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    Andrew Marr: Elizabethans: The Sunday Times bestseller, now a major BBC TV series [2020] paperback

    €8.99€17.99

    The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan Morris. Diana Dors. Bob Geldof. David Olusoga. Elizabeth David. Zaha Hadid....

    Gideon Defoe: An Atlas of Extinct Countries: The Remarkable (and Occasionally Ridiculous) Stories of 48 Nations that Fell off the Map [2020] hardback

    €9.99€14.99

    Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated - and timely - history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. 'Countries are...

    Simon Winchester: The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary [2003] hardback

    €9.99€16.90

    A kleptomaniac, the nephew of a French Emperor, the creator of an imaginary land inhabited by small hairy creatures, a homicidal lunatic, an Esperanto enthusiast, the man who introduced the...

    Antony Beevor: Berlin: The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller [2007] paperback

    €6.99€14.30

    THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ON THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH'Recounts, in harrowing detail and with formidable skill, the brutal death-throes of Hitler's Reich at the hands of the...

    Valentine Low: Courtiers [2022] hardback

    €14.99€28.57

    'Fascinating' The Times'Tantalising . . . Low's conclusion is a valuable one.' The TelegraphThe gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years...

    Simon Winder: DANUBIA W3 [2014] paperback

    €5.99€16.25

    For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off -...

    Alicia Appleman-Jurman: ALICIA W9 [2014] paperback

    €5.99€8.99

    A remarkable Holocaust memoir, a powerful testament to human courage and fortitude, for readers of Edith Eger's The Choice.'This memoir is heartbreaking.' Elie Wiesel, author of Night'Profoundly observed... remarkably lived......

    Michael Bar-Zohar: Mossad [2015] paperback

    €6.99€15.70

    Mossad is universally recognised as the greatest intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in a thick veil of secrecy. Many of its enthralling feats...

    Alan Clark: FALL OF CRETE [2001] paperback

    €4.99€13.50

    The epic story of one of the most bitter and dramatic battles fought between German and Allied forces during the whole of the Second World War. The decisive action took...

    Laureen Johnson: Shadow King [2019] hardback

    €19.99€37.50

    A thrilling new account of the tragic life and troubled times of Henry VI. 'The best life of Henry VI now in print' DAN JONES. 'Vivid, absorbing and richly detailed'...

    Nelson Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom [1994] hardback

    €100.00€120.00

    Since his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela has emerged as the world's most potent moral leader since Gandhi. As president of the ANC and head of the anti-apartheid...

    Bernard Wasserstein: Secret War In Shanghai [1998] hardback

    €14.99€28.57

    Bernard Wasserstein has uncovered startling evidence from the archives of the intelligence agencies of s everal countries that relates the remarkable and murky histo ry of Shanghai''s political netherworld during...

    Sanger David: New Cold Wars [2024] paperback

    €14.99€22.99

    A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous cold wars against two very different adversaries - Xi Jinping's China and Valdimir Putin's Russia.New Cold Wars - the latest from Pulitzer...

    Helen Fry: The London Cage - The Secret History of Britain`s World War II Interrogation Centre [2018] paperback

    €6.99€13.75

    The first complete account of the fiercely guarded secrets of London's clandestine interrogation center, operated by the British Secret Service from 1940 to 1948 Behind the locked doors of three...

    Nigel Hamilton: American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush [2011] paperback

    €4.99€18.75

    The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the...

    David M. Guss: The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram [2018] hardback

    €14.99€19.99

    'Endlessly fascinating. Cram's story sizzles with adventure.' Giles Milton, Sunday TimesA genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram is a riveting account of the...

    John Ruskin: The Lamp of Memory: John Ruskin (Penguin Great Ideas) [2008] mass_market

    €4.99€6.00

    John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is...

    M.K. Gandhi: An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth [2001] paperback

    €5.99€14.30

    Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography...

    Yaroslav Hrytsak: UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation [2023] paperback

    €14.99€24.70

    'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.'Timothy Snyder #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling...

