Second World War in 100 Facts by Pearson Clive
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Category: History | Series: In 100 Facts
The Second World War was the most widespread conflict in human history. Involving over 100 million people from more than thirty nations, it completely reshaped the world as we know it and led to the birth of the modern era. It gave rise to world leaders both iconic and infamous, instigated the break-up ...Show more
Passchendaele 1917 by Parker Robert J
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Category: History
The Battle of Passchendaele was the most gruesome yet fought during the First World War. The British offensive, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was launched on the Belgium battlefield at 3:30am on 31 July 1917 as a massive effort by General Sir Douglas Haig and his British army to achieve a str ...Show more
Prince Arthur by Cunningham Sean
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Category: History
During the early part of the sixteenth century England should have been ruled by King Arthur Tudor, not Henry VIII. Had the first-born son of Henry VII lived into adulthood, his younger brother Henry would never have become King Henry VIII. The subsequent history of England would have been very differen ...Show more
New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front by Wright Matthew
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Category: History
In The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front, historian Matthew Wright goes to the heart of how the First World War affected the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. The book analyses what it was like for New Zealand soldiers at the two main battle fronts where they fought, and frames i ...Show more
Woburn Abbey: the Park and Gardens by Davidson Keir
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Category: History
The park and gardens at Woburn Abbey tell a fascinating story, and one that illuminates the history of English landscaping from the sixteenth century to the present day. Drawing on the enormous quantity of material available in the Woburn archives, as well as the historic images and details preserved in ...Show more
Japanese Woodblock Prints: from Glasgow Museums - Wrapping Paper by Museum Glasgow
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Category: History | Series: Wrapping Paper Bks.
Wrap gifts beautifully in Japanese woodblock prints and papers 12 sheets of beautifully designed, top quality 19.7 x 27.6 inch wrapping paper are neatly folded and glued into a book. Paper is kept tidy and undamaged, and each sheet can be easily removed when needed, with no need for scissors. These prin ...Show more
After the Fire by Hornak Angelo
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Category: History
'London was but is no more!' In these words diarist John Evelyn summed up the destruction wrought by the Great Fire that swept through the City of London in 1666. The losses included St Paul's Cathedral and eight-seven parish churches (as well as at least thirteen thousand houses). In After the Fire, ce ...Show more
On the Fringe: A Life in Decorating by Taylor Imogen
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Category: History
If John Fowler was - in the words of the late Duchess of Devonshire - the Prince of Decorators, and Nancy Lancaster undoubted doyenne of English country house style, Imogen Taylor was their crown princess. She joined Colefax and Fowler in 1949 and was for many years John Fowler's trusted assistant. John ...Show more
Landscapes Friendships Family by Cecil Hugh & Merabel
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Rex Whistler (1905-1944) was one of the most intriguing artists of the interwar years. His work encompassed all areas of art and design, from set design for opera, ballet and the West End theatre to book illustration. He painted moving and memorable portraits, of people and of their houses. And he was t ...Show more
Love and War by Cecil Hugh & Merabel
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Category: History
Rex Whistler (1905-1944) was one of the most intriguing artists of the interwar years. His work encompassed all areas of art and design, from set design for opera, ballet and the West End theatre to book illustration. He painted moving and memorable portraits, of people and of their houses. And he was t ...Show more
Meadows: at Great Dixter and Beyond by Lloyed Christopher & Garrett Fergus
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Category: History | Series: Pimpernel Garden Classics
'To see a meadow in bloom is a great delight - it's alive and teeming with life, mysterious, dynamic ...' So Christopher Lloyd began his much-admired instructive and celebratory account of meadows, first published in 2004. Few people knew more about meadow gardening than Lloyd, who spent much of his lon ...Show more
Columns and Curlicues Osbert Lancaster's Cartoons by Lancaster Osbert
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Category: History
This beautiful boxed-set contains three long out-of-print and influential books by the great British humourist, Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908-1986) - Pillar to Post, the story of architecture through the ages, first published in 1938 and described by Gavin Stamp as 'One of the most influential books on arc ...Show more