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Taylor, Paul
The End of European Integration: Anti-Europeanism Examined UACES Contemporary European Studies Series Volume 5
Routledge 2008. Volume 5. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item400grams ISBN:9780415431064 Routledge paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 4325900 ISBN : 0415431069 9780415431064
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Schwartz, Vanessa
Modern France: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions Volume 290
Oxford University Press 2011. Volume 290. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item200grams ISBN:9780195389418 Oxford University Press paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 4328346 ISBN : 0195389417 9780195389418
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George, Stephen
An Awkward Partner: Britain in the European Community 3rd Edn
Oxford University Press 1998. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN:0198782241 Oxford University Press hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 4325914 ISBN : 0198782241 9780198782247
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Pinder, J
Europe After de Gaulle: Towards a United States of Europe
Penguin Books 1969. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item200grams ISBN: Penguin Books paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 4325936
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Zamoyski, Adam.
Izabela the Valiant. The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess.
London: William Collins 2024. xviii 270pp index sources notes col ills. Blue cloth in jacket. Near new. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. William Collins Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 055054 ISBN : 0008521689 9780008521684
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Somerset, Anne.
The Affair of the Poisons. Murder Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV.
New York: St Martins Press 2004. xxii 377pp index bibliography notes bw ills. Black cloth in jacket. As new. An extraordinary period in French history involving murder and poisoning at the highest levels of French society. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. St Martins Press Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 055328 ISBN : 0312330170 9780312330170
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Feliciano, Hector
The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art
New York: Basic Books 1997. ix 278 pages 48 pages of b/w plates two appendices notes index. Cloth-backed papered boards in jacket. Minor bump to top of spine.The book tells the story of the Jewish art collectors and gallery owners in France who were stripped of rare works of art. The Nazis' systematic confiscation of these artworks is examined focusing on the private collections of five families: Rothschild Rosenberg Bernheim-Jeune David-Weill and Schloss. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Basic Books Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 054689 ISBN : 0465041949 9780465041947
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Gilbert, Martin.
The Boys. Triumph Over Adversity. The Story of 723 Young Concentration Camp Survivors.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1996. xv 511pp index glossary maps bw ills. Maroon cloth in jacket. Near new. When Britain declared itself willing to take in 1000 young survivors of the Holocaust no more than 732 could be found. The author brings together the recolelctions of this remarkable group. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 054855 ISBN : 0297816381 9780297816386
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Bernstein, David.
The Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1986. 272pp index appendix notes num bw & col ills. Blue cloth in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket scratch to rear panel of jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 054920 ISBN : 0297789287 9780297789284
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Connor, James A.
Kepler's Witch. an Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War Political Intrigue and the Heresy Trial of His Mother.
New York: HarperSanFrancisco 2004. xiii 402pp index sources notes. Black boards in jacket. Sticker remnant to front otherwise excellent. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. HarperSanFrancisco Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 054935 ISBN : 0060522550 9780060522551
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Rogers, Col. HCP. H. C.
Napoleon's Army.
Shepperton UK: Ian Allan 1974. 192pp index bw ills maps. Brown cloth in jacket. Price clipped light edge wear to jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Ian Allan Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 054589 ISBN : 0711005079 9780711005075
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Hardman, John.
The Life of Louis XVI.
New Haven: Yale University Press 2016. xi 499pp index bibliography notes genealogies col ills maps. Green cloth in jacket. Extremely light edge wear to jacket slight crease to front free endpaper. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Yale University Press Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 054285 ISBN : 0300220421 9780300220421
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Sassoon, Donald.
The Culture of the Europeans from 1800 to the Present.
London: HarperPress 2006. HEAVY. xxviii 1617pp index bibliography notes. Black cloth in jacket. Minor wear to jacket prev owner name etc on title page brief notes on rearfree endpaper. An integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800 and follows its transformation from an elite activity to mass market-from lending libraries to the internet from the first public concerts to music downloads. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. HarperPress Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 053252 ISBN : 0002558793 9780002558792
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Merridale, Catherine.
