History: General
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When Dad Came Home
Oratia Books£16.99| /The war was over and Dad was coming home at last! But the days and weeks go by, and when he does return Dad is not the happy man that young Rita on...
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When San Francisco Burned
Linden Publishing£27.99| /Early one spring morning, disaster struck San Francisco, and a young man grabbed his camera and started documenting the destruction and death surro...
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When the Future Came: The Collapse of the USSR and the Emergence of National Memory in Post-Soviet History Textbooks
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£30.00| /This captivating volume brings together case studies drawn from four post-Soviet statesRussia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. The collected papers...
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Where is Dr Leichhardt?
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /The vast deserts of Outback Australia hold many secrets, but there is one great mystery which stands out among all others the mystery of the lost L...
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Where the Presidents Were Born
Schiffer£27.99| /From George Washington to Barack Obama, this book provides the history of the birthplace of every American president, preservation efforts, visitor...
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While the Billy Boils
Sydney University Press£26.99| /Fifty-two of Henry Lawson's stories and sketches that he had first published in newspapers and magazines from 1888 onwards were gathered in his col...
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Whistling Death
Schiffer Military£27.99| /Whistling Death is the true story, by the test pilot, of the rush to produce the F4U Corsair, the Navy fighter that brought America air superiority...
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White Ghosts, Yellow Peril
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /White Ghosts, Yellow Peril is the first book ever to explore all sides of the relationship between China and New Zealand and their peoples during t...
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White House Studies Compendium
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£415.99| /The American presidency has become one of the most powerful offices in the world with the ascendancy of American power in the 20th century. 'White ...
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White War, Black Soldiers
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£17.99| /Strength and Goodness ( Force-Bonté ) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remain...
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White War, Black Soldiers
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /Strength and Goodness ( Force-Bonté ) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remain...
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Whitewater Devils
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /In 1967, in celebration of Canada's 100th birthday, Les Voyageurs left Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, in ten 26-foot canoes. These one hundred gall...
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Who Am I?
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£16.50| /On 8 May 1945, a few days after the end of the war, the Minister of Justice published the War Foster Children Decree. The National Committee for Wa...
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Who Knew?!
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£22.99| /Did you know that the great Jewish sage and physician Maimonides practiced medicine while lying flat on his back? That a famous passage penned by G...
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Who Loves You Like This
Paul Dry Books (US)£17.99| /This is an account of one woman's Holocaust survival and painful postwar years spent forging an adult identity out of the splinters of a girlhood d...
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Why Grow Here
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: 'Those don't grow here you know. It's too cold.' If the apricot tree in Highlands knew...
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Wild Daisies in the Sand
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£15.99| /This book reopens a chapter in Canadian history. The book is a series of diary entries beginning in 1941, when author Tom Sando was imprisoned in c...
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Wildest of the Wild West
Clear Light Publishers (US)£17.99| /The 'Wild West' stories of Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone pale in comparison to the incredible story of Las Vegas, New Mexico, for decades con...
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Wilfried Sonnenthalâs Memories of the Waffen-SS
Schiffer Military£22.99| /Wilfried Sonnenthal joined the SS Signals Replacement Battalion in Nuremberg in January 1943, and in June 1943, he was transferred to the SS-Karstw...
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Willem Leyel's Travel to India 1639-1643
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /On 8 November 1639, Willem Leyel leaves Denmark as commander of the ship "Christianshavn". The destination is the Danish possession Tranquebar with...
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Willing Patriots
Schiffer Military£63.99| /"Willing Patriots" tells the story of Black Americans who served in the U.S. Army in the First World War. The book provides the reader deeply resea...
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Windows on a Women's World
Otago University Press£29.50| /The first 10 Dominican sisters arrived in Dunedin in 1871. The congregation expanded rapidly, establishing schools throughout Otago and Southland, ...
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Wing Chun Warrior
Blacksmith Books (HK)£9.99| /Duncan Leung was introduced to Wing Chun Kung Fu by his childhood friend, famed screen star Bruce Lee. At the age of 13, after the ritual of 'three...
