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Zulu Hart
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Saul David |
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Hodder and Stoughton |
| Published Date |
5 March 2009 |
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9780340953624 |
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Hardback in dustjacket. Signed by the author directly on the title page. Fine/fine new unread condition.
Bullied at school for his suspiciously dark skin and lack of a father, Hart soon learns to fight – and win. At eighteen, his world is shaken by his mother’s revelation that his anonymous father is willing to give him a vast inheritance – provided he can prove himself worthy of the prize as an officer in the King’s Dragoon Guards.
At a time when racism and prejudice are rife in Victorian society, Hart struggles to come to terms with his identity. Forced to leave the army, he decides to head to South Africa, and a fresh start.
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Wolf of the Plains
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Conn Iggulden |
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HarperCollins |
| Published Date |
2 January 2007 |
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0007201745 |
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Hardback book in dustjacket. Very fine/very fine unread condition. Signed directly on the title page by the author. Comes complete with a scarce attractive promotional sampler for the book
Synopsis
This is the brand new novel from the No.1 best-selling author of "Emperor", his series on Julius Caesar. His new novel, "Wolf of the Plains", is the much anticipated beginning of the "Conqueror" series on Genghis Khan and his descendants. It is a wonderful, epic story which Conn Iggulden brings brilliantly to life. "I am the land and the bones of the hills. I am the winter." Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only eleven when his father died in an ambush. His ......more |
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White Raven
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Robert Low |
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HarperCollins |
| Published Date |
5 March 2009 |
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9780007262564 |
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Hardback in dustjacket. Fine/fine new unread condition. Signed by the author directly on the title page.
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The epic and action packed sequel to The Wolf Sea, charting the adventures of Orm and his band of Viking brothers, The Oathsworn The Oathsworn have itchy feet. Battle-hungry and tired of keeping the homestead fires burning, they are restless for action. And, being the Oathsworn, action is what they get. When their homestead is attacked by Klerkon and his men, the Oathsworn promise bloody revenge. But they didn't count on having to undertake the most dangeous journey of their lives in order to save two of their number. Packed with epic adventure and bloody action, ......more |
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When the Lion Feeds.
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Wilbur Smith |
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William Heinemann |
| Published Date |
1976 |
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43471402x |
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Hardback book in dustjacket. Reprint by Heinemann in 1976 that closely resembles the 1964 edition. Near fine/Near fine used condition. Very nice copy. No previous owner inscriptions. Dustjacket unclipped and showing price of £3.90 net. Binding square and tight with no lean to book. Some mild foxing to page edges and endpapers. ...more |
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Warrior of Rome Book One: Fire in the East (Signed/dated)
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Harry Sidebottom |
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| Publisher |
Michael Joseph |
| Published Date |
3 July 2008 |
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9780718153298 |
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Hardback book in dustjacket. Fine/fine new unread condition. Not price-clipped - shows price of £12.99. Signed and dated by the author on the title page
Synopsis
AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every border. Yet the most lethal threat lurks far to the east in Persia, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. The far-flung and isolated citadel of Arete faces out across the wasteland, awaiting the inevitable invasion. One man is sent to marshall the defences of this lonely city - one man to shore up the crumbling walls of a once indomitable symbol of Roman ......more |
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Warrior of Rome Book One: Fire in the East
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Harry Sidebottom |
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Michael Joseph |
| Published Date |
3 July 2008 |
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9780718153298 |
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£29.99
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Hardback book in dustjacket. Fine/fine new unread condition. Not price-clipped - shows price of £12.99
Synopsis
AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every border. Yet the most lethal threat lurks far to the east in Persia, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. The far-flung and isolated citadel of Arete faces out across the wasteland, awaiting the inevitable invasion. One man is sent to marshall the defences of this lonely city - one man to shore up the crumbling walls of a once indomitable symbol of Roman power - a man whose name itself means war, a man ......more |
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Warlock.
