Editore: Harper Press, London, England, 2012
ISBN 10: 0007450133 ISBN 13: 9780007450138
Da: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good, Not Price Clipped. Second Printing. Some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white photographs and colour reproductions of works of art. Book.
Editore: Harper Press an Imprint of Harper Collins Ltd, London England, 2009
ISBN 10: 0007330782 ISBN 13: 9780007330782
Da: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Regno Unito
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Paperback Printing. Paperback Sandstealers War is a hell of a story.Ever wondered what it is like to work in a war zone? 'We live more in one year than most people do in a lifetime,' is Danny Lowenstein's simple retort. Set in a world where life is cheap, vengeance is long and betrayals can be deadly, "Sandstealers" is a masterly thriller -- infused with a deep knowledge of modern war and its witnesses. Danny Lowenstein is a big shot war correspondent with the world at his feet. But when an interview goes wrong and he's ambushed on a lonely road in Iraq, questions are asked. Was it a set-up? And was he deliberately sent to his death by one of his own -- the tight-knit group of adrenalin-addicted journalists who are supposed to be his best friends? Rachel, Becky, Kaps and Edwin are 'The Junkies': together they've been through thick and thin and seen the horrors of war. Yet theirs is also a tangled web of intense relationships and dark rivalries. Could one of them have become Danny's killer? All's fair in love and war. Including the murder of a friend! Top page (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
Editore: Harper Press, London, England, 2010
ISBN 10: 000732524X ISBN 13: 9780007325245
Da: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine, Not Price Clipped. British First. First edition, first printing as indicated by the numeral "1" printed on the verso of the title page; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; well illustrated with a colour map and an extensive, separate section of black and white photographs by Wilfred Thesiger; 280 pages. Book.
Editore: Atlas Books Harper Press, London England, 2007
ISBN 10: 0007197896 ISBN 13: 9780007197897
Da: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover First Edition Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives) This short biography of William Shakespeare by world famous writer Bill Bryson brims with the author`s inimitable wit and intelligence. Shakespeare`s life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and scholars, is still a thicket of myths and traditions, some preposterous, some conflicting, arranged around the few scant facts known about the Bard " from his birth in Stratford to the bequest of his second best bed to his wife when he died. 200pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
Editore: Harper Press, London England, 2009
ISBN 10: 0007903693 ISBN 13: 9780007903696
Da: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Paperback First Edition. Finest Years. Churchill as Warlord 1940-45. Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940 the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide between what Churchill wanted from the British people and their army, and what they were capable of delivering. Himself a hero, he expected other to show themselves heroes also, and was often disappointed. it is little understood how low his popularity fell in 1942, amid an unbroken succession of battlefield defeats. Some of his closest colleagues joined a clamour for him to abandon his role directing the war machine, as Minister of Defence. Hastings paints a wonderfully vivid image of the prime minister in triumph and tragedy, and identifies many neglected issues. By looking at Churchill from the outside in, through the eyes of British soldiers, civilians, and newspapers, and also those of Russians and Americans, Hasings provides new perspectives on the greatest Englishman and the precarious Grand Alliance. Illustrated. 664 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
Editore: Harper Press, London England, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007395280 ISBN 13: 9780007395286
Da: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Regno Unito
Card Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 4th Impression. Hardcover The Third Man Life at the Heart of New Labour The number one bestselling memoir of one of New Labour's three founding architects, now with a revealing new chapter updating this paperback edition.Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. The Third Man is his story ? of a life played out in the backroom and then on the frontline of the Labour Party during its unprecedented three terms in government.Much of the book is devoted to the defining political relationships of Peter Mandelson's life ? with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Charting what he terms the 'soap-opera' years of the Labour government, his book continues to ruffle feathers with an updated preface bringing the story up to the tempestuous present.
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Editore: Harper Press, London England, 2007
ISBN 10: 0007257783 ISBN 13: 9780007257782
Da: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Regno Unito
Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Impression. Hardcover 2nd Impression 9780007257782 Synopsis Afghanistan, Summer 2006. This is war. Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been told. This is it. In April 2006, the elite 3 Para battlegroup was despatched to Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. They were tasked with providing security to reconstruction efforts, a deployment it was hoped would pass off without a shot being fired. In fact, over the six months they were there, the 3 Para battle group saw near continuous combat -- one gruelling battle after another -- in what would become one of the most extraordinary campaigns ever fought by British troops. Around parched, dusty outposts reliant on a limited number of helicopters for food and ammunition resupply, troops were subjected to relentless Taliban attacks, as well as energy-sapping 50 degree heat and spartan conditions. At the end of the tour, the Taliban offensive aimed at driving the British and Afghan Government troops out of Helmand had been tactically defeated.But 3 Para paid a high price: fourteen soldiers and one interpreter were killed, and 46.
