Resultados de búsqueda: History from Glynn's Books

London: Faber & Faber, 1943. Hb, blue cloth covers, no dj, 176 pgs. Fair+. Covers and spine rather worn/faded, corners bumped. There is a club stamp on the inside back cover, otherwise the book is clean.. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Bloomsbury, 2012. Hb, xiv + 417pp, b/w plates. VG with clean contents in VG dj. Entertaining account of the five key spies involved in weaving a web of deception to mislead the Nazis as to the true targets for the D-Day landings. This spy unit included " a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter, a Serbian seducer, a wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming, and a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love for her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception...". Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: J.M. Dent, 1977. Hb, 221pp, b/w illustrations. Ex-library copy with catalogue no. on spine and usual stamps. Interesting reconstruction of the lives and occupations of members of the Elizabethan Underworld, in London and on the highways and at country fairs.. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Harlow: Longman, 1989. Pb, xiii + 479pp. Good, corner crease, light wear, clean contents. From the Reformation to the English Civil War and the abolition of the monarchy in England. Examines the relationships between England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the establishment of the first small overseas colonies, the achievements of the Elizathean and Jacobean age, as well as the political, economic and social tensions underlying them.. Soft Cover. Good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. Hb, xv + 436pp, b/w photos. Good+ with clean contents in a VG dj, slight tan to edge of page block. Biography of the Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi ( 1835-1908) who ruled for several decades . Using recently available documents and fresh research, the author overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a " die-hard conservative and cruel despot" and describes how she fought numerous obstacles to try to bring change to China.. Hard Cover.

London: Readers Union, 1965. Hb reprint, xiii + 407pp, b/w plates. Good+ with clean contents in Good dj which has light wear. Biography of Eugenie of Montijo, the empress consort of Napoleon III of France, who acted as his regent during his absences and went with him into exile upon the fall of the Second French empire at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

N.Y.: Facts on File, 1994. Pb, xviii + 494pp, b/w illustrations. Good, slight cover wear, a few light speckles along top edge of page block, contents clean. Over 1,700 entries of people, places, events and ideas of the Roman empire in an A-Z format, plus a chronology of events, genealogies, glossary of governmental/military/social titles.. Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Oxford University Press, 1936. Second printing. Hb, blue cloth covers, no dj, xviii + 634pp + several extended maps at the back. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. G. with edgewear along spine and cover corners, tanning on endpapers. . Hard Cover. Good.

N.Y.: Dover, 2005. Pb, xxii + 394pp, b/w illustrations. VG clean copy. Unabridged reprint of the work originally published in 1912 as " Military Architecture in England During the Middle Ages". Discusses the construction of English castles since the Norman Conquest including the beginnings of the stone castle, the Norman keep, bastions, military architecture, up until the fortified towns of the later medieval period.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Booth-Clibbon Editions, 1998. Hb, 240pp, b/w phots. VG with clean contents in VG dj. Translated from the Russian by Maria Schwartz and Antonina Bovis. Conjecture that the 14 year old heir to the Russian throne escaped the execution suffered by the rest of his family and grew up in a peasant family under the name of Vasily Filatov.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Reader's Digest/Newsweek, 1973. Hb, 160pp, 300 illustrations. Good+ copy in Good dj which has light edgewear only. Contents clean. Volume 2 of Newsweek's Milestones of History series, this attractively illustrated volume covers the period 312-1204 A.D., when the Western world was undergoing a transition from barabism to flourishing civilization, and an era of fervent belief. Essays by 16 distinguished scholars cover subjects such as Constantine, St Patrick, Attila the Hun, St Benedict, Mohammed and the birth of Islam, the rise of Charlemagne, the founding of the great Library of Cordova, Eric the Red and the colonization of Greenland, the Japanese renaissance, Peter Abelard, and more.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993. Pb, xxii + 426pp. Good, light wear, clean contents. " The most readable, sceptical and original of modern historians" ( Michael Foot).. Soft Cover.

Stroud: Sutton, 1997. Hb, 256 pp, b/w illustrations. VG in G. price-clipped dj. Stamped sale date on front endpaper, otherwise clean. Foreward by Tony Benn. Development of the British Labour movement as seen by grassroots observors. The book is comprised of first-hand quotes so that a sort of oral history develops of 20th century Britain and what the Labour party has represented to people from the time of Keir Hardy through to Tony Blair.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: BCA, 1978. Hb, xxvi + 322pp, b/w plates. Good with clean contents in a Good(-) dj which has a closed tear and edgewear. 4th ed. edited/revised by W.S. Maguiness and H.H. Scullard. Contents : The beginnings of Rome; Conquest; The last century of the Republic; Augustus; Augustan Rome; The growth of Empire.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Hamlyn, 1973. Hb, 240pp, numerous colour and b/w illustrations. Good with clean contents in a Good dj which has light edgewear, a small chip. Origins and history of battle fleets from the 16th century to the Second World War, including : the Spanish, Elizabethean, Dutch and Swedish fleets; the French fleet and Nelson's fleet; the Imperial Japanese fleet, British Grand fleet, German High Seas fleet and United States fleet.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Macmillan, 2012. Hb, xxii + 614pp, colour plates. VG with clean contents in a VG dj. Accompanying the BBC television series, the book examines the great change-makers of history and their times, from the familar to the less well-known.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Collins & Brown, 1995. Pb, iii + 840pp, maps. Good+, creases on spine but only marginal wear, clean contents. Hefty reference work with over 4,500 entries covering over 2,000 years of British history - political, social, economic, religious and cultural.. Soft Cover. Good.

Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pb, xviii + 301pp, b/w illustrations/maps. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. Compact and accessible history of Thailand which ranges over political, economic, social and cultural themes.. Soft Cover.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. Hb, maroon cloth, no dj, xi, 696pp-1269pp, index xlv, pullout maps. Second volume of a two-volume work of Fisher's " A History of Europe". Good, clean contents. . Hard Cover.

London: Collins, 1973. Hb, green boards, no dj, 319pp, b/w illustrations. Good with light wear, clean contents. History of the Bahama islands, from its early inhabitants, the Lucayans, through to discovery by Christopher Columbus, the era of privateers and pirates, Woodes Rogers and later governors, America's War of Independence, the role of slavery, the American Civil War, 20th century development and self-government in 1964.. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.