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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 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 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 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.
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.'
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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