Editore: Harper Press, London England, 2008
ISBN 10: 000724052X ISBN 13: 9780007240524
Da: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Earls of Paradise. Was our country once a better place? Has modernisation destroyed as much as it has improved? And can we see in an earlier Britain a way of living, an Arcadia? In the Arcadian vision, tomorrow would always be the same as yesterday. This dream became ever more alluring as the changes of approaching modernity - the growing power of the state; the disruption of the traditional bonds of society; the marginalisation of the great families who had once balanced the power of the crown - accelerated through 16th- and 17th-century England. To tell this story from the 1520s to the 1640s, the author takes a single great family, the Earls of Pembroke, their wives, children, estates, tenants and allies, and follows their high and glamorous trajectory across three generations. In this wide-ranging book the author explores a world in transition, an England caught up in its first taste of modernity split between the old and the new, the moment at which the world we have lost turned into the world it has now become. Illustrated. 298 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).
Editore: Harper Press, London England, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007225695 ISBN 13: 9780007225699
Da: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Soldiers. This is a story of a man as time-worn as the redcoats in the army of Charles II and as youthful as the gate-guards at Helmand's Camp Bastion. For the author, the British soldier is signed up to a unique tribe, bound together across the generations. The author was one of our most celebrated and influential military historians until his untimely death soon after completing this book. It is exhausitively researched, and Holmes's affection for the soldier 'warts and all' shines through on every page. Where did British soldiers come from? Why did they join and how did they react to military service? This book considers the bonds of mateship and ties of discipline that sustained fighting men on the battlefield, but also the less martial aspects of the military - leave, family ties, drink, women, sport and gambling. Many of the men in these pages prosper, and are promoted or decorated for their deeds; others find military life on long and sometimes dangerous agony. Above all, this book is brimming with great stories, from the chaos of the battlefield to the fug of the barrack-room, from Ulster to Bengal, from, Flanders fields to the Afghan hills. Illustrated. 656 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).
Editore: Harper Press, London England, 2009
ISBN 10: 0007240554 ISBN 13: 9780007240555
Da: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Regno Unito
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Author (illustratore). 4th Impression. PaperbackSissinghurst is world famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended? Has its success over the last thirty years come at a price? Is Sissinghurst everything it could be? The story of this piece of land, an estate in the Weald of Kent, is told here for the first time from the very beginning. Adam Nicolson, who now lives there, has uncovered remarkable new findings about its history as a medieval manor and great sixteenth-century house, from the days of its decline as an eighteenth-century prison to a flourishing Victorian farm and on to the creation, by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, of a garden in a weed-strewn wreck. Alongside his recovery of the past, Adam Nicolson wanted something else: for the land at Sissinghurst to live again, to become the landscape of orchards, cattle, fruit and sheep he remembered from his boyhood.Could that living frame of a mixed farm be brought back to what had turned into monochrome fields of chemicalised wheat and oilseed rape? Against the odds, he was going to try. Adam Nicolson has always been a passionate writer about landscape and buildings, but this is different. This is the place he wanted to make good again, reconnecting garden, farm and land. More than just a personal biography of a place, this book is the story of taking an inheritance and steering it in a new direction, just as an entrepreneur might take hold of a company, or just as all of us might want to take our dreams and make them real.
Editore: Harper Press, England, 2009
ISBN 10: 0007280378 ISBN 13: 9780007280377
Da: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A firm clean book, ex ref library.
Editore: Fontana Press/ An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, Hammersmith, London, England, UK, 2003
ISBN 10: 0006863736 ISBN 13: 9780006863731
Da: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 259 pp. Tightly bound copy with clean and crisp pages. Minimal external wear. Ex-library book with typical stamps, stickers, and envelopes, etc.
Editore: Harper Press, London, England, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007254768 ISBN 13: 9780007254767
Da: Dartmouth Books, West Molesey, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. This First Edition and first printing hardback was published by Harper Press in the UK in 2010. The ABE Stock Image photograph is accurate for this copy. The condition of the book is a strong 'Very Good' and that of the dust-jacket is a weak 'Very Good'. The book is bound with red-coloured binding paper on stiff boards. The spine titles are in gilt. The endpapers are a matching red-coloured. This hefty book has 655 numbered pages. There are some well-chosen 50 black and white photographic plates. The size of the book in inches is 9.5 x 6.4 and it weighs 1.06 kg. As with all our sales of books within the UK, we only ever charge a flat standard delivery cost of £3.35.
Editore: Harper Press, London England, 2009
ISBN 10: 0007263678 ISBN 13: 9780007263677
Da: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Finest Years. Churchill as Warlord 1940-45. Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940 the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide between what Churchill wanted from the British people and their army, and what they were capable of delivering. Himself a hero, he expected other to show themselves heroes also, and was often disappointed. it is little understood how low his popularity fell in 1942, amid an unbroken succession of battlefield defeats. Some of his closest colleagues joined a clamour for him to abandon his role directing the war machine, as Minister of Defence. Hastings paints a wonderfully vivid image of the prime minister in triumph and tragedy, and identifies many neglected issues. By looking at Churchill from the outside in, through the eyes of British soldiers, civilians, and newspapers, and also those of Russians and Americans, Hasings provides new perspectives on the greatest Englishman and the precarious Grand Alliance. Illustrated. 664 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).