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Biography: historical, political & military

Paperback. Kevin Fulton is the only double agent to have infiltrated the upper echelons of the Provisional IRA. No known spy has spent longer within the organisation or risen higher in its ranks than Kevin. So highly was he thought of by the IRA leaders that they made him a member of their feared internal police. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 287 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; BGHA; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 200. Very good clean copy, showing light shelf wear and spotting to page edges, remains a nice copy. Keywords: Northern Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Blake London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0025410
ISBN
9781844545520
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Hardcover.
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781550793
ISBN
9781781550793
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages, 20. BIC Classification: BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583228494
ISBN
9781583228494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.38

Paperback. Series: Trade Union Classics. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGHA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 10. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Spokesman Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9780851247786
ISBN
9780851247786
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.77

Paperback. Up Close with Lee Kuan Yew gathers some of the vivid memories of 37 people who have worked or interacted closely with Lee Kuan Yew in some way or other, from when he was at Raffles College in 1941 right up to his demise in 2015. Among these are his 13 Principal Private Secretaries and Special Assistants, and Mdm Yeong Yoon Ying, his Press Secretary of over 20 years. The others include former President S.R. Nathan, Puan Noor Aishah who is the widow of President Yusof Ishak, former Chief Justice Yong Pung How, and friends such as Robert Kuok from his Raffles College days. This book captures an unvarnished look at what it was like to interact with the serious and no nonsense Mr Lee, both at work and outside of work. "He questioned me in a rather harsh tone and said I was very bold to be complaining about my chairman whom he knew was well respected. He told me in a raised voice that I could lose my job for what I had done. ..I replied that having written to him, I was prepared for the consequences. He glared at me. I didn't know what to expect next. I expected the worst. Then, he broke into laughter.''Peter Seah, Chairman, DBS BankContributing AuthorsRobert Kuok ¢ Yong Pung How ¢ Othman Wok ¢ Puan Noor Aishah ¢ S.R. Nathan ¢ J.Y. Pillay ¢ Lim Chin Beng ¢ Wee Cho Yaw ¢ Chn'g Jit Koon ¢ Sidek Saniff ¢ Philip Yeo ¢ Jennie Chua ¢ Liew Mun Leong ¢ Lim Siong Guan ¢ Jagjeet Singh ¢ Ng Kok Song ¢ Lam Chuan Leong ¢ Bilahari Kausikan ¢ Stephen Lee ¢ Li Ka-shing ¢ Tan Guong Ching ¢ Dr S. Vasoo ¢ Moses Lee ¢ Ho Meng Kit ¢ Yatiman Yusof ¢ Yeong Yoon Ying ¢ Alan Chan ¢ Peter Seah ¢ Heng Swee Keat ¢ Leo Yip ¢ Andrew Tan ¢ Peter Tan ¢ Cheng Wai Keung ¢ Lee Seow Hiang ¢ Chee Hong Tat ¢ Anthony Tan ¢ Lim Teck Kiat Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: BGH. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 23. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9789814677790
ISBN
9789814677790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.63

Paperback. Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr, has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. Booker T Washington pursued a different strategy to lift his people. This biography reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality. Num Pages: 528 pages, 54 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JFSL3; JN; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 840.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674060371
ISBN
9780674060371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; JFSL3; JN; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 109 x 21. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780451531476
ISBN
9780451531476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.91

Chinese diplomat V.K. Wellington Koo was involved in virtually every foreign and domestic crisis in 20th century China. This biography gives a picture of one of the essential figures behind the creation of a modern China. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 658.
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813123141
ISBN
9780813123141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.38

Paperback. The last member of Operation Valkyrie - the daring July 20 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler - tells his remarkable story. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BGHA; HBJD; HBWQ; JPWL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Phoenix
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753825662
ISBN
9780753825662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.31

