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The true story of Edward Windsor and Wallis Simpson's involvement with the Nazi regime, and the post-war cover-up. The story of the love affair between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII, and his abdication, has provoked endless fascination. However, the full story of their links with the German aristocracy and Hitler has remained untold. * 17 Carnations chronicles Hitler's attempts to matchmake between Edward and a German noblewoman, and Wallis's affair with the German foreign minister, who sent her a carnation for every night they had spent together. *Pro-German sympathizers, the couple became embroiled in a conspiracy to install Edward as a puppet king after the Allies' defeat. * The Duke's letters were hidden for years as the British establishment attempted to cover up the connection between the House of Windsor and Hitler. Thoroughly researched, 17 Carnations reveals the whole fascinating story, throwing sharp new light on this dark chapter of history. Like new. Light shelf wear to dust jacket.

This title covers the whole of English cultural history from its roots in the Anglo-Saxon period, through the centuries, to numerous examples from contemporary times. Explorations include: forgery and plagiarism; ruins and antiquarianism; the English love of miniatures; and drag acts.

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Contains maps and illustrations. Facsimile of the 1810 edition, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZEWe have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German colonial war in the East, many on the fertile black earth that the Nazis believed would feed the German people.It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think.Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands was an acclaimed exploration of what happened in eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945, when Nazi and Soviet policy brought death… Read More

This book is a brief description of the lives, times, ideas, discoveries, trial and tribulations of the principal scientists of their day, from Biblical times to the present. Its aim to provide students and the general reader with an overview of the evolution of science and scientific thought, thus putting modern science into context.
It is also the author's aim to provide an opportunity to laugh at the absurdities of mankind, to weep at the misfortunes of mankind and to rage at the cruelties and injustices of the world.
The author is a retired NHS general practioners and the philosophy contained within this book is a distillation of experience at the sharp end of medical practice.
There is an appendix containing scientific facts and tables, and a comprehensive index thus making the book a useful reference work for all those studying the history of science.

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leather binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1842 edition, complete with fold-out illustrations, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

Found in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Dessert in 1946 and 1947, The Dead Sea Scrolls are highly significant and important religious manuscripts, written at the time the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament were written.
The book is well illustrated with pictures of the opened-out fragments of scrolls on most pages, together with other associated antiquities, and explanations.
Published in association with the Israel Antiquities Authority, this book is factual and fascinating in its content.

Life and death are never far apart in Egyptian culture and society, and Bridget McDermott's book looks beyond funerary rites and mummification to explore the beliefs and customs of ordinary people.

Frances Hill describes how a group of girls, stifled with the rigidity of their puritan lives, started an innocent game of fortune-telling, which rapidly descended into collective hysteria, violent fits and the accusation that many of their neighbours were witches. It is the story of how more than 100 men, women and children languished in Salem prison on the charge of witchcraft. This work tells in clear and factual terms what actually happened in Salem, drawing on insights from contemporary psychology and feminism.

Scale: Road mapping 1:625,000 (9.9 miles to 1 inch).
This handy tourist atlas and guide focuses on Britain's rich and diverse heritage. The guide information, complete with photographs, is cross-referenced to the road maps and concentrates on historic houses, castles, ancient monuments and ecclesiastical buildings.
Britain has a rich and varied history, and this is reflected in the stately homes, beautiful cathedrals, castles and ancient monuments dotted around the country. This guide gives the visitor a taste of some of the best places to visit, presented in a handy format with detailed road mapping showing all the key locations.
This book includes:• Information and photographs highlighting some of the top locations to visit in order to see the best of Britain's heritage.• List of 'must-see' cities, towns and villages.• Town plans and further visitor information on ten of the best of Britain's heritage cities• Maps with the top 500 locations clearly named and plotted.• Illustrated… Read More

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Contains fold-out illustration. Facsimile of the 1853 edition, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

Discover the landscape of the past. Ordnance Survey revised new series one inch maps enlarged, re-projected to match Ordnance Survey Landranger.

The term witch-hunt is used today to describe everything from political scandals to school board shake-ups. But its origins are far from trivial. Long before the Salem witch trials, women and men were rounded up by neighbours, accused of committing horrific crimes using supernatural powers, scrutinised by priests and juries and promptly executed. The belief in witchcraft - and the deep fear of evil it instilled in communities - led to a cycle of accusation, anger, and purging that has occurred repeatedly in the West for centuries. Award-winning historian, John Demos, puts this cultural paranoia in context. He takes readers from the early Christians persecuted in Rome through the Salem witch trials, McCarthy's hunt for communists and the hysteria around child sex-abuse cases and satanic cults in the 1980s. An original and fascinating look at the cultural, social and psychological practice of witch-hunts, THE ENEMY WITHIN illuminates the dark side of communities driven to rid themselves of evil, no… Read More

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries barrow digging became a field sport for local squires and parsons. Their desire for decorative relics led them to plunder the graves of their prehistoric ancestors. With a few notable exceptions their methods were lamentable: their workmen recklessly destroyed remains and pottery, and few made accurate records. What was most horrifying was the speed at which they worked ― one individual digging over 30 barrows in a day and 9 in the space of two hours!Against this background it is perhaps amazing that any idea of the importance of recording provenance and context developed at all. But, in this fascinating survey of early field archaeology in Britain, Barry Marsden is able to highlight the careers and methods of the more responsible barrow diggers ― from the first excavations of William Stukeley in the 1720s to the more orderly and painstaking work of the main nineteenth-century practitioners, concluding with the exemplary operations of Lt. General Pitt… Read More

Background reading for students of healthcare. Signed by the author. Dust jacket has moderate wear but is covered in a poly cover. Book itself is in as new condition.

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Facsimile of the 1861 edition, lavishly illustrated, complete with fold-out illustration and map, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

TWO VOLUME SET. Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Facsimile of the 1894 edition. Memorial edition, illustrated by his wife Isabel Burton. Facsimile, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

Mountain man Hugh Glass's harrowing journey 300 miles to civilization after being mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead is just one of the incredible adventures Spur Award Winning author Win Blevins explores in the New York Times bestseller, Give Your Heart to the Hawks.
In addition to the captivating story of Hugh Glass, Win Blevins presents a poetic tribute to these dauntless first Westerners who explored the Great American West from the time of Lewis and Clark into the 1840s. As trappers in a hostile, trackless land, their exploits opened the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers who followed them. Here, among many, are the enthralling stories of:
* John Colter, who, in 1808, naked and without weapons or food, escaped captivity by the Blackfeet and ran and walked 250 miles to Fort Lisa at the mouth of the Yellowstone River;* Kit Carson, who ran away from home at age 17, became a legendary mountain man in his 20s and served as scout and guide for John C. Fremont's westward… Read More

Historical account of the famous plot to blow up the British Houses of Parliament in 1605.

Britain is traditionally considered to have been conquered by the Romans in AD43. In fact the intervention took place because an important faction of the Atrebates tribe under King Verica persuaded the Emperor Claudius to intervene against other Britons who had invaded its territory. Central southern Britain was liberated by a forced landing in Chichester harbour and thereafter remained largely free from the influence of the Roman army. It became Roman under the patronage of a powerful high king, Tiberius Claudius Togidubnus. Cultural and artistic life flourished, melding Celtic and Roman features into a brilliant new civilization which reached its apogee in the fourth century, when the former protectorate became Britannia Prima with its capital at Cirencester. After the early fifth century, the cessation of coinage made the financing of public buildings, villas and associated works of art impossible, but something survived of Roman Britain in the distinctive British Latin, the insular version of… Read More