Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
paperback. Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change. Political parties rose - and fell. This second volume has a cast of characters that includes some of British history's most famous names: the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Gladstone, Disraeli, Lloyd George, Churchill and Thatcher. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552779968
- ISBN
- 9780552779968
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.73
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hardcover. Cockaigne: portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of medieval times-an earthly paradise to counter the suffering and frustration of daily existence and to quell anxieties over an ever-more-exclusive heavenly afterlife. Translator(s): Webb, Diane. Num Pages: 544 pages, 60 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- COLUMBIA UNIV PR
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780231117029
- ISBN
- 9780231117029
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 35.72
€ 54.99
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paperback. When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. This title presents the event with an account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds. Series: Penguin Magnum Collection. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 184.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141041865
- ISBN
- 9780141041865
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€ 19.99€ 12.37
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paperback. Looks beyond the familiar exploits of the army and navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This book shows the degree to which, because of the magnitude and intensity of hostilities, the capacities of the whole British population were involved: industrialists, farmers, shipbuilders, gunsmiths and gunpowder manufacturers. Num Pages: 720 pages, 24 pp colour inset. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 530.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141038940
- ISBN
- 9780141038940
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€ 19.99€ 17.13
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paperback. The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life. They saw inflation, riots, the peak of trade union power - and also the birth of home computers, the rise of the ready meal and the triumph of a Grantham grocer's daughter who would change everything. This title is an account of the late 1970s in Britain. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; HBJD1; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 46. Weight in Grams: 716.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141032160
- ISBN
- 9780141032160
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.13
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paperback. Between 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redcoat soldier who showed heroism in battle and stoicism in peace, despite appalling treatment. This book tells their story: of brutal discipline and inedible food, of loyalty and low pay, and of barracks and battlefield. Num Pages: 608 pages, 16 pages colour. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBW; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141027937
- ISBN
- 9780141027937
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.37
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paperback. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141026916
- ISBN
- 9780141026916
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.46
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€ 16.46
paperback. Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime's moral blindness and one man's insistence that he be absolved all guilty because he was 'only following orders'. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 114 x 9. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141024004
- ISBN
- 9780141024004
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 8.97
€ 19.99
€ 8.97
paperback. Part of the trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, this final book shows how Germany rushed headlong into destroying itself, shattering an entire continent. It is a history that conjures up a whole society plunged into conflict - tracing events from the invasion of Poland to Hitler's plans for genocide and his eventual suicide. Num Pages: 944 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141015484
- ISBN
- 9780141015484
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.46
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paperback. The 1950s was the decade in which Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile, Bill Haley released "Rock Around the Clock", rationing ended and Britain embarked on the traumatic, disastrous Suez War. This book captures Britain in a decade, emerging from the shadow of war into growing affluence. Num Pages: 768 pages, 32 pp b/w/ inset. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; HBJD1; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141004099
- ISBN
- 9780141004099
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 16.68
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paperback. Tells the history of the Blitz in the Second World War. This book examines the well-known parts of the campaign, and the significance of bombing on many other fronts - the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example (and discovered material on the more familiar 'Blitz' on Britain), or the Allied campaigns against Italian cities. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141003214
- ISBN
- 9780141003214
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.13
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paperback. Traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. This title portrays legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur. Translator(s): Thorpe, Lewis. Num Pages: 384 pages, map, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 284.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140441703
- ISBN
- 9780140441703
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.37
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paperback. Begins with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and concludes at the end of the reign of William III in 1702. This book presents a time of deep struggle throughout Britain and Ireland in vivid prose. It offers a gripping narrative, and draws on a wide range of sources including historical accounts and creative literature. Editor(s): Trevor-Roper, Hugh. Num Pages: 576 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140431339
- ISBN
- 9780140431339
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.37
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paperback. In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. This title explores German writers' strange silence about a moment of mass destruction. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 224 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSBH; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; JW; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140298000
- ISBN
- 9780140298000
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 11.01
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paperback. Strarting from the Ice Ages, this account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. It spans prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the series of strikes by Welsh miners in the late twentieth century, offering a history of an enduring people. Num Pages: 784 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 3B; 3D; 3F; 3H; 3J; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140284751
- ISBN
- 9780140284751
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.46
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paperback. In the terrible aftermath of the battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Offering a reconstruction of Culloden, the author recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation. Num Pages: 336 pages, maps, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBTB; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140028379
- ISBN
- 9780140028379
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.37
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paperback. Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots, arson, unemployment, crime and corruption. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099553885
- ISBN
- 9780099553885
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 11.01
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paperback. Drawing on a mass of primary materials - from texts in the Vatican archives to oral histories of the North American Indians, this title shows how the conflict between Britain and France triggered the first 'world war', raging from Europe to Africa; the Caribbean to the Pacific; the plains of the Ganges to the Great Lakes of North America. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099526391
- ISBN
- 9780099526391
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.37
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paperback. Offers an analysis of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder. Arguing that genocide was not a preconceived plan, this book explains how the decision to murder the Jews en masse emerged in stages and by a process of elimination that gradually foreclosed plans for their expulsion from Europe. Num Pages: 640 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099454823
- ISBN
- 9780099454823
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.53
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paperback. In a panoramic survey of the Victorian Age, this work describes the men and women who brought the modern age into being. The capitalist world was challenged by the ideas of such men as Karl Marx, William Morris and George Bernard Shaw - here they are. Here are also the lofty and famous and here too are the poor and the obscure. Num Pages: 752 pages, 32. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099451860
- ISBN
- 9780099451860
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.73
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paperback. Describes London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs. This title includes chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink. Num Pages: 848 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099422587
- ISBN
- 9780099422587
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 23.94
€ 29.99
€ 23.94
paperback. From original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations, this book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures, both real and fictional, that dwell in the darkness of London - rats and eels, monsters and ghosts. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099287377
- ISBN
- 9780099287377
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 11.01
€ 19.99
€ 11.01
paperback. Following the success of "Forgotten Voices of the Great War", this book chronicles one of human histories darkest hours - the Holocaust. This book draws on the recorded evidence of the experiences of Holocaust survivors for the Imperial War Museum sound archive - one of the most important archives of its kind in the world. Num Pages: 368 pages, 50. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 124 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780091898267
- ISBN
- 9780091898267
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.73
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Paperback. Illustrator(s): Hook, Adam. Series: Campaign. Num Pages: 96 pages, 75 b&w, 11colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 183 x 8. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841769196
- ISBN
- 9781841769196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.41
€ 20.41