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    Contains the best books on history from around the world. We have a selection of books from all time periods and regions, perfect for any history enthusiast.

    Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation [2002] paperback

    €4.99€15.70

    Now the subject of a film by Richard Linklater, Eric Schlosser's explosive bestseller Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World tells the story of our...

    Prof. Peter, TD, VR, BA ( Caddick-Adams: 1945: Victory in the West [2022] hardback

    €42.86

    March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is finally within their grasp. But if they believe this victory can be easily...

    Yanis Varoufakis: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy [2017] hardback

    €21.41

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERYanis Varoufakis, the world-renowned economist and #1 bestselling author, uses personal stories and famous myths to explain what economics is and why it has the power to...

    Alan Titchmarsh: How to be a Gardener: Book One [2002] hardback

    €28.56

    How to be a Gardener Book One, available at long last in paperback, is the fastest-selling gardening book of all time with sales in excess of 600,000 copies. In How...

    Donal MacIntyre: A Million Ways to Stay on the Run [2023] paperback

    €5.99€14.27

    No criminal sparked as much fear and loathing among the public and law enforcement as underworld crime boss, Kenny Noye; a man with a central role in some of the...

    Andrew Morton: The Queen [2022] paperback

    €9.99€21.41

    In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind...

    Tom Bower: Revenge [2023] paperback

    €15.70

    THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Explosive' The Sun'Accounts from insiders who have never spoken before' The Times'Bombshell' The MirrorThe British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex...

    Carl Sferrazza Anthony: Camera Girl [2023] hardback

    €23.99

    An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper;...

    James Ciment: Another America [2014] paperback

    €15.70

    James Ciment, in his enthralling history Another America, shows that the settlers struggled to balance their high ideals with their prejudices. On the steamy shores of West Africa, they re-created...

    Kenneth N. Owens: Empire Maker [2017] paperback

    €37.13

    A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume...

    Marija Gimbutas: The Living Goddesses [2001] paperback

    €41.43

    The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original--and originally...

    Barbara Kingsolver: Small Wonder [2003] paperback

    €17.13

    TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORIn this collection of essays, the author of Demon Copperhead and...

    Ronald Hutton: The Making Of Oliver Cromwell [2022] paperback

    €6.99€15.60

    The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell-providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history"Hutton's book is intelligent, well documented, and stylish."-Keith Thomas,...

    Philippe Sands: The Last Colony [2023] paperback

    €13.00

    FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILIE GIFFORD PRIZETHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and human rights' Elif Shafak'An essential account' Sunday...

    Jonathan Glancey: Spitfire [2020] paperback

    €14.27

    Updated edition to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic...

    Yunte Huang: Inseparable [2018] hardback

    €25.00

    Twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Yunte...

    Iain MacGregor: The Lighthouse of Stalingrad [2023] paperback

    €6.99

    A city under attack. Over two million combatants killed, wounded or captured. This is the story of the fight for Stalingrad - a pivotal battle of the Second World War...

    Marion Gibson: Witchcraft [2023] paperback

    €15.99

    Salem, King James VI, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch hunts and witch trials sounds antiquated, relics of an unenlightened and brutal age. However, 'witch hunt' is heard often in...

    Hans Gisevius: Valkyrie [2008] paperback

    €8.99€24.27

    When on July 20, 1944, a bomb,boldly placed inside Hitler's headquarters by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg, exploded without killing the Fuhrer, the subsequent coup d'etat against the Third Reich...

    Philipp von Boeselager: Valkyrie [2009] paperback

    €15.70

    When the Second World War broke out, Philipp von Boeselager fought enthusiastically for his country, leading a cavalry unit first in France and later on the Russian Front. However, when...

    Richard J. Evans: The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939 [2006] paperback

    €5.99€24.27

    The second book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans' The Third Reich in Power: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts...

    Ltd Dept: Washing up is Good for you [2017] hardback

    €18.56

    Can washing up really be good for you? Can we discover a moment of insight, a wave of calm, a tickle of delight or a tingle of connection within our...

    Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: Our America [2015] paperback

    €22.84

    Overlooking the significance of America's Hispanic past, the United States is typically perceived as an offshoot of Britain, with its history unfolding east to west, beginning with the first settlers...

    Karen Bartlett: The Diary That Changed the World [2022] paperback

    €28.57

    When Otto Frank unwrapped his daughter's diary with trembling hands and began to read the first pages, he discovered a side to Anne that was as much a revelation to...

    Robert Verkaik: The Traitor of Colditz [2023] paperback

    €14.27

    'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday Telegraph'Brilliant ... An amazing story, one I hadn't heard too much about' Dan SnowIT...

    Ian Dear: Escape and Evasion [2000] paperback

    €9.99

    War stories that read like fiction - ideal for the popular market. Highlights famous resourcefulness in the most austere circumstances. Includes British, Allied, German and Japanese escapes Great reading for...

    David Alan (Associate Professor Parnell: Belisarius & Antonina [2023] hardback

    €28.56

    A unique look at a powerful marriage in the celebrated age of JustinianBelisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world some 1,500 years ago. Belisarius was the most well-known...

    Chri Bielenberg: The Past Is Myself [1988] paperback

    €4.99€12.84

    Christabel Bielenberg, a niece of Lord Northcliffe, married a German lawyer in 1934. She lived through the war in Germany, as a German citizen, under the horrors of Nazi rule...

    Jessica Stern: ISIS [2016] paperback

    €6.99€14.27

    The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014. Drawing on their unusual access to intelligence sources and material,...

    Elie Wiesel: Night [2008] paperback

    €9.99

    Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity:...

    Luke Harding: Invasion [2023] paperback

    €14.30

    A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGThe first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful, moving first draft of history...

    Christopher de Hamel: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts [2018] paperback

    €21.41

    WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE AND THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Endlessly fascinating and enjoyable' Neil MacGregor'A marvellous book' David Attenborough'Full of delights' Tom StoppardAn extraordinary exploration of the...

    Professor Peter Frankopan: The Earth Transformed [2023] hardback

    €24.99€37.99

    *A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times'Vast, learned and timely work' Sunday...

    Nandini Das: Courting India [2023] paperback

    €22.10

    A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century._______________'A triumph of...

    Nandini Das: Courting India [2023] hardback

    €39.00

    A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century._______________'A triumph of...

    Peter E. Davies: F-4 Phantom Ii Wild Weasel Units In Combat [2023] paperback

    €22.10

    With first-hand insight into the into the key role of the US Air Force's fighter-bomber from the Vietnam War through to Operation Desert Storm during the First Gulf War, this...

    Edward M. Young: H6k "mavis"/h8k "emily" Vs Pb4y-1/2 Liberator/privateer [2023] paperback

    €22.10

    An illustrated exploration of the dramatic aerial combats between the US Navy's long-range bomber and Japanese flying boats in the Pacific War.Edward Young explores these rarely written about combats, examining...

    Angus Konstam: Naval Battle Of Crete 1941 [2023] paperback

    €22.10

    A fascinating account of an often overlooked naval action of World War II, and one of the bloodiest chapters in the history of the Royal Navy. In April 1941, following...

    David Greentree: Soviet Naval Infantry 1917-91 [2023] paperback

    €4.99€19.50

    Drawing upon Soviet sources, this book assesses the evolving organization, uniforms, insignia, weaponry and personal equipment of Soviet naval infantry units from 1917 to 1991.Featuring eight plates of specially commissioned...

    Mark Galeotti: Russia's Five-day War [2023] paperback

    €19.50

    A fascinating account of Russia's Five-Day War against Georgia in 2008, notable for its strategic mistakes which prompted President Putin to undertake major military reforms.After Georgia's independence from Russia in...

    Pier Paolo Battistelli: Assault On The Gothic Line 1944 [2023] paperback

    €22.10

    Enjoy a detailed examination of Operation Olive as US, British, Commonwealth and Allied forces seek to smash through the last German defensive line in Italy.The Italian theatre of operations post-summer...

    Si Sheppard: Anzac Soldier Vs Ottoman Soldier [2023] paperback

    €20.80

    In 1915-18, ANZAC and Ottoman soldiers clashed on numerous battlefields, from Gallipoli to Jerusalem. This illustrated study investigates the two sides' fighting men.The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 pitched the Australian...

    Brigitte Leucht: Reinventing Europe [2023] paperback

    €29.99

    Reinventing Europe provides a thorough exploration of the history of the European Union, tracing its development from inception to recent times. It is the first book of its kind to...

    Joe Biden: Promise Me, Dad [2017] hardback

    €24.27

    In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant...

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