Quick view A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Rogues by Captain Charles Johnson Now: €9.99 MSRP: €25.00 Was: Buoyed by the runaway success of his bestselling A General History of the Pirates (1724), Captain Charles Johnson went on to publish a much-expanded edition of the work to include a further 80 accounts of some of the most extraord… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Nazis and the Occult: The Third Reich's Search for Supernatural Powers by Paul Roland Now: €5.99 MSRP: €12.50 Was: Why did the country which produced Goethe, Beethoven, Bach, Schiller, Einstein, Kant and Hegel allow itself to be led to the precipice of self-destruction by a ragged collective of criminals, misfits, sadists and petty bureaucrats… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Driving Back the Nazis by Martin King Now: €5.99 MSRP: €12.50 Was: Martin King has produced the definitive chronicle of the war that unshackled a continent and preserved freedom in the West. Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Western Winds: The Brontes' Irish Heritage by Edward Chitham Now: €5.99 MSRP: €25.00 Was: The Irish heritage of the Bronte family has long been overlooked, partly because both Charlotte and her father Patrick did their very best to ensure that this was the case and partly because there was a strong understanding at the… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different Ger… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty years. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientist… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Everest 1922 by Mick Conefrey Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Though it remains by far the world's most famous mountain, in recent years Everest's reputation has changed radically, with long queues of climbers on the Lhotse Face, lurid tales of frozen corpses and piles of high altitude trash… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: What if you had a vision that something terrible was going to happen? A train crash, a department store fire, an assassination. What if you could share your vision, and prevent a disaster? In 1966, John Barker, a British psychia… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Last Irish Question : Will Six into Twenty-Six Ever Go? by Glenn Patterson Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: The reunification of Ireland, which in 1998 seemed to have been pushed over the far horizon as an aspiration, has returned with a vengeance.Brexit calls into question the British commitment to Northern Ireland and threatens its ec… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view I Don't Want to Talk About Home: A migrant's search for belonging by Suad Aldarra Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: rowing up in conservative Saudi Arabia, Suad Aldarra felt stifled by the strictures placed on women. She yearned for the vibrant Syrian streets of her family's origin. When the opportunity arose to study at Damascus University, sh… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: An instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals the power and influence of medieval women who have been written out of our history. From royalty and religion to fame and fury, see the… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Ratline: Love, Lies & Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands Now: €9.99 MSRP: €25.00 Was: As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time th… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Book of English Magic by Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate Now: €6.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: Of all the countries in the world, England has the richest history of magical lore and practice. English authors such as J.R.R.Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Terry Pratchett, and J.K.Rowling, dominate the world of magic in fiction, but from… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Un-Discovered Islands: An Achipelago of Myths & Mysteries, Phantoms & Fakes by Malachy Tallack Now: €7.99 MSRP: €16.25 Was: Journey through the imagined islands of history. Gathered in this book are over twenty islands that have decidedly human origins, whether they are the products of imagination, deception or simply human error. They are phantoms, f… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Ask a Historian by Greg Jenner Now: €5.00 MSRP: €13.75 Was: Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? How fast was the medieval Chinese post system? How do we know how people sounded in the past? Who invented maths?Responding to fifty genuine questions from the public, Greg Jenner takes… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works by Kelly Grovier Now: €19.99 MSRP: €37.45 Was: What makes great art great? Why do some works pulse in the imagination generation after generation, century after century? From Botticelli’s Birth of Venus to Picasso’s Guernica, some paintings and sculptures have become so famous… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Devil Dogs: First in, Last out - King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan by Saul David Now: €9.99 MSRP: €31.25 Was: From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last. The 'Devil Dogs' of K Company, 3/5 Marines, were part of… Add to Cart The item has been added