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The History of the Jews - From the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Present Time (Hardcover): Hannah Adams The History of the Jews - From the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Present Time (Hardcover)
Hannah Adams
R1,147 Discovery Miles 11 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The World Turned Upside Down - A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Paperback): Yang Jisheng The World Turned Upside Down - A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Paperback)
Yang Jisheng; Translated by Stacy Mosher, Guo Jian
R680 R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Save R62 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Hebrews at Home, or, An Historical Sketch of the Life, Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies of the Ancient Hebrews [microform]... The Hebrews at Home, or, An Historical Sketch of the Life, Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies of the Ancient Hebrews [microform] (Hardcover)
Thomas Fl 1844-1882 Talbot
R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Great Famine - [Report of the Committee of the China Famine Relief Fund] (Hardcover): China Famine Relief Fund Shanghai Co The Great Famine - [Report of the Committee of the China Famine Relief Fund] (Hardcover)
China Famine Relief Fund Shanghai Co
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Letters to Fort St. George ... [serial]; v.33(1752/53) c.1 (Hardcover): Madras (India Presidency), Madras (India Presidency)... Letters to Fort St. George ... [serial]; v.33(1752/53) c.1 (Hardcover)
Madras (India Presidency), Madras (India Presidency) Record O
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Bactria, the History of a Forgotten Empire (Hardcover): H G (Hugh George) 1880- Rawlinson Bactria, the History of a Forgotten Empire (Hardcover)
H G (Hugh George) 1880- Rawlinson
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Port Arthur, Three Months With the Besiegers; a Diurnal of Occurrents (Hardcover): Frederic Villiers Port Arthur, Three Months With the Besiegers; a Diurnal of Occurrents (Hardcover)
Frederic Villiers
R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hindu Tribes and Castes ...; v.1 (Hardcover): Matthew Atmore 1826-1880 Sherring Hindu Tribes and Castes ...; v.1 (Hardcover)
Matthew Atmore 1826-1880 Sherring
R1,072 Discovery Miles 10 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Memorials of the Life and Letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes, K.C.B., K.C.S.L., D.C.L. of Oxford; Ll. D. of... Memorials of the Life and Letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes, K.C.B., K.C.S.L., D.C.L. of Oxford; Ll. D. of Cambridge (Hardcover)
Herbert Benjamin Edwardes
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Pull Towards the Coast and Other Essays - The Indian Ocean History and the Subcontinent before 1500 CE. (Hardcover):... The Pull Towards the Coast and Other Essays - The Indian Ocean History and the Subcontinent before 1500 CE. (Hardcover)
Ranabir Chakravarti
R1,525 Discovery Miles 15 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Menasseh Ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell - Being a Reprint of the Pamphlets Published by Menasseh Ben Israel to... Menasseh Ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell - Being a Reprint of the Pamphlets Published by Menasseh Ben Israel to Promote the Re-admission of the Jews to England, 1649-1656; (Hardcover)
1604-1657 Manasseh Ben Israel; Lucien 1857-1930 Ed Wolf
R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
India, Old and New, With a Memorial Address [in Honor of Professor Salisbury] (Hardcover): Edward Washburn 1857-1932 Hopkins India, Old and New, With a Memorial Address [in Honor of Professor Salisbury] (Hardcover)
Edward Washburn 1857-1932 Hopkins
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Valley of Kashmi?r (Hardcover): Walter R (Walter Roper) S Lawrence The Valley of Kashmír (Hardcover)
Walter R (Walter Roper) S Lawrence
R1,111 Discovery Miles 11 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? - A powerful true story of love and survival (Paperback): Horace Greasley Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? - A powerful true story of love and survival (Paperback)
Horace Greasley 1
R279 R138 Discovery Miles 1 380 Save R141 (51%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Horace 'Jim' Greasley was twenty years of age in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and latterly Poland. There had been whispers and murmurs of discontent from certain quarters and the British government began to prepare for the inevitable war. After seven weeks training with the 2nd/5th Battalion Leicester, he found himself facing the might of the German army in a muddy field south of Cherbourg, in Northern France, with just thirty rounds of ammunition in his weapon pouch. Horace's war didn't last long. He was taken prisoner on 25th May 1940 and forced to endure a ten week march across France and Belgium en-route to Holland.

