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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
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- 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 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
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- 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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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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
Tour de France
- £15.00
- An anthology of essays by the renowned Oxford professor of history, about the France that was his lifelong passion.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket