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hardcover. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KKD0002923
ISBN
9780340823026
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A group of US soldiers emailed their observations and experiences from Iraq and their candid opinions on fighting an insurgency. This collection of emails from American soldiers carries the reader from the alleys and city streets to the homes of long-suffering Iraqis, and from the soldiers' concrete bunkers to the 'majestic' army base. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; 3JMC; BJ; HBJF1; HBLX; HBWS5; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 682.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9781616086176
ISBN
9781616086176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.32

Paperback. If my father had been killed in North Africa or Italy during the Second World War, I know that for the rest of my life I would have looked at the few photographs of him and mourned our lost relationship. Unfortunately, he survived and came home. Num Pages: 352 pages, 21 B&W photos. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340838617
ISBN
9780340838617
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Written by his son-in-law, with unique access to personal records, this is the exciting biography of Karel Kuttelwascher, a Czech who became the scourge of Luftwaffe bombers in 1942, when his destruction of fifteen aircraft while flying with the famed No. 1 Squadron made him the RAF's top night intruder ace. Num Pages: 192 pages, 50 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGH; BTP; HBWQ; JWG; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 343.
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781555910
ISBN
9781781555910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.95

Paperback. Series: Fighter pilots. Num Pages: 200 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; BG; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Crecy Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907579779
ISBN
9780907579779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.90

Paperback. Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This title presents an account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 9. Weight in Grams: 106.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141038995
ISBN
9780141038995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. Elie Wiesel was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 3. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140189896
ISBN
9780140189896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.13

paperback. A celebration of Nigel and all the dogs Monty Don has had and how dogs enrich our lives by the BBC Gardeners' World presenter. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2x 8pp colour. BIC Classification: BM; WM; WNGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 43. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Hodder
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473641716
ISBN
9781473641716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.80

Hardcover. No one is more responsible for Britain's current obsession with celebrity culture than the late, great gossip columnist Nigel Dempster (1941-2007). For a quarter of a century, as the editor of the Daily Mail's diary, he was the man perfectly placed and qualified to record - and accelerate - the end of the age of deference.. Num Pages: 249 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Short Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906021849
ISBN
9781906021849
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.27

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, over 150 b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGH; TRP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 794.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764316241
ISBN
9780764316241
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 28.00

Paperback. Series: International Nietzsche Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 19 photographs. BIC Classification: BG; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252074677
ISBN
9780252074677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.02

Hardback. Friedrich Nietzsche was immensely influential and, counter to most expectations, also very well read. This work identifies the chronology and huge range of philosophical books that engaged him. It provides fresh insight into how Nietzsche worked and thought; to which questions and thinkers he responded; and, by which of them he was influenced. Series: International Nietzsche Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: BG; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252032455
ISBN
9780252032455
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.42

paperback. When the author wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. This title offers an account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subsequent generations had put his ideas. Series: Princeton Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; HPCD; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 207 x 146 x 38. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
With a New foreword by Alexander Nehamas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691160269
ISBN
9780691160269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.00
€ 21.86

Paperback. Presenting a portrait of Nietzsche the man, this book offers a study of the poetic, psychological, religious, and mystical aspects of his thought. Its introduction examines the circumstances that brought the author and Nietzsche together and the ideological conflicts that drove them apart. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252070358
ISBN
9780252070358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.63

Paperback. Insightful, opinionated, but always thoughtful, Niddrie of the North-West reveals the lively social dynamics of Canada's formative years. Num Pages: 244 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGA; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888643414
ISBN
9780888643414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.96

Paperback. Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. With comic insight and meticulous precision, Hens deconstructs every facet of the dependency and offers a brilliant disquisition on the psychopathology of addiction. Translator(s): Calleja, Jen. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DNF; VFL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 203 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Condition
New
SKU
9781910695074
ISBN
9781910695074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.73

Paperback. A biography of the British singer songwriter who died aged twenty six, having made three albums, all now recognised as classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, facsimiles, portrait. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747535034
ISBN
9780747535034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.63

Paperback. Series: Reverb. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 black and white. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 209 x 13. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780231761
ISBN
9781780231761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.76

Paperback. Explores how a tiny acoustic record has puttered and purred its way into the millennium. This book contains interviews of producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and the marketing team behind the VW commercial. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; AVGP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 121 x 8. Weight in Grams: 120. Series: 33 1/3. 144 pages. Explores how a tiny acoustic record has puttered and purred its way into the millennium. This book contains interviews of producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and the marketing team behind the VW commercial. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; AVGP; BGF. Dimension: 165 x 121 x 8. Weight: 120.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826427908
ISBN
9780826427908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.58

Hardcover. Before becoming one of the all-time greats of the comicbook world, the author fought in World War II - and he took his sketchbook with him. From basic training in the US, through Europe to VE Day in Paris, he documented everything, in vivid sketches and watercolors that show both the humor and horror of war. Num Pages: 128 pages, colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 3JJH; AKLC; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 307 x 209 x 14. Weight in Grams: 800.
Publisher
Titan Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781165331
ISBN
9781781165331
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 17.80

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