History & Historical Biography

Des Ekin - The Brutish Empire : Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities- PB - BRAND NEW

For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empire’s methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars...

B.A. Young / The Rattigan Version: Sir Terence Rattigan and the Theatre of Character (Large Paperback)

A financially successful playwright (The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version, Separate Tables and 20 others), an intimate of John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, notable enough to lunch...

Daniel Schonpflug / A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age (Large Paperback)

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C.R Williams - The History of Flintshire - From Earliest Times to the Act of Union - HB - 1961

Hardcover, published by Gee & Son, Denbigh, 1961. Illustrated throughout.  Larger format hardcover, in cream coloured dustjacket. Internally in very good condition.  Flintshire ( Sir y Fflint) is an...

Kelly Knauer / Great Events of the 20th Century (Coffee Table Book)

Since 1923, one magazine -- TIME -- has taken the pulse of the century week by week, and the result is an unparalleled chronicle of our times. Now, the editors of TIME have opened their archives to...

Thomas Morris / The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018· A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions… · A teenage boy who...

Donald Woods / Rainbow nation revisited: South Africa's decade of democracy (Hardback)

In Rainbow Nation Revisited, Donald Woods, now recognized as being an instrumental figure in the emergence of the new South Africa, revisits the country of his birth for the first time since he fled...

Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB

 

Bounty Books / Speeches that Changed the World (Coffee Table Book)

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Ian Hannigan - Timeless Colours - Waterford - BRAND NEW ( September 2024)

Timeless Colours: Waterford celebrates the rich history of the Déise and its people through the meticulous colourisation of over 100 stunning images. From architectural gems like the Dromana Gate to...

Russ Rymer / American Beach: How "Progress" Robbed a Black Town--and Nation--of History, Wealth, and Power (Large Paperback)

Focusing on the lives of three black Americans from northeastern Florida--an unarmed motorist killed by a white cop, the granddaughter of the state's first black millionaire, and novelist Zora Neale...

Lucy Hughes-Hallett / The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

WINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONNow also shortlisted for the Costa Biography award 2013, this is the story of Gabriele D’Annunzio, poet, daredevil – and Fascist.In September...

Loung Ung / Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (Large Paperback)

After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother...

Nicholas Davies / Diana : The Princess Who Changed the World (Hardback)

Many biographies have been written which dwell on the problems in Diana's life. " The Princess Who Changed The World" is the true and inspirational story of the real life of this exceptional woman...

Robert Lacey / Sotheby's - Bidding for Class (Hardback)

This volume explores the history of Sotheby's auction house, tracing its beginnings back to 1744. It was in the latter half of the 19th century, when economic instability forced the aristocrats to...

David P. Waddington / Memoirs (Hardback)

David Waddington, Baron Waddington, was a Conservative MP from 1968 to 1990, before becoming a life peer. For over twenty years he was a government Chief Whip, then served in the Cabinet as Home...

Dick Morris / Behind the Oval Office: Winning the Presidency in the Nineties (Hardback)

Dick Morris has written the ultimate inside story about the dramatic reelection of President Clinton, one that is certain to stir controversy about the way politics really works in America today. No...

George Friedman / America's Secret War : Inside the hidden worldwide struggle between the United States and its enemies (Large Paperback)

Dubbed by Barron's as "The Shadow CIA," Stratfor, George Friedman's global intelligence company, is one of the world's most respected private global intelligence firms with an unmatched ability to...

George Sand / A Winter in Mallorca

Account of 1838-39 winter Frederick Chopin + George Sand spent as lovers in monastery at Valldemossa on the island of Mallorca. Chopin wrote some of best compositions on the island.     All of our...

Benjamin R. Barber / Jihad vs. McWorld

JIHAD VS. MCWORLD is an essential text for anyone who wants to understand the challenges facing us after the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and in light of the current conflict in the Middle...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago ( Vintage PB 1974)

Published by Fontana UK, 1974, first published in translation in English in 1973. Translation by Thomas P. Whitney.  This is Volume 1 of The Gulag Archipelago - 'Book 1 & 2  ''The Prison Industry''...

James A. MacKay / Pocket Scottish History

From the Mesolithic era to the 1997 referendum that restored the Scottish parliament, this compact volume offers a chronological overview of Scotlandâ€s history. The events, people and political...

Olga Watkins, James Gillespie / A Greater Love

The true story of a woman's incredible journey into the heart of the Third Reich to find the man she loves. When the Gestapo seize 20-year-old Olga Czepf's fiance she is determined to find him and...

Eric Lomax / The Railway Manm - PB

Eric Lomax (1919-2012) had always been fascinated by steam locomotives; during the Second World War he became a railway man on the notorious Japanese Burma route. In this memoir he describes the...

Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self (Hardback)

For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys ,...

Steven Matthews / The Day the Nazis Came : The True Story of a Childhood Journey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp (Hardback)

An poignant and timeless true story of one child’s journey to a German prison camp during World War II.The Day the Nazis Came is an utterly unique memoir, depicting the world of prison camps through...

Edward Samuel Behr / Prohibition: The 13 Years That Changed America (Hardback)

Exploring the USA's 13 years of Prohibition from political, historical and cultural perspectives, this book discusses not only gangsters, speakeasies and two-tone shoes, but also other, more unusual...

Lisa Jardine / Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance (Large Paperback)

The flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship and the serendipitous coming together of some of the greatest artists the world has ever this is the traditional view of the...

Antony Beevor / Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An...

Mike Dash / Tulipomania : The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused (Hardback)

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J. Anthony Foley / Gill & Macmillan annotated Constitution of Ireland, 1937-1994: With commentary (Large Paperback)

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Sun Tzu / The Art of War: Complete Text and Commentaries (Large Paperback)

Sun Tzu's Art of War , compiled more than two thousand years ago, is a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict. It is perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the...

Tom Clonan / Whistleblower, Soldier, Spy: A Journey Into the Dark Heart of the Global War on Terror (Large Paperback)

From Dublin to Beirut, Guantanamo Bay to Iraq - and all the way back - Tom Clonan takes the reader on a very personal journey through the Global War on Terror. The book deals with a variety of themes...

Laurence W. Martin, John C. Garnett / British Foreign Policy (Large Paperback)

Has the 20th century been one of steady decline for British foreign policy? Can there be a distinct British foreign policy in age ofregionalism and globalization? This study challenges perceptions of...

Anne Applebaum / Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (Large Paperback)

At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen...

Michael Smith / Icebound In The Arctic: The Mystery of Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin Expedition (Large Paperback)

Captain Francis Crozier was a major figure in 19th century Arctic and Antarctic exploration who led the doomed Franklin Expedition’s battle to survive against the odds. It is a compelling story which...

Simon Ings / Stalin and the Scientists

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWar-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science. It...

Brian Fagan / The Time Detectives : Archeology: Revealing the Mysteries (Hardback)

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A Parragon Micropedia: World History (Hardback)

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Antonia Fraser / The Gunpower Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 (Part Two)

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Jon Sopel / A Year At The Circus: Inside Trump's White House (Hardback)

Welcome to the White House.At the heart of Washington, there is a circus. It's raucous, noisy and full of clowns. Reporting on it is a daily cacophony. Four major stories can blow up and blow out...

Harald Jahner / Aftermath

Magisterial, fascinating, humane' PHILIPPE SANDS'An extraordinary book ... breathtaking' JACK FAIRWEATHER'Essential reading. Anyone with even the slightest interest in history and the human condition...

Jonathan Freedland / The Escape Artist

"A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information - and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?" - Yuval Noah...

Christian Wolmar / Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World (Large Paperback)

The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as far afield as Australia and Cuba, and...

Bill Bryson / A Really Short History of Nearly Everything (Coffee Table Book)

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Simon Sebag Montefiore / Speeches That Changed the World (Coffee Table Book)

 Complete with transcripts, biographies of each speaker and the stories of why the world changed as a result, this collection features 20 of the most significant speeches of the 20th century, from...

Michael Smith / I am just going outside : Captain Oates - Antarctic Tragedy (Large Hardback)

 Exhaustively researched with new material, including major revelations about his previously unknown and secret private life, this is the first major biography of Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates...

David A. Kaplan / The Accidental President: How 413 Lawyers, 9 Supreme Court Justices, and 5,963,110 Floridians (Give or Take a Few) Landed George W. Bush in the White House (Hardback)

 For thirty-seven days after the disputed presidential election of 2000, we watched great theater, as George W Bush and Al Gore slugged it out in the swamp. You may think you've read it all before,...

Dan Lawton - Hunted : The Kevin Barry Artt Story - His Wrongful Conviction for Murder, Daring Escape from the Maze Prison and Long Fight for Justice - PB - BRAND NEW

On Sunday, 26 November 1978, two IRA gunmen kicked in the front door at 8 Evelyn Gardens in Belfast, the home of Maze prison official Albert Miles. They executed Miles in front of his family and...

Margalit Fox / The Confidence Men

 Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly join forces. To stave off boredom, Jones makes a handmade Ouija board...

Immaculee Ilibagiza / Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust

 Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994, her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee's...

Slavenka Drakulic / Cafe Europa: Life After Communism

 Drakulic (How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed) notes that Eastern Europeans are so anxious to become like their Western counterparts that every city & town has a Cafe Europa that is a pale...