The Long Weekend - A social history of Great Britain 1918-1939 by Robert Graves; Alan Hodge
$30.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: near fine
A Short History of English Printing by Henry R Plomer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Series: The English Bookman's Library | Reading Level: good-very good
Bible and Sword - England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour by Barbara W Tuchman
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain's long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century. Historically, the British were drawn to the H ...Show more
The Island of Extraordinary Captives - A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal by Simon Parkin
$20.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: near fine
The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had narrowly avoided at home in Berlin. Now, having endured a perilous journey to reach England - hiding from the rampaging Nazi thugs at his orphanage, boarding a Kindertransport to s ...Show more
An Atlas of England and Wales - Forty plates from John Speed's Pocket Atlas of 1627 introduced and described by E G R Taylor
$15.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Series: King Penguin 61 | Reading Level: very good
The Experience of Defeat - Milton and Some Contemporaries by Christopher Hill
$15.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Charles II's Escape from Worcester - A se;lection of narratives assembled by Samuel Pepys by William Matthews (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
The Wallet-Book of The Roman Wall - A Guide to pilgrims journeying along the barrier of the lower isthmus by J Collingwood Bruce
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good-very good
The Journal of George Fox - A Revised Edition by george Fox; John L Nickalls (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Reading Level: good-very good
Britannia's Empire by Bill Nasson
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
More than Shakespeare, more than the invention of the railway, more than fair play, it was Empire which made Britain into Great Britain. By the early twentieth century, that Empire covered around a quarter of the earth's surface, and embraced more than a quarter of its inhabitants, a mass of over five h ...Show more
Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Classic Non-Fiction Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more
The Yorkshire Coiners - The True Story of the Cragg Vale Gang by Steve Hartley
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
In late eighteenth-century Yorkshire a powerful gang of counterfeiters held the local community in its spell. In a remote valley near Halifax called Cragg Vale, gold coins of the realm were clipped and filed, then returned to circulation, while the extra metal collected was melted down to produce new co ...Show more