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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.

    Mark Urban: Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes [2002] paperback

    €4.99

    This work gives a compelling account of the officer who waged the intelligence battle against Napoleon's army, a forerunner to the great code-breakers of the 20th century. The French army,...

    Trotsky: A Biography [2010] paperback

    €7.99€8.99

    Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household,...

    Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know [2021] hardback

    €9.99€14.99

    'Jenner uses all the questions you never dared to ask about history as an excellent excuse to rummage around in some funny, fascinating, and downright peculiar corners of the past....

    John Man: Xanadu [2010] paperback

    €5.99€24.27

    **A SOURCE FOR MARCO POLO, A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES**Marco Polo's journey from Venice, through Europe and most of Asia, to the court of Kublai Khan in China is one of...

    Antony Beevor: Stalingrad [1999] paperback

    €6.99€24.27

    A timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In october 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell;...

    Mary S Lovell: The Riviera Set [2017] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    'I loved every word' - Sarra Manning, Red'[A] blissful book - it's like basking in the warm Med' - Rachel Johnson, Mail on SundayThe Riviera Set is the story of...

    Jack Straw: Last Man Standing [2013] paperback

    €2.99

    As a small boy in Epping Forest, Jack Straw could never have imagined that one day he would become Britain's Lord Chancellor. As one of five children of divorced parents,...

    Garrett M. Graff: The Only Plane in the Sky [2021] paperback

    €9.99

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Incredibly evocative and compelling." - The Washington Post"The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." - The Times"Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying...

    Sean O Luing: I Die in a Good Cause -: Thomas Ashe: A Biography [2017] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    Originally from west Kerry, Thomas Ashe was a schoolteacher in north County Dublin and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers. During the 1916 Rising he commanded the Fingal Battalion...

    52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn't Get Taught At School [2021] paperback

    €5.99

    'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'BrienTwitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history of Britain you were never taught at school, fully illustrated...

    Professor Peter Frankopan: The Earth Transformed [2024] paperback

    €9.99€16.90

    THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMESA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF...

    Thomas E Ricks: The Generals [2013] paperback

    €4.99€5.99

    A New York Times bestseller! An epic history of the decline of American military leadership-from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.While history has been kind to the...

    Michael Punke: Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 [2016] paperback

    €5.99

    From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant - the book that inspired the award-winning movie - comes the remarkable true story of the worst mining disaster in American...

    Julian Borger: I Seek a Kind Person [2023] paperback

    €20.99

    'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.'In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into...

    Nancy Isenberg: Fallen Founder [2008] paperback

    €9.99

    From the author of White Trash and The Problem of Democracy, a controversial challenge to the views of the Founding Fathers offered by Ron Chernow and David McCullough Lin-Manuel Miranda's...

    Walter Kempowski: SWANSONG 1945 Z16 [2015] hardback

    €9.99

    Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe through hundreds of letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts covering four days that fateful spring: Hitler's birthday...

    Tomás Irish: Trinity in war and revolution 1912-1923 [2015] hardback

    €9.99

    This book situates the history of Trinity College Dublin within the great upheavals and changes that were taking place in Ireland and the wider world in the transformative period between...

    Michael Scott-Baumann: Palestinians And Israelis [2023] paperback

    €16.90

    Newly updated, this accessible history explores the origins and development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Why has it proved so intractable, and what are the implications of escalating tensions for both...

    Frank Prochaska: MEMOIRS OF WALTER BAGEHOT Z10 [2013] hardback

    €6.99

    The spirited and measured memoir of Walter Bagehot, had he left one Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) was a prominent English journalist, banker, and man of letters. For many years he was...

    A Brief History of Slavery (Brief Histories): A New Global History [2011] paperback

    €4.99€5.99

    A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was...

    Richard Heslop: Xavier: A British Secret Agent With The French Resistance: The Story of Richard Heslop, One of SOE's Greatest Agents [2014] paperback

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    Colonel Richard Heslop, alias Xavier, was one of Britain's Greatest Special Operations agents in France. Ingeniously orchestrating resistance groups and ruthlessly sabotaging German operations, Xavier played a crucial role in...

