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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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