History & Historical Biography

Orlando Figes / Natasha's Dance

From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia's mighty culture.Orlando Figes' enthralling, richly...

Richard Ramsbotham / Who Wrote Bacon (Large Paperback)

Who Wrote Bacon?: William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and James I

Ruth Cowen / Relish - The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef(Hardback)

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

Richard Holmes / Coleridge : Early Visions (Hardback)

Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes’s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain’s greatest poets. ‘Coleridge:...

Graeme Lofts / Heart and Soul - Australia's First Families of Wine(Large Paperback)

Heart and Soul: Australia's First Families of Wine

Gertraud Junge / Last Witnesses in the Bunker (Hardback)

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Loung Ung / First They Killed My Father (Large Paperback)

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Bruce Nunn / History with a Twist (Large Paperback)

Wonderful & wacky tales of Nova Scotia history, told with Mr. Nova Scotia Know-It-All's humour & wit.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

David Thomson - Europe Since Napoleon Pelican PB Reprint 1982 ( Originally 1957)

 A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period, A comprehensive historical study of modern Europe from 1789, analyzing continent-wide forces including...

Laura Barcella / Fight Like a Girl - 50 Feminists Who Changed the World (Large Paperback)

  Feminism is a hot topic. The battle for gender equality is being fought by everybody from politicians to indie social media campaigners, celebrities to school girls. But how did we get here and who...

Martin Gutmann / The Unseen Leader (Large Paperback)

The Unseen Leader: How History Can Help Us Rethink Leadership

David V. Herlihy / The Lost Cyclist (Large Paperback)

The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an America

Larry G. Aaron / The Race to the Dan (Large Paperback)

The Race to the Dan: The Retreat That Rescued the American Revolution

Lin Yutang / My Country and My People (Large Paperback)

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Peter Kurth / Anastasia (Large Paperback)

The Riddle Of Anna Anderson   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 exi

Anthony Birley - Lives of the Later Caesars - HB - 1992

Published in this edition by Guild Publishing, London, 1992, first published in this translation ( from the original Latin) in 1976.  Light edgewear to covers.  One of the most controversial of all...

Stephen Coote / A Play of Passion: The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh (Hardback)

Sir Walter Raleigh is well-know as an exp

Amanda Foreman / Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Hardback)

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one

John Boardman - The Greeks Overseas - Vintage Pelican PB - 1964

Paperback, published by Pelican paperbacks UK , 1964 A study of exploration and travel by the ancient Greeks ( primarily between  the 8th and 6th centuries BCE, and the wider dissemination of Greek...

Renia Spiegel / Renia's Diary - A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Large Paperback)

A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust Introduction by Deborah Lipstadt, author of DenialJuly 15, 1942, WednesdayRemember this day; remember it

John Symonds & Kenneth Grant ( Editors) - The Confessions of Aleister Crowley - An Autohagiograpy - HB 1979 ( Corrected Edition)

One of the most famous books on the occult ever written, this is a record of Crowley's journey into strange regions of consciousness: his initiation into magic his world-wide travels and mistresses,...

Robert M. Edsel / Saving Italy (Large Paperback)

Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

Alan Farmer / The Origins of the American Civil War (Large Paperback)

The text provides a detailed account of the causes of the American Civil War, identifying slavery as central to the dispute between Northern and Southern American states during the mid-nineteenth...

A.W Ward, G.W Prothero & Stanley Leathes ( Editors) - The Cambridge Modern History , Volume II - The Reformation - HB 1904

The standalone second volume ( covering the European and English Reformation era ( approximately 1503 to the close of the council of Trent circa 1568) - a period in which all of Europe underwent...

J.N.L Myres - The English Settlements - ( The Oxford History of England Volume II) 1986 -

Hardcover, A standalone Volume II in the multi volumeOxfordHistory of England Series, published 1985.  A detailed account of an obscured period in British hsitory - the 2 centuries from the collapse...

Robert Gellately - Backing Hitler : Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany - HB - 2001

Hardcover, published by Oxford University Press, 2001.  A solid copy , internally unmarked, but lacking the dustjacket, titles in gilt to spine.  With three sections of period b&w photographs ...

