Quick view Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars by Peter Stothard Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: 14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed.The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill, about to become t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present by Nigel Townson Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: 'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its 'glorious empire' in 1898 to the dazzling World Cup victory in 2010, t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view We All Go into the Dark by Francisco Garcia Now: €5.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: A captivating, eloquent and deeply original book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across the board. Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968 and late 1969, each after a night danci… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Abyss: World on the Brink, the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hasting Now: €5.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annih… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Populus by Guy de la Bedoyere Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seeth… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Reckless: Sex, Lies and JFK by Mike Rothmiller & Douglas Thompson Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: John F. Kennedy’s life is promoted by sentimental and careless myth-makers as pure legend. But a sinister shadow lies across it.His death was such a shocking event that the vivid memory of his assassination still blinds us to much… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement by Roland Philipps Now: €18.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century's most complex and compelling figures. In 1904, Casement became internationally celebrated… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Secret Library by Oliver Tearle Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: How much do you know about the Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens? Or the woman who became the first published poet in America? Do you know what connects Homer’s Iliad to Aesop’s Fables?The Secret Library explores these intrig… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Earth Transformed by Professor Peter Frankopan Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilisations across time. When we think about history, we rarely pa… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Book of Phobias and Manias by Kate Summerscale Now: €5.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: Plunge into this rich, surprising and stunningly designed A-Z compendium to discover how our fixations have taken shape, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as bestselling author Kate Summerscale deftly traces the threads bet… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore Now: €9.99 MSRP: €22.50 Was: The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about ourselves. In the la… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters. We have all heard of Joan of Arc, but not the cross-dressing soldiers whose disguises were so effective the men around them… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO by Peter Apps Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: The inside story of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Born in the aftermath of World War II, NATO was the brainchild of Allied leaders and offic… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Homelands by Timothy Garton Ash Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered. Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare by Paul Strathern Now: €14.50 MSRP: Was: Through the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of th… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The New Cold War by Robin Niblett Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: We have entered a new Cold War. The contest between America and China is global and unbridgeable, and it encompasses all major instruments of statecraft - economic, political and military.It has its tinder box: Taiwan. And both pr… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Dark History of the Occult by Paul Roland Now: €5.00 MSRP: €12.50 Was: From black magic murders to satanic sex cults, occult expert Paul Roland traces the history of the Black Arts and the roots of these strange and evil practices.This illustrated account includes detailed explorations of animal sacr… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of the Classical World: The Story of Ancient Greece and Rome by Elizabeth Wyse Now: €9.99 MSRP: €25.00 Was: This richly illustrated hardback chronicles the rise and fall of the ancient Greek and Roman empires, accompanied by full-colour images of artefacts, artwork, maps and more.From palace-based societies in Minoan Crete to the German… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view History's Greatest Battles by Nigel Cawthorne Now: €5.00 MSRP: €12.50 Was: Great battles mark history's turning points, occurring where cultures and ideologies clash. While some battles have been won by the superior force, others have been won by a sheer dogged refusal to surrender in the face of overwhe… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Histories of the Unexpected by Dr Sam Willis & Professor James Daybell Now: €5.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: Did you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi; and that the history of bubbles is all about the French Revolution? And who knew that Heinrich Himm… Add to Cart The item has been added