Biography: historical, political & military
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Biography: historical, political & military
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; JPHL; JPSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781681773285
- ISBN
- 9781681773285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.96
€ 30.99
€ 24.96
paperback. Edward Lynch enlisted when he was just 18 - one of thousands of fresh-faced men who were waved off by the crowds as they embarked for France. It was 1916 and the majority had no idea of the reality of the Somme trenches. Private Lynch was one of those who survived. Written from the perspective of an ordinary 'Tommy', this book tells his story. Editor(s): Davies, Will. Num Pages: 432 pages, 16pp B & W photos, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; BGHA; HBJD; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780553819137
- ISBN
- 9780553819137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.14
€ 12.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. Johhny Grant (1833-1907), Metis, fur trader, rancher, and Riel-Resistance participant, documented his historical experiences in the northwestern US and Canada. Editor(s): Ens, Gerhard J. Num Pages: 468 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 3JH; BGHA; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 405
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888644916
- ISBN
- 9780888644916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, 3 x 8pp B&W plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; JFFK; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 200 x 30. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408835470
- ISBN
- 9781408835470
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.82
€ 19.99
€ 14.82
hardcover. When their native Virginia had become hostile to men unafraid to speak out against slavery, the Remley family had taken refuge in the Midwest. This collection of two brothers' letters to and from home sharply portrays the human costs of the Civil War. Editor(s): Holcomb, Julie. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780875803197
- ISBN
- 9780875803197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 45.85
€ 45.99
€ 45.85
Hardback. The slave and gladiator Spartacus has been the subject of myth-making in his own time and of movie-making in ours. Aldo Schiavone brings him squarely into the arena of serious history. Spartacus emerges here as the commander of an army, whose aim was to incite Italy to revolt against Rome and to strike at the very heart of the imperial system. Translator(s): Carden, Jeremy. Series: Revealing Antiquity. Num Pages: 218 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 123 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 218
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674057784
- ISBN
- 9780674057784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.52
€ 23.99
€ 20.52
Paperback. Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the 57 years of their life together. Written solely for each others eyes, their letters serve as a revealing portrait of their characters and their relationship, and as a unique political and social history, as international affairs were rarely absent from their thoughts. Num Pages: 768 pages, 32 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1012.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Number of pages
- 768
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552997508
- ISBN
- 9780552997508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.99
€ 33.99
€ 22.99
Paperback. Each volume in this series features approximately fifteen short biographies of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of a given state. The villainous, the misguided, and the misunderstood all get their due in these entertaining yet informing books. Series: Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in History. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 19.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762728152
- ISBN
- 9780762728152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.18
€ 17.99
€ 15.18
paperback. Series: Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 18.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Globe Pequot United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780762779154
- ISBN
- 9780762779154
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.64
€ 17.99
€ 15.64
Paperback. Series: Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 18.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762772407
- ISBN
- 9780762772407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.18
€ 17.99
€ 15.18
Paperback. Series: Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 18.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762778546
- ISBN
- 9780762778546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.18
€ 17.99
€ 15.18
Paperback. On the night of 7 May 2015, Ed Balls thought there was a chance he would wake up the next morning as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. Instead, he woke up without a job. Twenty-one years earlier he had left a promising career in journalism to work for Labour in opposition. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JM; BGHA; JPFF; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784755935
- ISBN
- 9781784755935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 456 pages, 36 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BGH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300226416
- ISBN
- 9780300226416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.55
€ 25.99
€ 19.55
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752487366
- ISBN
- 9780752487366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.45
€ 19.99
€ 18.45
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750942539
- ISBN
- 9780750942539
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.54
€ 17.99
€ 16.54
Paperback. The memoir of the remarkable Jackie Moggridge: female pilot, Spitfire expert, and pioneer. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8pp illus. BIC Classification: BGHA; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781859896
- ISBN
- 9781781859896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.70
€ 15.99
€ 11.70
Hardcover. Leif Lundsten flew hundreds of Spitfires during the Second World War. He flew seven different types, whether as a test pilot with Vickers-Armstrong or as an important part of the legendary 331 Squadron from North Weald. This is the story of a man's heroic and gallant war effort and all the Spitfire marques he flew, and what happened to them. Num Pages: 288 pages, 69 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGH; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 241 x 29. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781555019
- ISBN
- 9781781555019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.92
€ 36.99
€ 31.92
Paperback. Written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich, this work presents a personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealised air conflicts - the Battle of Britain - seen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, which shot down over 100 planes in that epic contest. Num Pages: 208 pages, 16pp photos. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGHA; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Grub Street
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2008 rep
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906502041
- ISBN
- 9781906502041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.73
€ 13.99
€ 11.73
paperback. Features the story of Noor Inayat Khan, the descendant of an Indian Prince Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, who became a British secret agent for SOE during World War II. This book presents the story of Noor's life from her birth in Moscow - where her father was a Sufi preacher - to her capture by the Germans. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 black and white. BIC Classification: BGH; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Sutton
- Number of pages
- 287
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750950565
- ISBN
- 9780750950565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.40
€ 15.99
€ 14.40
Paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJP; BGH; JPSH; JPVR; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- None
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781431421497
- ISBN
- 9781431421497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.58
€ 24.99
€ 21.58
Paperback. A study of Sir Maurice Oldfield's life that portrays one of the UK's most important and complex spies of the Cold War era. He was the first Chief of MI6 that hadn't come from an upper-class background or studied at Eton or Oxbridge. Rather, he was a farmer's son from a provincial grammar school. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGH; HBJD1; HBTW; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552171625
- ISBN
- 9780552171625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.66
€ 16.99
€ 12.66
Paperback. Jochen Peiper was notorious for his participation in the massacre of American soldiers at Malmedy in December 1944, he might have felt he had paid the price when he was released from prison in 1957. But as Charles Whiting vividly demonstrates, a grisly end still awaited him. Num Pages: 208 pages, 20 B&W Images. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BGH; HBWQ; JWXK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848848610
- ISBN
- 9781848848610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.21
€ 17.99
€ 14.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages, over 80 bw images. BIC Classification: BGH; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 416. 80 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGH; HBWQ. Dimension: 277 x 216 x 8. Weight: 416.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764340468
- ISBN
- 9780764340468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 21.20
€ 31.99
€ 21.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, 130 b/w photos & documents. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764311697
- ISBN
- 9780764311697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 21.20
€ 31.99
€ 21.20