passion for the Tudor period shines forth from the pages of this fascinatingly detailed book, which vividly illuminates what went on behind the scenes at the Tudor court.' Alison Weir 'I do not live in a corner. A thousand eyes see all I do.' Elizabeth I The Tudor…
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The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
- £15.00
- A rich family archive reveals the incredible lives and loves of two sisters who captivated EuropeÕs intelligentsia When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives of the Paget…
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The Queen’s Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth’s Court
- £15.00
- Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen's court lay Elizabeth's bedchamber, closely guarded by the favoured women who helped her dress, looked after her jewels and shared her bed. Elizabeth's private life was of public, political…
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The Re-Inherited Mind: Recovering The Judaeo-Christian Inheritance In Western Christendom
- £15.00
- In this book, Reverend Doctor Scott argues that the Judaeo-Christian tradition contains many excellent insights into what we are as human beings, which we are in grave danger of forgetting, but which we can recall to our infinite advantage if we seek to do so. The book is filled with…
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The Real Persuasion: Portrait of a real-life Jane Austen Heroine
- £10.00
- Her father is a vain, foolish baronet, obsessed with his lineage but so careless with money that he is obliged to quit his ancestral seat. Her sister is a fretful invalid with a good-natured husband and two disobedient sons. She herself falls in love with a handsome naval officer, and…
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The Retreat from Moscow: The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 1812-1813 (Folio Society)
- £16.00
- Folio edition. n June 1812, NapoleonÕs 680,000 strong Grande Arme crossed the Neman River and invaded Russia. When the remnants of Napoleon's army returned over the Berezina River in November, only 27,000 effective soldiers remained. Adrien BourgogneÕs Memoirs is one of the most vivid and moving accounts of this dramatic…
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The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
- £30.00
- Moiss Nam's The Revenge of Power is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world. In his bestselling book The…
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The Rise of Moralism: The Proclamation of the Gospel from Hooker to Baxter
- £40.00
- During the seventeenth century, a remarkable change took place in Anglican theology. FitzSimons Allison describes a unique consensus that emerged in the century's early years through the labors of such seminal theologians as Hooker, Andrewes, Donne, and Davanant. Their difficult task was to outline an English theology to be distinguished…
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The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
- £18.00
- Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and flawed. Why are we so afraid of it? Time and again, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher levels of cunning, malevolence…
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The Secret World: a history of Intelligence (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Almost every page includes a sizzling historical titbit ... captivating, insightful and masterly' (Edward Lucas, The Times) The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The first mention of espionage in world literature is…
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The Shadow of Vesuvius: Pompeii AD 79 (Folio)
- £40.00
- A detailed and comprehensive study of the discovery of the remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the eighteenth century. With chapters on the volcano itself, discoveries and the reawakening of the story, the Romantics, science and methodology, the stones of Pompeii, and more. Written by Walter Raleigh Trevelyan, a British…
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The Shoulders of Giants: A History of Human Flight to 1919
- £20.00
- Between the mythical flights of Icarus and Daedalus and the establishment of the airplane as practical transportation lie centuries of inspired failure and dogged technological advancement. The Shoulders of Giants brings to life this long and colorful history of humanity's quest for flight.
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The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- April 30, 1980. Six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy in London, taking 26 people hostage. A tense six-day siege ensued as millions gathered around screens across the country to witness the longest news flash in British history. Six days in which police negotiators and psychiatrists sought a…
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The Solitary Spy: A Political Prisoner in Cold War Berlin
- £13.00
- Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the Warsaw Pact saw air forces become the greatest danger to the West.…
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The Spencer Family (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A full insider's history of the Spencer family, from the sheep-farmers of the sixteenth century through the Civil War and then the relationship with the Marlboroughs, on through the 19th century when the third Earl was one of the architects of the 1832 Reform Bill, to recent years and the…
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The Spy and the Traitor
- £15.00
- The best true spy story I have ever read' John le Carr. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any…
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The Spy with 29 Names: The story of the Second World War’s most audacious double agent
- £10.00
- He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist…
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The Story of the Household Cavalry (vol 1)
- £100.00
- From the introduction: The chief aim of this Book will have been fulfilled if its perusal should remind those now serving in the Household Cavalry that devotion to duty, alike in peace and in war, is for them an inherited tradition - that in long bygone days, not less than…
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The Treacherous Path: An Insider’s Account of Modern Russia
- £18.00
- Tackling topics as diverse as terrorism, government intrigue and the reality of doing business in Russia, and offering unparalleled insights into the post-Soviet mindset, this is the first time that a figure with Yakunin's background has talked so openly and frankly about his country.
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The Undeclared War: The Struggle for Control of the World’s Film Industry (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- An account of the way in which Hollywood has achieved almost total sovereignty over the world's movies. It tells of a battle which has seen Hollywood establish itself as a global cultural and economic force, and in the process, devastate the national industries of many other countries.