    Christian Wolmar: Engines of War [2010] hardback

    €7.99€9.99

    Before the nineteenth century, armies had to rely on slow and unreliable methods of transportation to move soldiers and equipment during times of conflict. But with the birth of the...

    Heather Dune Macadam: The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz [2021] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline MooreheadOn March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women...

    Howard E & Te Wasdin: Seal Team Six [2012] paperback

    €4.99

    When the US Navy send their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six.SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with...

    Peter Ross Range: 1924 - Z25 [2016] paperback

    €4.99

    Adolf Hitler spent 1924 away from society and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Behind bars in a prison near Munich, Hitler passed the year with deep...

    Terry Crowdy: Incomparable: Napoleon's 9th Light Infantry Regiment [2012] hardback

    €6.99€9.99

    An elite battalion under Louis XVI, the 9th Light Infantry regiment were with Napoleon from almost the beginning, turning the field at Marengo and breaking the Austrians. They then spent...

    Dee Dee Chainey: Treasury of Folklore - Seas and Rivers [2021] hardback

    €9.99€18.56

    Enthralling tales of the sea, rivers and lakes from around the globe. Folklore of the seas and rivers has a resonance in cultures all over the world. Watery hopes, fears...

    John Grehan: War at Sea in the Mediterranean 1940-1944 [2014] hardback

    €9.99

    Despatches in this volume include those covering the Battle of Matapan in 1941, Fleet Air Arm operations in 1940, the Battle of Sirte in 1942, the action with the Italian...

    Aubrey Burl: A Brief History of Stonehenge [2007] paperback

    €4.99€5.99

    A concise history of the world's greatest stone circle, Stonehenge, by Britain's leading expert. Every aspect of Stonehenge is re-considered in Aubrey Burl's new analysis. He explains for the first...

    A Brief History of the Crusades (Brief Histories) [2004] paperback

    €6.99€8.99

    Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in...

    James L. Swanson: End Of Days [2014] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    In End of Days, James L. Swanson, the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, brings to life the minute-by-minute details of the JFK...

    The Age of Revolution : Europe 1789-1848 [1987] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution - the 1789 French revolution and the Industrial Revolution...

    Martin Gayford: Venice [2023] hardback

    €39.00

    A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year A visual journey through five centuries of the city known for centuries as 'La Serenissima' - a unique and compelling story for...

    Antona Fraser: Mary Queen Of Scots [2018] paperback

    €6.99

    'Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph'Reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday TimesAn infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary...

    The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom [2007] paperback

    €3.99€14.30

    'I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak...

    Alice Roberts: The Celts [2016] paperback

    €4.99€12.70

    'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil Oliver'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling' Brian CoxThe Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts...

    Edward Burke: An Army of Tribes: British Army Cohesion, Deviancy and Murder in Northern Ireland [2018] paperback

    €26.00

    This is the first such study of Operation Banner, the British Army's campaign in Northern Ireland. Drawing upon extensive interviews with former soldiers, primary archival sources including unpublished diaries and...

    McCubbin Hill Lisa: Five Days in November [2023] hardback

    €14.99€26.00

    Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy's assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the...

    Shannon (Concordia Universit McSheffrey: Lollards of Coventry, 1486-1522 [2003] hardback

    €9.99

    In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Coventry harboured a community of Lollards, adherents of medieval England's only popular heresy. Allowed to flourish relatively unmolested for decades, the Coventry...

    Hirsch Annabelle: A History of Women in 101 Objects [2023] hardback

    €28.99

    What are the objects that define womanhood? Which pieces have made a lasting impact on women's lives, for better or worse? And how can you find the story of a...

    Bound Mensun: The Ship Beneath the Ice [2023] paperback

    €6.99€11.99

    Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the depths of the most hostile sea on Earth. The Ship Beneath the Ice is...

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