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Price: $12.00
Publisher: Futura, London: 1988
Seller ID: 2012138
That extraordinary world of crows and dust sunsets, of dinner parties that started with anchovy toast and ended seven courses later with little glass bowls full of water and hibiscus flowers to wash the fingers in, of cane chairs on club verandahs, and damp sugar full of ants, of shining Indian rivers and beautiful women, pure nostalgia and irresistible. View more info
By: Bierman John and Smith Colin
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Macmillan UK: 2000
Seller ID: 2016016
Excellent Condition. "Orde Charles Wingate was arguably the most eccentric and charismatic of all the generals on either side of World War 11, and perhaps the most brilliant and innovative. Winston Churchill thought him a military genius, others considered him greatly over-rated, a few even thought him mad." A well constructed biography of Wingate whose untimely death in an aircrash aged forty one made him one of the most controversial figures of World War 11. View more info
By: Brendon Vyvyen
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Phoenix Books, Uk: 2006
Seller ID: 2012135
Ex Library with library stamps with removable protective cover. Vyvyen Brendon has drawn on a wealth of original sources and interviews to present the life of British children who grew up in India during the time of the British rule. View more info
By: Brown Malcolm and Cave Julia
Price: $45.00
Publisher: J.M. Dent, London: 1988
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2012296
Drawing on a wealth of material this book presents an authentic portrait of the real Lawrence, from his schooldays, through his Middle Eastern years and his years in the ranks to the lonely, final weeks at Clouds Hill, his Dorset cottage on the road to which he has his fatal accident. View more info
By: Colley Linda
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Pantheon Books - New York: 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2016026
A very well researched and presented text, the author draws on a range of narratives by men and women of different social and ethnic backgrounds from the early seventeenth centuary to the Victoria era and uses these extraordinary tales to trace the changing boundaries of Britain's pursuit of empire and its shifting attitudes toward Islam, slavery, race and American revolutionaries. View more info
By: Collins Larry and Lapierre Dominique
Price: $120.00
Publisher: New Delhi, Vikas Publishing House P/L: 1982
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2016051
Both book and dust jacket in very good condition. Dust Jacket is unclipped with original price. Book has crisp white pages, tight binding and no foxing, names etc. Written by respected authors this is an account of the last days of the Raj in India. It is a unique combination of personal interviews with Lord Mountbatten and of a selection of personal and official ducuments from the Mountbatten archives. This well researched and presented text is supported by b/w phot... View more info
Price: $44.00
Publisher: Harper Collins, London: 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2012040
"In White Mughals, William Dalrymple discovers a world almost entirely unexplored by history and places at its centre a compelling tale of love, seduction and betrayal." Includes very detailed and well researched factual accounts of the time and the text is supported with diagrams, photographs and full page colour illustrations. View more info
Price: $44.00
Publisher: Harper Collins, London: 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2012127
A remarkable story involving secret assignations, court intrigue, harem politics, religious disputes and espionage. Full page colour plates. Book has slight stain to compressed page edge, not affecting internal pages. Heavy book Comprehensive Index and Reference notes. View more info
By: David GILMOUR
Price: $38.00
Publisher: John Murray Publishers London: 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2019044
A fascinating look behind the scenes into the Indian Civil Service during the Victorian Raj. Book in excellent condition. View more info
By: Fyans Peter
Price: $47.00
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military, UK: 2012
Edition: 2nd Edition
Inscription: Heavy Book Over 500 Gms
Seller ID: 2012165
Fergus Anckorn was conscripted into the army in 1939 when World War 11 broke out, and was posted to Singapore in 1942 . Captured by the Japanese he was put to work on the infamous "Death Railway". This is his story and his survival under extreme difficulties. View more info
By: Gibbon Fred P.
Price: $44.00
Publisher: London, Black and Sons:
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2012323
1903 estimated as book undated. Award Certificate in front, also undated View more info
By: Gilmour David
Price: $38.00
Publisher: John Murray, London: 2005
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 2019020
A very nice copy of this fascinating book. Book is in excellent condition and appears unread with unclipped dust jacket. An absorbing account of those who ruled Victorian Raj from their recruitment to retirement, from jungle to Government House the author describes their work and their leisure their intellectual and private lives and captures the essence of the time and place. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, New York: 2011
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2012194
A contemporary look at modern India. The Author returns to the land of his ancestors, amid an unlikely economic boom. He was interested less in its gold rush than in its cultural upheaval, as a new generation has sought to reconcile old traditions and customs with new ambitions and dreams. This is a fascinating, insightful look into the social and cultural lives of the modern India. View more info
Price: $48.00
Publisher: Associated University Presses NJ: 1995
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2016025
Barbara Groseclose examines British public statuary and church monuments in India.Beginning with a brief history of the East India Company, the first chapter describes the physical settings for which the sculptures were intended and gives a short but colourful account of British life and death in India during the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. Subsequent chapters concentrate on the manner in which sculptural imagery rewarded financial a... View more info
By: Higgins Desmond
Price: $23.00
Publisher: Melrose Books, UK: 2009
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscription and Signature of Author
Seller ID: 2012305
In the Wake of the Raj takes the reader behind the scenes, providing a look at grass roots, at village life, social mores and conflicts as well as at some of the political issues. The emphasis is on North India with glimpses of Pakistan and Nepal. Includes b/w photographs taken by the author. Both of historical and social interest in the history of India's development post Raj. View more info
By: Holder R.W.
Price: $79.00
Publisher: Editions Didier Millet KL: 2007
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2012256
A gripping chronicle of one man's survival in a period of chaos and deprivation, before the post war progress of Malaysia towards independence and a new era. View more info
By: James Lawrence
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Little Brown & Company UK: 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2012020
Very well researched and presented narrative of the British in India. Includes many b/w photographs, maps and an extensive Index and Notes section. View more info
By: James Lawrence
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Buckand Enright, London: 1987
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2012104
Based on intensive reserach from official sources, contemporary papers and first-hand accounts some of it never published before here at last is a compassionate and readable study of a shamefully concealed phenomenon. From Spithead mutiny of 1797, the revolt of Sudanese troops in Uganda in 1898 to the British forces in Etaples in 1917. View more info
By: Lovell Julia
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Picador, Australia: 2011
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2012251
The Opion War is both the story of modern China starting from this first conflict with the West and an analysis of the country's contemporary self image. It explores how China's national mythis mould its interactions with the outside world, how public memory is spun to serve the present and how delusion and prejudice on bht sides have bedevilled its relationship with the modern West. View more info
By: Lunt James
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Macdonald, London: 1981
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2012424
A first hand account of frontier soldiering in war and peace in the 20th century. An account which recalls the experiences of officers and NCO's seconded from the British Army to serve on loan to such locally enlisted forces as the Iraq Levies, the King's African Rifles, the Sudan Defence Force and the Burma Rifles. Includes many b/w photographs supporting the text. View more info
