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
Quick view The Young Alexander by Alex Rowson PB Now: €5.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great - one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earlier years have until now been a mystery. Alexander the Great's story often reads like fiction: son to a … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx & Dr.Jerry Toner Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before trekking into rural Asia (or Turkey as we know it), past t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly personal memoir, Raja Shehadeh unpicks the snags and complexities o… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Lost City of Z by David Grann Now: €11.25 MSRP: Was: The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost World, by the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER Fawcett was among the last … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction. In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning...Here is the truth behind every spy thriller you've re… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Chickenhawk by Robert Mason Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S.Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Dead Wake by Erik Larson Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: On 1 May 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. The passengers - including a record number of children and infants - were anxious. Germany had declar… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Return of a King by William Dalrymple Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: In the spring of 1839, Britain invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk.On the way in, … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Bad Land by Jonathan Raban Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Jonathan Raban's enthralling journey into the history of the Great Plains of Montana - the least populated, most uncharted region of the United States - to uncover the heart and soul of the country. Bringing to life the extraordin… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War by Max Hastings Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years int… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Short History of the Vietnam War by Gordon Kerr Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: On 8 March, 1965, 3,500 United States Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade made an amphibious landing at Da Nang on the south central coast of South Vietnam, marking the beginning of a conflict that would haunt American… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera Now: €18.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the world.'Beautifully written, and not just a welcome corrective but a book for our times. This is essential reading' - Peter... Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view 24 Hours in Ancient China : A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There Now: €11.25 MSRP: Was: Spend 24 hours with the ancient Chinese. The year is AD 17. The Han dynasty is in power and we are in and around Changan, the capital and one of the most developed regions of the empire, which is enjoying a prolonged economic and … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid I. Khalidi Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response.Drawi… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embar… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes Now: €18.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis.The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes.The Lighthouse of Alexand… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable: they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic.Word had spread of what was going to happen. On wisps of rumour, thousands of … Add to Cart The item has been added