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The wartime memoirs of robert elee by edward aronoff (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 10 to 12 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
18 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport the war memoirs of marshal of the royal air force, lord tedder, gincludes a list of operation codenamessuperficial scuffs, marks and discolourationsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretext block is otherwise clean and tight and lightly but evenly tannedlight foxing to edges of text block and first and last few leavescovering action in the middle east, sicily and italy, and north-west europegilt text and decoration to spinered cloth covered boards
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"these highly entertaining memoirs of marius petipa, the great franco-russian choreogapher had never before been translated into english before their first publication inpetipa's memoirs reveal many interÂesting details of his career and of the people he worked with, including tchaikovsky and the young pavlova, and give an insight into his character and genius that it is not possible to gain from any other sourcein excellent condition, but with some areas of text highlighted and some minor annotations (used as a study book)his renown is undisputed, and his work lives not only in the pages of dance history but in the ballet repertoire of most companies todaywilling to post if postage is paid for by buyer, or collection availableas virtual dictator of the russian ballet in the second half of the 19th century, petipa moulded its course for many years and may have been said to have created the style of classical dancing still known as russianpictures show examples of some highlighted areas, all text is still entirely legibleno cash in handwritten towards the end of his long life, in a mood of disillusion, when his work was neglected and in decline, he would have been delighted to know that his great ballets such as sleeping beauty, swan lake, and la bayadere are more popular today than ever before
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Slight creasing to base on rear of dust jacket, otherwise in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop worcester the spirited 'war memoirs' of ex-f/lt
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Does not confine itself to the author's wartime but provides a social history of life in germany before the war and in its aftermathoxfam bookshop ludlow autobiography of luftwaffe acegood condition see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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This book contains the memoirs of david chipp's life in peking together with six essays that he wrote on the history of english journalism, and a miscellany of reflections on some of the diverse aspects of his lifehe was the first non-communist western correspondent to be granted residency by the communist government and he spent 30 months in pekingabsolutely minimal shelf wear to the dust coversee oxfam website for delivery information read morean excellent clean copywith black and white and colour photographsoxfam books & music beaconsfield one of a limited edition of 500 printed privately by the author's estatedavid chipp had a distinguished career as a journalist which culminated in 17 years' service as editor in chief of the press association in fleet street
15 €
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memoirs of the rose: comprising botanical, poetical, and miscellaneous recollections of that celebrated flower in a series of letters to a lady - london, printed for francis westley, ppare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiin good conditionhardcover - 17 x 10the flyleaves have browned, the text block is discoloured, bites from the side edge of the flyleavesthe text block is discoloured, a few blemishesthe rose, a treatise on the cultivation, history, family characteristics, etcour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storelinen decorated binding - 18 x 12 cmplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitewithout date [ ppwill be shipped with registrationof the various groups of roses, with accurate descriptions of the varieties now generally grown - new york, dodd, mead & companythe binding is stained, dents on the edges and cornerscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
46 €
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Her memoirs conjure up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the land's most powerful mena young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha houseoxfam bookshop cheltenham this story is a rare and utterly engaging experiencesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from to the post-war years of japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradationshe tells her story many years later from the waldorf astoria in new york
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Master of the russian ballet - the memoirs of enrico cecchetti, isbn , isbn-13 , brand new, free p&p in the uk
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham former president richard nixon's bestselling autobiography is an intensely personal examination of his life, public career, and white house yearsthese notes and diary dictations, quoted throughout this book, provide a unique insight into the complexities of the modern presidency and the great issues of american policy and politicssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethroughout his career richard nixon made extensive notes about his ideas, conversations, activities, meetingswith startling candor, nixon reveals his beliefs, doubts, and behind-the-scenes decisions, shedding new light on his landmark diplomatic and domestic initiatives, political campaigns, and historic decision to resign from the presidencywitness his youth, college years, and wartime experiences, events which would shape his outward philosophies and eventually his presidency-and shape our livesmemoirs, spanning nixons formative years through his presidency, reveals the personal side of richard nixonduring his presidency, from november until april and again in june and july , he kept an almost daily diary of reflections, analyses, and perceptionsfollow his meteoric rise to national prominence and the great peaks and depths of his presidency
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Oxfam bookshop bloomsbury street memoirs of my dead life, by george mooreslight tanning on front and back end pagesvery small amount of tanning on the edges of the pagesspine has title and author in gilt embossingcondition: dark green cloth covering boardssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshelf wear on the bottom of the coversprevious owners have written their names on the front end pages in pencil and inkfront cover has an art deco embossingbumping on top and bottom of spine, discolouration, and slight split from the front cover
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham beware! only those who are mcfearlessly brave may read from the pages of these monstrous memoirsshe and her little brother max must set off to rescue himsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreher family has been hunting down and destroying monsters for thousands of generationsthe dreaded zarmaglorg, the king of evil himself, has kidnapped minerva's fatherthey are armed only with the monstranomicon - a living book that holds every secret about every bloodthirsty beast known to mankindbut now the monsters have taken their revengeminerva mcfearless is an eleven-year-old monsterminator
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Copy of the memoirs of harriette wilson volume 2 published by the navarre society see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop purley as pictured
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Oxfam shop west wickham these compelling memoirs, as absorbing and entertaining as any novel, comprise an unrivalled account of the many famous events in which jean baptiste antoine marcelin, baron de marbot participated during the period to , culminating in the first abdication of the emperor napoleon - years in which this distinguished office served as adc to five marshals and received thirteen woundssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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A king's story: the memoirs of hh the duke of windsor kits in good condition for its age & its a hardcoverpublished in & written by edward viii
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The memoirs of the rtweighs approx 800 g unpacked read morethe earl of woolton 452 pages in very good conditioncassell and co some slight rubbing on spine ends and corners as showna very interesting and knowledgeable read