Red Fortress. The Secret Heart of Russian History.
London: Allen Lane 2013. xvii 506pp index further reading notes col ills maps col endpaper maps. Gray cloth in jacket. Slight bubbling of cloth to front board otherwise excellent. A history of the Kremlin overmany centuries. From its deepest basements to the red star on the Saviour Tower the Kremlin preserves traces of all its roles from sacred Orthodox religious site to tyrant's lair from sumptuous palace to greasy Bolshevik canteen. One of the few medieval buildings in the world to maintain it original late medieval function: as a palace built to intimidate the ruler's subjects and frighten foreign emissaries- nearly as potent under Putin as it was under ealier inhabitants. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Allen Lane Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 049568 ISBN : 1846140374 9781846140372
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Bence-Jones, Mark.
Twilight of the Ascendancy.
London: Constable 1998. xvii 327pp index references bibliography bw ills. Pictorial card. As new. The old land-owning families of Ireland known collectively as the Ascendancy long after they ceased to be in the ascendant lost most of their poltical power towards the end of the 1870s at the same time as their economic foundations began to be sapped by agrarian unrest. Chronicles of the Ascendacy's twilight years- a hundred years of the Ascendancy world from the Victorian heyday of the Viceregal Court at Dublin Castle to the 1960s when Dior and dog's dinner went hand in hand. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine. Small 4to. Constable Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 049693 ISBN : 0094723508 9780094723504
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Brotton, Jerry.
The Renaissance Bazaar from the Silk Road to Michelangelo.
Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002. xii 243pp index further reading chronology bw & col ills. Or boards in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket. The author argues that between 1400-1600 Europe defined itself by trading and competting with its Islamic African and Asian neighbours. The book tells the story of this intense exchange of ideas objects and skills and shows how technological developments such as printing banking and map-making were inextricably linked to the great art literature science and discoveries that have come to typify the Renaisance. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Oxford University Press Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 049121 ISBN : 0192802682 9780192802682
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Stargardt, Nicholas
Witnesses of War: Children's Lives under the Nazis
New York: Alfred A Knopf 2006. xvi 493pp 16pp of b/w plates glossary bibliography index. Or boards in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket light foxing to page edges. The lives and fates of children of all nationalities under the Nazi regime. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Alfred A Knopf Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 048127 ISBN : 1400040884 9781400040889
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Gilbert Martin.
The Holocaust. The Jewish Tragedy.
London: Fontana 1990. HEAVY. 959pp index notes/sources bw ills map. Or card covers. Very minor edge wear to covers page edges/margins toned. Details the experiences of Europe's Jews under the Nazis in WWII. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Fontana Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 048142 ISBN : 0006371949 9780006371946
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Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah
Hitler's Willing Executioners. Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
New York: Alfred A Knopf 1996. x 622pp index notes bw ills maps. Or black papered boards with black cloth spine in jacket. Slight edge wear and rubbing to jacket. A new exploration of those who carried out the Holocaust and of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism; demanding a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-45. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Alfred A Knopf Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 048301 ISBN : 0679446958 9780679446958
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Zaloga, Steven J.
Rangers Lead the Way: Pointe-du-Hoc D-Day 1944. Raid #1
New York: Osprey Publishing 2009. 64pp color artwork maps bird's eye views analysis. Pictorial card cover. The book covers the Origins of the raid; The plan; The raid; and Analysis. It includes first-hand accounts. The author analyzes every detail from the intelligence failings to the boldness of the Rangers' actions in the face of such odds. This is the first of the Raid series giving detailed authoritative analysis of the greatest raids in military history. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 4to. Osprey Publishing Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 047410 ISBN : 1846033942 9781846033940
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Cahill, Thomas
Mysteries of the Middle Ages. The Rise of Feminism Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe.
