The third and final volume of Shirer's best-selling memoir chronicling his return to his homeland and his ensuing careers as a broadcast journalist and author. He describes the McCarthy years and how the blacklist affected his own network, CBS.
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Abbeys Castle and Ancient Halls of England and Wales South

By: John Timbs and Alexander Gunn

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co Limited: January 1111

Seller ID: 264501

ISBN: B01JAFRZJO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Anglo-Scandinavian England

By: N/A

Price: $39.98

Publisher: University Press of America: February 2002

Seller ID: 241085

ISBN: 0819172685

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The papers in this volume contribute to a more precise assessment of the interconnections between England and Scandinavia during the period from the establishment of the Danelaw to the Norman Conquest. The essays fall into three groups of concern: history, myth, and the language of poetry. Contents: Introduction: The Vikings and England; The Viking Policy of Ethelred the Unready; The Viking Policy of Ethelred: A Response; Ethelred II, Olaf Tryggvason, and the Conversion of Norway; Norse Mythology and Northumbria: Methodological Notes; Norse Mythology and Northumbria: A Response; Did Anglo-Saxo...
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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

By: Kaplan, Robert D.

Price: $7.98

Publisher: St Martins Pr: April 1993

Seller ID: 310442

ISBN: 0312087012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Betha Colaim Chille / Life of Columcille

By: A. O'Kelleher,G. Schoepperle

Price: $39.98

Publisher: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies: January 1994

Seller ID: 269455

ISBN: 185500173X

Condition: New - New

Beyond the Palio: Urbanism and Ritual in Renaissance Siena

By: N/A

Price: $22.98

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell: November 2006

Seller ID: 268258

ISBN: 1405155728

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Beyond the Palio is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the components and importance of ritual events and ceremonies in Renaissance Siena.

Brings together studies based upon diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches to a common theme.
Provides specific case studies and useful comparisons to well-known monographic studies of ritual in Florence and Venice.
Concentrates on a single city to emphasize the important function of public rituals to life during the early modern period.
Looks at both local rit...
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Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: February 1984

Seller ID: 214438

ISBN: 0345314271

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain's long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century.

Historically, the British were drawn to the Holy Land for two major reasons: first, to translate the Bible into English and, later, to control the road to India and access to the oil of the Middle East. With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, Barbara W. Tuchman follows these twin spirit...
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BLOOD OF SPAIN

By: Ronald Fraser

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Pantheon: June 1986

Seller ID: 244843

ISBN: 0394738543

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Britain and Irish Separatism: From the Fenians to the Free State, 1867-1922

By: Thomas E. Hachey

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Catholic Univ of Amer Pr: June 1984

Seller ID: 260642

ISBN: 0813205972

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Catholic Emancipation: Daniel O'Connell and the Birth of Irish Democracy, 1820-30

By: Fergus O'Ferrall

Price: $17.98

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd: October 1985

Seller ID: 260638

ISBN: 0717112187

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940

By: Shirer, William L

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 1969

Seller ID: 310466

ISBN: 0671203371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Cromwell in Ireland

By: James Scott Wheeler

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: January 2000

Seller ID: 240424

ISBN: 0312225504

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

A military history of Oliver Cromwell's campaign of conquest in Ireland from 1649-1650. Wheeler (European history West Point US Military Academy) tells the story from a perspective that unifies the political and economic histories of England, Ireland, and Wales. He argues that it was Cromwell's logistical organization and strategic maneuvering that was the major reason for his military success. Additional chapters describe the Catholic struggle for toleration in a Stuart kingdom from 1641 to 1649, as well as the completion of the Cromwellian conquest by subordinates after his departure from Ir...
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Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed

By: Heimann, Mary

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: March 2011

Seller ID: 294955

ISBN: 0300172427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992--from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, Communist rule, and invasion by the Soviet Union to, at last, democracy again.

The common Western view of Czechoslovakia has been that of a small nation that was sacrificed at Munich in 1938 and betrayed to the Soviets in 1948, and which rebelled heroically against the repression of the Soviet Union during the Prague Spring of 1968. Mary Heimann dispels these ...
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Dublin Tenement Life: An Oral History

By: Kevin C. Kearns

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 2000

Seller ID: 262561

ISBN: 0140296255

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In Dublin Tenement Life, historian Kevin C. Kearns presents a fascinating, often heartbreaking look at life in the slums of Dublin from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Gathering original and authentic oral testimonies from survivors of the old Dublin tenements and presenting along with the social and historical background, as well as a valuable collection of photographs, Kearns shows what life was like in Europe's most wretched slums. Their accounts are sometimes tragic, but always moving. Equally, they are an inspiring chronicle of struggle, survival, and the triu...
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English History 1914-1945

By: Taylor, A J P

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Oxford: January 1965

Seller ID: 312053

ISBN: B0017QVELU

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Europe: A History

By: Norman Davies

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Harper Perennial: February 1998

