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Paperback. Adolf Hitler, Monty, Mussolini, Rommel (who?) - all played their modest parts in the Second World War and the shaping of human destiny, but we all know where the real action was.. The most scurrilous, bizarre and certainly the most hilarious military career embarked upon by any bombardier of the 56th heavy regiment, royal artillery, ever. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; HBG; HBWQ; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 112 x 29. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780140110821
- ISBN
- 9780140110821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.05
€ 21.99
€ 17.05
Paperback. Presents history of global change from 1945 onwards. This title explores therapid changes in the Middle East, the end of apartheid in South Africa and the aims of American foreign policy. It concludes with an epilogue which examines the direction of post-1945 history as the world enters the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 608 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 3 Rev Upd
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140268751
- ISBN
- 9780140268751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.39
€ 18.99
€ 15.39
Paperback. The Year of Four Emperors was one of the most chaotic, violent and frightening periods in all Roman history. It was a time of assassinations and civil wars. Offering a look at 69AD, this book features a narrative history with portraits of the leading participants and insights into the nature of the Roman military Morgan. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBG; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195315899
- ISBN
- 9780195315899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.01
€ 20.01
Hardback. Exploring as to how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world, this work shows that, there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3D; DSBB; HBG; HRCC1; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 31. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st edition
- SKU
- V9780199262892
- ISBN
- 9780199262892
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 301.43
€ 301.43
Paperback. Translator(s): Cochrane, L.G. Num Pages: 354 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; PDA; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226728322
- ISBN
- 9780226728322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 39.42
€ 50.99
€ 39.42
Hardcover. Public discourse and everyday life during the last days of Yugoslavia Series: New Anthropologies of Europe. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DV; GTB; HBG; HBJD; HBLW; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780253356239
- ISBN
- 9780253356239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.55€ 52.12
€ 81.55
€ 52.12
Paperback. * Timely history of the battle for the Mediterranean in the 15th and 16th centuries by the forces of Islam and Christendom, out now in paperback Num Pages: 512 pages, Integrated: 40, int b/w photos. BIC Classification: 3JB; HBG; HBLH; HBWC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349115375
- ISBN
- 9780349115375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.52
€ 18.99
€ 14.52
Paperback. In a work of splendid scholarship that reflects both a firm mastery of difficult sources and a keen intuition, one of Britain's foremost medievalists tells the story of the Christianization of Europe. 36 illustrations. 10 maps. Num Pages: 575 pages, 36 b/w photographs, 10 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HRCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 575
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520218598
- ISBN
- 9780520218598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.47
€ 35.99
€ 26.47
Paperback. From the outbreak of war in September 1939 all the way to the smouldering ruins of Berlin in 1945, via Palestine, Tobruk, El Alamein, D-Day, Nijmegen and the crossing of the Rhine, this book offers an account of the Second World War. Editor(s): Holland, James. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGH; HBG; HBLW; HBW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552165655
- ISBN
- 9780552165655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.44
€ 18.99
€ 14.44
Paperback. Empires - vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition - have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. This title departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Num Pages: 528 pages, 44 halftones. 34 line illus. BIC Classification: 1QD; HBG; HBJQ; HBL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 179 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- unknown
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691152363
- ISBN
- 9780691152363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.47
€ 35.99
€ 26.47
Paperback. The controversial memoir of a top British spy which finally reveals what really went on behind the scenes of the Falklands War Num Pages: 400 pages, 16, 34 maps. BIC Classification: 1MTASF; 3JJPN; HBG; HBLW3; HBW; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 31. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753821862
- ISBN
- 9780753821862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.99
€ 16.99
€ 12.99
Paperback. A companion book to the History Channel series, The History of Mankind covers the worldwide history of human beings. Num Pages: 448 pages, 300 color photos, color illustrations, maps, charts. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 190 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Running Press,U.S.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762447039
- ISBN
- 9780762447039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 22.07
€ 32.99
€ 22.07
Paperback. Presents the history of British colonial doctrine and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and environmental policies. This work examines the way that development as a framework of ideas and institutional practices emerged out of the strategic engagement between science and the state at the climax of the British Empire. Series Editor(s): Webb, James L. A., Jr. Series: Series in Ecology & History. Num Pages: 408 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBG; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821417188
- ISBN
- 9780821417188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.01
€ 41.99
€ 37.01
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857384768
- ISBN
- 9780857384768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 33.29
€ 50.99
€ 33.29
Paperback. The history and philosophy of the mysterious Cathar religion and its lost treasure. Num Pages: 312 pages, Includes 8-page b&w insert. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; HRCS1; HRLP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 231 x 44. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892810901
- ISBN
- 9780892810901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 14.80
€ 20.99
€ 14.80
Hardback. The twentieth century witnessed genocides, ethnic cleansing, forced population expulsions, shifting borders, and other disruptions on an unprecedented scale. This book examines the work of memory and the ethics of healing in post authoritarian societies that have experienced state-perpetrated violence. Editor(s): Silberman, Marc; Vatan, Florence. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 270 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; JFFE; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343512
- ISBN
- 9781137343512
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.25€ 111.94
€ 113.25
€ 111.94
Paperback. A terrifying East-West confrontation - but what historical significance? Series: Brief Histories. Num Pages: 448 pages, cartoons & maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3; HBW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 27. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Constable and Robinson United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845292584
- ISBN
- 9781845292584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.49
€ 14.99
€ 11.49
Paperback. In this extraordinary and powerful book, now available in paperback, Fatima Mernissi, one of the most original and distinctive voices in the Islamic world, uncovers a hidden history of women leaders of Islamic states stretching back over fifteen centuries. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QFM; 3F; 3H; 3J; HBG; JFFK; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745614199
- ISBN
- 9780745614199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.02
€ 24.02
Paperback. Examines the effects of the Second World War on women's sense of themselves. Using oral history it explores the interaction between cultural representations of men and women in the war, and women's own narratives of their wartime lives. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719044618
- ISBN
- 9780719044618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.92
€ 35.92
Paperback. This source book chronicles the history of the most controversial conflict of the 20th century, beginning with the birth of the Vietnamese communist party in 1930 and ending with the Vietnamese revolution in 1975. The text combines short essays with original documents to illustrate the debate. Series Editor(s): Bennett, Harry. Series: Documents in Contemporary History. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBG; HBJF; HBLW; HBWS2; JPS; JWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719054907
- ISBN
- 9780719054907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.23
€ 29.23