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"The War Years 1939-1945 (The Diaries and Letters of Harold Nicolson, Volume II)"

By: "( Nigel Nicolson, ed.)"

Price: $10.95

Publisher: NY, Atheneum: 1967

Seller ID: 4-OH007

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"Book is tight, bright, clean and square with slight softening of spine ends and a single spot on to top exterior page edges. Grey cloth with gilt lettering and red end papers. Unclipped dust jacket is intact with both a price and ""A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection"" - light age soil and tanned edges with seriously sunned spine. 511 indexed, annotated pages with 10 black and white photos. Member of Parliament ""scholar, diplomat and writer..a British gentleman who looks of quality in all things and finds his greatest courage when affairs are going badly...Scatter...
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The Tudor Tutor: Your Cheeky Guide to the Dynasty

By: "Alexander, Barb"

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing:

Seller ID: 9781634504027

ISBN: 163450402X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

From the bloody Wars of the Roses to Queen Elizabeth I's iconic rule, the Tudor Dynasty was a period of sex, scandal, and intrigue. Monarchs such as Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I have become a part of modern pop culture, resulting in endless parodies, satires, rumors, and urban legends that grace our television screens. But as with all urban legends and parodies, facts surrounding the lives of these rulers are greatly exaggerated. In this entertaining guide, Barb Alexander serves to debunk those rumors and educate you about the dynasty.

History doesn't have to be dry, boring, and diffic...
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Daily Life in Venice at the Time of Casanova (Original title: Venise au temps de Casanova) (Daily Life Series 18)

By: "Andrieux, Maurice (Mary Fitton, trans.)"

Price: $36.95

Publisher: NY, Praeger: 1972

Seller ID: 21H002

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: FINE / Near Fine

"As new except that back flap of dust jacket has clipped bottom corner (not price clipped). Navy blue cloth with silver gilt titles. ""Venice in the latter half of the eighteenth century must have been the most joyful place on earth ' freer than anywhere of the idiocies of feudalism and superstition that still beset the rest of Europe'... "" 232 indexed pages"
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"The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830"

By: "Ashton, Thomas S."

Price: $3.50

Publisher: "Oxford University Press, USA":

Seller ID: 9780195002522

ISBN: 0195002520

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Napoleon III: La Conquete de Pouvoir

By: "Aubry, Octave8.95"

Price: $7.25

Publisher: "Paris, France", Flammarion: 1934

Seller ID: 4DT080

Binding: Trade paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"Tight, yellowed, clean for age, faint flare. Faint edgewear, slight chipping to spine top. Text in French. Illustrations."
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Researcher's Guide to British Newsreels: v. 1

By: "Ballantyne, James (ed.)"

Price: $49.95

Publisher: "London, UK", British Universities Film and Video Council: 1983

Seller ID: 9-2X002

ISBN: 0901299324

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD+

"Tight, bright cover, but age tanned pages with some foxing and dust soiling along edges. Square except for small bump to top corner. Includes a removable poster timeline of various newsreel services (1900-1980). 119 indexed pages including 3 Appendices. 7.5x9.5x.25"" (19x24.5x0.8cm). Guide to British newsreels and their development including article abstracts written by newsreel makers and historians. Includes chapter on newsreel staff, organizations, and collections."
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Danmark 1940-1945

By: "Barford, Jorgen H. (Frihedsmuseet, photos)"

Price: $8.95

Publisher: "Copenhagen, Denmark", Frihedsmuseets Forlag: 1984

Seller ID: 4-DY014

ISBN: 8788214060

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD-

"Danish, English, German & French text (in side-by-side columns). Tight, bright, clean and square but has chipping along edge of front cover. 80 pages with 55 black and white photos"
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The Fighting Ghettos (Original title: Seifer Milchamot Hagetaot)

By: "Barkai, Meyer (ed. & trans.)"

Price: $12.49

Publisher: "Philadelphia, PA", J. B. Lippincott Company: 1962

Seller ID: 4-8H007

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD-/Good- dj

"Tight, clean interior, faint foxing to exterior page edges, light age soil to cover edges, square. Map covers and endpapers. Slight softening and rubbing to spine ends. Owners name inside front cover. Dust jacket is present but soiled with a few tiny rips along edges. Originally publish in Hebrew in Tel Aviv in 1954 by the Ghetto Fighters House and Kibbutz Hammeuchad. ""Firsthand account of Jewish resistance to the Germans - Within the Ghetto Walls, In the Concentration Camps, In the Forests"""
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France Under Napoleon

By: "Bergeron, Louis"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press:

Seller ID: 9780691007892

ISBN: 0691007896

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Presented here is an English translation of a study that was part of a distinguished French series on the country's post-Revolution history. Unlike much Napoleonic literature that features the personality and foreign policy of the Emperor, it describes the condition of France and the French people during the fifteen years immediately following their great revolution. The translator, R. R. Palmer, is a distinguished historian who has written and translated many books in French history, including The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre (Princeton).