Seller ID: 244806

ISBN: 0060974680

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Here is a masterpiece of historical narrative that stretches from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age, as it tells the story of Europe, East and West. Norman Davies captures it all--the rise and fall of Rome, the sweeping invasions of Alaric and Atilla, the Norman Conquests, the Papal struggles for power, the Renaissance and the Reformation, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Europe's rise to become the powerhouse of the world, and its eclipse in our own century, following two devastating World Wars. This is the first major history of Europe to give equal weight to both East and West, an...
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Famous Scottish Battles

By: Philip Warner

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books: January 1996

Seller ID: 180722

ISBN: 0760700044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Five Days in London: May 1940

By: Lukacs, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: September 2001

Seller ID: 294190

ISBN: 0300084668

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's magisterial new book.

Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical unfolding of events at 10 Downing Street, where Churchill and the members of his cabinet were painfully considering their war responsibilities. We see how the military disasters taking place on the Continent--particula...
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Five Germanys I Have Known

By: Stern, Fritz

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: August 2006

Seller ID: 299981

ISBN: 0374155402

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The "German question" haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the question through the prism of his own life. Born in the Weimar Republic, exposed to five years of National Socialism before being forced into exile in 1938 in America, he became a world-renowned historian whose work opened new perspectives on the German past.
Stern brings to life the five Germanys he has experienced: Weimar, the Third Reich, postwar Wes...
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French Revolution from Its Origins to 1793

By: Lefebvre, Georges

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Columbia University Press: November 1962

Seller ID: 302539

ISBN: 0231023421

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, DJ intact, light shelf wear.
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Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History

By: Winder, Simon

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: March 2010

Seller ID: 294953

ISBN: 0374254001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A UNIQUE EXPLORATION OF GERMAN CULTURE, FROM SAUSAGE ADVERTISEMENTS TO WAGNER

Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining through a massive glass of beer, Simon Winder was happily swinging his legs when a couple from Rottweil politely but awkwardly asked: "So: why are you "here"?"

This book is an attempt to answer that question. Why spend time wandering around a country that remains a sort of dead zone for many foreigners, surrounded as it is by a force fie...
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History of Medieval Ireland

By: Ruthven, A. J. Otway-

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Barnes & Nobel: January 1993

Seller ID: 275580

ISBN: 1566192161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

How England Made the English: From Hedgerows To Heathrow

By: Mount, Harry

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Viking: May 2013

Seller ID: 307829

ISBN: 0670919144

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Ireland and Scandinavia in the Early Viking Age

By: Aidan Clarke

Price: $395.00

Publisher: Four Courts Press: December 1998

Seller ID: 253489

ISBN: 1851822356

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

In this exploration of the Ireland and Scand inavia during the early Viking period, the authors look at s uch subjects as - Ireland and the Irish in the earliest Old Icelandic tradition, and parallels between Norwegian and Iri sh legends. '
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Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland

By: English, Richard

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Pan Books: April 2008

Seller ID: 311177

ISBN: 0330427598

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Full of rich details drawn from years of original research, this study analyzes the shaping of the past, present, and future of Ireland through the history of Irish nationalism. A full presentation and explanation of why Irish nationalists have believed and acted as they have, why their ideas and strategies have changed over time, and what effect Irish nationalism has had in shaping modern Ireland is included. From the Ulster Plantation to Home Rule, from the Famine of 1847 to the Hunger Strikes of the 1970s, from Parnell to Pearse, from Wolfe Tone to Gerry Adams, from the bitter struggle of t...
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Jacobite Spy Wars: Moles, Rogues and Treachery

By: Hugh Douglas

Price: $12.00

Publisher: The History Press: May 2000

Seller ID: 253198

ISBN: 0750914378

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Jacobite story is more than the tale of Bonnie Prince Charlie and a handful of battles. This book unravels an unending intelligence war on and off the battlefield as, across Europe, moles dug for secrets at every court.
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La Grande Therese : The Greatest Scandal of the Century

By: Hilary Spurling

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Counterpoint Press: June 2000

Seller ID: 172681

ISBN: 006019622X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"La Grande Th?r?se is the true story of a scandal that nearly destroyed the French Third Republic.

