Books - "history"
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Letters Written During the Indian Mutiny
Post 8vo, xxiii + 169 pp.; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt, front board decorated with emblem in gilt enclosed by roll-tooled border in blind; frontis., plates, map foldouts; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light chipping; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; bookplate to front pastedown, prev owner's sticker to ht; ffep torn out; moderate cracking to front gutters).
PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co. 1924
KEYWORDS: Indian Mutiny England English British history India letters correspondence
Hitler's Scientist: Science, War and the Devil's Pact
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PUBLISHER: Viking 2003
KEYWORDS: Nazi Germany German history science 20th century war warfare Second World War 2 WW2 WWII WW II
Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World
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PUBLISHER: Macmillan 2006
KEYWORDS: Paul Cartledge ancient classical history Thermopylae battle war Persian Greek Greece
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
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PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2008
KEYWORDS: Jay Winik America United States 18th century modern history New World
Bedlam: London and Its Mad
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PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2008
KEYWORDS: Catharine Arnold England English history London
Nobody Knows My Name
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PUBLISHER: Dell Publishing Co. 1963
KEYWORDS: James Baldwin 20th century social history criticism
Churchill: The Power of Words: His remarkable life recounted through his writing and speeches
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PUBLISHER: Bantam Press 2012
KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill life lives biography writing speeches speech 20th century England English history
Facades: Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell
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PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1978
KEYWORDS: 20th century literary history Edith Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell
The Third Advent
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PUBLISHER: Daisyamerica 2003
KEYWORDS: politics economics philosophy history spiritual spirituality enlightenment
Book Binding by Hand for Students and Craftsmen
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PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1963
KEYWORDS: bookbinding book binding arts crafts design printing publishing history technique methods guide
Equal to the Task: The History of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps
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PUBLISHER: F. W. Cheshire 1962
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian army military history
The Science of Secrecy: The History of Codes and Codebreaking
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PUBLISHER: Fourth Estate 2000
KEYWORDS: codes code breaking history communication
First Airborne
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PUBLISHER: Secker and Warburg 1948
KEYWORDS: military history aviation Michael Packe aerial combat warfare ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 first editions
The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tasrist Russia
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PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian history politics political Degaev affair late 19th nineteenth century
The Shadow of War Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the Present
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PUBLISHER: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian history 20th twentieth century post-war soviet USSR
The Royal River: The Thames, From Source to Sea
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PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Books 1985
KEYWORDS: England Great Britain English British cities London waterways rivers Thames history
The Good German of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe
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PUBLISHER: Abacus 2000
KEYWORDS: history historical journals diaries John Rabe autobiography memoir Nanking China Japanese war conflict
Flying for Freedom: The Allied Air Forces in the RAF 1939-45
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PUBLISHER: The History Press 2011
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 raf royal air force aviation British armed forces defence defense
The Walking Whales: From Land to Water in Eight Million Years
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PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2015
KEYWORDS: natural history dinosaurs paleontology whales fossils evolution marine Pakistan India
The Artistic Ape: Three Million Years of Art
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PUBLISHER: Red Lemon Press 2013
KEYWORDS: art history antiquity archeology archaeology Desmond Morris anthropology prehistoric prehistory