Second Hand Books (Condition - Very Good)

Synopsis Subtitled : The Life of a Roman Town. Winner of The Wolfson History Prize 2008. The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Fight For Freedom. A New York Times Bestseller! A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017. . . . "Their paths ne...

Synopsis Edited by Peter Stepan. In lavish two-page spreads, this book presents more than ninety of history's most memorable photographs - from t...

Synopsis Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position...

Synopsis Paying tribute to 'the essential contribution of sailors and their ships to the evolving history of the human world’, Brian Lavery’s his...

Synopsis Full Subtitle : 22nd January 1879 : Minute by Minute. The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes ...

Synopsis Edited by Leslie Bethell. Viva La Revolucion is Hobsbawm's magisterial work on Latin America, the fruit of forty years' writing about th...

Synopsis Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiography credited to South African President Nelson Mandela. It was ghostwritten by Richard Stengel and ...

Synopsis Subtitled :  Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit ...

Synopsis " . . . Myths are stories that are based on tradition. Some may have factual origins, while others are completely fictional. But myths a...

Synopsis In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current ...

Synopsis A Pelican Introduction. What makes us human? The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the sweep of human history when there has ...

Synopsis Subtitled : Great Commanders of The Ancient & Medieval World. Which was the most brilliant of Hannibal's three crushing defeats of Rom...

Synopsis The great explorers were the celebrities of their day - the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination...

Synopsis The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, trac...

Synopsis The world's largest democracy and second-most populous country, 21st Century India is a dynamic nation with a thrusting economy, made up o...

Synopsis Spanning ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to ‘Joe-1’, the first Soviet atomic bomb test in August 1949. A...

Synopsis Paul G. Bahn (Editor). This is a perfect handbook for all who are interested in our human past. Prepared under the direction of consultant...

Synopsis Over the past two decades, archaeologists have made huge strides in their understanding of the pyramids. They have uncovered edifices buri...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Stories And Transcripts Of The Moments That Made History. Introduction : Simon Sebag Montefiore. Speeches that Changed the...

Synopsis From the classic Greek origins of the world map, through the elaborately decorated manuscript maps and printed maps of the seventeenth and...

Synopsis In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-yea...

Synopsis Subtitled : Conversations with the Dalai Lama. This book records the first time the Dalai Lama has spoken at length about the story of Tib...

Synopsis The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilisation at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalised and wealthy. What turned ...