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Paperback. Russell Margerison tells of his experiences as a young air gunner in the Second World War, of being shot down, sheltered by the Belgian resistance and then taken into captivity by the Germans. His story is told frankly and modestly, and makes compulsive reading. Num Pages: 204 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238. 204 pages, illustrations. Russell Margerison tells of his experiences as a young air gunner in the Second World War, of being shot down, sheltered by the Belgian resistance and then taken into captivity by the Germans. His story is told frankly and modestly, and makes compulsive reading. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BG; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWG. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight: 242.
Publisher
Northway Publications
Number of pages
204
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780953704088
ISBN
9780953704088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.38

hardcover. Num Pages: 220 pages, gloss photo section. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
PARKWEST PUBLICATIONS United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780955788833
ISBN
9780955788833
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.57

hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNF; BTP; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062372130
ISBN
9780062372130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 25.18

Paperback. Translator(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JJPN; DNJ; HBJF; HBTW; HBWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 200 x 23. Weight in Grams: 226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780241264119
ISBN
9780241264119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. In the mid-1960s, the Soviet Union unveiled the BMP-1, the first true infantry fighting vehicle. The BMP marked a significant departure from the traditional "armored personnel carrier", sporting a lower silhouette and a higher-caliber armament than rival APCs. This book examines the first time these Cold War icons clashed in the First Gulf War. Illustrator(s): Gilliland, Alan; Shumate, Johnny. Series: Duel. Num Pages: 80 pages, 35 b/w; 26 col. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JJPR; HBJF1; HBWS3; JWD; JWMV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 249 x 6. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472815200
ISBN
9781472815200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.60

Hardcover. Explores Great Britain's countryside and transport links. This title not only offers insights into the routes and uses of the canals themselves, but also commentary on rural features and social life in and around the canals that had had such an important industrial impact throughout the later Georgian and Victorian eras. Series: Old House. Num Pages: 496 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 3JH; HBJD1; WGGN; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 158 x 42. Weight in Grams: 826.
Publisher
Old House Books
Number of pages
496
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908402141
ISBN
9781908402141
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.37

Hardcover. Collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s - Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile. Series: Old House. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; WGF; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 131 x 42. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Old House Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Facsimile
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908402028
ISBN
9781908402028
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.23

Hardback. Offers a snapshot of Britain in the 1860s. This is a facsimile of the actual book, often referred to as "Bradshaw's Guide", that inspired the "Great British Railway Journeys" television series, and is possibly the only surviving example of the 1863 edition. Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 177 x 44. Weight in Grams: 804.
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Old House Books
Number of pages
512
Publication date
2012
Edition
Premium ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908402486
ISBN
9781908402486
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 26.31

Paperback. Three times viceroy, Sir Henry Sidney was a key figure in the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland. This is Sidney's own account of his career in Ireland, last published in the mid-19th century. Series: Irish Narratives S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JB; BGHA; DNF; HBJD1; HBLC; HBLH; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 161.
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859181805
ISBN
9781859181805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.64

Hardback. Brahmanical Theories of the Gift constitutes the first critical edition and translation into any modern language of a d nanibandha, a classical Hindu legal digest devoted to the culturally and religiously important topic of gifting. David Brick has included an extensive historical introduction to the text and its subject matter." Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 470 pages. BIC Classification: D; DS; HBJF; HPDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 173 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
annotated edition
Number of pages
470
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674088481
ISBN
9780674088481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.36
€ 50.42

Hardback. Noam Maggor shows how the moneyed elite in Gilded Age Boston leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation. With the decline of cotton-based textile manufacturing, these gentleman bankers found new business opportunities in the mines, railroads, and industries of the Great West. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 halftones, 7 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTK; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674971462
ISBN
9780674971462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 40.99

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, 236 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBEC; AJCR; HBJK; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 304. Weight in Grams: 1778.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764349300
ISBN
9780764349300
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 35.59

Hardcover. Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, is an interesting and controversial figure of the late Georgian and early Victorian British Army. It is said he commanded in more battles than any other British soldier of this period, save for the Duke of Wellington. Series: War and Military Culture in South Asia, 1757-1949. Num Pages: 464 pages, 40 b/w illustrations, 10 maps maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Helion and Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910294611
ISBN
9781910294611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 41.60

Paperback.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781842820667
ISBN
9781842820667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.49

Paperback. A sweeping survey of Brazilian representations--encompassing literature, art, propaganda, mass media, and other realms--across five centuries of evolving identity, brimming with powerful photographs. Series: The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere. Num Pages: 408 pages, 79 b&w illus, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 185 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292718579
ISBN
9780292718579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.49

Paperback. This is a systematic account of Brazil's historical development from 1798 to 1852. The book analyses the process that brought the sprawling Portuguese colonies of the New World into the confines of a single nation-state. Editor(s): Barman, Roderick J. Num Pages: 348 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLSB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 475.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723305
ISBN
9780804723305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 27 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300216974
ISBN
9780300216974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.19

Hardback. Brazil's Steel City presents a social history of the National Steel Company (CSN), Brazil's foremost state-owned company and largest industrial enterprise in the mid-twentieth century. Num Pages: 352 pages, 12 tables, 5 figures, 20 illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JJ; HBJK; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804771689
ISBN
9780804771689
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.77

hardcover. An in-depth study of the changing patterns and fortunes of the provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, c.1260 to 1536. The study of the food supply of late-medieval conventual households sheds much light on the wider process of decline and eventual collapse of direct demesne management and feudalism in the post-Black Death era. Series: Studies in Regional and Local History. Num Pages: 237 pages, Illustrations maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 175 x 17. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Of Hertfordshire Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907396625
ISBN
9781907396625
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 39.28

Paperback. Employing a wide range of source materials literary and artistic responses to violence, memoirs, and first-person accounts from victims, perpetrators, relief workers, and diplomats, the author argues that the international answer to the inhumanity of World War I in the Middle East laid the foundation for modern humanitarianism and more. Num Pages: 272 pages, 19 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JKSR; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520279322
ISBN
9780520279322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.23

hardcover. Constantine Vaporis challenges the notion that an elaborate and restrictive system of travel regulations in Tokugawa Japan prevented widespread travel, maintaining instead that a "culture of movement" developed in that era. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AMVD; HBJF; KNG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 36. Weight in Grams: 720.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674081079
ISBN
9780674081079
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.09
€ 54.44

Hardback. An in-depth reassessment of the disastrous 1917 French offensive on the Western Front. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; HBJD; HBWN; JWLF; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781592922
ISBN
9781781592922
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.29

Hardback. An intense study of the Sudans' torturous history, analysing why so many attempts to find peace have failed and setting out how this can change Num Pages: 384 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1HBS; GTJ; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 37. Weight in Grams: 636.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786070036
ISBN
9781786070036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.15

Paperback. .
Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849549158
ISBN
9781849549158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.00

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