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 pages of photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 696.
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612003955
ISBN
9781612003955
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.66

hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; BGH; BGL; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 420. Good clean copy with light wear to dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0000209
ISBN
9781408188446
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Zarah Petri came to Canada from Hungary in the 1920s. At 16, she lost her job in a Hamilton knitting mill because she got married. During Prohibition, the teen bride made up for lost income by bootlegging her home-made pear liquor. This memoir has been written in the first person by her son. Series: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters Series. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 369.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
AU Press Canada
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897425411
ISBN
9781897425411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. Author is the world's leading collector of VCs; his trust owns 146. Num Pages: 432 pages, 16pp b/w photos converted for SR. BIC Classification: BGH; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Review
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755316335
ISBN
9780755316335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. 'A stunning achievement ..Neither sanitized nor mythologizing, Victoria: The Queen is a remarkably lucid, endlessly engaging account of Queen Victoria's life and rule' Amanda Foreman Num Pages: 752 pages, Integrated b/w photos; family tree; maps. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JH; BGH; BGR; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 49. Weight in Grams: 992.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349134505
ISBN
9780349134505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.28

Paperback. The first comprehensively researched biography of Queen Victoria ever, by one of Britain's best biographers. This magnificent biography sheds new light on Victoria not just as a queen, but as a woman. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; BGR; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 58. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848879584
ISBN
9781848879584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Hardcover. This is the personal story of a middle-class, Jewish, US educated Cuban who joins Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to become a leader in the dramatic and dangerous urban underground during the struggle and ultimate triumph of the revolution, from 1952-1959. Num Pages: 336 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KJC; BGHA; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780787961695
ISBN
9780787961695
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 24.13

Paperback. An autobiographical account of one soldier's experiences as he fought in the Vietnam war. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; BGHA; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
second edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870239571
ISBN
9780870239571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.60

Paperback. The author has been a Labour MP for 20 years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line, he has held several prominent posts. This book offers humorous and incisive takes on various aspects of political life: from the build-up to Iraq, to the scandalous sums of tax-payers' money spent on ministerial cars he didn't want to use. Num Pages: 416 pages, 16 page mono plate section. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPR; 3JMC; BGHA; BJ; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 40. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Profile Books
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846682308
ISBN
9781846682308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. The remarkable true story of some of Europe's greatest artists, the house that sheltered them during the Second World War, and the Emergency Rescue Committee who helped them escape from the Nazis Num Pages: 496 pages, integrated. BIC Classification: BGH; BTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 200 x 28. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719566943
ISBN
9780719566943
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.51

Paperback. A twenty-year battle-seasoned pilot who flew 151 combat missions in the world's most iconic fighter plane - the F-16 Fighting Falcon - the Viper as its pilots call it. A fighter pilot who came of age at the end of the Cold War, Dan Hampton was one of the flyers scrambled into the skies on 9/11. This title tells his story. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8-Page Black and White Photo Insert. BIC Classification: BGHA; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062130341
ISBN
9780062130341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

hardcover. Since Russian leader Vladimir Putin assumed power in August 1999, speculation about his character, motives, and plans for Russia's future has been rampant in the West. A portrait of Putin has emerged in the West that is one-dimensional, ill informed, and diametrically opposed to the image of Putin the majority of Russians hold. Series: Shapers of International History. Num Pages: 184 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; BGH; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597972987
ISBN
9781597972987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.71

Paperback. This collection of essays on Hildegard of Bingen, ranging from medieval theology to medicine to music, offer an understanding of how one woman could transform so many of the traditions of the world in which she lived. Editor(s): Newman, Barbara. Num Pages: 275 pages, 18 b&w illustrations, 7 musical examples. BIC Classification: 3H; BGH; HRCC7; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780520217584
ISBN
9780520217584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.50

Hardcover. Features the experiences of American, Chinese, Russian, Korean, and Vietnamese veterans from the Vietnam War, representing the views of both anti-Communist and Communist participants, including Chinese officers of the PLA, a Russian missile-training instr Num Pages: 296 pages, 22 photos, 11 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; BGH; HBWS2; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813125923
ISBN
9780813125923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.24

Paperback. The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Chateau de Cirey, the two brilliant intellects scandalised the French aristocracy with their passionate love affair. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099528890
ISBN
9780099528890
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

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