2,678円 With the same sweep, authority, and originality that marked his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay here takes us on a remarkable journey through middle-class Victorian culture. Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting fi...

2,427円 Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words throughout his six decades in the public eye. His wartime writings and speeches revealed both his vision for the future and his own personal feelings, fascinating generation after generation with their powerful style and thoughtful refle...

1,780円 History has known no monarch like her. She has travelled farther than all her predecessors put together and lived longer than any of them. She has known more historic figures than anyone alive from Churchill to Mandela, de Gaulle to Obama. Now, the distinguished royal writer Robert Hardman has ...

164円 With just one paragraph, Englands King Henry VIII changed the course of the Catholic Churchs history. The Act of Supremacy of November 1534 (26 Hen. 8 c. 1) was an Act of the Parliament of England under King Henry VIII declaring that he was "the only supreme head on earth of the Church in England...

993円 History of the Ulster Volunteer Force from its birth to defend Ulster against home rule, its major part in the battles of France in world war one, it's reincarnation into the fierce and ruthless paramilitary machine during the troubles that took on the Irish Republican terrorists on all fronts a...

164円 A Look at the Ward and Burgevine and their efforts to suppress the Taipings in service of the Quing Government in the 1860's.

599円 "Fans of Downton Abbey and Jane Austen (without zombies) will adore this book. Karla Darcy makes us remember why we lose sense and sensibility for a sexy Regency hero and captures the era with a glorious and colorful voice!" Roxanne St. Claire, New York Times Bestselling Author "Karla Darcy weave...

2,588円 "Footeballe is nothinge but beastlie furie and extreme violence", wrote Thomas Elyot in 1531. Nearly five hundred years later, the game may still seem furious and violent, but it has also become the most popular sport on the planet. This is the story of how the modern, professional, spectator spo...

793円 One of three smaller, more specific e-books, abridged from Philip Nixon's Exploring Durham History.The colourful threads that run through County Durham history have produced a rich tapestry of history, and this edition's focus on eastern, northern and southern County Durham is sure to appeal to a...

496円 This is the original manual for “small wars,” now known variously as guerrilla warfare,  asymmetric combat, and low-intensity conflict.  It was first published in 1896 as an analysis and how-to guide for the British Army as it fought to expand the boundaries of the British Empire. Its ...

661円 This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index. CONTENTS PREFACE PART I. TERRITORIAL STUDIES DOMESDAY BOOK Nature of the Inquisitio Com. Cant., THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE GELD-ROLL THE KNIGHTS OF PETERBOROUGH THE WORCESTERSHIRE SURVEY (Hen. I) THE LINDSEY SURVEY (1115-18) THE LE...

2,022円 “An original, masterly, and fascinating study [that] offers brilliant new insights into the shaping of the Virgin Queen.”ーAlison Weir, New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series In vivid detail, historian Tracy Borman presents Elizabeth I from a thrilling new angle, focusin...