History & Historical Biography

Jeremy Seal / Treachery at Sharpnose Point: Unraveling the Mystery of the Caledonia's Final Voyage (Large Paperback)

While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the Caledonia , a ship wrecked on...

Matthew Robinson , Jensen Karp / Just Can't Get Enough: Toys, Games, and Other Stuff from the 80s that Rocked (Large Paperback)

In this fond trip down memory lane, Just Can’t Get Enough celebrates all the awesome products kids collected, begged their parents for, threw tantrums about, and obsessed over in the 1980s. From Hit...

Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback)

Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired...

Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback)

Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters...

Peter Thompson & Anthony Delano / Maxwell : A Portrait of Power

1988 biography. Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of the 20th century. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes...

Emma Hartley / Did David Hasselhoff End the Cold War?: 50 Facts You Need to Know - Europe by Emma Hartley

This book includes attention grabbing facts and punchy popular analysis. It is a sequel to the bestselling "50 Facts that Should Change the World". It includes facts such as: there are half a million...

Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973

Published by Anvil Press, 1973.  'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the...

Stephen Clarke / 1000 Years Of Annoying The French

Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?Non! The French sentenced her to...

Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist

Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might...

Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading...

Aiping Mu / Vermilion Gate: An Extraordinary Story of Growing Up in Communist China

Aiping Mu was born to parents prominent in the Communist hierarchy—her father was Political Commissar for the Beijing region and her mother ran one of the city's universities—and in her early years...

Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976

An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the...

Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB

A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's.  "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely...

Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India

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Roger Scruton / The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat

In this astonishing new book, Roger Scruton argues that to understand adequately the roots of Islamic terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic...

Masha Gessen / The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Putin's bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most...

Adrian Bridget Plass / The Son of God is Dancing

AIDS. Africa. Sickness. Read these words and what comes into your mind? Death? Destruction? Hopelessness? Definitely not my problem? Well, Adrian and Bridget Plass went to Zambia and found out for...

Ian Clayton / Bringing It All Back Home

When you hear a certain song, where does it take you What is the secret that connects music to our lives Heart warming, moving and laugh out loud funny, Bringing It All Back Home is the truest book...

Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track...

Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback)

Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland...

John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton

  John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the...

David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century ( 1815-1914) - Vintage Pelican PB

Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1964,...

David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century - Vintage Pelican PB

Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1969,...

Betty Miller - Robert Browning : A Portrait - Vintage Penguin PB -1958 ( Originally 1952)

Originally published in 1952, this is the first Penguin paperback edition, 1958 ( Penguin 1264) - vertical ornage triband design, caricature drwing of Browning to centre cover.  Spine lean, usual age...

Jean Guitton - Abbé Pouget : Discourses - HB - 1959 ( Ex-libris copy)

Guillaume Pouget (14 October 1847 – 24 February 1933) was a French Vincentian priest who had great influence on many Christian scholars in the early 20th century. Translated from the original French...

Angela Byrne - Anarchy and Authority : Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia - PB - BRAND NEW

From the ascent of Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution. From the Battle of the Boyne to the Easter Rising. Between these epochal events were two astounding centuries of war, diplomacy,...

Bruce Kellner - The Harlem Renaissance : A Historical Dictionary for the Era - PB 1987 ( Originally 1984)

Covers '18 years of Afro-American  artistic and intellectual ferment, characterized as the Harlem Renaissance but which encompassed much of urban Afro-America. Over 800 entries, on individuals,...

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...

Cyrus Shahrad / Secrets of the Vatican (Hardback)

The enduring heart of Roman Catholicism for over 1500 years, the Vatican is both a physical and a spiritual place. It is also the world’s smallest sovereign state–covering a mere square kilometer of...

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...