Brittain, Vera.
Poems of the War and After:
(Victor Gollancz, first edition, 1934).
Ex-Wigan Free Public Library. A signed first edition copy. Inscription reads: 'With best wishes to Wigan, and Wigan Public Library from Vera Brittain. Wigan, December 7th, 1936'. Scarce, for the collector. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps.(Wigan Library). Cream cloth soiled, lacks spine cover, but contents firm, solid. Collectible though a working copy. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-C16020
Keywords: Vera Brittain, First World War, Great War, poems, verse, poetry, signed, women, women's history, social history, grief, mourning, signed editions, first editions, first edition, World War I, Wigan, Wigan Free Public Library, Lancashire, interwar, inter war, 1930s, thirties, antiquarian, collectible, literature, women writers, pacifism, pacifists
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Wheal, Elizabeth-Anne & Pope, Stephen.
The Macmillan Dictionary of the Second World War:
(Macmillan, 2nd edition, 1989).
Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. xviii + 548pp. Order No. NSBK-A3855
Keywords: 0333619366, World War II, Second World War, twentieth century, reference, dictionary, history, warfare, total war
Price £6.90.
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Schama, Simon.
A History of Britain: The British Wars 1603-1776
(BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2001).
Paperback. Spine creased, some dark soiling to page edges, otherwise good+. 544pp. Order No. NSBK-A9628
Keywords: 0563534842, Britain, British, England, English, history, seventeenth, eighteenth, century, 17th, 18th, Civil War, wars, warfare, Simon Schama
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Diamond, Hanna.
Women and the Second World War in France, 1939 - 1948: Choices and Constraints
(Longman, 1999).
Women And Men In History. Paperback. Very good. xiii + 231pp. Order No. NSBK-C15718
Keywords: 9780582299092, Second World War, France, French, gender, women, history, World War II, resistance, employment, German occupation
Price £31.95.
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Hunt, Leigh.
Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem. With a Preface, Remarks on War and Notes Detailing the Horrors on Which the Poem is Founded
(Charles Gilpin, 3rd edition, 1849).
All edges gilt. Hardback. Small. Ex library with usual library stamps. Original decorated boards sunned, damage to spine ends, light wear to edges. A little splitting internally at binding, otherwise good. 101pp. Order No. NSBK-A14261
Keywords: B0014HXZ3C, poems, poetry, Leigh Hunt, nineteenth century, war, wars, military, 19th century
Price £17.50.
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Bruce, Colin John.
War on the Ground: 1939-1945
(Constable, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in slightly creased dustwrapper. 318pp. Order No. NSBK-A9380
Keywords: 0094724903, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, army, armies, guns, military, navy, RAF
Price £5.99.
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Mackay, Robert.
The Test of War: Inside Britain, 1939-45
(UCL, 1999).
Paperback. Fine. viii + 247pp. Order No. NSBK-A15369
Keywords: 1857286359, Second World War, World War 2, II, wars, twentieth century, Britain
Price £21.00.
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Clark, Samuel.
Social Origins of the Irish Land War:
(Princeton UP, 1979).
Hardback. Light foxing to page edges, otherwise very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. x + 418pp. Order No. NSBK-A15213
Keywords: 9780691100685, agrarian, farming, land, land-owning, Irish, Ireland, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, tenants, agriculture, land war, peasants, peasantry, social change, demography, social history
Price £36.00.
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Goodman, Philomena.
Women, Sexuality and War:
(Palgrave, 2002).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to front endpapers, a little rubbing to dustwrapper, otherwise very good+. xii + 180pp. Order No. NSBK-C4987
Keywords: 0333760867, war, women, woman, sex, sexuality, history, femininity, morals, social history, World War II, Second World War, morale, Home Front, British, Britain, England, English, gender roles, female identity, social relations, gender relations, separate spheres, public, private, services, wartime, Mass Observation, patriotism, conscription, Women's Land Army, WLA, Women's Royal Air Force, WRAF, Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, ATS, Women's Auxiliary Airforce, WAAF, Women's Voluntary Services, WVS, war effort
Price £45.00.
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Hunter, Anne E, ed.
On Peace, War and Gender: A Challenge to Genetic Explanations
(Feminist Press, 1991).
Genes and Gender VI. Paperback. Spine sun-faded, otherwise very good. xiv + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C15788
Keywords: 9781558610255, genetics, war, gender, women, aggression, pacifism
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