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Paperback. During the Second World War, Britain's top secret Special Operations Executive plotted to assassinate Hitler. A small department of SOE known as Section X had the tantalisingly complex task of investigating how, when and where their plan could be executed. This title gives insight into the shadowy world of Britain's wartime secret services. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWKF; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752454733
- ISBN
- 9780752454733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.39
€ 13.99
€ 13.39
Hardcover. The Doctrine of the Hert was the fifteenth-century English translation of De doctrina cordis, the thirteenth-century Latin devotional treatise addressed to nuns. This book includes ten essays from a group of scholars of medieval religion who discuss the Middle English text alongside its Latin forebear, and other European vernacular translations. Editor(s): Renevey, Denis; Whitehead, Christiania. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HBLC; HRCS; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st edn
- SKU
- V9780859898218
- ISBN
- 9780859898218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.17
€ 141.17
Paperback. Published on the 35th anniversary of Sands' death, this powerful biography illuminates his life and political impact. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 37. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745336336
- ISBN
- 9780745336336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.06
€ 25.99
€ 18.06
Paperback. Telling the story of the remarkable British impact upon India, this book examines what the Raj really meant for the British and their Indian subjects. Among the questions explored are whether the British were intent on development or exploitation, whether they were the civilizing force they claimed, and what their greatest legacies were. Num Pages: 256 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Number of pages
- 247
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192805799
- ISBN
- 9780192805799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.47
€ 33.47
Paperback. * Provides the first comprehensive geographical analysis of Russia since 1991. * Examines Russia in the context of its past, in relation to its post--Soviet neighbours, and in an international context. * Focuses on economic, political and social geography; rural and urban spaces; and ecological issues. . Series: The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Studies in Geography. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBLW3; JP; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631181347
- ISBN
- 9780631181347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.36
€ 63.36
Hardback. Feldpost: The War Letters of Friedrich Reiner Niemann documents the frontline experiences of a German soldier from the 6th Infantry Division from 1941- 1945. Niemann describes the fighting at Rzhev, Russia, 1942-1943, and his survival of the destruction of his division in 1944. His is a rare view of the conflict on the Eastern front. Num Pages: 288 pages, 60 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DV; 3JJH; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 244 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media LLc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781625450159
- ISBN
- 9781625450159
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 23.65
€ 33.99
€ 23.65
Paperback. Investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. This book examines the most important of the ancient world's time divisions, that between myth and history. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 392 pages, 12 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544. Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. 392 pages, Illustrations. Investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. This book examines the most important of the ancient world's time divisions, that between myth and history. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 24. Weight: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258013
- ISBN
- 9780520258013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.01
€ 31.99
€ 23.01
Hardback. This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the Ch'in and Han empires. Editor(s): Twitchett, Denis; Loewe, Michael. Series Editor(s): Fairbank, John King; Twitchett, Denis. Series: The Cambridge History of China. Num Pages: 1024 pages, 17 maps 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 154 x 60. Weight in Grams: 1536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 1023
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521243278
- ISBN
- 9780521243278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.20
€ 181.20
Paperback. Malta in the summer of 1942, a Malta wide open to air attack from the Germans and Italians and defended by a handful of Spitfires and a few anti-aircraft guns. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 x 8pp photos and paintings. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Grub Street United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909166035
- ISBN
- 9781909166035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.49
€ 19.99
€ 19.49
paperback. The international bestselling story of one British soldier's brave choice to exchange places with a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 x 8pp Black & White. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0021955
- ISBN
- 9781444714197
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 5. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801481741
- ISBN
- 9780801481741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.82
€ 34.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199593774
- ISBN
- 9780199593774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.21
€ 17.99
€ 14.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGX; HBLC1; HRAX; HRHT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 241 x 10. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Publisher
- Fons Vitae,US
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941610121
- ISBN
- 9781941610121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.19
€ 26.99
€ 24.19
Paperback. A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape. Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies. Num Pages: 322 pages, 24, 6 black & white illustrations, 18 black & white line drawings, 6 black and white, 18. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; HBJD1; HBLC; HDL; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 322
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843838296
- ISBN
- 9781843838296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.75
€ 33.99
€ 28.75
Paperback. Mao Zedong was a giant of 20th century history. In this Very Short Introduction, Delia Davin provides an account of Mao the man. From his childhood as a peasant to ruler of the most populous nation on Earth, she considers the major events in his life, his revolutionary writing, and his utopian dreams that culminated in the Cultural Revolution. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; BGH; HBJF; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 117 x 8. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199588664
- ISBN
- 9780199588664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
Hardcover. Before Tito's Yugoslavia, which disintegrated violently in the 1990s, there was another Yugoslav state. This book is about the interwar Yugoslavia (1918-41), and is based on the author's research in Croatian, Serbian, British and American archives. It places Yugoslavia in the context of a Europe-wide struggle between democracy and dictatorship. Num Pages: 310 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 310
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850658511
- ISBN
- 9781850658511
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 52.60
€ 53.48
€ 52.60
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905791781
- ISBN
- 9781905791781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.35
€ 17.99
€ 13.35
Hardcover. The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. This book discusses seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe to reconsider the birth of the Industrial Revolution. Num Pages: 592 pages, 2 line drawings, 3 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLH; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 163 x 42. Weight in Grams: 940.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First Edition (US) First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226556659
- ISBN
- 9780226556659
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.29€ 44.59
€ 52.29
€ 44.59
Hardback. Deirdre Coleman shows how the growing popularity of the anti-slavery movement gave a utopian cast to the debate about colonization. Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HBG; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521632133
- ISBN
- 9780521632133
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.39
€ 124.39
Hardcover. How a friendship forged in war between a Welsh captain and an Irish chaplain with the Eighth Army in Italy led to their adoption of a hilltop village destroyed during a massacre by a German army in retreat. The small Tuscan village still remembers the acts of kindness by the British officers, dedicating a street to their Good Samaritans. Num Pages: 240 pages, 67 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 297 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781555316
- ISBN
- 9781781555316
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.64
€ 26.99
€ 19.64
Paperback. Presents a narrative of the origins of American Methodism, one of the significant popular movements in American history. This work places methodism's rise in the ideological context of the American Revolution and the complex social setting of the greater Middle Atlantic where it was first introduced. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 tables, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV; HRCC95; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691092980
- ISBN
- 9780691092980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.11
€ 53.48
€ 42.11
Paperback. Covers various aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male. This book shows that the reactions of the women to their frontier experience were as important as male reactions in the development of American mores and American democracy. Num Pages: 335 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 335
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803250253
- ISBN
- 9780803250253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.12
€ 20.99
€ 20.12
Paperback. Describes how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. This book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. It focuses on a national disgrace. Num Pages: 512 pages, b/w, inset. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099526407
- ISBN
- 9780099526407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.01
€ 14.99
€ 11.01
Paperback. Series: African World Histories. Num Pages: 112 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBLL; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199915392
- ISBN
- 9780199915392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.61
€ 50.61