Books - "history"
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The Cotton Mills of Bolton 1780-1985: A Historical Directory
Quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 184pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, ex-libris ink stamp to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Bolton Museum and Art Gallery 1987
KEYWORDS: history cotton mills Bolton industrial industry textiles factories
Fleet Sweepers at War: Fleet Minesweepers of the Royal Navy 1939-1945
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, ix + 208pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light fading to spine, sl creasing & chafing to covers, sl tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: J F Williams (Oropesa) 1997
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 royal navy British defence forces naval minesweepers
The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: MacMillan 1985
KEYWORDS: british naval history navy seafaring warfare
The Blue Berets: The Story of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Leo Cooper 1971
KEYWORDS: blue berets military history peacekeeping united nations
Fascinatng Footnotes from History
Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: John Murray 2015
KEYWORDS: history interest humour anecdotes
Jack Tar: the Story of the British Sailor
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1969
KEYWORDS: british sailors john laffen history literature
A Soldier of the Seventy-First: The Journal of a Soldier of the Highland Light Infantry 1806-1815
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Leo Cooper 1976
KEYWORDS: history peninsular war highland light infantry
The Devil's Wind: The Story of the Naval Brigade at Lucknow, from the letters of Edmund Hope Verney and Other Papers concerning the Enterprise of the Ship's Company of the H.M.S. Shannon in the Campaign in India
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1956
KEYWORDS: naval history indian campaign edmund home verney hms shannon
Jackboot: The Story of The German Soldier
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1966
KEYWORDS: history fictionalised memoir german military john laffin
Warrior to Soldier 449-1660: A brief introduction to the history of English warfare
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicholson (Educational) 1966
KEYWORDS: britain british military history
The Path of Glory: Being the Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp, written by Himself
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1969
KEYWORDS: history memoir english india john shipp
Clubs to Cannon: Warfare and weapons before the introduction of Gunpowder
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Gerald Duckworth & Co 1968
KEYWORDS: history military warfare weapons
The Roman Conquest of Britain AD 43-57
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: B T Batsford 1966
KEYWORDS: roman conquest britain brittania rome empire history
Wings of Destiny
Octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: MacMillan & Co 1943
KEYWORDS: military history memoir biography air forces
The Brave White Flag: A Novel About the Fall of Hong Kong
Octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1961
KEYWORDS: war history memoir biography hong kong seige
A Book of the 'Bounty'
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: JM Dent & Sons1938
KEYWORDS: hms bounty mutiny history navl britain
I Defy! The Story of Dennis Lankford MB, RNVR
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Allan Wingate 1954
KEYWORDS: history korean war memoir dennis lankford
The Flanders Road
8vo softcover (VG), tp price clipped; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: John Calder 1986
KEYWORDS: Claude Simon France history Second World War 2 WW2 WW II WWII German occupation
The colonizer and the colonized
8vo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Beacon Press 1967
KEYWORDS: Albert Memmi Jean Paul Sartre colonization master servant social history criticism
To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1987
KEYWORDS: Edmund Wilson history criticism 20th century