World Two (148 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In No Turning Back, Paul Addison takes the long view, charting the vastly changing character of British society since the end of the Second World War. As he shows, in this period a series of peaceful revolutions has completely transformed the country so that, with the advantage of a longer perspective, the comparative peace and growing prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century appear as more powerful solvents of settled ways of life than the Battle of the Somme or the Blitz. We have come to take for granted a welfare state which would have seemed extraordinary to our forebears in the first decades of the century, based upon the achievement of a hitherto undreamed of mass prosperity. Much of the sexual morality preached if not practised for centuries has been dismantled with the creation of a 'permissive society'. The employment and career chances of women have been revolutionized. A white nation has been transformed into a multiracial one. An economy founded on manufacturing under the watchful eye of the 'gentlemen in Whitehall' has morphed into a free market system, heavily dependent on finance, services, and housing, while a predominantly working class society has evolved into a predominantly middle class one. And the United Kingdom, which once looked as solid as the rock of Gibraltar, now looks increasingly fragile, as Wales and especially Scotland have started to go their separate ways. The book ends with an assessment of the gains and losses that have resulted. As this makes clear, this is not a story of progress pure and simple, it is a story of fundamental transformation in which much has been gained and much also lost, perhaps above all a sense of the ties that used to bind people together. Paul Addison brings to it the personal point of view of someone who has lived through it all and seen the Britain of his youth turn into a very different country, but who in the final reckoning still prefers the present to the past. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. reat God Malone" stepped into the operating room, the world anticipated another miraculous breakthrough in heart surgery. Only two things remained to crown his enormous success: the arrival at the prestigious Malone Heart Institute of a test candidate fo (illustrator). Book Club Edition. Each time the "Great God Malone" stepped into the operating room, the world anticipated another miraculous breakthrough in heart surgery. Only two thing remained to crown his enormous success: the arrival at the prestigious Malone Heart Institute of a test candidate for his revolutionary artificial heart, and the birth of a legitimate son to bear his name. Theo Malone won't yield his power to anyone, especially to his three beautiful daughters, all successful doctors in their own right. But they've got enough drive to make it on their own. Lynn actually a greater surgeon than her father, is torn between the man she loves and the father she hates, and her twin, Lisa, has proven herself the equal of her egotistical parent in both the fields of medicine and romance. Young Laurel, meanwhile, antagonizes Malone by helping to prevent the spread of an epidemic, inadvertently uncovering a scandal that could ruin his reputation forever. A skillful probe into the highly dramatic inner workings of large city hospitals.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. "Elephant Talk;" "San Diego - Where Two Californias Meet;" "I Dream a World: America's Black Women;" "The Quest for Oil;" "Tragedy in Alaska Waters;" "The Many Lives of Old Havana".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 112 pages. Cedric Hentschel "The Improbable Belligerent: The Role of John Cowper Powys in Two World Wars" / Ichiro Hara "John Cowper Powys and Zen" / Cicely Hill "'Susukeshi Hina Mo': John Cowper Powys and the Chuang-Tse Legacy" / John Cowper Powys "The Philosopher Kwang (1923)" / Glen Cavaliero "The Powys Family and Dorset". (SL#75/2).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. With 38pp , paperback, in very good condition, . * A FINE STUDY OF RESISTANCE IN GERMANY DURING WORLD WAR TWO AGAINST HITLER.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Illustrated. Laurie Lee "Two Birds from a Spanish Cage" / P J Thrower "December in Greenhouse and Garden" / Air Vice-Marshal C A Bouchier "The Stalemate in Korea" / Sir David Kelly "The Dualism of Soviet Policy" / Quintus Delikkhan "Ceylon's Relations with Communist China" / Arnold Toynbee "The World and the West: the Far East" / William Clark "The St. Lawrence Seaway: a Great Vision" / David Keir "Our Own Far North" / A R Ubbelohde "Man and Energy" / Basil Taylor "Gericault and the Romantic Idea of the Animal" / Lord Eustace Percy "Nationalised Industries and the State" (Papers).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 72 pages. Illustrated. D M Collar "Novelist-Philosophers VI - Andre Malraux" / Edmund Wilson "Two Survivors: Malraux And Silone" / Harriet And Sidney Janis "Marcel Duchamp, Anti-Artist" / Rudolph Friedmann "The World Of The Father" / Michael Warr "Where Shall John Go? - Chile".