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The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
- £20.00
- Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' Ð Sunday Times. Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America:…
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The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-century England
- £25.00
- The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents, which paint an extraordinarily accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies."To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes…
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The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
- £12.00
- The book Politico calls ÒMoneyball for politicsÓ shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign. Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called wise men and replacing them with a radical new data-driven order. WeÕve seen it in…
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The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution
- £15.00
- At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and organised and minuted by Adolf Eichmann, it brought together representatives of all the principal Nazi agencies in…
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The Wanderer of Liverpool
- £10.00
- Masefield's classic retelling of the story of The Wanderer, a Liverpool-built barque that was wrecked in the Elbe estuary in 1907. Incl poems at end.
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The Wandering Scholars
- £24.00
- Helen Waddell (31 May 1889 Ð 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal. was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was lecturing in the Imperial University. She spent…
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The War On Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe
- £12.00
- The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. R. I. Moore's vivid narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen? And…
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The Witch Ð A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
- £16.00
- Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in EuropeÕs history "Traces the idea of witches far beyond the Salem witch trials to beliefs and attitudes about witches around the world throughout history.Ó_Los Angeles Times. The witch came to…
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The Work We Have To Do: A History Of Protestants In America
- £7.00
- A readable, far-reaching history of a multi-denominational, multi-regional, and multi-ethnic religious group, Protestants in America explores the physical and ideological roots of the denomination up to the present day, and traces the origins of American Protestants all the way back to the first English colony at Jamestown. The book covers…
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The World after the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
- £15.00
- One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments. Instead the two allies improvised an uneasy, shifting partnership for twelve long years while most of western Europe lay…
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
- £20.00
- From the author of No.1 international bestseller Collapse, a mesmerizing portrait of the human past that offers profound lessons for how we can live today Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs…
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Theatre Music and Sound at the RSC: Macbeth to Matilda
- £80.00
- This book discusses an exciting laboratory that has been developing the practice of theatre music composition and sound design since 1961: the Royal Shakespeare Company. Musical practices have evolved as composers and musical directors inherited from the past and innovated with new technology; different interpretations of single plays in multiple…
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They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
- £15.00
- From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story of Britain's Special Operations Executive, one of World War II's most important secret fighting forces. As far as the public knew, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army…
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They Were Pilgrims
- £15.00
- A small collection of biographical sketches of pioneering missionaries (originally published 1970): David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Ion Keith-Falconer.
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Tour de France
- £15.00
- An anthology of essays by the renowned Oxford professor of history, about the France that was his lifelong passion.
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Two Lives (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But…
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Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century was Reported
- £18.00
- Informative, amusing, sometimes shocking' Ð Giles Foden, The Guardian A critical examination of the British press over the last century, from legendary foreign correspondent John Simpson. Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism across the globe, John Simpson has become one of the most recognisable and trusted British reporters. In Unreliable…
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Unruly (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in…
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Van Gogh: From the Early Gloom-laden Paintings to the Works of His Final Years
- £20.00
- Vincent Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man. This study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, to the work of his final…
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Venice
- £300.00
- Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its…
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Venice: the most triumphant city
- £10.00
- Bull was a multi-talented and accomplished journalist, translator and art historian. This account of Venice was widely-regarded.
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Vermeer’s Family Secrets
- £35.00
- Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art:…
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Victoria: A Life
- £25.00
- When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff…
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- £40.00
- How can one European capital be responsible for most of the WestÕs intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens_every aspect of our…
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Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America
- £25.00
- Walt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements, craft, and whimsy. ItÕs a pedestrianÕs world, where the streets are clean, the employees are friendly, and the trains run on time. All of its elements are themed, presented in a consistent architectural, decorative, horticultural, musical, even olfactory tone,…
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Voices by the Sea: the story of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir
- £12.00
- In 1947, when the UK was deep in the throes of post-war austerity, that the concept of the Aldeburgh festival was first conceived. The prime movers were the singer Peter Pears, the librettist Eric Crozier, and above all, the composer Benjamin Britten.
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War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
- £20.00
- War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in the North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, but his publisher over-ruled…
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What does Jeremy Think? The Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain
- £11.00
- Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: ÒIt wouldnÕt have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around.Ó É How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become reliant on a single man?Õ Guardian ÔThis book should be read in a similar spirit to MantelÕs masterpieces…
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What They Heard: How The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Bob Dylan Listened to Each Other
- £12.00
- They were the artists who revolutionised popular music and took it to new levels of originality and influence. But they didnÕt do it in a bubble. In fact, The Beatles, Beach Boys and Bob Dylan remade modern music by listening to each other, and using what they heard to drive…
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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
- £25.00
- A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war. At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers…
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William de Morgan and his wife
- £40.00
- William and Evelyn de Morgan were very influential in the cultural life of late Victorian London - he was a ceramicist and writer; she a pre-Raphaelite painter and suffrage-supporter. This biography was written by Evelyn's sister, Anna Marie Willhelmina Stirling.
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William III (Brief Lives)
- £22.00
- In Collins' Brief Lives series, Oxford historian succinctly accounts for the life of William III, who reigned with his wife Mary from 1689-1702.
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Wine in Peace and War
- £190.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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Wine in Peace and War
- £200.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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