History & Historical Biography

Simon Maier / The 100 with 10 Extra Speeches (Large Paperback)

The 100 with 10 Extra Speeches: Insights and Lessons from 110 of the Greatest Speakers and Speeche

Jack Fairweather / The Volunteer (Large Paperback)

Claudia Converso / Herculaneum: Civilisation and Art: Treasures of Italy (Coffee Table Book)

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James L. Swanson / Lincoln's Assassins : Their Trial and Execution (Coffee Table Book)

This definitive illustrated history of Abraham Lincoln's assassination follows the shocking events from the tragic scene at Ford's Theatre to the trial and execution of John Wilkes Booth's...

Terry Hardick / Bath Boating Station - An Illustrated History(Coffee Table Book)

A well written narrative history on the Bath Boating Station, a historic landmark on the River Avon. This book looks at the people involved with life at the boating club as well as the history of the...

Peter L. Gillman / Duty Men - The Inside Story of the Customs & Excise (Coffee Table Book)

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Peter Jennings / In Search of America (Coffee Table Book)

Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster conceived of this fascinating book long before the events of September 11th. But watching America respond to one of the worst attacks in its history deepened the...

Tim Graham / Diana, Princess of Wales: A Tribute (Coffee Table Book)

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Sandra Forty / Disasters - Defining Moments (Coffee Table Book)

Like rubber-neckers at an accident, people can't help but be fascinated by disasters. Is it the massive destruction and gruesome body counts? Or is it the unthinkable terror of the people caught in...

Ken Kimberley / Oi Jimmy Knacker : A Memoir of an East Ender's Childhood (Coffee Table Book)

Presents over 40 incidents that are illustrated by detailed watercolours that draw the reader into the childhood world. Accompanying each picture is a pen portrait recounting the story behind it...

Jeroen Koolbergen / Mozart (Coffee Table Book)

In the Great Composers Series, the lives of the world's greatest musical minds are examined in engrossing narrative and a variety of period illustrations, along with lively discussions of the...

Janice Anderson / The Complete War Years: Life in Britain During 1939 to 1945 (Coffee Table Book)

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Gifford Lewis / Somerville and Ross: The World of the Irish R. M. (Coffee Table Book)

Somerville and Ross were two extraordinary Irish writers. Cousins and products of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy world, they reacted both with and against their environment to present in their books a...

Women Who Changed the World (Coffee Table Book)

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Mark Girouard / Town and Country (Coffee Table Book)

In this collection of essays and articles best selling author Mark Girouard writes of places he has visited in town and country. Mixing erudition with anecdote, he offers fascinating insights into...

Nathaniel Harris / Heritage of Ireland: A History of Ireland & Its People (Coffee Table Book)

This book chronicles the major events that have shaped Irish history, from the arrival of the Celts and Christianity to the Tudor conquest and the social and political events of the 20th century. The...

Charlotte Montague / John F. Kennedy: The Life and Death of a US President (Coffee Table Book)

Despite Kennedy’s presidency lasting only 1000 days, his life and violent death forever marked American history. John F. Kennedy details one of the US's most intriguing figures.John Kennedy and his...

Parragon Books - The Illustrated Guide to the 20th Century (Coffee Table Book)

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Oxford Publishing / Encyclopedia of World History (Coffee Table Book)

With over 4,000 entries, arranged in a clear A-Z format, Encyclopedia of World History provides an unparalleled breadth and depth of information on events, figures, and concepts from prehistory right...

Alan Keegan / More Irish Manchester (Britain in Old Photographs) (Coffee Table Book)

The Irish have always been proud of their contribution to Manchester. Working with Danny Claffey, photographer on the Irish Post, the author has combined photographs with his researched captions to...

William R. Keylor / The Twentieth-Century World and Beyond: An International History since 1900 (Coffee Table Book)

The Twentieth-Century World and An International History Since 1900 , Fifth Edition, explores the history of modern relations between the U.S., Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle...

Jeremy Paxman / The English : A Portrait of a People

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...

John Simpson / A Mad World, My Masters (Hardback)

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Sam Donaldson / Hold On, Mr. President! (Hardback)

1987 memoir by ABC News journalist Sam Donaldson that discusses his career, particularly his experience as a White House correspondent who often provoked presidents like Carter and Reagan. The book...

