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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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Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories
- £22.00
- The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday Telegraph 'A history of the opium poppy, which probes how the drug trade has shaped free-market capitalism and globalisation. The plant may look innocuous, but its story is one of profits and power' Economist, Book of the…
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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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Spying for Empire: The Great Game in Central and South Asia 1757-1947
- £35.00
- The Great Game was the struggle between Russia and Britain for imperial influence over southern and central Asia, immortalised by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim. For the British, the threat to India s frontiers compelled them to dispatch diplomats, or more clandestine agents, to survey, map and monitor the…
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St Thomas Aquinas
- £15.00
- 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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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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories
- £22.00
- The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday Telegraph 'A history of the opium poppy, which probes how the drug trade has shaped free-market capitalism and globalisation. The plant may look innocuous, but its story is one of profits and power' Economist, Book of the…
- Add to basket
-
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,…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
Spying for Empire: The Great Game in Central and South Asia 1757-1947
- £35.00
- The Great Game was the struggle between Russia and Britain for imperial influence over southern and central Asia, immortalised by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim. For the British, the threat to India s frontiers compelled them to dispatch diplomats, or more clandestine agents, to survey, map and monitor the…
- Add to basket
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St Thomas Aquinas
- £15.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket