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London: Simon & Schuster, 2014.. 1st edition. "Packed with long-forgotten stories such as the murdeer of Queen Victoria's cook in Bonn, the disaster to Germany's ironclads under the White Cliffs, bizarre early colonial clashes and the precise, dark moment when Anglophobia begat modern anti-Semitism, this is the fifty-year saga of the tragic, and often tragic-comic, delusions and miscalculations… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co.Ltd, 1919.. 1st edition. A series of essays based on the author's personal contact with the Poles during five years residence in the country. Pp.x/313, 21 black & white photo illustrations and 3 double page maps, occasional light spotting. .Dark blue cloth, blind-stamped title to front, title to spine dulled. G+.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.. 1st edition. "The political history of the main protagonist of anti-militarism, German Social Democracy, is cast in a new light, as Stargardt reveals the lasting influence of older radical traditions and reappraises the role played by its espousal of Marxism." Pp.xiv/232. Paperback. VG.

London: Robson Books, 2004.. 1st edition. "Tracks down the route taken by the missing treasure and reviews all of the searches that have taken place over the last fifty years. Peter Haining examines the various existing theories about the fate of the gold, dispensing with the rumours and red herrings along the way." Pp.xvi/221, 16 pages of black… Read more about this item

London: Simon & Schuster, 2009.. 1st edition. "Based on hundreds of French eye-witness accounts and including recently released archival material, The Resistance uses dramatic personal stories to take the reader on one of the great adventures of the twentieth century." Pp.xii/403, 16 pages of black & white photo illustrations + 2 maps. Blue boards, dustwwrapper. VG/VG.

London: Books of Africa, 2011.. Tens of thousands of years ago African men and women became the first modern inhabitants of Europe...This work highlights the Africans who contributed to the great civilizations and historical movements in Europe....the Africans who made lasting and stellar contributions to the culture and religious beliefs of Euope. It is bolstered by many on-site visits… Read more about this item

Charleston: Bibliolife, 2009.. Bibliolife facsimile edition. Contents: I.Women Agitators; II.Salons and Salonnieres; III.Clubs and Club Women; IV.Women Writers - Madame Roland; V.The Story of the Revolution Told by its Women Writers; VI.Minor Women Writers of the Revolution; VII.Women at Arms; VIII.Charlotte Corday; IX.Women and Religion; X.The Rise and Fall of the Women's Party. Pp.287. Paperback. … Read more about this item

London: Granta, 2015.. Translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside. "Collecting together letters, diaries and eyewitness accounts, Swansong 195 chronicles four significant days in the last weeks of WWII: 20 April, Hitler's last birthday; 25 April, when American and Soviet troops first met at the Elbe; 30 April, the day Hitler committed suicide; and 8 May, the day of… Read more about this item

Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003.. Louis Veron became director of the Academie Royale de Musique in 1831 and managed it "a ses risques, perils et fortune". It had been pooly managed in the Restoration period with too rapid a turnover of directors, much waste and many abuses. With great determination and flair, Veron immediately initiated substantial changes in order to… Read more about this item

Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988.. Studies in European History series. "In this study of the cold war between the Western Powers and the Soviet Union, 1945-1963, Michael Dockrill provides a concise account of this period, taking into consideration the major political, diplomatic, military and strategic factors. He explores the origin and meaning of the term Cold War and analyses the literature… Read more about this item

London: Longmans Green and Co., 1910.. 1st edition. Contents:I.Homer's World. The Four Ages; II.Homeric Lands and Peoples; III.Homeic Polity. The Over Lord; IV.Homer's Worlld in Peace; V.Men and Women; VI.Thee Homeic World in War; VII.Homeric Tactics; VIII.Men's Dress in Homer. Armour; IX.Women's Costume; X.Bronze and Iron. Weapons and Tools; XI.Burial and the Future Life; XII.Religion in Greece: Pre-Historic, Homeric,… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1971.. A centenary reissue, with a new Introduction by the author, of the first adequate English history of the "forerunner to the Russian Revolution". Originally published in 1937. "What the Communards achieved in their brief ten weeks was truly revolutionary, and was dictated not only by circumstances but by half a century of discussion… Read more about this item

New York: Peter Lang, 1991.. 1st edition. Studies in History and Culture series Vol.3. "British appeasement was a controversial policy in the 1930s, and has remained so during the more than 50 years since the problems the policy was to solve exploded into World War II. 'A Climate for Appeasement' delves into one of the primary reasons the appeasers… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, 1968.. 1st edition. "In June 1940 the armies of France, Great Britain and Belgium succumbed to the onslaught of the German armies in less than six weeks....This book is a bold attempt to clarify responsibilities and to answer the question of how an army - not greatly inferior to the enemy's and only ten years before believed… Read more about this item

Dubrovnik: Matica Hrvatska Dubrovnik, 2002.. The articles for this edition were written between autumn 1991 and spring 1992. They were published, together with all the photos, in the review "Dubrovnik" under the Croatian title "Dubrovnik u ratu". Contents: The Defence of Dubrovnik by Vlado Gotovac; Theorem about the Egg by Slobodan Prosperov; Harshness vs Harmony by Bozidar Violic; Dubrovnik… Read more about this item

New York: AMS Press Inc., 1986.. 1st edition. Ex library. A Descriptive Index to his Diplomatic Manual on Europe. "Tyllney was the first to compile systematically intelligence on foreign countries and organize it into a manual. His work not only provides us with the largest and most complete description of Europe from the period but also with the… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.. 1st edition. "Presents a detailed account of the French Gendarmerie from the old regime up to the First World War, and looks at the reasons for how and why this model came to be exported across continental Europe in the wake of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic armies. In particular the gendarmes' role is examined… Read more about this item

Dachau: Comite International de Dachau, 2002.. Contains in unabridged form in English a selection of important contributions of survivors of Nazi concentration camps, published in 17 issues of the Dachauer Hefte 1985-2000." Pp.266. Paperback, creasing to spine and minor edge wear. G+.

London: Liberty Publications, 1941.. A Manifesto dispatched to all occupied and free countries through the channels of the underground Revolutionary Movement, fom the Leadership of the Movement of the Working Masses of Poland. Pp.16, 11 black & white photo illustrations, marks to inner margins from rusting to staples. Paper wraps. Good.

London: Richard Bentley, 1868.. Edited by Sir Edmund Head. Pp.lii/464, spotting to inner endpapers and a few minor marginal marks. Brown bevelled cloth, gilt title to spine, wear to top and tail of spine and corner tips. G+.