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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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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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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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Peacemaking 1919: studies in modern diploamcy
- £45.00
- Of all branches of human endeavour, diplomacy is the most protean.' That is how Harold Nicolson begins this book. It is an apt opening. The Paris Conference of 1919, attended by thirty-two nations, had the supremely challenging task of attempting to bring about a lasting peace after the global catastrophe…
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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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Potterton People & Places: Three Centuries of an Irish Family
- £50.00
- The Potterton family came to Ireland in the late 17th Century and settled as tenant farmers in County Meath. They remained there since, farming the same lands. This book presents their story, an ordinary story of births, marriages and deaths from one century to another. Incl. 120 b/w photographs
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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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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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
Peacemaking 1919: studies in modern diploamcy
- £45.00
- Of all branches of human endeavour, diplomacy is the most protean.' That is how Harold Nicolson begins this book. It is an apt opening. The Paris Conference of 1919, attended by thirty-two nations, had the supremely challenging task of attempting to bring about a lasting peace after the global catastrophe…
- Add to basket
-
Portrait of a Village
- £20.00
- Illustrated with maps (on endpapers) and woodcuts by Joan Hassall.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
Potterton People & Places: Three Centuries of an Irish Family
- £50.00
- The Potterton family came to Ireland in the late 17th Century and settled as tenant farmers in County Meath. They remained there since, farming the same lands. This book presents their story, an ordinary story of births, marriages and deaths from one century to another. Incl. 120 b/w photographs
- Add to basket
-
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.'
- Add to basket
-
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.'
- Add to basket
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