Malka Levine / A Mother's Courage (Large Paperback)

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Peter Taaffe / The Masses Arise : The Great French Revolution 1789-1815 (Large Paperback)

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Juanita Carberry / Child of Happy Valley (Large Paperback)

Juanita Carberry spent her childhood in the 1920s and 1930s on a beautiful Kenyan coffee farm. Brought up by her father's black servants and white governesses, much of her time was spent riding and...

Elizabeth Martinez / De Colores Means All of Us (Large Paperback)

Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

John Keegan / Churchill : A Life

Was chur

Henry McDonald / Trimble

A biography of David Trimble. It tells of

Tom Phillips / Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them

'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The TimesFrom the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx...

Richard N. Haass, Richard Haas, Oliver Knox / Policies of Thatcherism (Large Paperback)

This vol

Emil Ludwig - Kaiser Wilhelm II - HB - 1928 Reprint - Originally 1926

A hardcover reprint edition , 1928 ( the 8th reprint) of a biogarphy of Kaiser Wilhelem II, the ( then former) and final Emperor of Germany. At the time of publication Wilhelm was in exile in the...

Alfred L. Malabre / Beyond Our Means (Large Paperback)

Beyond Our Means: How Reckless Borrowing Now Threatens To Overwhelm Us

E.N. Williams / Dictionary of English and European History, 1485-1789

Events, issues, people, and places that f

Robert Etienne / Pompeii: The Day a City Died

From the NEW HORIZONS series of pocket-si

Jason D. Antos / Jackson Heights (Large Paperback)

Jason D. Antos, Constantine E. Theodosiou

Irving A. Leonard / Books of the Brave (Large Paperback)

Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World Since its original publication in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pione

Gwyn Jones - A History of the Vikings - HB - 1973

The history of the Viking peoples and kingdoms, from their half-glimpsed origins and legendary prehistory to the triumphs of Canute, and the deathof Harald in 1066. The Vikings were many things,...

Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf - PB - Jaico Edition - 2006

Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as well as being widely translated. It is the most notorious political...

Richard Doherty - Irish Volunteers in the Second World War - HB - 2002

This book looks at the contributions of a range of Irish men and women to the Allied cause between 1939 and 1945. Many Irish soldiers served in armoured regiments from the desert to Germany itself...

Claire L. Evans / Broad Band : The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet(Large Paperback)

If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls , you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet--written out of history, until now."This is a...

J. P. Kenyon - The Stuarts ( British Monarchy Series) - PB 1983 ( Originally 1958)

A history of the House of Stuart, which ruled England from the accession of James 1st ( also of Scotland  in 1603 to the joint rule of William and Mary, and Queen Anne down to 1714.          All of...

Waldemar Titzenthaler - Berlin - HB ( Historical Photogarphy)

Published by Nicolai, 1993.  All text is in German , naturally, but the photographs ( most taken in the years 1900-1930 are high quality, showing both ceremonail Berlin and the less salubrious back...

Denise Dennis - Black History for Beginners - PB ( illustrated by Susan Willmaarth) - 1984

Paperback, 1984, an ex library ( school) copy , but with minimal markings, some tape residue on spine where a shelving label was.  This is a 'graphic novel' type book aimed at younger/ teen /...

Louise Richardson / What Terrorists Want (Large Paperback)

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat

Peter Haugen / World History For Dummies (Coffee Table Book)

The book that puts the "story" back in history!Don't know much about history? Don't worry! With this friendly reference, you can bone up on all those facts you missed in history class -- and have a...

Martin Hoyle / Mozart (Coffee Table Book)

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Peter Somerset Fry / History of the World (Coffee Table Book)

A new approach to world history from an international standpoint.A complete history of the world, from the beginnings of life to the present day.Explains the main events in world history, continent...

Ian Harrinson / Where Were You When...? (Coffee Table Book)

Where Were You When...?: Remembering 180 Extraordinary Events: Unforgettable Moments That Have Shaped

Neil Wenborn / The Hamlyn Pictorial History of the 20th Century (Coffee Table Book)

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Leigh Hatts / Francis Frith's East London (Coffee Table Book)

This text features 100 detailed historica