Quick view Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones (HB) Now: €12.99 MSRP: €31.25 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 The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Kersten presented himself after the war as a resistance hero who convinced Himmler to save countless people from mass murder. Kawashima Yoshiko, a gender fluid Manchu princess, spied for the Japanese secret police in China, and wa… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Love in a Time of Hate by Florian Illies Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns.Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian café for his first date with no-show Simone de Beau… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness. Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Dirty, Filthy Book by Michael Meyer Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the sordid crime of publishin… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Resistance by Halik Kochanski Now: €24.99 MSRP: Was: A sweeping history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe, from the acclaimed author of The Eagle Unbowed. Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as De… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from of… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Japanese by Christopher Harding Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the re… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin Now: €24.99 MSRP: Was: Stalin's only difference from Hitler, he argues, was that he was a successful murderous predator. With Hitler dead and the Third Reich in ruins, Stalin created an immense new Communist empire. Among his holdings were Czechoslovaki… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - A new translation of Zinky Boys based on the revised text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives by Philip Matyszak & Joanne Berry Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: Discover the lives of the ancient Romans, pieced together from inscriptions, discarded letters, biographies and myth over two thousand years of history. The Roman empire witnessed a huge diversity of human experience over its hist… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of the Middle East: 5th Edition by Peter Mansfield Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economics of the contemporary Arab world' - Washington Post. Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This no… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan ruli… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Museum of Other People by Adam Kuper Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their displays of arts and artifacts, their dioramas, their special exhibitions, and their arrays of skulls a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World After 1989 by Kristina Spohr Now: €5.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: This landmark global study makes us rethink what happened when the Cold War ended and our present era was born. The world changed dramatically as the Berlin Wall fell and protest turned to massacre in Tiananmen Square. Now, with d… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee (Hardback) Now: €9.99 MSRP: €31.25 Was: From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal. A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One o… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson Now: €12.99 MSRP: €49.99 Was: New York Times In June 1773, King George III attended a grand celebration of his reign over the greatest, richest empire since ancient Rome.Less than two years later, Britain's bright future turned dark: after a series of provocat… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater by Jeff Maynard Now: €9.99 MSRP: €31.25 Was: Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more than two thirds of our … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern Now: €17.99 MSRP: €19.99 Was: Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and ec… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Angel Makers: The True Story of the Most Astonishing Murder Ring in History by Patti McCracken Now: €6.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: Nagyrev, Hungary, 1929. Over 160 mysterious deaths. A group of local wives conspiring together, and one woman at the centre of it all… In 1929, a dark secret at the heart of a Hungarian farming village was finally exposed. For mor… Add to Cart The item has been added