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Biography: historical, political & military

Paperback. Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort had nine children who despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. This title tells the story of their lives in terms of world impact, their own personal achievements, and in their roles as the children of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
229
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752454726
ISBN
9780752454726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.51

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691604664
ISBN
9780691604664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.92

Paperback. The first serious collection of Lenin's writings for decades. Editor Paul Le Blanc argues that Lenin was committed to democracy. Editor(s): Le Blanc, Paul. Series: Get Political. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC; JPHL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 28. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745327600
ISBN
9780745327600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.46

Paperback. Now in its second edition, Leadership Embodied is an instructive collection of short biographical essays focusing on Navy and Marine Corps personnel, who have demonstrated notable leadership characteristics. Num Pages: 249 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBW; JWF; TTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 188 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612513034
ISBN
9781612513034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99

Paperback. This book documents the Cambodian refugee experience through powerful first-person narratives of men, women, and children who survived the holocaust and have begun new lives in America. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 312 pages, 4 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1KBB; BGH; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723725
ISBN
9780804723725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.84

Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, over 560 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BGH; JWG; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 289 x 226 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1748. The Life Story of the World's Highest Scoring Ace. 296 pages, Over 560 black and white photographs. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DFG; BGH; JWG; TBX; WGM. Dimension: 289 x 226 x 27. Weight: 1768.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887403965
ISBN
9780887403965
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.34
€ 46.95

Hardback. Remember the wonderfully romantic book of letters by Beethoven, Byron and Napoleon that featured in the Sex and the City film? That collection never actually existed, but all of the letters referenced in the film were real; so Macmillan decided to create Love Letters of Great Men.. Editor(s): Doyle, Ursula. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: BGHA; BJ; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 250.
Edition
Main Market
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230739468
ISBN
9780230739468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1FBH; BGH; HBJF1; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
St Martin´s Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KLJ0014529
ISBN
9781403984975
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Hardcover. Num Pages: 503 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 36. Weight in Grams: 890.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Victoria University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780864738967
ISBN
9780864738967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.22

Hardcover. This text on Bernardino considers the preacher's inflammatory role in Renaissance social issues. It takes the reader into the social underworld of early Renaissance Italy to discover how one influential figure helped to dramatically increase fear, hatred and intolerance for society's margins. Num Pages: 378 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGH; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 704.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226538549
ISBN
9780226538549
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.47
€ 46.16

Paperback. How much do we really know about Thomas Edison, the man who considered deriving rubber from a goldenrod plant as opposed to the genius who gave us electric light? This text gives a complex portrait of the inventor and an account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and changed. Num Pages: 544 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; TJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 46. Weight in Grams: 760.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226035710
ISBN
9780226035710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Hardcover. This title aims to show a new side to Lyndon Johnson and demonstrates that Johnson's diplomacy toward Europe deserves recognition as one of the most important achievements of his presidency. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; BGH; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW3; HBWS2; JPHL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674010741
ISBN
9780674010741
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations maps. BIC Classification: 1DSM; 3JJH; BGH; BTM; HBG; HBJD; HBW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 244. Ground and Air Heroes of the George Cross Island. 176 pages, Illustrations maps. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DSM; 3JJH; BGH; BTM; HBJD; HBWQ. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight: 244.
Publisher
Crecy Publishing
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907579588
ISBN
9780907579588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Paperback. A family-authorised biography of one of the top-scoring aces of the Battle of Britain. Num Pages: 288 pages, 70. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD1; HBWQ; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445660127
ISBN
9781445660127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Faced with cancer and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president, Ulysses S Grant wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future. In doing so, he won himself a unique place in American letters. This title deals with his life as a soldier. Num Pages: 704 pages, 48 pp b&w illustrations & maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGHA; DSBF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 195 x 33. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140437010
ISBN
9780140437010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.32

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843842927
ISBN
9781843842927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.85

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592134236
ISBN
9781592134236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.25

paperback. An insightful biography of one of Ireland's most exuberent characters: the inspiration for buck Mulligan in Ulysses, a senator, playwright, champion athlete and surgeon, Gogarty was called 'one of the greatest lyric poets of the age' by Yeats. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
O’Brien Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780862785970
ISBN
9780862785970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.44

Paperback. Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of great intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age. Series: Women in History. Num Pages: 448 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 3H; BGH; HBJD; HBLC; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
Condition
New
SKU
V9781842126189
ISBN
9781842126189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Demi. Num Pages: 206 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fons Vitae
Condition
New
SKU
V9781891785702
ISBN
9781891785702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.23

Hardback. Born in 1941, Tubten Khetsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. This autobiography talks of his prison experiences as well as the state of civil society following his release. Translator(s): Akester, Matthew. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 3JJP; BGHA; HBJF; HBLW3; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231142861
ISBN
9780231142861
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.56
€ 80.25

Hardback. In the bloodiest conflict Europe had ever experienced, Amalia Elisabeth fought to save her tiny German state, her Calvinist church, and her children's inheritance. Tryntje Helfferich reveals how this embattled ruler used diplomacy to play the European powers against one another, while raising one of the continent's most effective fighting forces. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JD; BGH; HBJD; HBLH; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 179 x 27. Weight in Grams: 686.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674073395
ISBN
9780674073395
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.60

hardcover. A riveting memoir from Lady Trumpington, doyenne of the House of Lords, taking her from 1920s London to the beginning of her political career in the early 1960s Num Pages: 256 pages, 16pp b/w bound as 2 x 8. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
PAN Macmillan Adult
Condition
New
SKU
9781447256779
ISBN
9781447256779
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 5.70

Paperback. Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a Victorian gentleman. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGH; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 352.
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141021409
ISBN
9780141021409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.08

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