Horace survived...barely...food was scarce; he took nourishment from dandelion leaves, small insects and occasionally a secret food package from a sympathetic villager, and drank rain water from ditches. Many of his fellow comrades were not so fortunate. Falling by the side of the road through sheer exhaustion and malnourishment meant a bullet through the back of the head and the corpse left to rot. After a three day train journey without food and water, Horace found himself incarcerated in a prison camp in Poland. It was there he embarked on an incredible love affair with a German girl interpreting for his captors.

He experienced the sweet taste of freedom each time he escaped to see her, yet incredibly he made his way back into the camp each time, sometimes two, three times every week. Horace broke out of the camp then crept back in again under the cover of darkness after his natural urges were fulfilled. He brought food back to his fellow prisoners to supplement their meagre rations. He broke out of the camp over two hundred times and towards the end of the war even managed to bring radio parts back in. The BBC news would be delivered daily to over 3,000 prisoners. This is an incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance of the German nation.

Diary and Consultation Book ... [serial]; 1725 (Hardcover): Madras (India Presidency), Madras (India Presidency) Record O Diary and Consultation Book ... [serial]; 1725 (Hardcover)
Madras (India Presidency), Madras (India Presidency) Record O
R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Japan-China War - the Naval Battle of Haiyang (Hardcover): Kazumasa 1860-1930 Ogawa, Jukichi 1862-1929 Inouye The Japan-China War - the Naval Battle of Haiyang (Hardcover)
Kazumasa 1860-1930 Ogawa, Jukichi 1862-1929 Inouye
R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Illustrations of the Botany and Other Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains ?and of the Flora of Cashmere... Illustrations of the Botany and Other Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains ?and of the Flora of Cashmere /by J. Forbes Royle.; v. 2 Plates (Hardcover)
J. Forbes Royle
R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
China Ancient and Modern - a History of the Chinese Empire From the Dawn of Civilization to the Present Time ... (Hardcover):... China Ancient and Modern - a History of the Chinese Empire From the Dawn of Civilization to the Present Time ... (Hardcover)
James Martin 1859-1939 Miller
R1,077 Discovery Miles 10 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope; Forming the Completion of Her Memoirs; v.2 (Hardcover): Hester Lucy Lady Stanhope Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope; Forming the Completion of Her Memoirs; v.2 (Hardcover)
Hester Lucy Lady Stanhope; Charles Lewis 1783-1877 Meryon
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Indian Mirror - Volume 15; 15 (Hardcover): Anonymous The Indian Mirror - Volume 15; 15 (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Escaping Afghanistan (Hardcover): Christopher Henson Escaping Afghanistan (Hardcover)
Christopher Henson
R597 R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Gohei - A Classic Article on the Wooden Wands Used in Shinto Rituals (Hardcover): Percival Lowell The Gohei - A Classic Article on the Wooden Wands Used in Shinto Rituals (Hardcover)
Percival Lowell
R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Tombstone - The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 (Paperback): Yang Jisheng Tombstone - The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 (Paperback)
Yang Jisheng; Introduction by Edward Friedman, Roderick MacFarquhar; Translated by Stacy Mosher, Guo Jian; Edited by …
R754 R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Save R79 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine

An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster."

As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father. Finding no natural causes, Yang attributes responsibility for the deaths to China's totalitarian system and the refusal of officials at every level to value human life over ideology and self-interest.

"Tombstone" is a testament to inhumanity and occasional heroism that pits collective memory against the historical amnesia imposed by those in power. Stunning in scale and arresting in its detailed account of the staggering human cost of this tragedy, "Tombstone" is written both as a memorial to the lives lost--an enduring tombstone in memory of the dead--and in hopeful anticipation of the final demise of the totalitarian system. Ian Johnson, writing in "The New York Review of Books," called the Chinese edition of "Tombstone ""groundbreaking . . . One of the most important books to come out of China in recent years."

A Forbidden Land - Voyages to the Corea. With an Account of Its Geography, History, Productions, and Commercial Capabilities,... A Forbidden Land - Voyages to the Corea. With an Account of Its Geography, History, Productions, and Commercial Capabilities, &c., &c (Hardcover)
Ernst Jakob B 1832 Oppert
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Rhapsody on India's History - Notes, Essays, and Reflections - Volume I (Hardcover): Pranab Pattanaik A Rhapsody on India's History - Notes, Essays, and Reflections - Volume I (Hardcover)
Pranab Pattanaik
R978 Discovery Miles 9 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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