Applying t...
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The Kings & Queens of England

By: "Best, Nicholas"

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson:

Seller ID: 9780297834878

ISBN: 0297834878

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

A beautifully illustrated companion to the Royal family throughout history

Spanning ten dynasties of England's monarchs, The Kings and Queens of England presents portraits and potted biographies of England's monarchs. Spanning from the Normans through to the House of Windsor, this exquisite little book captures the personalities behind the crowns and records the landmarks, traditions and events of each reign.

"Eire - Ireland A Journal of Irish Studies (Vol XLIV:3 & 4, Fall/Winter Fomhar/Geimhreadh, 2011)"

By: "Bloom, Emily C. et Al(James S Donnely, Jr, ed.), "

Price: $19.95

Publisher: "Morristown, NJ", Irish American Cultural Institute: 2011

Seller ID: 8-7H002

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"As new except for faintest curl to cover corners. 14 interdisciplinary essays - 4 associated with the 2012 exhibition at Boston College ""Rural Ireland: The Inside Story"", 3 on children, Dion Boucicault, Diaspora/Boston, Casement/ ""Black Diaries"", Valentine Greatrakes/ Protestants, 2 on Poetry & Oral traditions. Illustration, annotations and bibliographies where appropriate. 280 pages. ISSN# 00132683"
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"Aurora Borealis, Scandinavian Review, Autumn 2008, Volume 95, Number 3"

By: "Brekke, Dewey, Hinrichsen, Litell & Koster"

Price: $17.95

Publisher: "NYC,NY", The American Scandinavian Foundation: 2008

Seller ID: 8-DH007

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new - gift quality! Journal of the American-Scandinavian Foundation…that promotes international understanding through educational and cultural exchange between the United States and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. 80 illustrated pages, 6x9x.25 (15.2x23x.5cm). ""The Aurora Borealis"", ""Swinging Up North"", ""Scanscope"", ""The Heat Beneath"", ""Peerless Paavo"", "" 'The Fighting Dane' Was a U.S. Marshall"", ""The Lord of Nesserland""."
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"The Age of Nationalism and Reform, 1789 - 1850 (The Norton History of Modern Europe)"

By: "Breunig, Charles"

Price: $11.95

Publisher: NY, Norton: 1977

Seller ID: 22T011

ISBN: 0393091430

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new - gift quality! ""The French Revolution of 1789 is a watershed in European history; no country escaped its impact, which shattered long-standing traditions and set forth new ideals that powerfully affected succeeding generations…"" 304 indexed pages with Suggested Further Reading list."
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"Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67"

By: "Briggs, Asa"

Price: $16.25

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press:

Seller ID: 9780226074887

ISBN: 0226074889

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War," and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark," Asa Briggs provides an assessment of Victorian achievements; and in doing so conjures up an enviable picture of the progress and independence of the last century.

"For expounding this theme, this interaction of event and personality, Mr. Briggs is abundantly and happily endowed. He is alway...
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Murder of Charles the Good (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching)

By: "Bruges, Galbert of,Marshal,,Ross, James Bruce,America, Medieval Academy of"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr:

Seller ID: 9780802064790

ISBN: 0802064795

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"Richelieu & His Age, VOlume 3: Power, Politics and the Cardinal's Death"

By: "Burckhardt, Carl J."

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Harcourt:

Seller ID: 9780151771585

ISBN: 0151771588

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

La Civilisation de la Renaissance en Italie II

By: "Burckhardt, Jacob (L. Schmitt, trans.)"

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Editions Gonthier: 1958

Seller ID: 83P003

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"Tight, faint page yellowing, clean, square. Rubbed through spot on front cover. Text in French."
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"The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1929-1989 (Key Contemporary Thinkers)"

By: "Burke, Peter"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Stanford University Press:

Seller ID: 9780804718370

ISBN: 0804718377

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The aim of this book is to analyze, to describe and to evaluate the achievement of the Annales School, a journal of historical studies founded in 1929 in France. The journal was founded in order to promote a new kind of historythe substitution of a problem-oriented analytical history for a traditional narrative of events, and the history of the whole range of human activities in place of a mainly political history.
This critical text describes, analyzes, and evaluates the acheivements of the Annales School, combining chronological and thematic approaches. The author distinguishes three gen...
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History)

By: "Cahill, Thomas"

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Anchor:

Seller ID: 9780385418492

ISBN: 0385418493

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe.

Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars" -- and thus preserve Western culture...
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History in Our Time

By: "Cannadine, David"

Price: $3.75

Publisher: Penguin Books:

Seller ID: 9780140249552

ISBN: 0140249559

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

How did the House of Windsor transform itself into a wealth-creating machine which has built up a huge private fortune from public funds? how did the (apparently) happy family on the throne turn dysfunctional, and a glitzy royal marriage degenerate into the ghastly spectacle of two sad, spoiled, solipsistic individuals slugging it out in public?
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