-
THE BATTLE OF THE FIELDS
Rural Community and Authority in Britain during the Second World WarBRIAN SHORT
List Price: £75.00
£22.00
You Save: 71%From 1939 the County War Agricultural Executive Committees were imbued with powers to transform British farming to combat the loss of food imports caused by German naval activity and initial European ... Learn More -
BANNOCKBURN
The Triumph of Robert the BruceDAVID CORNELL
List Price: £14.99
£7.95
You Save: 47%Few battles resonate through British history as strongly as Bannockburn. On 24 June 1314, the Scots under the leadership of Robert the Bruce unexpectedly trounced the English, leaving thousands dead o... Learn More -
BALFOUR’S WORLD
Aristocracy and Political Culture at the Fin de SiècleNANCY W ELLENBERGER
List Price: £30.00
£15.95
You Save: 47%In the quarter century after Arthur Balfour’s entry into political life in the 1870s, Britain experienced material changes and intensifying human interactions as dramatic to his generation as the fo... Learn More -
‘AND SO BEGAN THE IRISH NATION’
Nationality, National Consciousness and Nationalism in Pre-modern IrelandBRENDAN BRADSHAW
List Price: £93.99
£26.95
You Save: 72%These essays reflect especially upon the emergence of national consciousness in Ireland during a calamitous period when the late-medieval, undeveloped sense of a collective identity became suffused wi... Learn More -
WAR ON WHEELS
The Mechanisation of the British Army in the Second World WarPHILIP HAMLYN WILLIAMS
List Price: £20.00
£11.95
You Save: 41%During the Second World War the British Army’s number of vehicles grew from 40,000 to 1.5 million, ranging from tanks and giant tank transporters to jeeps, scout cars, and mobile baths and offices. ... Learn More -
OPERATION TABARIN
Britain’s Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica, 1944-46STEPHEN HADDELSEY with ALAN CARROLL
List Price: £16.99
£7.95
You Save: 54%In 1943 Churchill’s War Cabinet met to discuss the opening of a new front, fought not on the beaches of Normandy or in the jungles of Burma but amid the blizzards and glaciers of the Antarctic. As w... Learn More -
A HISTORY OF BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE
BRIAN S SMITH and ELIZABETH RALPH
List Price: £15.99
£8.95
You Save: 45%Covering the entire ancient county created in the eleventh century, this book is the only comprehensive introductory account of the closely-linked history of the shire and the city of Bristol, and inc... Learn More -
THE CULTURE OF FOOD IN ENGLAND, 1200-1500
C M WOOLGAR
List Price: £30.00
£14.95
You Save: 51%This landmark work shows that food in late-medieval England was far more complex, varied and culturally significant than we imagine today – it wasn’t just pottage and gruel. Drawing on a vast rang... Learn More -
MILITANT
MICHAEL CRICK
List Price: £10.99
£5.50
You Save: 50%Updated and expanded, Crick’s book explores the origins, organisation and aims of Militant, the Trotskyite organisation that operated clandestinely within the Labour Party, edging out adversaries at... Learn More -
LOST ENGLAND
1870-1930PHILIP DAVIES
List Price: £50.00
£30.00
You Save: 40%Arranged by region from North West to South West, this selection of more than 1,300 photographs from the Historic England collection presents a visual narrative of the built environment and people’s... Learn More
- ABC's printed catalogues are
mailed without obligation
and include our latest
acquisitions, backlist titles
and special offers.
Discover more.... 
- Subject Categories
- Ancient World
- Visual Arts and Music
- Audiobooks
- Biography
- Recommendations
- Free Books
- Special Offers
- New Arrivals
- Short Quantities
Academic Book Collection
BEBC Distribution
4 Albion Close
Poole BH12 3LL
England
Tel: 0845 6580088
+44 (0)1202 712935
E-mail: abc@bebc.co.uk
Cartoons on this site are by
Merrily Harpur (www.harpur.org)
Website by iUK Studios