Search Results: Great Britain: History from The Owl at the Bridge

NY, Burt [191-?]. Hard Cover. Eight Page Illustrations by H. M. Paget. "There are few great leaders whose lives and actions have so completely fallen into oblivion as those of the Earl of Peterborough. His career as a general was a brief one, extending only over a little more than a year, and yet in that time he showed a genius for warfare which has never been surpassed... that genius was directed by no steady aim or purpose. ...For the historical events I have described, and for the details of Peterborough's conduct and character, I have relied chiefly upon the memoir of the earl written by Mr. C. Warburton, and published some thirty years ago." Contents incude War of the Succession; Pirate Hold; Barcelona; Advance into Valencia; Irregular Warfare; French Convoy; Relief of Barcelona. vi, 351, 8 p., illus., 19 cm.; purple cloth boards decorated in black & green; pages darkened, red-ink owner stamp inside cover; minor wear & soiling to covers, front hinge loosening, no dj; good. Stock#34107 (S-B).

"... through the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries with a particular emphasis on the period of the American War of Independence."As so much of that war was against acts of Parliament, having the texts is helpful. Fifty years ago I was able to buy volumes filled with all the acts of a year for less than a single pertinent one disbound.Bookseller catalogue, softcover, [19] pages, 172 entries, 21 cm. Near fine, with library date stamp on front cover. Stock#48192.

[London, Pitkin Pictorials, c1976]. Pitkin Pride of Britain Books. Soft Cover. 24 p., illus., 23 cm. Vg/ paper. Stock#40274.

New York : Ballantine, [1992, c1991]. Soft Cover. xxxi, 1007 p., [32] p. of plates : illus., map, ports. ; 23 cm. a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race. Massie brings to vivid life, such historical figures as the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz, the young, ambitious, Winston Churchill, the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow, and many others. Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tratedy in his powerful narrative. Stock# 45,156. Vg / soft cover.

Penguin, 1999. Soft Cover. 309 p., index; 19.5 cm. "Being English used to be so easy. They were one of the most easily identified peoples on earth, recognized by their language, their manners, their clothes and the fact that they drank tea by the bucketload. ...the end of empire, the cracks opening in the so-called United Kingdom, the pressures for the English to plunge into Europe, and the uncontrollability of international business-- set me wondering. What did it mean to be English?" Contents incl. The Land of Lost Content, Funny Foreigners, The English Empire, 'True Born Englishmen' and Other Lies, We Happy Few, The Parish of the Senses, Home Alone, There Always Was an England, The Ideal Englishman, Meet the Wife; Old Country, New Clothes; Bibliography, p. 283-296. Paper; minor soiling to covers; VG. stock#45855.

xvii, 302 p., 21 illus., ports., 3 maps; 22 cm. "Here is English society and government on the eve of the great migration to America. The Crown, the courts, Parliament, the church and the university, town and country, etc. are all brought to life in a book which captures the inner character of the English people of the 17th century." New American Nation Series. Stock#NEU402.

Ballantine Books, NY [1979]. Soft Cover. xxi, [iii], 311 p., index, maps, photos; 18 cm. The Battle of Britain pitted the Attacking Luftwaffe against the RAF in the summer of 1940. Stock# 31,067. Good+/color pictorial paper covers. World War II, military history.

London: British Broadcasting Corporation/ Jonathan Cape 1985. Hard Cover. viii, 223 p., [48] p. of plates, illus.; 24 cm. Depicts ideals and realities that went into the making of post-war Britain. ISBN (10): 022402325X. Stock#47041. Vg / dj good+.

The Uncertain Impact, The Process of Assimilation, The New Frontier, The Atlantic World. Select bibliography, pages 105-114. x, 118 pages, frontispiece; paper; minor shelfwear; Good+. Stock#ofc0127.

"From Roman peristyle to 20th-century patio, Anne Scott-James conducts us through 2000 years of the English garden... We learn of each age's distinguished botanists, designers and architects ..." 128 pages, index, illus; color pictorial paper covers; minor wear; Good. Stock#ofc0437.

Academy Chicago [1987].. Soft Cover. xiii, 238 p., index, photos; 21.5 cm. First published 1968. 11 essays with chronology & bibliography; contents include The Visionary Kingdom, The Arthurian Fact, Romance and Reality in Cornwall, Wales in the Arthurian Age, Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury Tor, Life in the Arthurian Age, Arthur and English History, The New Matter of Britain. Color pictorial paper covers; owner's name on top edge, else VG. 28543

Berkeley: University of California Press, ©2000. Soft Cover. 104 p., illus. (most color); 26 cm. Series: A Royal History of England. The text of The Tudors is taken for the single volume of Lives of The Kings & Queens of England, first published in the United Kingdom in 1975 by Weidenfield & Nicolson and revised in 1993 and 1998. ISBN (10): 0520228049 Stock# 47594. Vg / soft cover.