History & Historical Biography

Jim Corbett / The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Large Paperback)

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Robert Hughes - The Fatal Shore : The Epic of Australia's Founding

In this bestselling account of the colonization of Australia, Robert Hughes explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. Digging deep into the dark history of...

Richard Vinen / A History in Fragments : Europe in the Twentieth Century

The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that everyone thinks they know it. The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and communism, female...

W.B. Marsh / 365: Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year

A fascinating compendium of historical ta

David Mitchell / Unruly

Discover who we are and how we got here in comedian, star of Peep Show and student of history David Mitchell's Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens - a thoughtful, funny exploration of the...

Richard Holmes / Wellington: The Iron Duke

Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain’s greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke...

Thomas Keneally - Australians : Origins to Eureka ( Volume 1 ) - HB

Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers: bestselling author Thomas Keneally has woven their lives and their stories together in a vibrant...

Prince Bernhard Von Bülow- Memoirs 1903-1909 - HB ( Volume 2 of the 4 Volume Edition)

Hardcover, published by POutnam , London and New York, 1931. What looks like a library accession number on front tiotle page, but no other evidence taht it's an ex library copy.  Von Bulow was a key...

Geoffrey S. Holmes / The Age of Oligarchy: Pre-Industrial Britain, 1722-1783 (Large Paperback)

  The second volume, on early and mid-Georgian Britain, shows how the country used its expanding wealth, its new-found social cohesion at home and its international influence abroad to become not...

Grantlee Kieza / Sons of the Southern Cross (Large Paperback)

From Eureka to Ned Kelly, from Gallipoli to the birth of the ALP to the Cronulla riots, the Southern Cross flag has been the symbol for a rebellious Australian spirit. Here, the good, bad and the...

Harry Mount / How England Made the English

Join Harry Mount on his journey through England as he uncovers the national characteristics behind the English look -- a liking for old things, for smallness and gentleness; a taste for the...

Sarah Burton / A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb

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Janine Di Giovanni / The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Thomas J. Morrissey / Where Two Traditions Meet: John Sullivan SJ, 1861-1933 (Large Paperback)

John Sullivan embraced in his life the two main traditions in Irish history: the unionist, Anglo-Irish, Church of Ireland tradition and the Catholic tradition of the majority of the population...

Basil Howitt / Love Lives of the Great Composers (Large Paperback)

Basil Howitt delves into the love lives of a cluster of the great composers from Gesualdo to Wagner and finds much to delight, surprise, shock, and even appall his readers -- but never bore...

Reader's Digest / Illustrated History of the World (12 Book Collection)

Reader's Digest Illustrated History of the World (12 Book Collection) Contains prehistory to 900 BC 430 - 907 between cross and crescent 907 - 1154 the early middle ages 1154 - 1339 the age of kings...

Life Time Books / World War II (11 Book Collection)

Life Time Books: World War II (11 Book Collection) Contains: The Battle of the bluge The Battle of britain war in the desert The Battle of the atlantic partisans and guerrillas victory in...

History of the Royal Navy / Air Force (2 Book Collection)

History of the Royal Navy / Air Force (2 Book Collection)     This collection is second hand unless otherwise stated in the description. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage...

Misha Glenny / The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804-1999 (Hardback)

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Joseph Robins - Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland in the Twentieth Century - HB

Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland in the Twentieth Century: Fifty Years of An Bord Altranais (The Nursing Board) 1950 - 2000 by Joseph RobinsIllustratedPublished by An Bord Altranais, 2000

Robert Peter Gale / FINAL WARNING: The Legacy of Chernobyl (Hardback)

A doctor at the site of the explosion of

Thomas C. Reeves / A Life of John F. Kennedy (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

William Horsley / Nippon: New Superpower Japan Since 1945 (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Edward Bunker / Education of a Felon (Large Paperback)

In Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at...

Stuart Macintyre / A Concise History of Australia (Large Paperback)

Australi

Sam Erman / At Ground Zero - 25 Stories from Young Reporters Who Were There(Large Paperback)

9/11. New York. 

