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    Robert Peckham: Fear [2024] paperback

    €9.99€16.90

    'Extraordinary' Ai Weiwei'Brilliant' Simon SchamaFear has long been a driving force - perhaps the driving force - of world history: a coercive tool of power and a catalyst for radical...

    Richard J. Evans: The Coming of the Third Reich [2004] paperback

    €9.99€22.10

    Richard J. Evans' The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany explores how the First World War, the Weimar Republic and the...

    Sir Rodric Braithwaite: Afgantsy [2012] paperback

    €7.99€16.90

    Russia's invasion of Afghanistan, told by a former British AmbassadorTwenty-five years ago, when the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan after a gruelling nine-year occupation, they left a legacy obscured by...

    Eric Berkowitz: Sex and Punishment [2013] paperback

    €9.99€15.60

    Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex. From the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress...

    East West Street: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize [2017] paperback

    €7.99€13.00

    THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERWhen he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, international lawyer...

    Adrian Mourby: Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Grand Hotels [2017] hardback

    €4.99€6.99

    Salvador Dali once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a...

    Robert Verkaik: The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis [2022] paperback

    €7.99€17.99

    '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...

    China Miéville: A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto [2022] hardback

    €14.99€24.70

    China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: the Communist Manifesto.In 1848 a strange political tract was published by two emigres from Germany. Marx...

    The Pity of War: 1914 - 1918 [2009] paperback

    €6.99€19.50

    The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an...

    Matt Richards: The Hidden Army - MI9's Secret Force and the Untold Story of D-Day [2019] paperback

    €6.99€11.25

    Almost seventy-five years ago, MI9 dreamt up the most audacious escape and evasion plan of World War Two. Formulated by Airey Neave, one of the first men ever to escape...

    Tony Judt: Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 [2010] paperback

    €9.99€22.10

    FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER AWARD A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, selected as one of New York Times...

    Thomas Pakenham: The Scramble for Africa [1992] paperback

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    In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square...

    Max Hastings: Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 [2022] paperback

    €9.99€17.99

    From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States...

    Phil Stern: Snapdragon [2018] hardback

    €14.99€25.00

    Prior to Phil Stern's death on December 13, 2014, his original, unfinished, tattered wartime memoir was discovered, stashed away in an old folio box in his cluttered Hollywood bungalow. Best...

    Ariana Neumann: When Time Stopped [2020] paperback

    €5.99€9.99

    WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE 'Beautifully told' John Le Carre 'More than just history' Michael Palin 'Truly exceptional' Jon Snow 'Absolutely remarkable' Edmund de Waal 'Beautifully written' Stephen...

    Sir Rodric Braithwaite: Russia: Myths and Realities [2022] hardback

    €14.99€21.99

    Russia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this multifaceted nation of shifting borders has been known as Rus,...

    Samuel Pepys: The Concise Pepys (Classics of World Literature) [1997] paperback

    €4.99€5.99

    Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his celebrated diary on 1st January 1660 immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the subsequent loosening of the rigid moral...

    Charlie Connelly: Last Train to Hilversum: A journey in search of the magic of radio [2019] hardback

    €14.99€25.00

    Despite the all-pervading influence of television ninety per cent of people in Britain still listen to the radio, clocking up over a billion hours of listening between us every week....

    Anne Applebaum: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine [2018] paperback

    €9.99€19.50

    Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizesIn 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating...

    Nigel Jones: Kitty's Salon [2023] paperback

    €12.99€19.99

    There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon...

    Kyung Moon Hwang: A History of Korea: An Episodic Narrative: 41 (Bloomsbury Essential Histories) [2021] paperback

    €14.99€29.90

    Dynamic and meticulously researched, A History of Korea continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Hwang guides readers from early state...

    Linda Porter: Crown of Thistles [2013] hardback

    €15.99€26.00

    The struggle between the fecund Stewarts and the barren Tudors is generally seen only in terms of the relationship between Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. But...

    Mark Logue: The King's War [2018] paperback

    €9.99€19.50

    The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech...

    Peter Pugh: The 50 Most Influential Britons of the Past 100 Years [2016] paperback

    €4.99€7.99

    Peter Pugh presents his selection of - not the best, fastest, most successful or richest - but the 50 most influential British men and women of the modern world -...

    Lucy Ward: Empress And The English Doctor The [2023] paperback

    €9.99€14.30

    A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FARShortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022'Sparkling history...with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking' The TimesA killer...

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