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Paperback. The new memoir from the author of "Maidens' Trip" and "The Great Western Beach"; a remarkable story of a young woman growing up against the backdrop of the Second World War, and postwar life in India, Paris and bohemian Chelsea. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408835630
ISBN
9781408835630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.93

Paperback. They burned bras, draft cards, and even the American flag. But what drove a group of young Americans to democratic revolution in the tumultuous years of the 1960s, and what made them think they could win? This book looks at the motivations and values of the young rebels of the 1960s. Series: Vietnam: America in the War Years. Num Pages: 185 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; GTB; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 331.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842051415
ISBN
9780842051415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.92

Paperback. The Volksjager was an interceptor cheaply manufactured for Germany s final stand. For aviation and World War II enthusiasts, this study explores the operational history of the He 162." Illustrator(s): Laurier, Jim. Series: Combat Aircraft. Num Pages: 96 pages, 80 b/w; 19 col. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWG; JWMV3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 247 x 8. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472814579
ISBN
9781472814579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 150 black & white illustrations, 8 colour plates, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBWQ; JWMV2; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 11. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750961356
ISBN
9780750961356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.65

Paperback. September 1940. With calm deliberation, Polish Army officer Witold Pilecki walked into a Nazi German street roundup in Warsaw.. and became Auschwitz Prisoner No. 4859. Translator(s): Garlinski, Jarek. Num Pages: 460 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 40 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 860.
Publisher
Aquila Polonica Publishing United States
Number of pages
460
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781607720102
ISBN
9781607720102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.58

Hardback. Interpreting the German-Polish relationship according to a paradigm of 'synthesis' between nations, this book examines the process and socio-political effects of how conflict and contradiction between Germans and Poles gave rise to mentalities and behaviours that were 'transnational'; representing the harmonization of the national dichotomy. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 maps, 21 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230284166
ISBN
9780230284166
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.88

Paperback. How do you drive a steam locomotive? Read this official period manual issued during the great age of steam to find out! Editor(s): Maggs, Colin G. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJC; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 124 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445616803
ISBN
9781445616803
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.50

Paperback. This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and highlighting the physical stresses. It also challenges liberal myths about homeless people, and homeless women in particular. Editor(s): Hellegers, Desiree. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 236 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBTD; JFFB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
236
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116580
ISBN
9780230116580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.91

Paperback. In this study all aspects of the Khrushchev era:are explored, including reforms in agriculture, economic policy, crises in Eastern Europe, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, de-Stalinisation and Khrushchev's attempts to reform the Communist Party. Series: Seminar Studies. Num Pages: 160 pages, 2 maps, chronology, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFC; JPH; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582277762
ISBN
9780582277762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 47.29

Paperback. Presents a social and industrial study of the conditions faced by the many thousands of working men and women and their families whose lives were controlled by the Great Western Railway from 1930-1960, the beginning of the modern period for the railway with mechanical accounting, up to the decline of the railway from 1957. Num Pages: 160 pages, 100. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTB; JHBL; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 171 x 10. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752444031
ISBN
9780752444031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.65

Paperback. This annual publication gives the longitudes of all the planets for each day and their latitudes and declinations for every other day, and includes tables of houses for London, Liverpool and New York. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; GBCY; VXFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 122 x 3. Weight in Grams: 42.
Publisher
W Foulsham & Co Ltd
Number of pages
48
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Condition
New
SKU
V9780572010027
ISBN
9780572010027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.24

Paperback. Surveys the efforts to promote equal rights in the fifties and sixties, and examines government policy changes. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JFFK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467. "Includes index. Bibliography: p. 309-326. Commissioning organisation: Cynthia Harrison. xxii, 337 p. 23 cm. Paperback. A good copy." Keywords: "Subjects - History - General,Subjects - Society, Politics & Philosophy - Government & Politics - General,Subjects - Society, Politics & Philosophy - Women's Studies - Feminist Criticism,Education Reso"
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
370
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KEX0036434
ISBN
9780520066632
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Examining a number of players in the jazz scene, including Sidney Bechet, Inez Cavanaugh, and Kenny Clarke, this book identifies how they performed both as musicians and as African Americans. Series: Music of the African Diaspora. Num Pages: 272 pages, 9 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJP; AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520279353
ISBN
9780520279353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. An analysis of the changing attitudes to poverty from Victorian times up until the outbreak of the First World War in which the author reviews the old system of poor relief and looks at the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, which became a milestone in social legislation. In the SEMINAR STUDIES IN HISTORY series. Series: Seminar Studies. Num Pages: 152 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Addison Wesley Longman
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582315549
ISBN
9780582315549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.76

Paperback. Acutely sensitive to rhythms of the countryside, Edward Thomas's lyrical, passionate, and sometimes political writing merges natural history with folk culture, and gives us a free-form record of the feelings and observations of one of the great poets of the English language. First published 1909 by J.M. Dent & Sons Illustrator(s): Daglish, Eric Fitch. Series: Nature Classics Library. Num Pages: 240 pages, b/w wood engravings + line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKES; 3JJC; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Little Toller Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956254511
ISBN
9780956254511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.98

Paperback. Patton's last battle Series: Spellmount Siegfried Line. Num Pages: 328 pages, 24 b&w illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBJK; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 167 x 32. Weight in Grams: 660.
Publisher
Spellmount Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781862271494
ISBN
9781862271494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.65

Paperback. The period 1851 to 1929 witnessed the rise of the major European avant-garde groups. This volume explores the aims and achievements of artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso and Dali, in relation to urban capitalism and expansion, colonialism, nationalism and internationalism, and the museum. Series: Oxford History of Art. Num Pages: 272 pages, numerous colour and black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; ACX; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 238 x 16. Weight in Grams: 652.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192842206
ISBN
9780192842206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.14

Paperback. Dame Cicely Saunders was the founder of the Hospice Movement, in which Britain leads the world. Her work transformed our approach to the care of the dying, and also the debate about euthanasia. She died in 2005 and her memorial service was held in Westminster Abbey in March 2006. This biography includes chapters that cover the years after 1984. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJ; BGT; MBP; MQCL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780281058891
ISBN
9780281058891
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. Exploring how understandings of masculinity were constructed by British First World war servicemen through examination of their personal narratives, including letters home from the front and wartime diaries. This book presents a nuanced investigation of masculine identity in Britain during and after the First World War. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN; JFSJ2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230302327
ISBN
9780230302327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.52

Paperback. Drawing on declassified documents, this book reveals missions as remarkable as a plot to assassinate Mussolini and plans to arm the Mafia, and brings home the risks that secret agencies run when trying to undermine well-entrenched regimes. It features a tale of desperate daring, tragic sacrifice and long-held wartime secrets. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571299195
ISBN
9780571299195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.99

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