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Wilbur Smith |
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Macmillan |
| Published Date |
26 March 2001 |
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0333761340 |
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Hardback book in dustjacket. Signed by Wilbur Smith directly on the title page in black pen. Near fine/Near fine used condition. Not price-clipped - shows price of £18.99. No previous owner inscriptions. Spine good and straight
Synopsis
From the peaks of Ethiopia's Mountains of the Moon and the deep forests where the Nile rises, to the teeming streets of Taiwan and London's city boardrooms, a man and woman fight against the forces of greed, evil and corruption to save a people and a habitat from extinction. ...more |
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Viking: Odinn's Child
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Tim Severin |
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Macmillan |
| Published Date |
21 January 2005 |
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1405041129 |
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Hardback book in dustjacket. VeryFine/Near fine new unread condition. Some edgewear to the dustjacket along the top edge. One tiny closed tear to dustjacket.
Synopsis
Our story begins in the year 1001 and the toddler, Thorgils Leiffson, son of Leif the Lucky and Thorgunna, arrives on the shores of Brattahlid in Greenland to be brought up in the fostercare of a young woman - Gudrid. Thorgils is a rootless character of quicksilver intelligence and adaptability. He has inherited his mother's ability of second sight and his destiny lies beyond the imagination of those around him. Virtually orphaned, he is raised by various mentors, who teach him the ancient ways and warn him of the ......more |
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Uneasy Lies the Head
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Jean Plaidy |
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Robert Hale |
| Published Date |
1982 |
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0709195354 |
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Hardback book in dustjacket. VG+/VG+. Some sun tanning to pages/dustjacket edges. Not price-clipped.
The Story of Henry Tudor.
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The Yellow Admiral
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Patrick O'Brian |
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HarperCollins |
| Published Date |
1997 |
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0002255618 |
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Hardback book in dustjacket. VG+/VG+ used condition. Some tanning to pages. Not price-clipped, but shows no price. No previous owner inscriptions.
The Yellow Admiral -- the eighteenth novel in the sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written -- sets the fall and rise of Jack Aubrey in brilliant counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey. Even Jack's exploits at sea turn sour in the storm waters off Brest. Worst of all, in the spring of 1814 peace breaks out. But Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with news that the Chileans require the service of English officers. Jack is ......more |
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The Wolf Sea
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Robert Low |
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HarperCollins |
| Published Date |
3 March 2008 |
| ISBN |
9780007215317 |
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Hardback book in dustjacket. Very fine/ver fine new unread condition. Signed by the author directly on the title page.
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The second in the series charting the adventures of the Oathsworn, a band of Vikings looking for the return of the Rune Sword that will lead them to Attila's Hoard Young Orm Ruriksson the 'Bear Slayer' and the surviving Oathsworn find themselves in Constantinople with nothing but an old sword, having tasted the possibility of untold riches in Attila the Hun's funeral mound. Worse, they are Vikings without a ship. But the sword was Attila's and it is priceless, and only Orm can read the runes on the hilt that will lead them back to his treasure. ......more |
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The Winter Soldiers
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Garry Douglas Kilworth |
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Constable |
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2002 |
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1841194492 |
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Welcome back to Seargeant 'Fancy Jack' Crossman - one of the British Army's secret weapons in the Crimean War; After the battle of Inkerman on 5th November 1854 the British Army faces a terrible winter. Provisions and clothing for the troops are hopelessly inadequate. In this grim season Sergeant 'Fancy Jack' Crossman and his men are billeted at Kadikoi village near Balaclava harbour - their official instructions to blow up the magazine in the Russian Star Fort. But it transpires this is not to be Crossman's main mission. His true, and infinitely more complex and dangerous task is to spy on a British general suspected of corruption, ......more |
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The Winter King
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Bernard Cornwell |
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Michael Joseph |
| Published Date |
5 October 1995 |
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0718137620 |
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First Edition first printing. Hardback book in dustjacket.Near fine/Near fine used condition. Not price-clipped - shows price of £15.99. Signed by Bernard Cornwell directly on the title page. No previous owner inscriptions. Slight bumping at top of the spine and to dustjacket at rear top corner.
