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Britain AD: A Quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons Best Price: $13.21 In this book Francis Pryor presents compelling evidence for the insitu development of much of... | England's Glorious Revolution 1688-1689: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) Best Price: $10.00 The French are not the only nation how imbued some of their history with great portent. So too... | Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars (Men-at-Arms) Best Price: $10.00 This book has virtually nothing to do with the 'Arthurian' period, much less literature. It... | The Wolfhound Guide to the Irish Wolfhound (Wolfhound Guides) Best Price: $7.95 In a land of legend and lore, of mystery and myth, no other creature plays a greater part in... | We Are at War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times Best Price: $13.10 Continuing the thread begun in Hidden Lives, Simon Garfield offers selections from the... |
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Cortex and Mind: Unifying Cognition Best Price: $34.57 According to some estimates the sum total of all medical knowledge is doubling every three and a... | Bagpipes: A National Collection of a National Treasure Best Price: $16.17 The Scottish bagpipe has a romance all its own. Here is the story behind the magnificent... | HISTORY OF ENGLAND VOL 4 CL, THE (History of England) Best Price: $19.99 The best work I've seen on the subject yet. A must read. | The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga (Rutherfurd, Edward (Large Print)) Best Price: $62.00 This book was my first venture into Edward Rutherfurd's works. When I began reading it, I wasn't... | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Yale Nota Bene) Best Price: $14.20 Jonathan Rose has written a most enjoyable book looking at what British workers thought about... |
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South Boston, My Home Town: The History of an Ethnic Neighborhood Best Price: $10.88 "South Boston My Hometown" is a detailed but very readable history of a unique Boston... | The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain (Oxford Illustrated Histories) Best Price: $23.88 Britain under the reign of the Tudors and Stuarts was a country marked by extraordinary and... | The Epics of Celtic Ireland: Ancient Tales of Mystery and Magic Best Price: $6.00 Fond of Markale's work, as his mind seems to work like mine, I especially enjoyed this trip... | The Revolutions in Europe, 1848-1849: From Reform to Reaction Best Price: $44.49 This collection of essays provides a new introduction to the revolutions of 1848. In that year... | McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland Best Price: $88.88 Fantastic account of an Englishman's desire to be Irish. Hilarious.
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Evidence in Camera: The Story of Photographic Intelligence in the Second World War Best Price: $12.45 This is the story of photographic reconnaisance and photographic intelligence/interpretation in... | The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666 Best Price: $11.09 Too much novelesque fictional fluff obscuring the facts. A whole paragraph devoted to how... | The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole--Scientist, Alchemist, and Founder of the Royal Society Best Price: $3.00 A comprehensive look at the life of Elias Ashmole, who represents the historic missing link... | Irish Country Style Best Price: $5.95 Celebrate the Emerald Isle's lush green fields, distinctive architecture, charming homes, and... | The Home Front, 1914-1918: How Britain Survived the Great War (Britain at War) Best Price: $23.89 Every war has its 'home front', but World War I - the 'Great War' - was the first to utterly... |
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King Alfred the Great Best Price: $44.95 A great and comprehensive biography of one of the most amazing figures of history. Although some... | Confession of Saint Patrick Best Price: $3.24 St. Patrick's Confession will prove a good read for Christians and non-believers alike. Any good... | John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty Best Price: $12.95 Arthur Cash's biography of John Wilkes, the 18th century English political figure, provides a... | The Hallowed Eve: Dimensions of Culture in a Calendar Festival in Northern Ireland (Irish Literature, History, and Culture) Best Price: $17.97 There are many books on Halloween (including another by Jack Santino), but this book is unique... | The Vikings In Ireland Best Price: $15.95 This is an excellent overview of the subject. Presents comprehensive information in plain and... |