15 €
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Alice von hildebrand memoirs of a happy failure by alice von hildebrand (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 10 to 12 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Oxfam shop arnold in wealthy scottish socialite dorothy brooke followed her new husband to cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering former british war horses leading lives of toil and miserythe legacy of the old war horse memorial hospital and its founder endures today in the dozens of international brooke animal-welfare facilities dedicated to improving the lives of working horses, donkeys and mules across africa, asia and latin america grant hayter-menzies chronicles not only the lives and eventual rescue of these noble creatures, who after years of deprivation and suffering found respite in the old war horse memorial hospital established by dorothy, but also the story of the challenges of founding and maintaining an animal-rescue institution on this scalesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebrought to the middle east by british forces during the great war, these ex-cavalry horses had been left behind at the war's end, abandoned as used equipment too costly to send home
9 €
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memoirs of hecate county by edmund wilson - hardcover *excellent condition*
38 €
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Artist: ozzy osbourne - title: memoirs of a madman - format: cd - country: - label: sony - catalogue number: - year: - description
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This is a 6 volume set of books with photographs from world war 2the full set of six volumes for world war ii: volume , volume , volume , volume , volume , volume the war in pictures published by odhams press inthey are arranged by one volume for each year of the war starting at , telling the story in black and white picturesshipped tracked and insuredare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki254 pages to each bookthese books are hardback with maroon buckram boards and a embossed pattern to front*buyer please pay within 3 days* read moreexpected wear to the exterior such as rounded corners and wear to the spine ends due to the ageour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethere is some foxing to the pages but text and pictures remain clear and brightpage is loose in volume 5please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethey are in good conditionvolume 4 has to cut outs (page 16 and 17)all spines are still tightly boundcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the first world war and the end of the cold warwhat went wrong? how did we do this to ourselves? the war of the world comes up with compelling, fascinating answersit is niall ferguson's masterpiecesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreglobalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most peopleoxfam shop crosby the world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign
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The eve of the war 9:06the title is jeff wayne's musical version of the war of the worldsnew - jeff wayne - the war of the worlds - cd cdcd's are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, demonstration demo, not for sale, promotional promo, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versionsthe artilleryman and the fighting machine
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The eve of the war 9:06the eve of the war r2h mix 6:19the title is the war of the worldsfor this specific sale the cds sleeve condition refers only to the inner paper insert sleeve, and does not refer to the outer digipak, jewel case or cardboard outer casingthe item format is a cdthe artilleryman and the fighting machine
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The military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the battle of the atlantic and the war in north africaoxfam bookshop cheltenham bletchley park was where one of the war's most famous  and crucial  achievements was made: the cracking of germany's enigma code in which its most important military communications were couchedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut, though plenty has been written about the boffins, and the codebreaking, fictional and non-fiction  from robert harris and ian mcewan to andrew hodges' biography of turing what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war? what was life like for them an odd, secret territory between the civilian and the military? sinclair mckay's book is the first history for the general reader of life at bletchley park, and an amazing compendium of memories from people now in their eighties of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed angus wilson, the novelist, once threw himself in) of a youthful roy jenkins, useless at codebreaking, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each other's workthis country house in the buckinghamshire countryside was home to britain's most brilliant mathematical brains, like alan turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology  indeed, the birth of modern computing
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It was a war won at sea, and by the time of waterloo britain had gained control and possessed the foundations of her empiretaking in gallant duels, bloody battles between huge fleets, amphibious assaults, daring coastal raids, and the subtleties of espionage and naval intelligence, this global conflict truly was the war for all the oceansthe battle of the nile and then at acre were the first sallies in what would be fifteen years of bitter fightingoxfam books & music troon as france emerged from revolution, a young general named napoleon bonaparte invaded egypt, hoping next to march overland to indiabrought vividly to life through the words and stories of the ordinary people caught up in the conflict, this is a sweeping history of the years of naval warfare that set the balance of power in europe for the following centuryit would not happensee oxfam website for delivery information read morebritain swung her forces into action to battle for control of the world's sea-lanes and thus all international trade
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Original daily express war map of europe, it was published in the early part of the war known as the phoney waryou can pay by paypal or uk sterling chequesend message for p&p prices and any other info read morei can post by royal mail (uk only) it measures when opened out inches x inches (about 101cm x 76cm)in decent condition with very minor wear, no pin holes or tape marks so never been stuck on a wall
5 €
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The war in western europe part ii december to may ppconsists of: the war in western europe part i june to december, ppare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikieleven appendices, of which three maps and one diagram + fifteen fold-out mapsotherwise greatshipping with registrationcontains a 3d overview of the assault technique used at the normandy landingsa total of 2 booksour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storealso contains an overview of the bomb tonnage and targetsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecondition: the spines have minor loss of paperseven appendices + sixteen fold-out mapscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemade for the us military during ww ii with later adaptations, additions and improvements
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See oxfam website for delivery information read morethe page edges, which are rough cut, are rather grubbythe text is clear and sharpoverall this copy is in good condition for its agethe red board cover has some marks, and the paper titling on the spine is marked but legibleinside, there is an inscription of a previous owner on the front free end-paper and there is foxing throughout, with light tanningoxfam bookshop kingsbridge this is the biography of john mytton, member of parliament for shrewsburyoriginally written by "nimrod" the pen name of cthis is a new edition and contains numerous colour illustrations by henry alken and t
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The eve of the war 9:06the title is jeff wayne's musical version of the war of the worldscd's are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, demonstration demo, not for sale, promotional promo, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versionsthe artilleryman and the fighting machine
12 €