Synopsis
Arthur is set in his true period, the Dark Ages, in this novel. It is not a story of romance, but one of political and religious strife, and war. It describes Arthur's love for Guinevere, Lancelot's arrival, the conflict between Christianity and magic, and the Saxon invasions on Britain. ...more |
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The Wine-Dark Sea
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Patrick O'Brian |
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HarperCollins |
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1993 |
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0002238268 |
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Hardback book in dustjacket. Fine/fine - slightlest spine lean from one careful reading. Dustjacket is price-clipped. No previous owner inscriptions....more |
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The Whale Road
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Robert Low |
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HarperCollins |
| Published Date |
5 March 2007 |
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9780007215287 |
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Hardback book in dustjacket. Signed by author. Fine/fine new unread condition.
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The first in a brand new series charting the adventures of the Oathsworn, a band of Vikings on the chase for the secret hoard of Attila the Hun. Life is savage aboard a Viking raider. When young Orm Rurikson is plucked from the snows of Norway to join his estranged father on the Fjord Elk, he becomes an unlikely member of a notorious crew. They are the Oathsworn -- so named after the spoken bond that ties them in brotherhood -- and they ply a casual trade on the ocean wave, selling their swords to the highest bidder. But times are changing. Loyalty to the old Norse Gods is fading, and the ......more |
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The Siege of Khartoum
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John Wilcox |
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Headline |
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8 January 2009 |
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9780755345595 |
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Hardback book in dustjacket. First edition first printing. Signed by the author directly on the title page. NEAR Fine/NEAR fine unread condition - but with quite a few indents and surface scartches to rear board surface and rear dustjacket surface. Last copy in stock and scarce signed. The Fonthill series has always been a good read, but The Guns of El Kebir and The Siege of Khartoum have better plotting, characterisation and action than the earlier books. This series gets better with each book!
The eyes of the world are on the fate of General Gordon and the English-held Khartoum as it comes under siege, in this latest novel in the thrilling Fonthill ......more |
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The Shangani Patrol - Signed and Dated
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John Wilcox |
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7 January 2010 |
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Hardback in dustjacket. Very fine/very fine new unread condition. Signed and dated by the author directly on the title page.
Synopsis: This gripping new military adventure featuring Simon Fonthill brilliantly depicts one of the last and most tragic of all battles in the 'Scramble for Africa'. 1893. In the African Cape, ex-captain and one-time subaltern Simon Fonthill and his wife Alice find themselves on tribal land and at the mercy of Matabele warriors. While being held under the orders of the Matabele king, Lobengula, Fonthill becomes aware of a Portuguese plot to undermine a valuable treaty between Lobengula and the richest man in Africa, Cecil Rhodes. When friction ......more |
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The Seventh Scroll.
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Wilbur Smith |
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Macmillan |
| Published Date |
1995 |
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0333583213 |
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First Edition first printing. Near fine/near fine used condition. Slight bumping to dustjacket corners and some shelfwear to top edges of dustjacket. Not price-clipped - shows price of £15.99. No previous owner inscriptions....more |
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The Road to Kandahar
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John Wilcox |
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Headline |
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7 March 2005 |
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0755309847 |
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Hardback book in dustjacket. Book and dustjacket in very fine new unread condition. Signed by the author directly on the title page.
Book Description
Second in a brilliant new series of adventures with the British army in the late nineteenth century, in the tradition of Bernard Cornwell and C.S. Forester.
Synopsis
It's July 1879 and Lieutenant Simon Fonthill is preparing to leave South Africa with his servant '352' Jenkins. Disillusioned with the British army after fighting in the Zulu wars, they are both determined to resign their commissions. However, Fonthill's talents as a soldier have not gone unnoticed and Colonel Lamb, in charge of intelligence, persuades him to ......more |
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The Revolt of the Eaglets
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Jean Plaidy |
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Robert Hale |
| Published Date |
1977 |
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0709146981 |
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The Second volume in the Planatagenet saga.
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