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paperback. Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots, arson, unemployment, crime and corruption. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099553885
ISBN
9780099553885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 11.01

paperback. In the terrible aftermath of the battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Offering a reconstruction of Culloden, the author recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation. Num Pages: 336 pages, maps, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBTB; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780140028379
ISBN
9780140028379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 12.37

paperback. Strarting from the Ice Ages, this account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. It spans prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the series of strikes by Welsh miners in the late twentieth century, offering a history of an enduring people. Num Pages: 784 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 3B; 3D; 3F; 3H; 3J; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780140284751
ISBN
9780140284751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.46

paperback. Traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. This title portrays legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur. Translator(s): Thorpe, Lewis. Num Pages: 384 pages, map, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140441703
ISBN
9780140441703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 12.37

paperback. Tells the history of the Blitz in the Second World War. This book examines the well-known parts of the campaign, and the significance of bombing on many other fronts - the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example (and discovered material on the more familiar 'Blitz' on Britain), or the Allied campaigns against Italian cities. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141003214
ISBN
9780141003214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.13

paperback. The 1950s was the decade in which Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile, Bill Haley released "Rock Around the Clock", rationing ended and Britain embarked on the traumatic, disastrous Suez War. This book captures Britain in a decade, emerging from the shadow of war into growing affluence. Num Pages: 768 pages, 32 pp b/w/ inset. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; HBJD1; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141004099
ISBN
9780141004099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 16.68

paperback. Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime's moral blindness and one man's insistence that he be absolved all guilty because he was 'only following orders'. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 114 x 9. Weight in Grams: 90.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141024004
ISBN
9780141024004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 8.97

paperback. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141026916
ISBN
9780141026916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.46

paperback. When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. This title presents the event with an account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds. Series: Penguin Magnum Collection. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141041865
ISBN
9780141041865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 12.37

paperback. Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change. Political parties rose - and fell. This second volume has a cast of characters that includes some of British history's most famous names: the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Gladstone, Disraeli, Lloyd George, Churchill and Thatcher. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
9780552779968
ISBN
9780552779968
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.73

paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages, 8pp plates illustrations/5 integrated maps and diagrams. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
New
SKU
9780712668279
ISBN
9780712668279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.26

paperback. When the Germans arrived on the Channel Islands after the defeat of France in the summer of 1940, they and the islanders agreed that it would be a "Model Occupation". But as the war dragged on and Britain appeared to abandon the islands to their fate, so features of Nazi occupation already widespread throughout Europe emerged. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9781784707163
ISBN
9781784707163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.10

paperback. Relates the author's childhood in Palestine, the flight to Britain after the catastrophe of 1948, and coming of age in the coffee-bars of Golders Green, the middle-class Jewish quarter in North London. Num Pages: 452 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJP; BGA; HBJF1; HBLW3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Verso Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781844673681
ISBN
9781844673681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.44

hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
FOUR COURTS PR
Condition
New
SKU
9781846820014
ISBN
9781846820014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.00
€ 39.08

hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Four Courts Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781851828463
ISBN
9781851828463
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.00
€ 29.39

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Four Courts Press Ltd
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
9781851828548
ISBN
9781851828548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.00
€ 39.08

hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Four Courts Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781851828920
ISBN
9781851828920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.00
€ 35.85

hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Four Courts Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781851829163
ISBN
9781851829163
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.00
€ 29.39

Hardcover. Fine in fine cloth covers and with publisher's slipcase. Slipcase showing light shelf wear. Remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
The Folio Society
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KMK0021176
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 35.00

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230341982
ISBN
9780230341982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.15

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