A hundred years ago Th?r?se Humbert was one of the most powerful women in France; her salon was the center of Parisian life, and her wealth--as the assumed illegitimate daughter of an American billionaire--was fabled. She lived life on a grand scale and was the toast of Paris. But Th?r?se was not who she claimed to be. Her lifestyle, her history, and, most important, her fortune--all were an elaborate hoax. When her con was finally exposed, thousands of small investors and creditors, includ...
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Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain

By: Royle, Trevor

Price: $16.98

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: July 2008

Seller ID: 278541

ISBN: 1403966729

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

In this sweeping history, Trevor Royle details one of the bloodiest episodes in British history. The prize was the crown of England, and the players were the rival houses of Lancaster and York. The dynastic quarrel threatened the collapse of the monarchy as a succession of weak rulers failed to deal with an overzealous aristocracy, plunging England into a series of violent encounters. The bloody battles and political intrigue between the rival heirs of King Edward III brought forth one of the most dynamic ruling families of England--the Tudors.
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Landscapes With Figures

By: Liam De Paor

Price: $17.98

Publisher: Four Courts Press: July 1998

Seller ID: 266489

ISBN: 1851823859

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A collection of essays, papers and lectures by Paor dealing with the modern world order and Ireland's place in it, beginning with the long and complex history of 'Ireland and the British Empire' from the 15th century to the present day and including essays on matters ranging from the poems of Tom Moore and Seamus Heaney to the IRA.
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Later Medieval Europe: From St. Louis to Luther

By: Daniel Waley

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Longman Pub Group: February 1985

Seller ID: 268254

ISBN: 0582492629

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In this well-known intrduction Dr Waley explores the key aspects of the history of later medieval Europe (c1250-1520) and outlines the leading influences of the time. He discusses cultural developments and the history of ideas, as well as political and economic topics. The central theme is the growing power of the state and the effect of this on political ideas
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London: The Biography

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Random House: January 2001

Seller ID: 287320

ISBN: 0099422581

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A masterpiece -- the culmination and distillation of Peter Ackroyd's lifelong passion for the history and topography of London. Vividly anecdotal and brilliantly original.

Perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, London confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic called, "our age's greatest London imagination." Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London, but this new book is his definitive account of the city. For Ackroyd's London is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so London is The Biograph...
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Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War

By: Peter Maass

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Vintage: February 1997

Seller ID: 260442

ISBN: 0679763899

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Peter Maass went to the Balkans as a reporter at the height of the nightmarish war there, but this book is not traditional war reportage. Maass examines how an ordinary Serb could wake up one morning and shoot his neighbor, once a friend--then rape that neighbor's wife. He conveys the desperation that makes a Muslim beg the United States to bomb his own city in order to end the misery. And Maass does not falter at the spectacle of U.N. soldiers shining searchlights on fleeing refugees--who are promptly gunned down by snipers waiting in the darknes...
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Mayhew's Characters. Edited with a note on the English Character by Peter Quennell.

By: Henry Mayhew

Price: $14.98

Publisher: London: Spring Books 1965?.: December 1964

Seller ID: 127757

ISBN: B001IW1AN0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Medicine & society in later medieval England (Social History)

By: Carole Rawcliffe

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Alan Sutton Pub: January 1995

Seller ID: 256874

ISBN: 0862995981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)

By: Frommer, Benjamin

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: August 2010

Seller ID: 312443

ISBN: 0521008964

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This comprehensive history of postwar Czech retribution examines the prosecution of more than one-hundred thousand suspected war criminals and collaborators by Czech courts and tribunals after the Second World War. Based on archival sources that remained inaccessible during the cold war, the book provides a new perspective on Czechoslovakia's transition from Nazi occupation to Stalinist rule. Frommer asserts that the Czechs made a genuine, if flawed, attempt to confront past war crimes, including their own.
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National questions: Reflections on Daniel O'Connell and contemporary Ireland

By: R.V. Comerford

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Wolfhound Press: January 2000

Seller ID: 266492

ISBN: 0863278132

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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Nazi Germany: A New History

By: Fischer, Klaus P.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group: May 1995

Seller ID: 282715

ISBN: 0826407978

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A military, social, and political history of the Third Reich argues that Nazism was not the inevitable next step for Germany, but rather that certain factors enabled Hitler to seize power and cause the annihilation of European Jews.
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On the Blanket: The Inside Story of the Ira Prisioners' 'Dirty' Protest

By: Tim Pat Coogan

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Court Wayne Pr Llc: April 1997

Seller ID: 268698

ISBN: 1570981337

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The journalism masterpiece that made history by exposing the reality of Ireland's "dirty protests"
-- Describes a protest that led up to the famed hunger strikes in which ten prisoners died
Here is the authoritative account, first published in 1980, of the H-Block protest: one of the most shocking and controversial situations in the tragic history of Northern Ireland. Tim Pat Coogan spoke to all sides and set down the facts of the protest squarely, as well as the human tragedy behind them. The resulting work, recorded in its entirety in On the Blanket, is an unsparing look deep into the s...
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On the Natural History of Destruction (Modern Library Classics (Paperback))

By: Sebald, W.G.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Modern Library: February 2004

Seller ID: 290795

ISBN: 0375756574

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died--a figure twice that of all American war casualties. Seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. Given the astonishing scope of the devastation, W. G. Sebald asks, why does the subject occupy so little space in Germany's cultural memory? On the Natural History of Destruction probes deeply into this ominous silence.
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