History
Featured Title(s)
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by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Eve...
$29.95
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by Alan White
Part of the Questions in History series for AS and A Level History, this title examines Germany in the years after the end of the First World War. Includes: /The German Revolution 1918-19 /The thre...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 1997-03-30
ISBN: 9780003272765
Binding: Paperback Book
$40.95
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by Tony Geraghty
A full and definitive account of the war waged between Irish Republicans and England over three centuries by the bestselling author of 'Who Dares Wins', with emphasis on the latterday role of the spec...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2000-09-04
ISBN: 9780006386742
Binding: Paperback Book
$24.95
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by Anthony Sampson
'A magisterial, detailed and invaluable account of one of this century's greatest figures ! it is hard to believe that a better biography will ever be written.' Justin Cartwright, Sunday Telegraph Th...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2000-05-15
ISBN: 9780006388456
Binding: Paperback Book
$32.95
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by Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy brings alive London in the "Swinging Sixties" with a groovy story of those who created the scene that changed the world. For a few years in the 1960s, London was the coolest city on Earth: ...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2002-10-07
ISBN: 9780007148073
Binding: Paperback Book
$34.95
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by Melanie McGrath
Melanie McGrath is the author of three previous books, 'Motel Nirvana', 'Hard, Soft & Wet' and 'Silvertown'. She is a regular contributor for the Guardian, Independent and the Express. She lives in Va...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2006-08-21
ISBN: 9780007157969
Binding: Hardback Book
$59.99
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by Malcolm Balen
A vivid retelling of the Battle of Waterloo, based on unpublished soldiers' written accounts. When a patriotic model-maker recorded the days' events for posterity he left us with a glorified version o...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2005-08-01
ISBN: 9780007160297
Binding: Hardback Book
$67.95
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by Roy Strong
The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. 'What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation. What do people talk most about? A Coronation. What ...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2005-10-03
ISBN: 9780007160549
Binding: Hardback Book
$75.00
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by Philip Marsden
The story of Britain's colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime revolution too...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2011-06-09
ISBN: 9780007174539
Binding: Hardback Book
$47.95
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by James Holland
Today Italy is a land of beauty and prosperity but in 1944-45 it had become a place of nightmares, a land of violence, war, and destruction. James Holland's ground-breaking account expertly documents ...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2008-03-03
ISBN: 9780007176458
Binding: Hardback Book
$53.99
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by Christopher de Bellaigue
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in 1971. He studied at Cambridge and writes for Granta and the New York Review of Books. He is married and lives in Iran.
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2004-12-06
ISBN: 9780007195671
Binding: Paperback Book
$28.95
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Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian. 'Summer of Blood' breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381. ...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2009-04-30
ISBN: 9780007213917
Binding: Unknown Format
$53.99
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by John Keay
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2008-07-01
ISBN: 9780007221776
Binding: Hardback Book
$64.99
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by Melanie McGrath
The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys -- the locals of the old East End. For more than a century, hopping was the main event in ...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2009-03-05
ISBN: 9780007223664
Binding: Hardback Book
$39.99
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by Charles Glass
An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940. When the German army occupied Paris in the early hours of 14 ...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2009-03-19
ISBN: 9780007228539
Binding: Hardback Book
$48.99
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by Ishmael Beah
The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. This is the story of how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2007-05-21
ISBN: 9780007247080
Binding: Hardback Book
$45.00
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by David Starkey
To coincide with the Channel 4 series to be aired at the end of this year -- David Starkey's 'Monarchy' charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2006-10-16
ISBN: 9780007247509
Binding: Hardback Book
$62.99
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by Ann Ming
In this incredible and moving memoir, a mother tells of her fight for justice to convict her daughter's murderer for a crime that he thought could never be punished. When her 22-year-old daughter, Ju...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2008-09-01
ISBN: 9780007262632
Binding: Paperback Book
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by Phillip Finch
A true story of death and survival in the world's most dangerous sport, cave diving. Two friends plunge 900 ft deep into a water-filled crater in the Kalahari Desert to raise the body of a diver who h...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2008-03-03
ISBN: 9780007265244
Binding: Hardback Book
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by Peter Parker
This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations. On 11 November 1920, huge crowds lin...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2009-10-29
ISBN: 9780007265503
Binding: Hardback Book
$39.99
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by Judy Westwater
How can you forget your past when it keeps coming back to haunt you? Judy Westwater, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Street Kid, was determined to turn her back on her cruel and violent childho...
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
publication date: 2008-02-04
ISBN: 9780007266630
Binding: Paperback Book
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Eve...$29.95
Part of the Questions in History series for AS and A Level History, this title examines Germany in the years after the end of the First World War. Includes: /The German Revolution 1918-19 /The thre...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 1997-03-30ISBN: 9780003272765Binding: Paperback Book$40.95
A full and definitive account of the war waged between Irish Republicans and England over three centuries by the bestselling author of 'Who Dares Wins', with emphasis on the latterday role of the spec...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2000-09-04ISBN: 9780006386742Binding: Paperback Book$24.95
'A magisterial, detailed and invaluable account of one of this century's greatest figures ! it is hard to believe that a better biography will ever be written.' Justin Cartwright, Sunday Telegraph Th...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2000-05-15ISBN: 9780006388456Binding: Paperback Book$32.95
Melanie McGrath is the author of three previous books, 'Motel Nirvana', 'Hard, Soft & Wet' and 'Silvertown'. She is a regular contributor for the Guardian, Independent and the Express. She lives in Va...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2006-08-21ISBN: 9780007157969Binding: Hardback Book$59.99
The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. 'What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation. What do people talk most about? A Coronation. What ...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2005-10-03ISBN: 9780007160549Binding: Hardback Book$75.00
The story of Britain's colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime revolution too...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2011-06-09ISBN: 9780007174539Binding: Hardback Book$47.95
Today Italy is a land of beauty and prosperity but in 1944-45 it had become a place of nightmares, a land of violence, war, and destruction. James Holland's ground-breaking account expertly documents ...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2008-03-03ISBN: 9780007176458Binding: Hardback Book$53.99
Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian. 'Summer of Blood' breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381. ...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2009-04-30ISBN: 9780007213917Binding: Unknown Format$53.99
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2008-07-01ISBN: 9780007221776Binding: Hardback Book$64.99
The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys -- the locals of the old East End. For more than a century, hopping was the main event in ...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2009-03-05ISBN: 9780007223664Binding: Hardback Book$39.99
An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940. When the German army occupied Paris in the early hours of 14 ...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2009-03-19ISBN: 9780007228539Binding: Hardback Book$48.99
The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. This is the story of how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2007-05-21ISBN: 9780007247080Binding: Hardback Book$45.00
To coincide with the Channel 4 series to be aired at the end of this year -- David Starkey's 'Monarchy' charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2006-10-16ISBN: 9780007247509Binding: Hardback Book$62.99
This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations. On 11 November 1920, huge crowds lin...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2009-10-29ISBN: 9780007265503Binding: Hardback Book$39.99
How can you forget your past when it keeps coming back to haunt you? Judy Westwater, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Street Kid, was determined to turn her back on her cruel and violent childho...publisher: HarperCollins Publisherspublication date: 2008-02-04ISBN: 9780007266630Binding: Paperback Book