Paperback. Small 4to. Self-cover. 11pp. Near fine, Single staple at upper left. Likely sole printing of this institution's Bibliographic Bulletin No. 21, a rudimentary mimeographed affair alphabetical unnumbered listing of books, pamphlets and articles devoted to this pivotal WW2 engagement -- indispensable for serious research.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 60 pages. Illustrated. Staffan Bjorkman "Scandinavian Coins of World War II" / Raymond A Young "Pallas Athena and her G.I. Medal" / K E Bressett "Sterling Commentary - Treasure Trove" / James C Shipley "The Two Reales of Charles IV, Mexico Mint" (SL#120).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated colour cover with no inscriptions and very little use. A clean, tight copy of 103pp.

Condition: Fine. 8vo, publisher's boards, title silver on spine, illustrated dustwrapper slightly creased top of spine (unclipped), tinted end papers, 410pp, 6 maps, 16 pages of photo illustrations, in fine/as new condition, probably unread.

Condition: New. In.

PF. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine copy of the stated first softcover edition, inscribed by the author's grandson: "To X, a veteran of the 9th, from the author's grandson.". The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance. A brilliant copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 56 pages. Illustrated. "The SWP - A Strangled Party" / George Breitman "Don't Strangle the Party" / Pierre Vert "Trotskyists in World War Two" / Leon Trotsky "War and the Fourth International" (SL#120).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. Barra Boydell "Dublin City Musicians in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance to 1660" / F W Gumley "Remembering." / Kevin P O'Rorke "It's a Small World!" / Mrs Olive Goodbody "Old Dun Laoghaire and Neighbourhood" / Dr A E J Went 1910-1980 obituary / Seamus de Burca "Two Small Boys" (SL#85).

Condition: New. In.

Printed hand bill. Heavy stock 6 3/4" X 4½". Very good. Faint edgewear. Obverse consists of a chart with three columns across top ("Gas," "How to Detect," "Protection and First Aid"). "Gas" types consist of "Blister Gases," "Choking Gases," "Blood and Nerve Poisons," "Vomiting and Tear Gases," "Screening Smokes" and "Incendiaries" -- each followed by symptoms and how to avoid and treat. Reverse consists of "Remember!" advice on when and how to wear a gas mask, how to decontaminate, protective ointment, etc. Intriguing and disturbing World War Two memento.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Impression. 72 pages. Illustrated throughout by Edward Seago, with accompanying poems by John Masefield. Original green cloth boards, lettered. No dustwrapper. Size: 18.5 x 28 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: World War Two; Featured Items; Hardback Books; Inventory No: 369994. Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Condition: New.

The Camp Commandant & Officers express their sincere wishes that your Christmas may be full of joy. 81st EBW Coy; 83rd ESBD Coy; SAEC. Small folio, one leaf cyclostyled on both sides. Carols printed on the reverse.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 27 illustrations including two 2-page fold out maps, of "The Pueblo World," and "/the Linguistic Provinces of the Pueblo World." (illustrator). 1st Edition. sm 4 to, 176 pp. Purple cloth of publisher insignia on front cover, gilt, title on spine only.Light wear to corners. binding square and solid. name in ink upper right corner on first fep. Otherwise no interior marks or defects. DUST JACKET has two large chips: one mid-spine (1"x2.5"), and one triangular (2.5x1.5") out of right front bottom corner. Chipping all along top edge, much less on bottom edge, and both flaps are almost loose from the panels. Jacket is NOT price-clipped ($4.00).

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hard back binding in publisher's original red cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back over blue ground. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 180 pp. Spotting to the closed text block edges. Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the corners and spine ends, not price clipped, 16s 0d. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS.

Hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated glazed boards. Quarto 10'' x 8'' 250 pages. ISBN 0091786975. Archive monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped original selling price being £16.99, unused new book. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF).

Condition: New.

Condition: New.