New York: Nan A Talese/Doubleday 2006. xiv 343pp index notes num col ills pictorial endpapers. Or cloth backed boards in jakcet. Near new. The fifth book in the author's Hinges of History series. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Nan A Talese/Doubleday Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 047582 ISBN : 0385495552 9780385495554
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Hicks Michael.
Bastard Feudalism. The Medieval World
New York: Longman 1995. xii 243pp index bibliography glossary. Or card. Near new. Contends that bastard feudalism lasted from 1150-1650 rather than the traditionally accepted 1300-1500. . First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Longman Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 046318 ISBN : 0582060923 9780582060920
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Rowland Ingrid D.
The Culture of the High Renaissance. Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth Century Rome.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999. xiv 384pp index bibliography notes bw ills. Or brown cloth in jacket. As new. Assesses the intellectual paradigm shift that occurred at the turn of the 15th century. Finds and explains the connections between ideas people and the art works they created by looking at economics art contemporary understanding of classical antiquity and social conventions. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 046400 ISBN : 0521581451 9780521581455
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Williams, Glyn.
The Prize of all the Oceans: The Dramatic True Story of Commadore Anson's Voyage Round the World and How he Seized the Spanish Treasure Galleon
New York: Viking Penguin 2000. xxi 264 pages b/w ills maps and figures appendix index endpapers: the track of the Centurion round the world. Papered boards in dust-jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge minor edge wear to jacket. The full story of Anson's voyage which began in 1740 to seize the legendary Spanish galleon on her yearly voyage from Acapulco to Manila laden with Peruvian silver. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. Viking Penguin Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 045740 ISBN : 0670891975 9780670891979
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Chambers, James.
The Devil's Horsemen. The Mongol Invasion of Europe.
New York: Atheneum 1979. xv 190pp index glossary bibliography genealogical table bw ills maps. Or black cloth in jacket. Slight fading to title on spine. On Christmas Day 1241 the armies of Batu Khan founder of the Golden Horde crossed the Danube while the disunited armies of the West lay at their mercy. . Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Atheneum Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 045729 ISBN : 0689109423 9780689109423
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Newark, Tim
Medieval Warlords.
Poole UK: Blandford Press 1987. 144pp index bibliography num bw & col ills. Or black cloth in pictorial jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket. The story of 7 medieval warlords-several of whose stories had never before been published in English. The warlords included are Aetius conqueror of Attila the Hun; Gaiseric Barbarian pirate of the Mediterranean; An Lu Shan rebel warlord of China; Owen of Wales mysterious mercenary of the 100 years war; Bertrand du Guesclin warlord of France; Jan Zizka blind leader of the Hussites; Vlad Dracula prince of Wallachia and crusader against the Turks. . First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by McBride Angus. 4to. Blandford Press Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 045777 ISBN : 0713718161 9780713718164
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Christiansen, Rupert.
Paris Babylon. The Story of the Paris Commune.
New York: Viking 1994. x 435pp index bibliography bw ills endpaper maps. or boards in jacket. Near new. Review copy with publisher's material loosley inserted.The splendours of the Second Empire soon wracked by the Franco-Prussian War the five-month Siege of Paris and the bloody civil war that followed it and the subsequent emergence of the Paris Commune. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Viking Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 045480 ISBN : 067083131x 9780670831319
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Robb, Graham.
The Discovery of France. A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the first world War.
New York: W. W. Norton 2007. xvii 455pp index bibliography/references notes chronology bw & col ills maps. Or boards in jacket. Bump to bottom front of spine slight edge wear to jacket. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. W. W. Norton Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 045539 ISBN : 0393059731 9780393059731
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Botting, Douglas.
From the Ruins of the Third Reich. Germany 1945-1949.
New York: Crown Publishers 1985. ix 341pp index bibliography sources bw ills maps. Or boards in jacket. Jacket flaps taped to endpapers. The years immediately following WWII in Germany. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Crown Publishers Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 045076 ISBN : 0517558653 9780517558652
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Hibbert Christopher
Cavaliers and Roundheads: The English Civil War 1642-1649
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1993. xiv 337 pages 16 pages of b/w plates five maps table of principal events bibliography index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. As new. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 045360 ISBN : 0684195577 9780684195575
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Cantor, Norman F.
