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Paperback. This authoritative account of the Taliban's remarkable rebirth in Pakistan and Afghanistan traces the roots of the region's Islamic extremism and examines the role of America's political policies and strategic military decisions in enabling the troubling resurgence of the dangerously repressive fundamentalists. Num Pages: 296 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1FKP; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS4; JPWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300216165
- ISBN
- 9780300216165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.09
€ 19.99
€ 16.09
Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- Revised
- Publication date
- 1988
- SKU
- KTG0003272
- ISBN
- 9780140110517
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women. Num Pages: 528 pages, 40 b/w illus, (3 x 8pp colour plate sections), With index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 37. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007131891
- ISBN
- 9780007131891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 15.87
€ 23.99
€ 15.87
Paperback. Offers an insight into the Standard-type classes of US battleships. This book provides an investigation into the histories of each of the warships in the Standard-type battleship classes, the first three of which, the Nevada, Pennsylvania and New Mexico, formed the US Navy's main force in the inter-war period. Illustrator(s): Wright, Paul. Series: New Vanguard. Num Pages: 48 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBTM; HBWQ; JWF; JWMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 186 x 6. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472806963
- ISBN
- 9781472806963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.40
€ 16.99
€ 12.40
Paperback. Jim Bridger was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. At eighteen, he had braved the fury of the Missouri, ascending it in a keelboat flotilla commanded by that stalwart Mike Fink. By 1824, when he was only twenty, he had discovered the Great Salt Lake. This biography provides a portrait of Bridger. Num Pages: 333 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803257207
- ISBN
- 9780803257207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.04
€ 23.99
€ 20.04
paperback. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia. Num Pages: 720 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1MBF; 3JF; HBJM; HBLL; JKVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099448549
- ISBN
- 9780099448549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.95
€ 19.99
€ 14.95
Paperback. A blockbuster adventure about life, death and obsession in the Amazon Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 pages b-w plate. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KLSB; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJK; WTLC; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Film tie-in edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471164910
- ISBN
- 9781471164910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. The first and most important of eight volumes chronicling the French Revolution to an England fearful of another civil war. The author's twenty-six letters recounting old regime tyranny and revolutionary events provide both an apology for the Revolution and a representation of it as sublime spectacle. Editor(s): Fraistat, Neil; Lanser, Susan S. Num Pages: 295 pages, Illustrations, map, port. BIC Classification: 3JF; BGH; BJ; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 295
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551112558
- ISBN
- 9781551112558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.11
€ 37.11
Paperback. The destruction of the French army at Crecy in 1346 and the subsequent siege and capture of Calais marked a new era in European history. This book is about knighthood, battle tactics and grand strategy, and it is also about fashion, literature and the privates lives of everyone from queens to freebooters. Num Pages: 672 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DDF; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBW; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- PENGUIN BOOKS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141020679
- ISBN
- 9780141020679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.10
€ 25.99
€ 18.10
Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; 3JF; HBJK; HBTM; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 237 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1196.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764350337
- ISBN
- 9780764350337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 28.26
€ 43.99
€ 28.26
Paperback. Provides historical surveys of Iraq and Afghanistan, reviews U.S. policies regarding those nations from 1970 to 2000, discusses events that led President George W. Bush to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, and describes the course of those wars. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLX; HBWS; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 233 x 25. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199975822
- ISBN
- 9780199975822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.07
€ 51.07
Hardback. Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above all the ships were there to show the European conquest of the seas of the world. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, 52, 8 colour plates, 44 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; KCZ; RGV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 2010 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231641
- ISBN
- 9780230231641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.90
€ 124.90
Hardback. Christoph Laucht offers the first investigation into the roles played by two German-born emigre atomic scientists, Klaus Fuchs and Rudolf Peierls, in the development of British nuclear culture, especially the practice of nuclear science and the political implications of the atomic scientists' work, from the start of the Second World War until 1959. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBTW; HBWQ; JWMN; PDR; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Edition
- 2012 ed.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230354876
- ISBN
- 9780230354876
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.41
€ 65.41
Paperback. Explores the unknown world of ordinary people in the Ottoman Empire, filled with vivid detail of everyday life in a now-vanished world. A new look at Turkish cultural and social history from the world's leading authority. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850437604
- ISBN
- 9781850437604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.29
€ 39.29
Paperback. Editor(s): Giesberg, Judith. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 3JH; BM; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271063683
- ISBN
- 9780271063683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.32
€ 20.99
€ 18.32
Paperback. Documents the lives of Tsars famous and infamous in a series of biographical portraits stretching from the late 15th to the early 20th centuries. With timelines, datafiles, quotations and illustrations, this chronicle deals with this powerful empire and distinctive civilization whose impact on the history of Europe and the world is immeasurable. Series: Chronicles. Num Pages: 224 pages, 229 illustrations, 100 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 191 x 16. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500288283
- ISBN
- 9780500288283
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.98
€ 19.99
€ 15.98
Hardcover. Documented with facts, figures and eyewitness accounts, the period in question began quietly with the Luftwaffe busy elsewhere through the 1944 "Baby Blitz" and the fearsome V1 and V2 robot bombs. The three volumes of this series are dedicated to those British civilians who died or were injured. Editor(s): Ramsey, Winston G. Series: After the Battle S. Num Pages: 592 pages, 1452 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWL; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 308 x 223 x 39. Weight in Grams: 2458. Series: After the Battle S. 592 pages, 1452 illustrations. Editor(s): Ramsey, Winston G. Documented with facts, figures and eyewitness accounts, the period in question began quietly with the Luftwaffe busy elsewhere through the 1944 "Baby Blitz" and the fearsome V1 and V2 robot bombs. The three volumes of this series are dedicated to those British civilians who died or were injured. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWL; TBX; WGM. Dimension: 302 x 218 x 37. Weight: 2448.
- Publisher
- After the Battle
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- First Editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780900913587
- ISBN
- 9780900913587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.42€ 51.12
€ 53.42
€ 51.12
Hardback. Shows how the image of Cornish wreckers as villains deliberately luring ships on to the rocks is a myth. Num Pages: 278 pages, 13, 13 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; HBTM; JKV; KNGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843835554
- ISBN
- 9781843835554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.76
€ 33.99
€ 28.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; AMN; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 231 x 15. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860776724
- ISBN
- 9781860776724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.64
€ 23.99
€ 20.64
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Verso
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781689172
- ISBN
- 9781781689172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.25
€ 26.99
€ 24.25