Overview :Few men saw more of the world than Peter Kemp. Starting in 1936, when he was then only a Classics student pursuing a career in law, Kemp set... Read More
Overview :Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The... Read More
Overview :This newly expanded edition of the acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations illuminates the world of the writer, from Shakespeare ... Read More
Overview :Handy and authoritative, this invaluable guide deserves a place on every sailor's bookshelf. Abridged from the acclaimed Oxford Companion to... Read More
Overview :Over the last fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers appear alongside wor... Read More
Overview :The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española). Escalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Mili... Read More
Overview :Asia, 1945. The War in Europe is over. Undeterred, the Japanese Empire fights on. With millions of loyal troops at its disposal and holdings... Read More
Overview :Europe, 1940. Years of rising tension have finally given way to a global catastrophe. Millions mobilize for what would become the most massi... Read More
Overview :The most comprehensive and authoritative reference book of its kind, The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea is a completely revised and u... Read More