Inventing the Middle Ages. The Lives Works and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century.
New York: William Morrow 1991. 477pp index bibliography notes. Or boards in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. William Morrow Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 044759 ISBN : 0688094066 9780688094065
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Nicolle, David
The Third Crusade 1191. Richard the Lionheart Saladin and the Struggle for Jerusalem. Campaign 161.
New York: Osprey Publishing 2006. 96pp index bibliography bw & col ills maps. Near new with tiny corner bump. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Hook Christa. 4to. Osprey Publishing Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 044782 ISBN : 1841768685 9781841768687
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James, Lawrence.
Crimea 1854-56. The War with Russia from Contemporary Photographs.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold 1981. 200pp index notes/bibliography 85 bw ills chronology endpaper maps. Or black cloth in jacket. Near new.The Crimean was the first war extensively documented by photographs. Here are 85 contemporary photographs with commentary from letters and diary along with and explanation of the background and causes of the war and a tracing of its course. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Van Nostrand Reinhold Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 044520 ISBN : 0442245696 9780442245696
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Matyszak Philip.
The Enemies of Rome from Hannibal to Attila the Hun.
New York: Thames & Hudson 2004. 296pp index bibliography bw ills maps. Or boards in jacket. Near new. Some enemies of Rome were noble heroes others were murdering villains but each has a unique and fascinating story. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Thames & Hudson Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 044578 ISBN : 050025124x 9780500251249
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Gordon, Harold J. Jr.
Hitler and the Beer Hall Putsch.
Princeton: Princeton University Press 1972. xii 666pp index bibliography appendix bw ills. Or mustard cloth in jacket. Some minor rubbing to jcket some foxing to page edges and prelims.A thorough analysis of events leading up to the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 the ideologies and people struggling for power at the time the Putsch itself and its aftermath. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Princeton University Press Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 044628 ISBN : 0691051895 9780691051895
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Hale, John.
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance.
New York: Atheneum 1994. xx 648pp index bibliography notes bw ills. Or boards in jacket. Near new. The author paints a picture of renaissance Europe with a multiplicity of themes peoples and ideas. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Atheneum Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 044043 ISBN : 0689122004 9780689122002
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Woloch Isser.
Eighteenth-Century Europe. Tradition and Progress. 1715-1789.
New York: W. W. Norton 1982. xvii 364pp index further reading bw ills. Or card. Minor edge wear to covers very light foxing to page edges. Volume in the Norton History of Modern Europe series. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. W. W. Norton Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 043916 ISBN : 0393952142 9780393952148
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Ziegler Philip.
The Black Death.
Dover NH: Alan Sutton 1993. vi 249pp index bibliography bw & col ills. Or black boards in jacket. As new. A comprehensive look at the Black Death of the 14th century which terrorized Europe for years and then just as mysteriously ebbed away. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Alan Sutton Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 043388 ISBN : 0862998387 9780862998387
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Munro RW. R. W.
Highland Clans & Tartans.
London: Octopus Books 1977. 128pp index col ills map tartan pattern endpapers. Or boards in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket jacket laminate a bit wrinkled on rear panel. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Octopus Books Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 043451 ISBN : 070640498x 9780706404982
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Hempel, sandra.
The Inheritor's Powder. A Tale of Arsenic Murder and the New Forensic Science.
New York: W. W. Norton 2013. viii 278pp index notes. Or boards in jacket. Near new. An early Victorian case of murder by arsenic. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. W. W. Norton Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 043591 ISBN : 0393239713 9780393239713
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Miller Judith.
One By One. Facing the Holocaust.
New York: Simon & Schuster 1990. 319pp index notes. Or boards in jacket. Near new. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 043267 ISBN : 0671644726 9780671644727
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Jardine Lisa.
