Quick view Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor Now: £5.13 MSRP: £11.76 Was: The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that d… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view In The Shadow Of The Sword by Tom Holland Now: £5.13 MSRP: £13.90 Was: In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished for ever, while the other was a dismembered, bleeding trunk. In their place, a new sup… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw Now: £8.55 MSRP: £32.09 Was: After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being ‘to Hell and back,’ the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Eur… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux Now: £8.55 MSRP: £24.60 Was: A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts--the Übermensch, the will to power, slave morality--have fundamentally res… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view One Long Night by Andrea Pitzer Now: £8.55 MSRP: £24.60 Was: For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with wh… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Leningrad: Siege and Symphony by Brian Moynahan Now: £8.55 MSRP: £18.18 Was: Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Art of Resistance My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir by Justus Rosenberg Now: £5.13 MSRP: £23.95 Was: "Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jews flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground. USA Today An American Library in Paris Book Award "Coups de Coeur" Selection The Art of … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Year of Chaos: Northern Ireland on the Brink of Civil War, 1971-72 by Malachi O'Doherty Now: £10.70 MSRP: £11.76 Was: In the eleven months between August 1971 and July 1972, Northern Ireland experienced its worst year of violence. No future year of the Troubles experienced such death and destruction. The 'year of chaos' began with the introductio… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson Now: £11.76 MSRP: Was: A compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times) Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better p… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Guerilla Days in Ireland by Tom Barry Now: £17.10 MSRP: Was: First published in 1949, 'Guerilla Days in Ireland' is an extraordinary story of the Irish War of Independence and the fight between two unequal forces, which ended in the withdrawal of the British from twenty-six counties. Seven … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below by Ian Johnson Now: £11.76 MSRP: Was: In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the desire for change percolating up from below and the ossified political structure above. He recounts the stories of three ordinary people who fi… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow Now: £13.90 MSRP: Was: For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alterna… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones Now: £13.90 MSRP: Was: Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of the once-mighty city of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Short History of the Middle East: From Ancient Empires to Islamic State by Gordon Kerr Now: £4.28 MSRP: £13.90 Was: Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civil… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Athens: City of Wisdom by Bruce Clark Now: £11.76 MSRP: Was: Dominated by the pillars and pediments of the Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, goddess of wisdom, the ancient Greek city of Athens is for many synonymous with civilization itself. Athens: City of Wisdom tells the tale of a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War by Diarmaid Ferriter Now: £10.70 MSRP: Was: In June 1922, just seven months after Sinn Fein negotiators signed a compromise treaty with representatives of the British government to create the Irish Free State, Ireland collapsed into civil war. While the body count suggests … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal Now: £9.63 MSRP: £10.70 Was: From the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Hare with Amber Eyes As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well. The Camondos lived just a few doors away from Edmund de Waa… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi Now: £11.76 MSRP: Was: WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy Now: £11.76 MSRP: Was: *WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2019*'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer'A riveting account of human error and … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Lost Kingdom by Serhii Plokhy Now: £11.76 MSRP: Was: From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialismIn 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched… Add to Cart The item has been added