    X Asne Seierstad: Two Sisters: The international bestseller by the author of The Bookseller of Kabul [2018] paperback

    €5.99€19.50

    One morning in October 2013, nineteen-year-old Ayan Juma and her sixteen-year-old sister Leila left their family home in Oslo. Later that day they sent an email to their parents. 'Peace,...

    Antony Beevor: D-Day [2009] hardback

    €14.99€35.71

    The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some...

    Owen Matthews: Stalin's Children [2009] paperback

    €6.99€22.10

    On a midsummer day in 1937, Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared. One of those girls, Lyudmila, was to fall in love with a tall young foreigner...

    Robert S. Wistrich: Hitler and the Holocaust [2002] paperback

    €6.99€9.99

    Robert Wistrich begins by exploring the origins of anti-Semitism in Europe, and especially in Germany, to try to explain how millions of Jews came to be killed systematically by the...

    Iain Ballantyne: Arnhem: Ten Days in the Cauldron [2023] paperback

    €6.99€16.90

    The account of the fateful bridge too far...'It was a bridge too far and perhaps the whole plan was doomed to failure from the start, but we had to try,...

    Mitchell David: Unruly [2023] paperback

    €9.99€18.99

    This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read.Certainly, the funniest.Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all names, dates or ungraspable historical...

    Sir Christopher Meyer: Getting Our Way [2010] paperback

    €5.99€14.30

    A highly informed insider's account of some of the 'honest men' as they sought, by fair means or foul, to get Britain its way in the world.GETTING OUR WAY recounts...

    Matthew (Edwin Erle Sparks Prof Restall: The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction [2012] paperback

    €5.99€11.41

    With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources...

    Jack Kelly: Band of Giants [2014] hardback

    €12.99€26.99

    Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar....

    Will Hutton: The State We're in [1995] hardback

    €12.99€22.10

    Will Hutton, the Guardian's Economics Editor, is the most respected analyst writing in Britain today. He argues that the weakness of the economy can't be divorced from the problems of...

    Richard J. Evans: The Hitler Conspiracies [2020] hardback

    €14.99€26.00

    'Both hard to put down and brilliantly insightful ... a 5 out of 5 masterpiece' Martin Bentham, Evening StandardThe renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories...

    Roxane Van Iperen: The Sisters of Auschwitz [2019] paperback

    €4.99€19.50

    WINNER of the Opzij Literature Prize 2019! During the Second World War two Jewish sisters - Janny and Lien Brilleslijper - run one of the largest hideaways in The Netherlands:...

    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl [2000] paperback

    €6.99€11.70

    Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. This Penguin...

    Giles Milton: The Stalin Affair [2024] paperback

    €14.99€19.99

    'Page-turning . . . a sizzling high-stakes tale' JAMES HOLLAND'This book might read like the screenplay of a gripping movie, yet every word is accurate and verified' ANDREW ROBERTS 'Giles...

    Tim Obrien: If I Die in a Combat Zone [2006] paperback

    €5.99

    Hailed as one of the finest books to emerge from the Vietnam War, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a fascinating insight into the lives of the soldiers...

    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...

    Liz Cheney: Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump [2023] paperback

    €9.99€17.99

    In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the US Constitution: they ignored...

    Solomon Northup: Twelve Years a Slave [2013] paperback

    €4.99€6.99

    This is an official tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany Steve McQueen's major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Chiwetel Ejiofor...

    Ben Macintyre: Operation Mincemeat [2010] hardback

    €11.99€23.50

    One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course...

    Eric Lomax: The Railway Man [1996] paperback

    €4.99

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING COLIN FIRTH, NICOLE KIDMAN AND JEREMY IRVINEDuring the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was...

    Otto English: Fake Heroes [2024] paperback

    €7.99€13.00

    From the author of bestseller Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars in history. 'A brilliant book.' James O'BrienWhether it's virtuous...

    James Bradley: Flags Of Our Fathers [2006] paperback

    €6.99€12.84

    In this remarkably powerful book, James Bradley takes as his starting point one of the most famous photographs of all time. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf...

    Elizabeth3 Norton: The Lives of Tudor Women [2017] paperback

    €7.99€13.00

    The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in...

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