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Paperback. First time in paperback: A unique portrait of American military action through the stories of the seventy-one U.S. destroyers sunk in World War II. Num Pages: 408 pages, 32 pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBJD; HBTM; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306810695
- ISBN
- 9780306810695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.01
€ 26.99
€ 19.01
Paperback. Explores the tale of political corruption and repression and immigrants' struggles against dominant social codes of race, ethnicity, and class. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813544199
- ISBN
- 9780813544199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Paperback. The true story of the White Queen and more, this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary noblewomen who lived through the Wars of the Roses. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; BGH; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 198 x 28. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Second Printing edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007309306
- ISBN
- 9780007309306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.95
€ 19.99
€ 15.95
Paperback. Nearly a decade of fiercely divisive debate over foxhunting in Britain culminated with passage of the Hunting with Dogs Act of 2004. This book recounts the long and colourful history of hunting in Britain, offers a fresh perspective on the conflicts, and concludes with a critique of the hunting controversies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 32 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBT; WSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300145458
- ISBN
- 9780300145458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.11
€ 20.99
€ 17.11
hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20, 3 colour plates, 16 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVWYM; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801452260
- ISBN
- 9780801452260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.33
€ 140.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FM; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJF; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300225976
- ISBN
- 9780300225976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.32
€ 18.99
€ 15.32
Paperback. Why the British forces fought so badly in World War II and who was to blame Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780304367382
- ISBN
- 9780304367382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Hardcover. 41 Squadron is one of the oldest RAF Squadrons still in existence and has seen service from the First World War, policing the Middle East in the 1930s, throughout the Second World War, and more recently in the First Gulf War and Yugoslavia. This is the first comprehensive study, concentrating on its Second World War between August 1942 - May 1945 Num Pages: 1088 pages, 350 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ; JWF; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 254 x 50. Weight in Grams: 2074.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media Ltd
- Number of pages
- 1088
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781551936
- ISBN
- 9781781551936
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 35.27
€ 46.99
€ 35.27
Paperback. A collection of thirty-three orations ranging over fifty years, demonstrating how Winston Churchill gradually honed his rhetoric. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGHA; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141442068
- ISBN
- 9780141442068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.41
€ 17.99
€ 13.41
paperback. Num Pages: 143 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HBJF; JWXK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 215 x 8. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Human Rights Watch United States
- Number of pages
- 143
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564323347
- ISBN
- 9781564323347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.47
€ 17.99
€ 16.47
Paperback. Groundbreaking reassessment of the role played by armour, weapons and heraldry in medieval warfare, showing their cultural as well as military significance. Series: Warfare in History. Num Pages: 228 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 17 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBW; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783270279
- ISBN
- 9781783270279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.79
€ 33.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia. This book gives voice to the testimony of the victims through the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries on corpses. Num Pages: 544 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVUA; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 42. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099551799
- ISBN
- 9780099551799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Paperback. This work seeks to delve beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Num Pages: 420 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DNC; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 420
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226526805
- ISBN
- 9780226526805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.79
€ 35.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. The story of the decimation of the Royal Flying Corps over Arras in 1917 Num Pages: 384 pages, 16, 6 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBWN; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780304367191
- ISBN
- 9780304367191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.89
€ 13.00
€ 11.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 148 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 188 x 10. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750952347
- ISBN
- 9780750952347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.35
€ 13.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages, 8pp b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 50. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349138800
- ISBN
- 9780349138800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Hardcover. Allen J. Frantzen traces chivalric ideals from the Great War back to their origins in the Middle Ages and shows how they resulted in highly influential models of behaviour for men in combat. Num Pages: 360 pages, 26 colour plates, 93 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBJD; HBWN; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226260853
- ISBN
- 9780226260853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.24€ 46.02
€ 53.24
€ 46.02
Paperback. London's strangest and scariest people and places are brought vividly to life in this walk through the capital's dark side. Featuring serial killers, psychopaths, gangsters, ghosts and martyrs, here are fifty true stories from all corners of the city guaranteed to chill your bones. Num Pages: 176 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 169 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146. Shocking Tales from London's Gruesome Past and Present. 176 pages, maps. London's strangest and scariest people and places are brought vividly to life in this walk through the capital's dark side. Featuring serial killers, psychopaths, gangsters, ghosts and martyrs, here are fifty true stories from all corners of the city guaranteed to chill your bones. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; WTH. Dimension: 113 x 169 x 13. Weight: 172.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780590691
- ISBN
- 9781780590691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. The remarkable story of the Lowndes County freedom struggle and its contribution to the larger civil rights movement Num Pages: 372 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; GTB; HBG; HBJK; HBLW; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814743317
- ISBN
- 9780814743317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853458968
- ISBN
- 9780853458968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.57
€ 17.99
€ 16.57
Paperback. Omaha beach attracts over one and a half million visitors yearly, making it the most visited WW II battlefield site in Europe. This narrow strip of Normandy coastline was crucial to the successful outcome of Overlord - the largest amphibious operation in history - and to the WW II itself. This title presents the story of this area. Editor(s): McIlwain, John. Series: Military and Maritime. Num Pages: 24 pages, 18 Colour and 32 black and white pictures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 172. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 24
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841650968
- ISBN
- 9781841650968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 8.10
€ 8.99
€ 8.10
Paperback. This is the first complete story, long hidden by the Soviet Union, of the attack by government forces on striking workers in 1962, resulting in 21 dead and hundreds of others wounded or imprisoned. Only with the advent of glasnost in the 1980s did the tight lid of secrecy placed on the entire episode by the Soviets begin slowly to lift. Num Pages: 264 pages, 32 illustrations, 3 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804752312
- ISBN
- 9780804752312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.93
€ 33.99
€ 30.93
Hardback. Series: Sport and Society. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; JFSJ1; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252040375
- ISBN
- 9780252040375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.98
€ 133.98
Hardback. In the 1950s Sinhalese linguistic nationalism precipitated a situation in which the movement to replace English as the main language and replace with it with Sihala and Tamil was abandoned and Sinhala alone became the official language. This work looks at the subsequent outcome this had. Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and Pacific. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKS; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804749237
- ISBN
- 9780804749237
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.11
€ 150.11