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Wings of Air America
Schiffer Military£18.99| /Air America was the largest of the CIA's secret airlines. Air America was one of the world's most extraordinary ailines. It was run by the CIA, ope...
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Wings of Honor
Schiffer Military£40.99| /Wings of Honor is a compilation of all United States pilots, observers, gunners and mechanics who flew against the enemy in World War I. Covered ar...
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Wings Over the Sea
Goose Lane Editions£12.99| /Allan Moses was a legendary figure, who was better known abroad than at home. A fisherman from Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Moses's fame began when ...
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Winning for Women
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /What was it like to be involved in the heady days of second wave feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisi...
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Winter Uniforms of the German Army and Luftwaffe in World War II
Schiffer Military£72.99| /This is the first thorough and in-depth study to cover all aspects of the winter uniforms issued to and used by the ground-based troops of the Germ...
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Wiremu Pere
Libro International (NZ)£69.99| /Wiremu Pere (Wi Pere) lived from 1837 to 1915, leading his tribes of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga a Mahaki through some of the most turbulent chapt...
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Wires in the Wilderness
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /This is the tale of how Canada's high northern wilderness was brought into civilization's fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung ...
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Wisdom Engaged
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /"I listened to my mum, my dad, my gramma, that is why I am still here. That is how you stay alive." --Mida Donnessey Wisdom Engaged demonstrates ho...
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Wisdom from the Oval Office
History Publishing Co. Llc (US)£19.99| /Wisdom from the Oval Office is the largest collection of presidential quotations ever assembled: 40 chapters, each dealing with one of the major th...
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Wisdom of Progressive Voices
Cardinal Publishers Group (US)£17.99| /This book celebrates the words and lives of those who have articulated a forward thinking view of political, social, and environmental issues of th...
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Wish You Were Here
Great Plains Publications£19.99| /Before email, before Instagram and selfies, postcards were mailed across the world. At the turn of the 20th century, travellers to Winnipeg were im...
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Witch-Hunt & Conspiracy
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /This book brings unique insight and prize-winning analysis to an extraordinary story - that of a witch-hunt and ninja craze that swept a region of ...
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With a Weapon and a Grin
Schiffer Military£31.99| /In incorporating Black African soldiers on the European battleground in their war against the Germans in WWI, France needed to change the image of ...
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With All Her Might
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and...
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With Chennault in China
Schiffer Military£27.99| /Here\s the story of how a handful of young Americans, fighting with improvised equipment, commanded the air against superior enemy forces and won! ...
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With the Black Devils:
Schiffer Military£27.99| /With The Black Devils offers readers a rare first-hand account of life with an elite group of American and Canadian World War II soldiers known as ...
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With Them Through Hell
Massey University Press£50.00| /The thousands of New Zealand men who fought in the First World War went through hell. And right beside them was another fighting force, armed with ...
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With Unfailing Dedication
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£18.99| /The severe shortage of teachers brought on by WWII meant that teenagers -- some with little or no training, were placed in charge of country school...
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With Unshakeable Persistence
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£18.99| /A compilation of individual stories based on the author's interviews and correspondence with several depression era teachers. Comic at times, tragi...
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Witness
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in W...
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Witness
D & F Scott Publishing, Inc (US)£36.99| /Inside these pages are some of the most famous drawings to emerge from a survivor of Nazi extermination camps.
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Wohlfahrtsgesellschaft und Wohlfahrtsstaat
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£84.99| /The welfare states in Europe and the USA did not come into being without or against, but with the help of a section of the middle class and the mid...
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Wohlfahrtsstaat der Mittelschichten?
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£80.99| /The study focuses on the relationship between welfare state and middle classes in Germany in the period between 1949 and 1975. It examines the deve...
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Women and Jihad
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /This book explores the ways in which Palestinian female terrorists have injected their narrative into the Arab, American and even Israeli media. Th...
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Women for Victory
Schiffer Military£81.99| /The Women for Victory series provides a thorough and authoritative reference for American servicewomen?s history and uniforms of WWII, and is desig...
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