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Modern Ireland 1600-1972

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London : Allen Lane ; 1988.:

Seller ID: BB0242216

ISBN: 0140125108

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: g+

Shelf-wear. Former owner's name on front endpaper.
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Churchill's Grand Alliance

By: Charmley, John

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Harvest Books:

Seller ID: BB0256074

ISBN: 0156004704

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg

The New York Times Book Review called John Charmley's previous book on Winston Churchill "entertaining, informative, and infuriating." With equally impressive scholarship, eloquence, and wit, Charmley now turns to the Anglo-American "special relationship" that was the cornerstone of Churchill's foreign policy, ruthlessly stripping away the myth to reveal the unsentimental reality of the Churchill years and beyond, from 1940 to 1957. Churchill carried on the war because of his misguided faith that U.S. help could be enlisted to save the British Empire, contends Charmley. President Roosevelt, ho...
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Dickens' fur coat and Charlotte's unanswered letters

By: Daniel Pool

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997., 1997:

Seller ID: BB0245132

ISBN: 0060183659

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg

It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times, but most of all, as Daniel Pool reveals in this delightful new book, it was a time of surprisingly outrageous behavior. Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters plunks the reader down in the middle of the London book world to expose the madcap shenanigans, rows, rivalries, and general mayhem perpetrated by the supposedly prudish Victorians. We see Dickens on his first American book tour having bits of his fur coat snipped off by manic fans, romantic rumors swirling around Thackeray and Charlotte Bronte, Anthony Trollope scheming ...
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Subterranean London: Cracking the Capital

By: Garrett, Bradley L.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Prestel, 2014:

Seller ID: BB0232556

ISBN: 3791349457

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: vg-

Light shelf-wear.
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The Celts: The People Who Came Out of the Darkness

By: Gerhard Herm

Price: $7.00

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1977:

Seller ID: BB0249945

ISBN: 0312127057

Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Condition: vg/g

Gandhi & Churchill

By: Herman, Arthur

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 2008.:

Seller ID: BB0233280

ISBN: 0553804634

Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Condition: vg/vg

Light shelf-wear.
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World

By: Herman, Arthur

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Three Rivers Press:

Seller ID: BB0261465

ISBN: 0609809997

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg

How the Scots Invented the Modrern World was a veritable hardcover smash, selling more than 48,000 copies in five printings and landing on bestseller lists across the nation, including the Washington Post and the Independent Bestseller List. Now in paperback, this lively and engrossing work traces the history of Scotland's many contributions to our culture, drawing on the most recent research of scholars and historians to demonstrate just how central the Scots have been in the making of what historians call "the great transformation" -- the rise of the West into the world's dominant power.
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