Quick view Farts Aren't Invisible: Mind-Blowing Facts From Science, History, Sport and The Universe by Mick O'Hare Now: €5.00 MSRP: €13.75 Was: A mind-bending, brain-expanding cornucopia of facts for curious minds from the bestselling author of Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? and Does Anything Eat Wasps? Own the room with this hilarious collection of fact-tastic myth-bus… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill Now: €5.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams.Children sicken and die. As… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall Now: €9.99 MSRP: €25.00 Was: By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: A city drawn in sand.Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Why do human beings fight one another?In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics. Distilling decades of… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller Now: €11.25 MSRP: Was: Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain’s Lancaster comrades, who helped to bring down the NazisHistorian and World War II expert Donald Miller brings us the story of the bomber boys who brought the wa… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The History of the SAS by Chris Ryan Now: €5.99 MSRP: €16.25 Was: Tasked with storming mountain strongholds in the desert. Trained to hunt down the world's most wanted terrorists. This is the extraordinary story of 22 SAS. The history of the modern SAS is one of the great successes of post-war … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view History of Air Warfare: From World War I to the Present Day by Malcolm Swanston and Alexander Swanston Now: €9.99 MSRP: €24.99 Was: A highly illustrated and accessible account of the development of air warfare, from the first skirmishes over the Western Front in World War I to today's hi-tech netcentric aerial battlespace.No single human invention has altered … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Stalin: Man of Steel or Mass Murderer? by Michael Kerrigan Now: €9.99 MSRP: €24.99 Was: Thug, armed robber, activist, revolutionary, tyrant we know the headlines, we know about the atrocities, but what do we really know of the man at the heart of it all? Stalin looks behind the image of the dictator and explores Iose… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view This Accursed Land: An epic solo journey across Antarctica by Lennard Bickel Now: €5.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: Sir Edmund Hillary described Douglas Mawson's epic and punishing journey across 600 miles of unknown Antarctic wasteland as 'the greatest story of lone survival in polar exploration'. This Accursed Land tells that story; how Mawso… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power by Peter Ross Range Now: €12.99 MSRP: €31.25 Was: The chilling and little-known story of Adolf Hitler's eight-year march to the pinnacle of German politics.On the night of January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler leaned out of a spotlit window of the Reich chancellery in Berlin, bursting w… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Wager by David Grann Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.On 28th January 1742… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute by Jonathan Mayo Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: "Reads like a pacey, page-turning, cold war political thriller." Dermot O'Leary This is the story of JFK's assassination as told from the frontline: it is about the people - from the highest to the lowest - who were caught up in … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Dark Side of the Moon by John Harris Now: €5.00 MSRP: Was: A behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at the making of one of the greatest sonic masterpieces and most commercially successful albums of all time. Over three decades after its release, Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' remains… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Persians by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Now: €6.99 MSRP: Was: The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest Empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the Steppes of Asia, and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. At the heart of the Empire was the fabled palace-city of Persepolis where the Achae… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch Now: €31.25 MSRP: Was: This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlook… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Empire: A New History of the World by Paul Strathern Now: €9.99 MSRP: €26.99 Was: A dazzling new history of the world told through the ten major empires of human civilization.Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Murder Most Local: Historic Murders of Central Cork by Peter O'Shea Now: €14.99 MSRP: Was: This is the 6th book in the Murder Most Local Series of County Cork. This covers all the remaining county From Ballincollig to Mallow, Glanmire to Fermoy and everywhere in between. Like the books for the rest of Cork, this book te… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Last Call at the Hotel Imperial by Deborah Cohen Now: €5.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism They were an astonishing group: glamo… Add to Cart The item has been added