THE RIDDLE OF ERSKINE CHILDERS
Written by Andrew Boyle.
Stock no. 1829818
Published by Hutchinson of London. 1st 1977. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Erskine Childers was the author of the novel The Riddle of the Sands. He was a product of Haileybury and Cambridge, became a Clerk to the House of Commons, fought in the Boer War, joined the navy as a lieutenant in the Volunteer Reserve in 1914 and was awarded the DSC in the Royal Naval Air Service. How did it come about that this typical product of the English upper class was condemned to death by the newly formed Irish Governement, not as an agent of the English but as a republican rebel, a member of the outlawed IRA? Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 351 pages including index. ISBN: 0091284902. Lower edge of rear board knocked. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Name in red ink to front pastedown. Else contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed, lightly scuffed to rear panel, minor closed tear to top front edge.

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HITLER AND APPEASEMENT: THE BRITISH ATTEMPT TO PREVENT THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by Peter Neville.
Stock no. 1829816
Published by Hambledon Continuum. 2007. Slightly better than very good condition.

Hitler, Mussolini and Japan posed a terrible threat to Britian and its empire. Britain strove to sustain peace for as long as possible by the traditional tools of diplomacy and accomodation. Stigmatised as 'Appeasement', this has often been held to be a bankrupt policy, epitomised by Chamberlain's Munich Agreement in 1938, handing over the Sudetenland. This book shows, in contrast, that many of the government's policies were reasonable and well though out... no one in Britain wished to be in another war. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. xiii and 240 pages including index. ISBN: 9781852855277. Reprint.Remains of a small label to rear cover. Minor mark to vertical edge of text block. Contents clean.

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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREEK COLONELS
Written by C.M. Woodhouse.
Stock no. 1829815
Published by Franklin Watts. 1st USA 1985. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

On 21 April 1967 a group of Colonels seized power in Greece. Ostensibly their action was justified by the danger of a Communist conspiracy. Yet not a single person was ever convicted of any action or plot prior to the coup; the Colonels revealed themselves as naive megalomaniacs with a self-imposed mission to reform Greece by force. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. xii and 192 pages including index. ISBN: 0531097986. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned and lightly faded to author's name on front panel.

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HITLER AND THE POWER OF AESTHETICS
Written by Frederic Spotts.
Stock no. 1829808
Published by Hutchinson. 1st 2002. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A new interpretation of Hitler's character and actions which sees an obsessive artistry as the driving force behind his career and his hold over the German people. Novel insights into the world of the Third Reich. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xxii and 488 pages including index. ISBN: 0091793947. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-creased.

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THE GAME OF WAR: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF GUY DEBORD
Written by Andrew Hussey.
Stock no. 1829802
Published by Pimlico. 1st thus 2002. Very good condition.

An appraisal of a lone and defiant figure whose story follows and, at one historic moment in 1968, appears to lead the drift of art and politics in post-war Paris. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. x and 420 pages including index. ISBN: 0712673741. Light browning to top edge of front cover. Rear cover slightly scuffed. Text block browned and a little grubby. Page browning. Else contents clean.

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THE MAKING OF A NAZI HERO: THE MURDER AND MYTH OF HORST WESSEL
Written by Daniel Siemens; David Burnett.
Stock no. 1829796
Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.. 1st UK 2013. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Originally published in German in 2009. This is the English translation, translated by David Burnett. Horst Wessel, was a young and ambitious member of the SA, shot point-blank at his home in Berlin in 1930. This is an account of the background to Horst Wessel's murder, uncovering how and why the Nazis made him a political hero. Red boards, black title to spine. B/w photos. xvi and 316 pages including index. ISBN: 9781780760773. A lovely copy!

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CHESHIRE AND THE TUDOR STATE 1480-1560 (STUDIES IN HISTORY)
Written by Tim Thornton.
Stock no. 1829618
Published by The Boydell Press. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This book asserts the importance of the semi-autonomous political, administrative and judicial system of the palatinate of Chester, and of other similar jurisdictions, in the early Tudor period. Grey cloth boards, red title to spine. xii and 320 pages including index. ISBN: 086193248X. Boards clean and bright. Initials and date in ink to top corner of front endpaper. Else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is slightly scuffed.

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ENVER HOXHA: THE IRON FIST OF ALBANIA
Written by Blendi Fevziu; Robert Elsie.
Stock no. 1829609
Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.. 1st 2016. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A biography of Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator and tyrannical ruler, from his birth in Gjirokastra in southern Albania, then still under Ottoman rule, to his death in 1985 at the age of 76. Edited and introduced by Robert Elsie. Black paper boards, red title to spine. B/w photos. xi and 300 pages including index. ISBN: 9781784534851. A lovely copy, pictorial dustwrapper is very slightly scuffed.

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AN INFAMOUS PAST: E.M. CIORAN AND THE RISE OF FASCISM IN ROMANIA
Written by Marta Petreu; Norman Manea.
Stock no. 1829606
Published by Ivan R. Dee. 1st UK 2005. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Biography of E.M. Cioran, the renowned Romanian-French nihilist philosopher and literary figure. Foreword by Norman Manea. Blue cloth spine with gilt title, blue paper boards. xiv and 332 pages including index. ISBN: 1566636078. A lovely copy. Black dustwrapper is a little scuffed.

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SIR EDWARD WATKIN 1819-1901: THE LAST OF THE RAILWAY KINGS
Written by John Neville Greaves.
Stock no. 1829597
Published by The Book Guild Ltd.. 1st 2005. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biography of Edward Watkin, a leading entrepreneur of the Victorian age. His main life work was the chairmanship of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, but he had a profound influence on many other railways in Britain, Canada and India. He was also an MP for twenty-four years, and a friend of Gladstone. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xi and 373 pages including index. ISBN: 1857768884. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Top edge of text block is grubby. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Price-cut green dustwrapper is faded at flap edges and top front edge, tiny patch of wear to top front corner, lightly scuffed.

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THE HUNDRED DAYS TO HITLER
Written by Roger Manvell; Heinrich Fraenkel.
Stock no. 1829447
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

What were the precise circumstances that made possible Hitler's seizure of power? A detailed day-to-day account of exactly how Hitler and the Nazi leaders manoeuvred their way to power. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 245 pages including index. ISBN: 0460078593. Text block browned with some foxing and a small stain. Grubby marks to page 15 and facing page else contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners.

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WILLIAM LOWNDES YANCEY: THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR
Written by Eric H. Walther.
Stock no. 1829439
Published by University Of North Carolina Press. 1st 2006. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

In this biography of William Lowndes Yancey, one of the leading secessionists of the Old South, the author examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. xi and 477 pages including index. ISBN: 9780807830277. Top & tail of spine very slightly shelf-worn. Minor stain to lower edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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