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor / Paul - His Story (Large Paperback)

For someone who has exercised such a profound influence on Christian theology, Paul remains a shadowy figure behind the barrier of his complicated and difficult biblical letters. Debates about his...

Feroz Ahmad / Turkey (Large Paperback)

The Quest for Identity This insightful history of Turkey tells the story of a country caught between the ideologies of East and West. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

James Bradley / The Imperial Cruise (Large Paperback)

A Secret History of Empire and War In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the...

David Potter / The Victor's Crown (Large Paperback)

How the Birth of the Olympics and the Rise of the Roman Games Changed Sport For Ever The Victor's Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging over a

Bob Clarke / From Grub Street to Fleet Street (Large Paperback)

From the broadsides of the sixteenth century to the broadsheets of the 19th century, taking in the Civil War newsbooks, the gutter press of the 18th century, the rise of the Sunday papers full of...

Blaine Baggett & Ernest Volkman / Secret Intelligence (Large Paperback)

  The Inside Story of America's Espionage Empire. A companion volume to the US PBS series of the same name is "a lucid review of the development of US espionage. Based on interviews with spies,...

Robert Guest / The Shackled Continent (Large Paperback)

The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future

William Doyle - The Oxford History of the French Revolution - HB - 1989

Hardcover, published by Clarendon Press Oxford, 1989 ( a reprint in the year of publication)  Lacks the original dustjacket, previous owner's name to the front endpage. 

Verlag Haus am Checkpoint Charlie - Es Geschah an der ,Mauer | It Happened at the Wall ( PB 1990) - Berlin Wall Illustrated History

Published 1990 ( as he Berlin Wall and the DDR was collapsing) this is a 5 language illustrated edition of a history of the Berlin Wall, with photographs ocf escapes, the Wall's construction, Berlin...

C.W Previté-Orton - The Shoter Cambridge Medieval History - 2 Volume HB Set -Reprints

Originally published in 1952 ( posthumously) - this is a key study of medieval life and culture in Europe from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. In two volumes, both uniform but lacking original...

Studs Terkel / My American Century (Large Paperback)

A collection of Studs Terkel most memorable interviews a panoramic chronicle of America from the 1920's onwards. Millions of US readers enjoyed Studs Terkel's groundbreaking, provocative and moving...

Alan Dawley / Class and Community - The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (Large Paperback)

  In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his prize-winning book, Dawley reflects once more on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn,...

Juliet Gardiner / Who's Who in British History (Large Paperback)

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Leslie Alcock / Arthur's Britain (Large Paperback)

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David S. Landes / The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Large Paperback)

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Ben Macintyre / The Siege (Large Paperback)

The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

Stephen Pope / The Macmillan Dictionary of the Second World War (Large Paperback)

A comprehensive guide to World War II, th

Peter deRosa - Vicars of Christ : The Dark Side of the Papacy - HB - SIGNED

Signed boldly ( covering the entire blank endpage) - ''with the best wishes of teh author, Peter de Rosa'' in black marker to the page.  The dark side of the papacy.   Peter de Rosa’s international...

John Martin / A Raid Over Berlin (Large Paperback)

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Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - HB ABRIDGED EDITION - Edited by D.M Low - 1960

Hardcover, a large and heavy volume, published in this abridged ( i.e shortened and concise) edition by Chatto & Windus UK, 1960. Lacks the original dustjacket, but solid in lightly scuffed grey...

Stephen Randolf Gibbons & P Morican / The League of Nations and U.N.O. (Large Paperback)

The League of Nations and U.N.O.  

Geoffrey Regan / Elizabeth I (Large Paperback)

Elizabeth I - saviour of the Protestant religion, or cautious and conservative queen? Through an intriguing selection of primary sources - state papers, private correspondence, conspirators' letters,...

Bernard Connolly / The Rotten Heart of Europe (Large Paperback)

John Terraine / The Great War (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...

Alec Harman / The Sonata Principle (Large Paperback)

The Sonata Principle : Man and His Music, Vol. 3

Peter Ackroyd / The Life of Thomas More (Large Paperback)

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