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Second Chance: In Combat with the US 'Texas' Infantry, the OSS, and the French Resistance during the Liberation of France, 1943-1946 SIGNED/Inscribed

Stephen J Weiss · 2011 · Denton Island Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Military History Publishing , 2011. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781780394664 Inscribed by Author. SIGNED by the author and inscribed "To Terry, fire one for smoke!" Clean unmarked pages, slight wear to jacket edges. An excellent and fascinating read from a man who started...

The Monks of Saint Pancras: Lewes Priory, England's Premier Cluniac Monastery and its Dependencies 1076 - 1537 SIGNED

Graham Mayhew · 2013 · Denton Island Books

£36.50 (€43.75 | $48.22 | ¥7,700)

Lewes History Press, 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Fine. 9780992698409 Signed by Author. SIGNED to the title page by the author. Remains of erased brief pencilled markings to top of front endpaper, otherwise a clean and unmarked copy. 468 pages. Quantity Available: 1. C...

Voyages and Visions: Nineteenth-century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Esin Atil · 1995 · Denton Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Smithsonian Books, 1995. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9780295974903 Clean unmarked pages, slight edgewear to jacket. Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Eighty-two watercolors and drawings ...

St George and the Dragons: The Making of English Identity SIGNED/Inscribed

Michael Collins · 2018 · Denton Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Fonthill Media, 2018. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781781556498 Inscribed by Author. SIGNED and dated by the author to the previous owner. Clean unmarked pages, firm binding, bright jacket. A nicely kept copy. 288 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inscribed ...

The Lost Café Schindler

Meriel Schindler · 2021 · Denton Island Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Hodder & Stoughton , 2021. Hardcover. As New/As New. 9781529332056 A very nice copy-clean bright and unmarked, in as new condition. An extraordinary and compelling book of reckonings - a journey across a long, complex and deeply painful arc of history, grippingly told - a wond...

Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice

Mary Fulbrook · 2018 · Denton Island Books

£20.85 (€24.99 | $27.55 | ¥4,399)

OUP, 2018. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9780198811237 Firm binding, clean unmarked pages; 1mm. nick to front top edge of jacket. This masterly book challenges the ways, seven decades after the end of the war, that Europeans remember and commemorate a crime that still l...

Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India

KS Komireddi · 2019 · Denton Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

C Hurst & Co, 2019. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9781787380059 Clean unmarked pages, firm binding; slight shelfwear to jacket. 'Written with passion and savagery, this is a polemical and highly readable short history of modern India from Indira Gandhi to Narendra Modi....

The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation

Ophelia Field · 2008 · Denton Island Books

£16.85 (€20.20 | $22.26 | ¥3,555)

HarperPress, 2008. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9780007178926 Clean unmarked pages, firm binding; slight creasing to upper edge of front inner flap. A well-kept copy. 'After reading this stimulating book, it is shocking to realise that the Kit-Cat Club has ha...

Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank 1988 to present [2018]. Owner's Workshop Manual

Dick Taylor · 2018 · Denton Island Books

£17.85 (€21.40 | $23.58 | ¥3,766)

Haynes, 2018. Hardcover. Fine Condition. 9781785211904 Clean unmarked pages, very slight wear to boards. Although it follows the standard Haynes format, this book is definitely a bit wordier than the average "workshop manual." While there's still plenty of excellent diagrams a...

Tam Blake and Co.: Scots in America, 1540-1940 SIGNED

Jim Hewitson · 1993 · Denton Island Books

£16.85 (€20.20 | $22.26 | ¥3,555)

Canongate Books Ltd, 1993. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9780862414320 Signed by Author. SIGNED and dated by the author. Clean unmarked pages, slight wear to jacket edges. In 1540, Tam Blake, mercenary and adventurer, became the first Scot in the New World. Since then, Ameri...

The Social Construction of Ancient Cities

Monica Smith, ed. · 2010 · Denton Island Books

£24.85 (€29.79 | $32.83 | ¥5,243)

Smithsonian Books, 2010. Softcover. Fine Condition. 9781588342911 Clean unmarked pages, slight wear to covers, almost as new. The Social Construction of Ancient Cities offers a fresh perspective on ancient cities and the social networks and relations that built and sustained t...

10 Downing Street: The Illustrated History

Anthony Seldon · 1999 · Denton Island Books

£26.85 (€32.18 | $35.47 | ¥5,665)

HarperCollins, 1999. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9780004140735 232 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips, slght surface wear on rear.. Quantity Av...

Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520

Christopher Dyer · 2002 · Denton Island Books

£16.85 (€20.20 | $22.26 | ¥3,555)

Yale University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9780300090604 Clean unmarked pages; slight bumping to top rear corner of jacket. A bright, well-kept copy. In his masterly new book, Christopher Dyer reviews our thinking about the economy of Britain in the middles a...

The Reconstruction of Warriors: Archibald McIndoe, the Royal Air Force and the Guinea Pig Club

E R Mayhew · 2004 · Denton Island Books

£14.85 (€17.80 | $19.62 | ¥3,133)

Greenhill Books, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Fine. 9781853676109 Clean unmarked pages, firm binding. Slight age-spotting to upper closed page block, otherwise a nicely kept copy. 256 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; ISBN/EAN: 9781853676109. ...

Beneath the Waves: A History of HM Submarine Losses 1904-1971

A.S. Evans · 2010 · Denton Island Books

£15.85 (€19.00 | $20.94 | ¥3,344)

Pen & Sword Maritime, 2010. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781848842922 Slight browning to page edges, slight rubbing to jacket corners. "...very well researched information about the losses of the British submarine force... clear and concise ...Mr. Evans should be commended...

Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and Maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians Since 1788

Bruce Elder · 2000 · Denton Island Books

£22.85 (€27.39 | $30.19 | ¥4,821)

New Holland Publishing , 2000. Third Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9781741100082 Expanded edition.Some staining to exterior lower closed page block, interior pages unmarked. Documenting some of the most significant, albeit painful, events in white Australia's past, ...

The History of the British U Class Submarine

Derek Walters · 2004 · Denton Island Books

£12.85 (€15.40 | $16.98 | ¥2,711)

Leo Cooper Ltd, 2004. First Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9781844151318 Remains firmly bound, with clean pages which are slightly age-toned at the edges; bright glossy jacket. A smart looking copy. Originally designed in 1934 for anti-submarine training, b...

Germany's Secret Weapons Of World War II

Roger Ford · 2013 · Denton Island Books

£26.85 (€32.18 | $35.47 | ¥5,665)

Amber Books Ltd, 2013. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781909160569 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages. A nice bright, well-cared for copy. Explores this little-known aspect of the Nazi war machine to reveal the extent of German secret weapons development. Broken down by weap...

Windrush: A Ship Through Time

Paul Arnott · 2019 · Denton Island Books

£12.85 (€15.40 | $16.98 | ¥2,711)

The History Press , 2019. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. 9780750989862 Clean unmarked pages; laminate lifting on rear lower corner of jacket. The ship that gave its name to a generation of immigrants had a fascinating Nazi past ... Paul Arnott paints a ric...

Marie Therese: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter

Susan Nagel · 2008 · Denton Island Books

£15.85 (€19.00 | $20.94 | ¥3,344)

Bloomsbury , 2008. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. 9780747581598 Clean unmarked pages; price-clipped jacket. Interweaving extensive details gleaned from an impressive cache of undiscovered Bourbon family letters, and Marie-Therese's previously unpublished j...