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  • The Battle of the Somme - The First and Second Phase
    John Buchan
    John Buchan was one of the only historians documenting the course of the First World War as it happened. Here are both of his books on the Somme offensive, one of the most destructive and bloody battles of the first great war. Buchan was an intelligence officer and diplomat so was in a rare position to have an almost complete overview of the attacks as they happened. Including ...
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    42,79 €

  • Francis and Riverside Grenfell - A Memoir
    John Buchan
    The Grenfell twins, Francis and Riversdale can perhaps be taken as one of the finest windows into the so called golden age from 1880 to the summer of 1914, before the great war ripped Europe apart. Born into the minor aristocracy and educated at Eton, the boys were gifted scholars and renowned athletes, they both went on to serve in armed forces and lose their lives like so man...
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    28,86 €

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps
    John Buchan
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    34,64 €

  • The Thirty-Nine Steps
    John Buchan
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    80,04 €

  • The Complete Richard Hannay - 39 Steps, Greenmantle, MR Steadfast, Three Hostages, Island of Sheep.
    John Buchan
    The Complete Richard Hannay includes the five John Buchan novels that feature the hero:39 Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Steadfast, Three Hostages, Island of Sheep.Richard Hannay was one of the first modern spy thriller heroes and has shaped the genre. Hannay is strong and silent, combining the Scottish dourness with the English 'stiff upper lip'. He is tough and shrewd, courageous and...
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    58,09 €

  • The Blanket of the Dark
    John Buchan
    The Blanket of the Dark is a compelling story. A young clerk, Peter Pentecost, find that he is a descendent of Henry of Buckingham and has a claim to the throne. Buchan spins a beautifully woven tale of intrigue around the king, where ’under the blanket of the dark all men are alike and all are nameless’. Henry VIII is portrayed as an ogre, his description of the monarch is viv...
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    21,24 €

  • Castle Gay
    John Buchan
    'Castle Gay' is the second of Buchan’s three Dickson McCunn books and is set in south west Scotland in the Dumfries and Galloway region in the 1920s (and includes much Scots vocabulary). ...
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    21,24 €

  • Collected Supernatural Stories
    John Buchan
    Eleven of John Buchan’s best short stories, primarily about places - the haunted homes and wilds of the United Kingdom and the dangerous wilderness of Southern Africa -- and some rooted in ancient Celtic and Roman civilization. ...
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    9,74 €

  • Mr. Standfast
    John Buchan
    Set in the later years of World War I, Brigadier-General Hannay is recalled from active service on the Western Front to undertake a secret mission hunting for a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. He is forced to work undercover disguised as a pacifist, roaming the country incognito to investigate the deadly spy and his agents. ...
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    13,30 €

  • Greenmantle
    John Buchan
    Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans’ plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum. ...
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    11,58 €

  • Huntingtower (Large Print Edition)
    John Buchan
    Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Buchan’s classic work. ...
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    14,26 €

  • Greenmantle (Large Print Edition)
    John Buchan
    Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Buchan’s classic work. ...
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    15,29 €

  • John Macnab
    John Buchan
    John Macnab is the second most famous novel by John Buchan, published in 1925. It is a story of three successful men - a barrister, cabinet minister and banker who are bored. They decide to alleviate the boredom by anonymously informing three Scottish estates that they intend to poach a stag or a salmon and returning it to them undetected. It is about daring thinking and high l...
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    20,38 €

  • Midwinter
    John Buchan
    First published in 1923, this is now available in a brand new edition. It is set in 1745 during the Jacobite Rebellion. A thrilling tale of intrigue, as Alastair Maclean, a close confidant of Prince Charles Edward Stewart, secretly sets out to raise support for the Jacobite cause in England. ...
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    20,98 €

  • The Gap in the Curtain
    John Buchan
    This book contains the classic supernatural novel ’The Gap In the Curtain’, by the well-known John Buchan. The story is set in a country house, where guests are enabled by an eccentric scientist to see a glimpse of their futures. An entertaining read full of suspense, this book is highly recommended read. ...
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    29,85 €

  • Castle Gay
    John Buchan
    A classic novel featuring Dickson McCunn, introduced in John Buchan’s previous book ’Huntingtower’, and his adopted son Jaikie, who meets a media mogul named Craw.Jaikie and Craw embark on life-chaging travels around the Scottish wilderness, where they both re-evaluate their values and choices in life although they arrive at very different conclusions. It is the second of his t...
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    31,77 €

  • John Macnab
    John Buchan
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    28,51 €

  • The Island of Sheep (Aziloth Books)
    John Buchan
    In this, the fifth and final Richard Hannay adventure, John Buchan makes his hero an older, wiser and more yielding character (the book was written a full decade after the fourth Hannay novel). The Island of Sheep is one of Buchan’s least known works, but it continues his popular style of high adventure, wonderfully descriptive prose, erudite literary references and veiled sub...
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    9,15 €

  • Salute to Adventurers
    John Buchan
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    10,87 €

  • Greenmantle
    John Buchan
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    10,82 €

  • Huntingtower
    John Buchan
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    10,30 €

  • The Island of Sheep (Hardback)
    John Buchan
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    21,87 €

  • Adventures Of Richard Hannay V2 (1919)
    John Buchan
    The Adventures of Richard Hannay V2 is a novel written by John Buchan and first published in 1919. It is the second book in the Richard Hannay series and follows the eponymous hero as he embarks on a series of thrilling adventures across Europe during the First World War.The story begins with Hannay, a former soldier and mining engineer, settling into a quiet life in London. Ho...
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    31,17 €

  • Adventures Of Richard Hannay V1 (1919)
    John Buchan
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    37,51 €

  • The Power-House (1916)
    John Buchan
    The Power-House is a novel written by John Buchan and published in 1916. The story follows the adventures of an unnamed protagonist who is recruited by a mysterious organization called The Power-House. The organization is a group of wealthy and powerful individuals who seek to manipulate world events for their own benefit. The protagonist is tasked with investigating the organi...
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    30,09 €

  • The Long Road To Victory (1920)
    John Buchan
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    23,82 €

  • Richard Hannay’s War Adventures
    John Buchan
    Published near the beginning of World War I “The Thirty-Nine Steps” is one of the earliest examples of the ‘man-on-the-run’ thriller archetype in which the author, John Buchan, holds up Richard Hannay as an example to his readers of an ordinary man who pu ...
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    37,16 €

  • Four Tales - The Thirty-Nine Steps - The Power-House - The Watcher by the Threshold - The Moon Endureth
    John Buchan / L. D. Barnett / LDBarnett
    This early works containing four tales is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900’s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    49,08 €

  • The House of the Four Winds
    John Buchan / Sepharial
    'The House of the Four Winds' is a 1935 adventure novel by the Scottish novelist John Buchan. It is set in the fictional European country of Evallonia in the early 1930s, and explores the influence of some Scottish visitors in the toppling of a corrupt government - and the reinstatement of a monarchy. This text is a must-read for anyone who has enjoyed its prequel, 'Castle Gay'...
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    36,69 €

  • Stories for the Young
    Hans Christian Andersen / John Buchan
    This early works is an absorbing collection of stories by a well known author and is still a fascinating read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900’s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    40,82 €


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