Biography: historical, political & military
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Biography: historical, political & military
Hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages, over 260 bw/color images. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 227 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1706. An Illustrated Tribute to the Luftwaffe's "Star of Africa". 248 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; JWG. Dimension: 285 x 227 x 31. Weight: 1706.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764329401
- ISBN
- 9780764329401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.61€ 39.14
€ 54.61
€ 39.14
Paperback. An autobiography of Adrian Carton de Wiart who served in the South African war and both World Wars. He was wounded eight times during the war (including the loss of an eye and a hand), won the VC during the Batle of the Somme, was mentioned in despatches six times. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: BGHA; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Military
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844155392
- ISBN
- 9781844155392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DNN; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816678273
- ISBN
- 9780816678273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.68
€ 20.68
Hardback. Sir William Harcourt was a major figure in the Liberal politics of late Victorian Britain. Supported, as private secretary and inseparable companion, by his son Lewis, Harcourt served in all four of Gladstone's governments. This biography looks at his role in Victorian parliamentary politics. Num Pages: 392 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838640364
- ISBN
- 9780838640364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.82
€ 156.82
CD-Audio. BIC Classification: BGH; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Format
- CD
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Abridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442367067
- ISBN
- 9781442367067
CD
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 15.66
€ 26.99
€ 15.66
paperback. Hillary Rodham Clinton's inside account of the crises, choices and challenges she faced during her four years as America's 67thSecretary of State Num Pages: 656 pages, 3 x 16pp Colour Plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; BGHA; BM; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 50. Weight in Grams: 468. Very good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001733
- ISBN
- 9781471131523
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.44
€ 5.44
Paperback. These letters, from a rural school teacher to the Montpelier "Green Mountain Freeman" provide a glimpse into the life of a private during the US Civil War. They chart Fisk's early enthusiasm for battle and later disillusionment. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 57. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700606818
- ISBN
- 9780700606818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.18
€ 45.18
Paperback. A masterly biography of a great Conservative Prime Minister (and publisher) - Harold Macmillan (1894-1986). Num Pages: 560 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 40. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Phoenix London
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753827024
- ISBN
- 9780753827024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
Paperback. Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, Ben Pimlott's classic biography combines scholarship and observation to illuminate the life and career of one of Britain's most controversial post-war statesmen. Num Pages: 832 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 56. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008182618
- ISBN
- 9780008182618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.25
€ 25.99
€ 17.25
Paperback. King Harold Godwineson (c 1022-66) is one of history's shadowy figures, known mainly for his defeat and death at the Battle of Hastings. His true status and achievements have been overshadowed by the events of October 1066 and by the bias imposed by the Norman victory. This title sets out to correct this distorted image. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750937634
- ISBN
- 9780750937634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.58
€ 17.99
€ 16.58
Hardcover. Num Pages: 112 pages, 9 colour & 83 b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGH; TRPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764350672
- ISBN
- 9780764350672
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.67
€ 18.99
€ 15.67
Paperback. Harriet Tubman is one of America's most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. This book tells the story of Tubman's life as an American icon. Num Pages: 424 pages, 88 illustrations ( incl. 9 in color). BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340737
- ISBN
- 9780822340737
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.53
€ 33.99
€ 30.53
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- 0.2495 kilograms
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316155946
- ISBN
- 9780316155946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.88
€ 21.99
€ 18.88
Analyzing Harry Hopkins' role in wartime diplomacy and his personal relationships with the twentieth-century's most indispensable leaders, historian Christopher O'Sullivan offers enormous insight into the most controversial aspects of FDR's foreign policy, the New Deal Era, and the beginning of modern American history. Series: Biographies in American Foreign Policy. Num Pages: 210 pages, 26 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; BGH; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442222205
- ISBN
- 9781442222205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.70
€ 69.70
Hardcover. Num Pages: 201 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781614707219
- ISBN
- 9781614707219
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.59€ 114.28
€ 168.59
€ 114.28
Paperback. Given his background - growing up in the border state of Missouri - President Truman was an unlikely champion of civil rights. Yet it was he who energized the modern civil rights movement. Michael Gardner analyses Truman's speeches and the appointments he made of like-minded civil rights activists. Num Pages: 320 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809325504
- ISBN
- 9780809325504
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.80
€ 26.80
Paperback. Hatchepsut was an astonishing woman - defying tradition she became the female embodiment of a male role, dressing in men's clothes and even wearing a false beard. Combining archaeological and historical evidence from a range of sources, this book strips away the myths and misconceptions and restores the female pharaoh to her rightful place. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16pp b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1QDA; BGH; HBG; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140244649
- ISBN
- 9780140244649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.65
€ 18.99
€ 16.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; BGF; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Madison Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568330044
- ISBN
- 9781568330044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.95
€ 24.99
€ 21.95
Paperback. This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Vaclav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 41. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857898524
- ISBN
- 9780857898524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.26
€ 26.99
€ 18.26
Paperback. When England made a peace treaty with the French in 1360, during a pause in the Hundred Years War, John Hawkwood, instead of going home, travelled south to Avignon, where the papacy was based during its exile from Rome. He and his fellow mercenaries held the pope to ransom and were paid off. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571219094
- ISBN
- 9780571219094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.97
€ 17.99
€ 12.97
Paperback. This lavishly illustrated, richly documented life of Lady Lavery relates how one beautiful American woman reinvented herself as 'a simple Irish girl' and came to personify Eire on Ireland's banknotes, 'living and dying .. as though some ballad-singer had sung it all'. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157. .
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843516439
- ISBN
- 9781843516439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.00€ 15.75
€ 18.00
€ 15.75
Hardcover. A rare first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South, "He Included Me" weaves together the story of a black family eight children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher, their father a minister and the emerging self-portrait of a woman determined, like her parents, to look ahead." Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBTB; JFSL3; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820311418
- ISBN
- 9780820311418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.51
€ 42.51
This memoir from his personal physician, friend, and confidante of more than 40 years, John C. Lungren, MD, portrays Richard Nixon as a paradoxical man - intense, compassionate, guarded, intelligent, resilient, deeply religious, enormously successful but ultimately tragic. Num Pages: 204 pages, 13 photographs. BIC Classification: BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813122748
- ISBN
- 9780813122748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.02
€ 49.02
Paperback. A compelling insight into the lives of the great polar explorers, through the eyes of the women who inspired them - this is the story of seven remarkable women. Drawing on her own experience as an explorer's daughter, and using extracts from journals and letters, the author blends accounts of longing, betrayal and hope with tales of adventure. Num Pages: 318 pages, 24 photos and images. BIC Classification: 1MTN; BGH; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Saraband
- Number of pages
- 318
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908643216
- ISBN
- 9781908643216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.72
€ 19.99
€ 14.72