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The World of the Celts Best Price: $4.85 Beautifully written and illustrated history. Kept me compelled to read on in this beautiful text. | The New Northern Ireland Politics Best Price: $28.90 The repeated crises of devolved power sharing in the face of continued paramilitary activity and... | The Coffee House: A Cultural History Best Price: $10.17 When the first coffeehouse opened in London in 1652, customers were bewildered by this strange... | The Basque History of the World Best Price: $7.95 Yes, it's an interesting book about an interesting subject but it does seem to go on some... | William Pitt the Younger (Lancaster Pamphlets) Best Price: $19.15 In William Pitt the Younger, Eric J. Evans re-examines Pitt's career in light of recent... |
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Feeding Nelson's Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era Best Price: $13.42 Author Janet Macdonald writes an informative and in depth book about feeding English sailors in... | The Senses in Late Medieval England Best Price: $30.00 Crucial to an understanding of life in the past is an appreciation of how individuals perceived... | A Servant of the Queen (Bookmasters) Maude Gonne is the beauty that inspired the verse of Yeats. She lead a fascinating life, and... | Religion and Society in Early Modern England A Sourcebook Best Price: $33.13 As a fench student in English, I have to say that this book has a lot of interesting information... | Ireland: A Concise History (Illustrated Natural History) Best Price: $3.46 This is actually a fairly easy to read and short book, due in part, to the many illustrations. ... |
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Stars, Stones and Scholars: The Decipherment of the Megaliths as an Ancient Survey of the Earth by Astronomy Best Price: $35.99 It is rare for a book to cover the distance and depth found in Stones, Stars and Scholars by... | THE ISLES OF THE MANY GODS: An A-Z of the Pagan Gods & Goddesses worshipped in Ancient Britain during the first Millenium CE through to the Middle Ages Best Price: $24.00 David Rankine and Sorita D'Este did a great researching job for this A to Z index of the many... | Mary Tudor: A Life Best Price: $25.61 Too many books about Mary I, Queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII, portray her as either... | A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage (Drama and Performance Studies) Best Price: $15.84 This book traces a significant shift in 20th century Irish theatre from the largely national... | The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year Best Price: $11.81 Thoroughly researched and presented with details about the lives of the people living in London... |
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum Best Price: $5.69 The book I got looks the same on the outside, but it's not the same as the "look... | On the Blanket: The Inside Story of the IRA Prisoners' "Dirty" Protest Best Price: $3.82 THIS BOOK IS ABOUT THE DIRTY PROTEST BY THE IRA PRISONERS IN H BLOCK OF THE MAZE PRISON ONE OF... | The Celts Best Price: $8.20 In the eyes of the world Ireland is a Celtic country - the source of all Celtic wisdom and lore,... | Ballykilcline Rising: From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America Best Price: $26.05 This was an excellent book. Very absorbing. I read it in a few days and was curled up on the... | 1215 Best Price: $7.98 This book is my first purchase here and I love it. These Authors, Danny Danziger and John... |
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History of England: Prehistory to 1714, Vol. I I had to use this book for my History of England class, and while I did not expect it to be an... | London: A Short History (Universal History) Best Price: $12.78 If the biography of a city whose history spans two thousand years is compressed to the short... | Bomber Command (Pan Grand Strategy) Best Price: $11.73 I read this book, here in Brazil.This book is full of correct things, and I must tell you, that... | Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers (Routledge Key Guides) Best Price: $22.95 It can be very difficult to get a grasp on the roughly 1,000 years that make up the Medieval... | There's a Devil in the Drum Best Price: $17.70 In 1914 John Lucy was that rare treasure, an NCO of a regular regiment of the British army. He... |
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Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe Best Price: $41.27 Here, Richard Lachmann offers a new answer to an old question: Why did capitalism develop in... | Prehistoric Avebury, Second Edition Best Price: $19.50 A priceless treasure of information about the Neolithic world, this work will long endure. The... | Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman Best Price: $18.95 The author not only spent the time to do a very well researched, insightful book about The... | England's Maritime Empire: Seapower, Commerce and Policy 1490-1690, Turning Points | Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) Best Price: $56.98 It is an Irish proverb that states that there is no fate but the one we make for ourselves. ... |