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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 Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
- £25.00
- One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew,…
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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 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 Finest Hotel in Kabul: A PeopleÕs History of Afghanistan (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan Ð the first book from one of the worldÕs leading war correspondents. In 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected AfghanistanÕs hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the…
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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 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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
- £25.00
- One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew,…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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'.
- Add to basket
-
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A PeopleÕs History of Afghanistan (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan Ð the first book from one of the worldÕs leading war correspondents. In 1969, the luxury Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul opened its doors: a glistening white box, high on a hill, that reflected AfghanistanÕs hopes of becoming a modern country, connected to the…
- Add to basket
-
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.…
- Add to basket