On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers 2003. HEAVY. xviii 600pp 8pp of colour photos b/w photos plans bibliography index. Or boards in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. The author takes the reader 'deep into Wren's muti-faceted imagination and discovers the unique exacting nature ofhis mind. Through the prism of Wren's intellect she unfolds the vibrant extraordinary emerging new world of late-17th-century science and ideas'. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. HarperCollinsPublishers Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 042939 ISBN : 0060199741 9780060199746
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McCuaig, William.
Carlo Sigonio. The Changing World of the late Renaissance.
Princeton: Princeton University Press 1989. xiii 380pp index bibliography appendix. Or blue cloth in jacket. Near new.Explores the intellectual turbulence of the late Italian Renaissance through a full examination of the work of one scholar-the humanist Carlo Sigonio. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Princeton University Press Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 043003 ISBN : 0691055580 9780691055589
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Wheatcroft Andrew.
The Habsburgs. Embodying Empire.
London: Viking 1995. xxix 384pp index sources/bibliography notes family trees bw & col ills. Or boards in jacket. Near new. Habsburgs were at the heart of western hisotry for half a millenium. This volume covers the sweep of Habsburg history from the Middle Ages to the present. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Viking Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 043032 ISBN : 0670854905 9780670854905
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Sayer, Derek.
Prague. Capital of the Twentieth Century. A Surrealist History.
Princeton: Princeton University Press 2013. xxi 595pp index bibliography notes bw ills. Or boards in jacket. Near new. An exporation of 20th century Prague. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Princeton University Press Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 042342 ISBN : 0691043809 9780691043807
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Phillips, Mark.
Francesco Guicciardini: The Historian's Craft.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1977. x 195pp index bibliography frontis portrait. Or grey cloth. Some foxing to cloth sticker shadow on front free endpaper. The works of Florentine historian Francesco Guicciardini 1483-1540 translated into English. Include the minor works and riccordi & The Storia d'Italia. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. University of Toronto Press. Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 041751 ISBN : 0802053718 9780802053718
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Sinclair David.
Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Land That Never Was. The Extraordinary Story of the Most Audacious Fraud in History.
London: Headline 2003. xxvi 358pp index bibliography bw ills endpaper maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Light even toning to page edges. In 1821 the Cazique of Poyais in Central America was feted by the Lord Mayor of London and the press persuaded thousands to subscribe to a development loan and attracted hundreds of would be settlers. The only problem was that Poyais never existed. Story of a truly audacious fraud. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Headline Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 038264 ISBN : 0755310799 9780755310791
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Ham, Paul
1914. The Year the World Ended.
Sydney: William Heinemann 2013. xxix 704pp index bibliography notes/references appendices bw ills maps. Or boards in jacket. Page edges tanned. In 1914 European leaders chose war and brought about the death of the old world-here we get a clear sense of what happened and why. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. William Heinemann Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 037090 ISBN : 1864711426 9781864711424
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Platt, Richard.
The Ordnance Survey Guide to Smuggler's Britain.
London: Cassell 1991. 222pp index bibliography notes num bw ills col maps. Or blue boards in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket. Occasional moderate foxing. Examines Britain's smuggling history region by region with over 250 individual sites which have been used to land and store illicit cargoes around the coastline. Dispels some of the myths and provides an immense amount of historical and anecdotal information. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Cassell Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 036431 ISBN : 0304340650 9780304340651
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Neufeld Michael J.; Berenbaum Michael editors
The Bombing of Auschwitz. Should the Allies Have Attempted It
Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas 2003. xviii 350pp index bibliography notes bw ills. or card covers. Bump to top corner. Publsihed in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A number of eminent military and Holocaust hisotrians and others look at the debate over whether the Allies should have bombed the gas chambers at Auschwitz and the railroads leading to the camp. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. University Press of Kansas Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 035606 ISBN : 0700612807 9780700612802
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