Jeremy Brecher / Strike! (Large Paperback)

No book has done as much as Strike! to bring U.S. labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the exciting hidden history of the U.S. labor movement from the point of view of the rank-and-file...

Christopher Draper / Llandudno Before the Hotels (Large Paperback)

This volume reveals the long and dramatic history of one of Wales's most popular towns, from the arrival of its first visitors, twelve thousand years ago, until the ninteenth century eviction from...

Olwyn M. Blouet / The Contemporary Caribbean (Large Paperback)

Life, History and Culture Since 1945

Eng Kok Thay / Norng Chan Phal: The Mystery Of The Boy At S-21 (Large Paperback)

Norng Chan Phal's life journey is a story of family, love and the struggle to survive and rebuild life after the Khmer Rouge genocide. It is also a story of separation between a young boy, his...

Amanda Vaill / Everybody Was So Young (Large Paperback)

Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

Stanley Walker / The Night Club Era (Large Paperback)

The Nigh

Princess Michael of Kent / Cupid and the King (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

John Zerzan / A People's History of Civilization (Large Paperback)

The American anarchist, primitivist philosopher, and author John Zerzan critiques agriculture-based civilization as inherently oppressive and advocates drawing upon the life of hunter-gatherers as an...

Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Large Paperback)

During t

Patrick O'Sullivan / The Lusitania : Unraveling the Mysteries (Coffee Table Book)

The book portrays the great liner against its war-time background, explaining how evidence was rigged and the cover-up at the tribunal with new evidence regarding the cargo.   This book is second...

Mick Farren / The CIA Files : Secrets of "The Company" (Coffee Table Book)

The first-ever accessible, illustrated history of "The Company, " The CIA Files sifts through the mountain of allegations, rumors and half-truths that have surrounded the CIA and its operations since...

On This Day (Coffee Table Book)

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Desmond C. Whyman / Shoulder of Mutton Field - The Retail Butcher's Trade in Camden (Coffee Table Book)

Drawing from technical and privately published family histories, this remarkable account provides a broad understanding of the development of the meat industry utilizing England’s Kentish Town as a...

Marjorie Caygill / The Story of the British Museum (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Charles Spencer / Althorp: The Story of an English House (Coffee Table Book)

Provides an intimate look at the history of Princess Diana's family home, which spans twenty generations and has gained new interest as the final resting place of a beloved royal   This book is...

Brian Hoey / Mountbatten: the Private Story (Hardback)

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Christopher Ward / And The Band Played On (Hardback) ( Titanic)

On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their...

Horace Greeley - The American Conflict - Two Volume Set 1865-67 - US First Printings

Hartford: O.D. Case & Company, 1865-7. First edition, first issue (copyright 1866; title page dated 1867). Hardcover set of two. Very good. Bound in embossed leather (?) over marbled paper boards,...

Emmet O'Connor - Rotten Prod : The Unlikely Career of Dongaree Baird - PB - BRAND NEW

James 'Dongaree' Baird, a boilermaker in Harland and Wolff's shipyard, was one of hundreds of 'rotten Prods', and thousands of Catholics, driven from their place of work by loyalists in 1920. The...

Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011

Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with...

Anthony Hocking / Randfontein Estate - The First Hundred Years (1 Book Box Set)

Anthony Hocking / Randfontein Estated The First Hundred Years (1 Book Box Set)

John Bew / Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee (Hardback)

Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the Empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO...

Charles B. Dew / Bond of Iron - Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge(Large Paperback)

 

Penguin Publishers / Penguin 1960s Biography (10 Book Box Set)

Penguin 60s Biography (10 Book Box Set)   dirk bogarde / coming of age vladimir nabokov / now remember anthony burgess / childhood barry humphries / less is more please Marianne faithfull / year...

Joseph Raftery ( Editor) - The Celts ( Thomas Davis Lectures Series - PB - 1967 ( Originally 1964)

A slim format paperback, a 1967 reprint , Mercier , originally 1964. Issued in collaboration with the long running Thomas Davis Lectures Series on RTE.   

John F. Kasson / The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression - Shirley Temple and 1930s America (Large Paperback)

  For four consecutive years, she was the world’s box-office champion. With her image appearing in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily, she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the...